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I'm a secret cash stasher.
308 votes
11.9%
Only in a safe.
80 votes
42.3%
No. I keep my money in the bank, where it can earn interest.
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I'm a secret cash stasher.

I always stash cash. You never know when you might need it, but it's rarely over a hundred.

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     - 10:24 am EDT on Mon Jul 13, 2009
    No. I keep my money in the bank, where it can earn interest.

    My husband's grandmother was like this and when she died, his family is still not sure we found everything she'd hidden.

    You

    {"commentId":8185199,"threadId":"625461","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"crimson-wife"}
       - 11:43 am EDT on Mon Jul 13, 2009
      I'm a secret cash stasher.

      Not a lot, but I when I quit smoking I started putting the money I would have spent on cigarettes in a jar. It's a vacation fund.

      {"commentId":8187344,"threadId":"625461","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"mslasep"}
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       - 1:21 pm EDT on Mon Jul 13, 2009
      I'm a secret cash stasher.

      Only small amounts for "rainy day" and only in secret pockets within my purse.

      {"commentId":8187765,"threadId":"625461","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"makelly"}
      • 1 vote
       - 1:39 pm EDT on Mon Jul 13, 2009
      I'm a secret cash stasher.

      I keep about a grand or so locked up in the house - we're a hurricane state and if we have to evacuate quickly, I can't swing by an ATM.

      {"commentId":8190096,"threadId":"625461","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"pchacker"}
      • 1 vote
       - 3:25 pm EDT on Mon Jul 13, 2009
      I'm a secret cash stasher.

      NEVER MORE THAN A COUPLE OF HUNDRED

      {"commentId":8190858,"threadId":"625461","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"AmandaMarie"}
      • 1 vote
       - 4:00 pm EDT on Mon Jul 13, 2009
      I'm a secret cash stasher.

      I'm paranoid about mugging, and I don't like the paper trail credit cards leave. So I take with me only the cash I need, and hide the rest

      {"commentId":8234478,"threadId":"625461","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"latono"}
      • 1 vote
       - Latono
       - 4:28 pm EDT on Wed Jul 15, 2009
      Only in a safe.

      Emergency money. "Mount Rainer is erupting time to go" money I call it. But not a tremendous amount, I like interest from the bank.

      {"commentId":8249158,"threadId":"625461","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"luminator"}
      • 2 votes
       - 1:23 pm EDT on Thu Jul 16, 2009
      No. I keep my money in the bank, where it can earn interest.

      Who has money to hide? I need the money for food.

      {"commentId":8263540,"threadId":"625461","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"dal513"}
      • 1 vote
       - 11:26 am EDT on Fri Jul 17, 2009
      I'm a secret cash stasher.

      I did when I had some, but no longer.

      {"commentId":8263999,"threadId":"625461","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"TR966"}
      • 2 votes
       - 11:50 am EDT on Fri Jul 17, 2009
      Only in a safe.

      No, President Akmid Obama I don't hide money in my home, you cannot break in and steal it. What next, are my daughters virgins?

      {"commentId":8264392,"threadId":"625461","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"captain-marvelous"}
      • 1 vote
       - 12:09 pm EDT on Fri Jul 17, 2009
      I'm a secret cash stasher.

      I don't put all my money in the bank because I don't trust banks or the government.

      {"commentId":8266003,"threadId":"625461","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"TheSituation"}
         - 1:35 pm EDT on Fri Jul 17, 2009
        I'm a secret cash stasher.

        I don't mean to be, but on laundry day I usually come up with a few dollars.

        {"commentId":8266874,"threadId":"625461","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"jasmineisland"}
           - 2:22 pm EDT on Fri Jul 17, 2009
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          {"commentId":8154147,"authorDomain":"Rixar13"}

          What money....??? I wish I had some to stash....? lol

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          Reply#1 - Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:03 AM EDT
          {"commentId":8264035,"authorDomain":"TR966"}

          Agreed, use to have a good amount hidden around for emergencies, but don't have the "extra" funds to hide anymore. Have had too many emergencies over the last few years.

          {"commentId":8264035,"threadId":"624303","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"TR966"}
            #1.1 - Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:52 AM EDT
            {"commentId":8264224,"authorDomain":"barkinhound"}

            Ditto. Used to keep a stash for the collapse of western civilization, vehicular catastrophe and such. Back when there was money to stash.....

            {"commentId":8264224,"threadId":"624303","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"barkinhound"}
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            #1.2 - Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:01 PM EDT
            {"commentId":8264455,"authorDomain":"captain-marvelous"}

            This will be a question on the next census. Obama wants to know who has money and where. Expect his goon squad, the new black panthers, to show up at your door and demand you hand it over.

            If you were born here you are a native, put that on the census questionaire. Be interesting to see the Native American population increase to 100 million, that'll screw up Obama's redistricting plans.

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              #1.3 - Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:12 PM EDT
              {"commentId":8298439,"authorDomain":"momano"}

              Captain Marv, Paranoid are we..just a tiny bit?

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                #1.4 - Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:20 PM EDT
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                {"commentId":8183467,"authorDomain":"tspeir"}

                Got my start with a "stash" when I was in process of escaping an abusive marriage - now I just have "mad" money - and not much of that as well! Rixar13 put it well!!!

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                • 3 votes
                Reply#2 - Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:13 AM EDT
                {"commentId":8184605,"authorDomain":"murrdog"}

                I keep almost all of my money in a credit union who I have dealt with for several years. We do keep a gold coin in a safe deposit box for sever emergencies and I keep a $20 bill together with an extra ID in an inside pocket of the coat I use most of the time. I also keep a credit card I pay off every month (which Iuse for emergencies).

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                • 1 vote
                Reply#3 - Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:13 AM EDT
                {"commentId":8187323,"authorDomain":"mikdebgibson"}

                I stash cash but under lock and key or in a safe. I also keep all change and throw it in jars, of course seperate jars according to coin value pennie's, nickle's dime's etc.

                {"commentId":8187323,"threadId":"624303","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"mikdebgibson"}
                • 1 vote
                Reply#4 - Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:20 PM EDT
                {"commentId":8193177,"authorDomain":"busines"}

                I have about $15K stashed around the house - and will have more.  Have to keep it out of the bank, so I can get grants to put my 3 kids thru college.  We sacrificed & saved this money the past 8 years in case both of us lose our jobs.  I already lost mine.  So when filling out the financial aid forms & $80K 'emergency money' is listed, it's assumed that we have enough & should use it for their college tuitions.  NO!!  It's specifically so we won't lose our house.  Sounds to me like damned if we do & damned if we don't.  Oh - I have it in a fireproof safe that weighs a ton. 

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                • 2 votes
                Reply#5 - Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:50 PM EDT
                {"commentId":8214792,"authorDomain":"miranda1231"}

                LOLOLO I wish I had extra money to stash!

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                • 2 votes
                Reply#6 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:57 PM EDT
                {"commentId":8229840,"authorDomain":"leeannsellskchomes"}

                Stashing cash became a habit as soon as I was old enough to receive an allowance as a child. I'm a saver by nature (not a hoarder, just a saver). Not enough stashed to compromise income from lost interest (in the zero percent interest world of today) or investment but enough to get by for several months in case of local/national emergencies. Stashing a cash reserve is not unlike storing food/water/first aid supplies or keeping batteries in flashlights & smoke detectors in good operating condition. It just makes good sense to keep extra cash on hand and quite frankly I beleive it to beanother trait of being a responsible citizen. Always prepared!

                {"commentId":8229840,"threadId":"624303","contentId":"3014495","authorDomain":"leeannsellskchomes"}
                • 1 vote
                Reply#7 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:37 PM EDT
                {"commentId":8266123,"authorDomain":"l-dereus"}

                I don't currently have any money stashed..but, considering what is happening to the economy I may have to rethink this...

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                  Reply#8 - Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:43 PM EDT
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