Post by amberlyrose on Oct 23, 2014 9:49:48 GMT -5
Old people do this all the time, but the problem is they forget they do it.
DH's grandma got mad at him because she thought he hid $40 in her purse and he shouldn't do that blah blah blah. But he didn't. Pretty sure she just forgot that she took out cash.
Post by aussiecrush on Oct 23, 2014 9:50:24 GMT -5
We found thousands of dollars in my grandparents house when the passed. In a cereal box, taped tho the back of a dresser. Nothing could be donated or trashed without being checked.
Post by shostakovich on Oct 23, 2014 10:02:34 GMT -5
My friend's mom would hide money in books - she had hundreds and hundreds of books, and she felt the safest place for her money was randomly stashed in these books. So when she passed, my friend spent an entire weekend just going through each book, shaking them out and sometimes going page by page. She found about $5,000 in cash.
I could tell you a jillion stories from the bank about old people hiding money and the kids finding it after they are gone. Check sock drawers, freezers, dressers for envelopes taped to the back, and in books.
Post by adhdfashion on Oct 23, 2014 10:36:02 GMT -5
My grandma had 10 grand in a coffee can under the sink. It had dust rags thrown on top of it. Really look at everything. When they squirrel away cash it's every where. In old letters, books, in baking powder jars.
I have no doubt this is going to happen in my father's parents' house. They didn't know that they had a stock account worth tens of thousands. I can't imagine what's probably hidden and forgotten in the house.
Post by delawarejen on Oct 23, 2014 10:47:17 GMT -5
Thank goodness my grandmother didn't do this. She hides everything else, but we took over her finances years ago and we hold her cash for her.
A friend was helping clean out a hoarder's house (he knew the family) and it was full of cash and silver coins (and things like checks and stock certificates, so at least that stuff had probably been escheated). Found a loaded gun too. They couldn't hire anyone else to do this because they would have walked off with everything.
Post by laceylaplante on Oct 23, 2014 10:52:44 GMT -5
My great grandmother did this, but it was on a whole other level. When we helped move her into a nursing home we found thousands upon thousands hidden in clothes pockets, books, shoes, everywhere. She would even cut holes into the back of sofa cushions and sew up more cash in there.
Eta: She also liked to tape envelopes to the underside of dresser drawers. Seriously, check everywhere.
Post by dragonfly08 on Oct 23, 2014 10:53:57 GMT -5
My grandfather kept a good bit of cash hidden in the house. And some guns. Fortunately, up until he passed away he was pretty mentally alert/aware and knew he had the stuff and where it was. There was never any need to search for it. Which is really good, because my grandmother was a major hoarder and cleaning out the house years later after she passed away was problematic enough without having to look through every.last.thing for hidden cash (they'd gotten the guns out already by then).
Post by EloiseWeenie on Oct 23, 2014 11:19:43 GMT -5
My childhood bff's mom is nuts, and her father has Alzheimer's. Her mother has alluded to the fact that she has thousands of dollars hidden in many locations, and bff will have to go on a damn treasure hunt when her mother dies. The mother refuses to tell her where anything is, or if this is true, or which book the mother has written that will have a code for her to decipher. I want to give bff a hug every time I think about this
My grandmother has since moved twice but at the house she lived in for a long time, she had 5 figures buried in a gallon size pickle jar in the backyard.
When she decided to move she dug it up and the money was damp so she mircrowaved it then ironed it.
I have no idea how long it was buried underground or why it was damp but not moldy but there you are.
We had the same thing when my grandpa passed. Money hidden in the middle of an old magazine, in shoes, in an old coffee can in his work shack. Bad enough there was money hidden all over, but we also found notes from him to my grandma and vice versa inside old books, and report cards from them as well. We had to go through everything.
My grandmother died about 6 years ago and my family found at least $1600 in her bedroom. Maybe distrust of the system, depression-era be prepared for the worst?
When my great grandmother died they found money taped to the back of the dresser drawers and the inside of the bed frame. They had to pull the furniture apart. She also used to carry a roll with like $200 in her bra.
Post by sawyerthedestroyer on Oct 23, 2014 14:04:41 GMT -5
My grandmother hid money all over the house, too. She even buried some in the backyard.
Most of our grandparents were probably children/grew up during the Depression which, I think, explains a lot of the hoarding things like money and other valuables.