# So where did I put that $4,000?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 27, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-i-put-that-4-000/607518 "2011-12-27T15:11:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-i-put-that-4-000/607518/101 "2012-01-19T08:39:26Z")

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> [@MoodIndigo1](#):
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> I feel for you. Two years ago, when we were leaving on a trip to Italy, I hid all my expensive jewelry (including my engagement ring and wedding band) somewhere in the house. I remember thinking that NOBODY would think of looking for it there. I didn’t realize that I’d never find it again.
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> Since then, I don’t do diamond/sapphire/gold/platinum, I wear only expendable costume jewelry. My husband wonders if I didn’t hide it behind insulation in our basement food storage room. He had drywall put over the insulation after our return home from Italy, and I guess I have to do at least one more major organized search before tearing down the drywall.
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> Good luck with your search, **TokyoPlayer**. I usually hide money in books or behind paintings. None was ever lost this way.

Not to derail the thread, but as far as jewelry goes, a VERY safe place, if you don’t have a safe-deposit box, is…a pawnshop. Pawn your stuff (make sure you are pawning and not selling of course), mail yourself the ticket, and off you go, secure that your jewels will be waiting and redeemable when you get back and your ticket will be in your pile of mail that the PO is holding for you. There’s a small cost, of course, but it’s very secure. (The pawnshop, anyway. The US mail used to be.)

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**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-i-put-that-4-000/607518/102 "2012-01-19T08:53:09Z")

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> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#):
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> Not to derail the thread, but as far as jewelry goes, a VERY safe place, if you don’t have a safe-deposit box, is…a pawnshop. Pawn your stuff (make sure you are pawning and not selling of course), mail yourself the ticket, and off you go, secure that your jewels will be waiting and redeemable when you get back and your ticket will be in your pile of mail that the PO is holding for you. There’s a small cost, of course, but it’s very secure. (The pawnshop, anyway. The US mail used to be.)

Hmmm… never thought of doing that; thanks for the idea.

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-where-did-i-put-that-4-000/607518/103 "2012-02-11T21:48:46Z")

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Well, it’s almost a month later. Any update (did you bust her?)

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