Any funny stories about where you hide your coins from thieves? My father had 7 safes spread out around the house. He had some hidden above the air duct work, in the crawl space hidden in a built out cubby hole, cut out a hole in the kitchen wall, laundry room, as well as various pouches in his clothes closet. He passed on now and we sold his property and I still am curious if I missed any of his stashes (99.9% I didn't, all keys accounted for). Like he would always say "if anyone got in this house, they would have A FIELD DAY"..... I don't think so because I couldn't even find em! Shame the thieves couldn't come in and take the hordes of Beanie Babies Oh boy, we had some fun though... I remember watching him when I was a teen and seeing the excitement of "sniping" an auction.
When I was a kid (we're talkin' 50 something years ago) I stashed a roll of steel pennies somewhere in the house. When we moved, never could find them. More recently, like 3 years ago, I had a 1/4 oz AGE that I put somewhere until I could get to my "booty". I sold the house since then, and never did find it!
Ouch! You always think you are so clever hiding coins then it slips your mind. It's like the people who buy homes and knock down walls and find stacks of cash lining the walls.
When we go on a big trip I always hide my stuff in several places. Have to tell family members where stuff is hidden just in case, lol.
When my mum passed away a few years ago I had to empty her house for sale. As one of six kids, including 4 boys, I was hoping to find things tucked away that might be of value. Of course what we valued as young boys might not be true treasures today. I found several Playboy magazines (tame by today's digital standards) in a knapsack tucked away behind a wall; a plethora of fireworks, mostly bottle rockets cleverly hidden by the oil-fired furnace; an empty Whitman album that used to house my complete Jefferson collection. One of my brothers decided to spend every one and hide the evidence. But no long forgotten treasures.
I don't hide coins around the house, but if I did, I'd be sure to post about it on an open Internet forum. When we moved into our house, the previous owners left some spectacularly ugly curtains on the master bedroom windows. When we took one of them down, a pair of twenties fell out of it. We were a bit more careful about discarding stuff after that, but that was the only good find.
I am not a coin collector, but if I was, I would be sure to be a member on an open forum and let everyone know I collect valuables. You already make yourself a target being here. Would you rather people think it is easy to find or hard to find the goodies?
I'd rather they realize that safe deposit boxes are called that for a reason. Barring that, I'd rather they realize that there's no point in breaking into my house, because they'd never think to check for hidden compartments in the bottom of the cat-tower platforms. D'oh!
I don't collect valuables, but if I did, I would post it on an open forum and let everyone know I raise pure-bred GSDs..... Funny enough, they are the collectors in the household. Nothing a good cannabis steak can't put to sleep tho.
I just put stuff down and only find it again five or ten years later. I doubt if a burglar would be any quicker.
Ha! That's funny. My dad was doing a complete remodel on a house he bought. I sold some stuff for him on eBay and had the bank pay me (several hundred) in ones (so I could search them) and a week or so after I gleefully gave him his money he showed me that he'd stashed it in the oven in that house. Ha!
