# Parents, do your kids a favor - don't hide money! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-do-your-kids-a-favor-dont-hide-money/810335 "2018-03-10T13:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-do-your-kids-a-favor-dont-hide-money/810335/21 "2018-03-11T04:40:32Z")
My mother was born in 28. I dont think she has ever hid money…she is going to be 90 in April. She is cheap though about buying things. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-do-your-kids-a-favor-dont-hide-money/810335/22 "2018-03-11T12:01:26Z")
My wife’s parents were that way. When her Mom died, she spent two days going thru clothes, purses, and shoes. Nearly everything had anywhere from 12c to $20 stashed somewhere. The safe in the basement had $10k, including birthday envelopes for YEARS that her husband gave her, all with money inside. Every drawer in the house had change. When I cleaned out the place, I just chucked any cash into a coffee can. The very last day, as I was leaving, I yanked a tattered piece of ancient shelf paper out of a hall closet. Out tumbled a $50 bill. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-do-your-kids-a-favor-dont-hide-money/810335/23 "2018-03-11T16:46:34Z")
My grandmother died in 1980, and I last found some cash she’d stashed away in 2017; a $10 bill in an envelope amongst some old paperwork relating to the construction of the old family house. Thanks, Grandma!! ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-do-your-kids-a-favor-dont-hide-money/810335/24 "2018-03-12T00:42:32Z")
When I was about 15, my grandfather took me down to his basement and pointed to a place in the floor where the cement looked fresh and told me he had buried some money under it. When he died a couple years later I told my uncle about it and he took a pickax down there are hacked away till he found an envelope with $1000 in it. Since this was 1954, I would assume that would be more like $10K today. He was born around 1885 but certainly lived through the depression. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-do-your-kids-a-favor-dont-hide-money/810335/25 "2018-03-12T16:56:14Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > My grandmother died in 1980, and I last found some cash she’d stashed away in 2017 I wish\* my\* grandma could still be stashing money thirty-five years after she was dead. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-do-your-kids-a-favor-dont-hide-money/810335/26 "2018-03-12T17:08:07Z")
After my grandmother died my grandfather found $10K hidden in different places in the house. He immediately spent it frivolously, which was why my grandma hid money from him in the first place. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shinna_Minna_Ma)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-do-your-kids-a-favor-dont-hide-money/810335/27 "2018-03-12T17:44:37Z")
One of my widowed great-aunts died back in the mid-80s. She had gotten a bit squirrely in her later years, so my family had to go through each and every thing she had in her apartment before we threw the stuff out. I believe in the end we found about $1,000 in cash, hidden in bits and pieces everywhere. She and my late great-uncle had owned a general store for many years, and they had been pack rats. By the time we finished cleaning the apartment that night, we had filled 6 dumpsters with their crap. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-do-your-kids-a-favor-dont-hide-money/810335.md?page=1)