Inside was 7 one hundred oz bars of silver
Current spot price, $19.26/oz. So that's $13482's worth. Yoiks.
Good question – maybe we need a STW poll – Do you hide cash in socks and what is your age…
I’ve done the opposite and invested all my cash in to the sockmarket
I’ve done the opposite and invested all my cash in to the sockmarket
I'd also thought of that pun, but was too late. Darn it!
Be a good son in law. Clear up the mess. Get the window fixed. Perhaps buy and fit them a safe. Don’t lecture them like they are not fit for the modern world.
Having just read the whole thread, this is the comment that I feel is the most sensible with regard to the OP.
No stacks of cash but I don't use our window locks. Why? So I don't need to find the key every day when they are opened. Helps that we live in a low crime area. No houses broken into in the street in the last 35 years.
If we go on holiday the jewely box gets stashed in the attic on the theory that bedrooms are searched first and burglar would be reluctant to spent the time getting access to the attic and that bit further from a fast exit if anyone turned up.
this is the comment that I feel is the most sensible with regard to the OP.
Yeah, no. We live in a modern world which if you engage with it makes life easier and safer. Age isn't a barrier to being online or digital, my MIL is nearly 80 and fully digital, she's also totally dizzy but has enough sense to know when to ask (occasionally) for help.
Helping the befuddled into the digital world is right course of action, not pandering to old prejudices and a refusal to behave like an adult.
Yeah, no. We live in a modern world which if you engage with it makes life easier and safer. Age isn’t a barrier to being online or digital, my MIL is nearly 80 and fully digital, she’s also totally dizzy but has enough sense to know when to ask (occasionally) for help.
My Mum is the same, does all her banking online now. She was reluctant to do anything online for years, then one Christmas we bought her a tablet. My sister wasn't in favour of this idea at all, said she'd never use it, she was hopeless with computers etc (the latter very true) but the tablet was so intuitive with it's all touch interface that she was very quickly doing crosswords, sudoku etc on it and she loved Google Earth.
Via that, and a more up to date and fairly simple computer, she's actually pretty handy with online banking which is good cos she can't walk far and thanks to bank closures, there's no easy "local" branch for her anymore. We do constantly remind her never to click on links in emails though and if she's at all in doubt about anything, to phone me or my sister immediately BEFORE clicking on anything or replying to unknown numbers.
My mum always took out £200 when I saw her to pay her friends and carers who took her shopping and looked after her. When we cleared her house there were multiple bundles of notes in odd places and particular jewellery missing ( e.g. a large gold cross that my dad had made in the 70s).
On balance that's OK, the majority of people were nice to her and she didn't know about those who stole.
I’ve done the opposite and invested all my cash in to the sockmarket
How's it doing on the Footsie Index?
I’ve done the opposite and invested all my cash in to the sockmarket
How’s it doing on the Footsie Index?
Darn, you beat me to it!
Father in law left 20k in cash in a penguin chocolate tin I found it under a CD unit when he past I gave to MIL who left it on the coffee table for six odd weeks refused absolutely to put it in the bank or even hide it.
Both my wife and I have no idea where it is now it's all old notes that I do know as I counted it.
Stupid is not the word.
I’ve done the opposite and invested all my cash in to the sockmarket
How’s it doing on the Footsie Index?
Darn, you beat me to it!
I'll cuff the next one with such well worn jokes.
My grandad and my aunt shared a house. She died suddenly, and a total over £20k (in 1980's...) was found in her teapot collection. When grandad died a few months later he had even written a letter to say check the tin in the garage - for £2k, a new in box Rolex retirement gift, and the original sketch drawings for the Nestle lion and fleas logo that his dad had drawn as part of his work.
It's a bit harsh saying how stupid it is to stash cash. Of course it is! However, some of these oldies will have lived with cash a lot of their lives, and also lived through the trauma of the war and the years after, where you could lose everything you had in an instant. Seems to be the same with elderly hoarders.
Put into that context it's more understandable.
Not in my case Mil still uses banks online ect
When she pops off my wife will have to pull the house apart family photos have been hidden/moved ECT the last thing she will need is pulling a house apart.
The old boy who lived next door to my parents was a life long market trader flogging slippers. When he died his daughter found shoe box after shoe box stuffed with cash in the house, around £200k worth, I suspect all of it ‘tax free’
My great gran hid cash under bricks in the basement.
My great uncle his cash in books.
My ex worked at the dog and cat home and they were forever finding cash in donated blankets.