It was an ordinary day. Reading in a "Reader's Digest" story about the best places to hide your jewelry and cash. Do you have a specific spot in your house where you might hide special items you have in hopes that no one will find them and steal them? My wife bought me a safe as a gift so I could place our valuables in it to protect the valuables from being stolen. And...I placed it in our bedroom closet! Isn't that where everyone places their special items they have. Only difference was that I bolted it into the wall studs as we'll as the floor with huge bolts. And...when we decided to move to our current home in a retirement community, I had to remove my safe from the closet. You can't imagine how hard it was to take out those huge bolts! I worked and worked to get that safe from the floor space where I had placed it. And, after a few hours told my wife that we were just going to leave it there for the next person to use. She told me to keep on trying since she had paid quite a bit of money for the safe. Well, I worked and worked and after a few more hours managed to get it from the floor. Ruined a few of my tools, but I did get it from the floor. So...what was so important that we take it with us? Our passports and our birth certificates! We had no money or jewelry in the safe, since that is where most burglars would think to look for money and jewelry. Do you have a house safe? If not...where do you hide your money and jewelry? "Reader's Digest" said that the top 10 hiding spots where a burglar would look are: (1) Under the mattress, (2) In a bedroom closet, (3) In your dresser drawers, (4) In the medicine cabinet, (5) In the freezer, (6) In office drawers, (7) In a flower vase, (8) In the liquor cabinet, (9) In a suitcase, and (10) In a portable safe. As you can see, a portable safe is one of the places you would suspect a thief to look for your jewelry and money. As I said...we didn't keep any money or jewelry in our safe, but we didn't want our important papers stolen, so that's why I bolted it to the floor. We have taken it with us, but it sits empty in our closet as of now since we have taken our valuable items to the retirement community's office so they could place them in a safe location. They didn't question us as to why we wanted them to place our passports and birth certificates in their safe, but I'm sure they thought it rather unusual. So where do we keep our money? In a hole in our new flower bed! Sound like a good idea? And if you care to dig up the huge flower beds to try and find the money...well please wait until the spring to try and find the money so we will have an easier time of planting our flowers in the Spring. We'll need at least three dozen or so holes if you're interested! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
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