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Old 05-25-2022, 09:44 AM
 
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If someone had $54,780, and wanted to bury it, how is the best way to do so, in such a way as it will not mold or rot away. Just curious, if anyone has done this before, if so how and was it successful?
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Old 05-25-2022, 10:30 AM
 
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Oddly specific question. I'd 'bury it' in a bank account that earns interest.
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Old 05-25-2022, 10:39 AM
 
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Here was a thread about it:
https://www.city-data.com/forum/self...ables-not.html
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Old 05-25-2022, 12:20 PM
 
Location: IN>Germany>ND>OH>TX>CA>Currently NoVa and a Vacation Lake House in PA
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If someone had $54,780, and wanted to bury it, how is the best way to do so, in such a way as it will not mold or rot away. Just curious, if anyone has done this before, if so how and was it successful?
I'm sorry, but I can only tell you how to bury $53,820. You've reached above my threshold.
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Old 05-25-2022, 05:59 PM
 
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When I was a kid, I buried $2.14 (8 quarters, 2 nickels and 4 pennies) and placed it in a coffee can in my back yard. Dug it up a week later, no mold and it did not even begin to rot away. So my suggestion would be to exchange the paper money for coins, using a mixture of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. Place them in well sealed Tupperware containers and bury at least two feet deep, preferably in a non-flooding area. Make a map of the location and send it to me just in case you don't last as long as the money. Wishing you the best of luck :-)
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Old 05-26-2022, 05:10 AM
 
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Without reading much of the many page thread posted on here, get ahold on time capsule unit/units and go dig a hole in woods that’s not someone else’s land. The person mentioning doing it at a pet cemetery is actually a great idea for someone having trouble getting land. Only huge problem is for when you want to retrieve it, good luck with that if your seen digging it back up. You’ve mentioned living in Duluth, a rock base in forests might pose a decent threat in how far down you can dig…
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Old 05-26-2022, 06:40 AM
 
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Before burying your money, make photo copies (front and back) of each bill and hide these under your mattress. If something happens to the originals, you can bring the photo copies to a police station and by law, they have to reimburse you for your original bills.
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Old 05-26-2022, 09:15 AM
 
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When I was a kid, I buried $2.14 (8 quarters, 2 nickels and 4 pennies) and placed it in a coffee can in my back yard. Dug it up a week later, no mold and it did not even begin to rot away. So my suggestion would be to exchange the paper money for coins, using a mixture of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. Place them in well sealed Tupperware containers and bury at least two feet deep, preferably in a non-flooding area. Make a map of the location and send it to me just in case you don't last as long as the money. Wishing you the best of luck :-)
Nearly $55K in coin? Sure, that'll work...

OP, how legally-obtained is this $$?
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Old 05-26-2022, 09:21 AM
 
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Before burying your money, make photo copies (front and back) of each bill and hide these under your mattress. If something happens to the originals, you can bring the photo copies to a police station and by law, they have to reimburse you for your original bills.
Photocopies of 547 $100 bills plus some 20's, under the mattress? Let's see... ... 10 bills per page...you could make the pages double-sided... .... IDK you figure out the math. Seems like it would be a lumpy mattress.
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Old 05-26-2022, 10:04 AM
 
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If someone had $54,780, and wanted to bury it, how is the best way to do so, in such a way as it will not mold or rot away. Just curious, if anyone has done this before, if so how and was it successful?
Wrap all of it in plastic zip lock bags and put it in a large tin can with a ship on it.

Bury the can under a extremely large oak tree beside a stone fence. Make very sure to put it under a rock that doesn't appear to belong there.

It's been done before with proven success.
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