Where do YOU hide your hoard?

[Harvey]

Rather new to the whole physical PM thing, I puzzle over the best place to store my hoard. Where is the best place?

In a safe deposit box? ... under the bed? ... buried in the back yard? ... in a PM repository?

In all seriousness, and without prejudice, where would YOU recommend that I keep 1,000 big, fat, shiny one ounce coins?

[Irons]

The bottom of the deepest lake or reservoir in your area is a pretty safe spot. Yep, don't take your stash for a boat ride as it never ends well.

[AgShaman]

The best places are in your mind. Should you want to have the most piece of mind in your holdings...and perhaps accumulate even more...then spend a decent amount of time thinking about this one.

The ultimate test will be whether or not you can keep quiet about where you stashed your precious. This is rule number one...and without discipline you may regret getting involved with the precious. I'd say it's ok to let your wife in on the secret, but that's as far as it should go...letting anyone else know would be madness IMO.

Heavy bank safes are nice...even nicer if they are hidden amongst junk in the basement and have walls so thick a thief could not just carry it off and get it open at a later time. Smaller safes are ok as well, since they could provide a diversion, and you could stash your coins in nooks and crannies in various locations. False plumbling in the ceiling, behind patched walls, the list really is endless and only limited by your mind. If you're really gonna become a hoarder and accumulate more...consider splitting up the hoard in case you bypass protectionary grade holdings (set amount you don't plan on messing with near term) and purchase enough to venture into investment grade holdings (the stuff you buy that may be used for trading in and out, in order to take profits from price swings). Protectionary holdings does not need easy access, but the portion of your stack you consider trading with should be easier for you to get to. Look at it as fun time...and let your mind wander at the possibilities...and by all means...keep rule number one close to your chest like you were the Last Templar with a great secret. Good luck Harvey.

Curiosity will not kill this Cat!

[elroy]

Virtually any safe can be hauled off regardless of size. A safe must be fastened down or in a concrete floor etc.

I always thought hiding items in either the attic or crawlspace were good places. This is not someplace many thieves would venture.

For really deep storage, a septic system would work.

[Jimmie]

False plumbling in the ceiling...

That is a really cool idea! Never thought of that one before. :beerglass:

[JEKYLL-7]

The best spot is the one you keep to yourself. The best spot is more than one spot. With silver, you have to think a little bit. With gold, the options are as vast as your imagination. Some of my favorites I've heard mentioned are (gold): in the toilet tank. In the sand of the aquarium. Frozen in some sort of stew in the freezer. Taped under furniture. And the best of all (sorry, can't remember who posted it): in the SpongeBob SquarePants lunchbox under the front porch.

[Gcubed]

Anyone asking that question with a straight face should be invested 100% in CD's.

[AgShaman]

.....with possible merit:

Make a purchase of those gold clad "Buffalo" proofs (sales goin' thru the roof!, limit 5 per customer)...you know the ones that advertise later in the evening hoping to catch some geezer unaware in his easy chair....the 31 milligrams "punters" special. Put them in individual plastic...for "effect" and inside a cheesy safe from say Wal-mart or some such place and keep it in your house somewhere....where a thief would look.

It may or may not be a decent plan....but it makes me chuckle to think of thieves leaving the scene early thinking they got the necessary booty...and then trying to unload them later at the LCS or some gold pawn shop....that will hopefully notify the authorities.

Curiosity will not kill this Cat!

[Silvertooth]

^^^I chuckled at "limit 5 per customer"

Common sense: always keep it someplace where you have easy access to it. Because if you dont hold it you dont own it!!

[curmudgeonista]

What do smart burglars do in between jobs? Read Internet forums to find out where people hide their cash & PM's.

I try not to use "recommended" hiding places. When I come up with a hiding place I think is really good I keep it to myself. Sorry! DYODD and FYOHH (find your own hidy-hole).

[Refugee]

What hoard?

[HistoryStudent]

In DEEP DEEP STORAGE like the United States of America's TREASURY department.

So DEEP DEEP that in fact it's in the DEEPEST BOWELS of the Earth waiting for MINER HISTORYSTUDENT to locate it!

Sorry....:haha::haha::haha:

But it's hard down there in the COLD DARK eath when the GOVY blew the easy stuff to kill the prices...

[CQC McDuck]

Saturn. The planet, not the car.

[GOLDZILLA]

I put my life savings - consisting of two mercury dimes - in a dusty pair of work boots at the local tweakers trailer down the block. They'll never look there.

[RoadKing]

I haven't washed my briefs for some 6 plus months now. So to be safe, I have my entire Hoard scattered in that drawer, under a layer of these extremely 'nasty' tidies.

Just let someone reach in there to get my stash. Unless they're robbing with a level 5 Hazmat, there's no telling if they'll ever be able to spend a dime of it..... :ahhhhh:

I'm just sayin,
RK

[ptwopat]

I keep mine underneath "Killer." He sleeps a lot and will take off a perp's hand if disturbed while napping.

Seriously, anyone with enough patience will find your stash . . . if they know it's there. Looking like a bum and pleading poverty will get one further than false plumbing and safe cemented into awkward places.

[Harvey]

Well, to be honest, what I get out of this so far is : screw the safe deposit box.

Never mind.

[horseshoe3]

I think you're on to something there. I'm surprised noone has said that yet. If you don't hold it, you don't own it.

[MISRy]

Well, to be honest, what I get out of this so far is : screw the safe deposit box.

There are times when a safe deposit box is called for. For example, you live in a bad neighborhood and home invasion is a possibility. The best hiding place on the block is moot if they are threatening your baby. Banks note if you are under duress when attempting to access the box.

The best hiding place you have might be buried by a stone fence post on a farm but you can only get there once or twice a year. In that case a SDB might be a good staging point for those items that are to join the stack.

The best hiding place is a lie. Always lie about where it really is. The hardest thing I had to do was to teach the kids to obfuscate. *We* know where it really is, Grandpa knows where it is, other Grandma knows. If we speak of it in front of anyone else we refer to the lake and how deep it is.

[yunowu]

In MANY undisclosed locations...Don't keep your eggs in one basket..

[Meetzos]

Change the question to where "did" I hide my hoard" it was so long ago I forgot. I don't even remember if I had a hoard. What's a hoard? A mind is a terrible thing. :ImWhere:

[HistoryStudent]

Love the ICON - MEETZOS - the horse is making FIAT currencies, right...???

[Meetzos]

Love the ICON - MEETZOS - the horse is making FIAT currencies, right...???

How did you guess? His name is El Grande Federales.;)

[coin finger]

In a plastic baggie in my cats litter box

[skyvike]

Buried in the back yard, right under the compost and manure heaps.

[dacrunch]

many talk of complicated safe boxes...

I favor building "cavities" such as inside a partition wall, plastered back up (for long-term), or you can unscrew & dismount the bathroom medicine cabinet & use the "void" in that partition - only need a screwdriver to get back in... Those spots won't help your survivors if you didn't notify anybody, btw... so somebody should be informed...

Other easy access is an air-conditioning or heating vent, place bag around the 1st corner (but caution if spouse hires the "chimney sweeps"!) Same caution is valid for stashing within an appliance...

[Nickelless]

I posted a blog entry about POSSIBLE hiding places some time ago:

http://survivalprep.net/2010/03/12/why-should-i-stock-up-on-stuff-part-2-buy-it-then-hide-it/

[AceNZ]

I can't tell you where to hide anything, but I can tell you the first places a thief is likely to look for valuables:

-- Someplace they heard you mention, either directly or indirectly (through a friend or someone who worked at your house, etc)
-- Kitchen cabinets: inside boxes, potentially fake cans, etc
-- Refrig and freezer, including inside containers
-- Master bathroom: in the toilet tank, inside any boxes, including things like tampon boxes
-- Any office areas, esp. desk
-- Under drawers
-- In the back of bookshelves
-- Master bedroom and closet, esp. cabinets near the bed

If a thief knows they're looking for PMs, the task is somewhat simplified for them, because in any quantity, PMs tend to be heavy.

Places they are less likely to look are the ones where you probably wouldn't feel safe leaving something of value laying around: in the kid's bedroom, mixed with kid toys, laying around outside, etc.

Tip: if you're ever buying PMs, never admit to the buyer that you already own anything. If you're selling, that particular sale is everything you own. You are (potentially) your own worst enemy: "loose lips sink ships," as they say.

[MISRy]

In a plastic baggie in my cats litter box

I don't mean to be rude but you have either a small stash or a big cat.

[Ragnarok]

I like Porter Stansberry's approach:

"I worry about my gold being confiscated by the government, so I don't keep it in a bank, and I surely won't keep it at home. I don't want anybody invading my house looking for gold. I put it someplace where I don't live and where the government isn't going to look for it."

2c, R.