Keeping Money Under The Mattress

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Keeping money under the mattress.

Real adults who make smart choices keep their money in the bank. As many as 28 million people in the united states are forgoing traditional financial institutions. Another 9 percent keep their cash. Whether it is metaphorical or not keeping your cash under the mattress means it is readily available at your house.

Keeping cash under a mattress or bed is an easy picking for thieves and martin said the woman would be best suited putting her money into a savings account. After all the financial advice i give out on this site i keep a decent amount of cash under my mattress actually it s in another secure place in my home but it s effectively the same thing. If you live far from an atm and have a need for cash to pay for produce at the. Or at least they should.

At first this seems to fly right in the face of everything i preach on this site. Usually a reference to stashing money under the mattress or in a shoebox is a joke. Keeping large amounts of money in your house rather than in a bank or building society is a bad idea because. Grandma stuffing money under the mattress isn t the only one living outside the banking system.

A little less than 20 percent of americans hide cash in a sock drawer while 11 percent put it under the mattress and 10 percent secure it in a cookie jar. Your savings will lose value over time you won t earn any interest. I believe that hiding money under the mattress is prevalent in pop culture due to great depression era bank runs creating a need for cash storage in the home.