Where do you hide your money?

Where do you camp that you need to hide your money? Why do you carry enough cash that you need to hide it?

We usually carry less than $50 between the two of us and only lock our trailer when we leave the campground. We are not naive or trusting. We just won't camp in a place that theft is a big worry. Maybe this will be something we need to worry about if we ever full time.

Don't carry more than $300-500 cash, divided between 2 people and the tow vehicle. Part of that is a stash of $1 bills, for NFS campgrounds with deposit slots for campsite fees, and a few rolls of quarters for the laundromat.

We also carry a total of 4 credit cards, divided between 2 people and the tow vehicle.

I also keep my photography gear in the tow vehicle when not in use, covered up in an inconspicuous bag.

My thinking is that the tow vehicle is much more secure than the trailer. The locks are better, the structure is stronger, and it has an alarm system. It's left unattended less than the trailer, too.

Dividing up the cash and cards prevents trip disaster if one person has a wallet or purse stolen.

We carry enough cash to cover a couple of tanks of gas fills, "just in case" for whatever reason our cards wouldn't work. Also it's a lot cheaper to change up a lot of dollars at the right exchange rate for Canadians than to try doing it in dribs and drabs = hence carrying more cash than most might.

We split it up into 5 to 7 sets and hide throughout the RV in various locations from washing machines, to velcro throw pillows, to teabag holder to magnetic holders etc. We also have a dummy used wallet left in easy eyesight with out of date/blocked old credit cards, fake license, and other bits in plus about $22 including some change, so easy for them to take and hopefully leave with less damage.

Yes, we have found some of our money hidden a couple or more years later in places we'd forgotten we'd put it in before (LOL). Hubby say's when I find that "safe place" it'll be like Christmas as a child again on what will be there!

As full-timers, we don't carry more than a few dollars in cash (mostly quarters for laundry). I'm more concerned about fire and important papers (passports, wills, birth certificates, etc.). We have a fire safe in the RV for those items.

Rob

Money? What money? If you have an RV and money, you're doing something wrong. :)

Right beside the empty gun case :)

If you think it, the thieves have been there... in mattresses, toilet tanks, taped to inside of drawer spaces - have all been done before and the thieves have find them every time.

Black tank is good because no one wants to stick their hands in someone else's c*ap. They'll know it's there, but they'll leave saying "oh No! I ain't stickin' my hands in that! Let'em keep it!"

I keep mine in my left shoe. That leg's a little shorter anyway, so it prevents back aches too.

I installed a little (and not really highly secure) digital safe; there was some unused room underneath the queen bed next to the fresh water tank and pump. Even if it's not super secure, it does give a consistent spot to keep important papers and petty cash and helps keep kids out of the s'mores chocolate supply.

If someone were to break into my motorhome, I think losing some cash would be among the least of my worries.

DutchmenSport wrote:
Our strategy is to leave $10.00 in open site. The rest is tucked way, divided out, put in different places. We have some panels that can be removed, and we carry some, and some stays in the truck, and there are several places in the truck we can use.

If someone breaks in, we leave an easy target. They can grab the exposed cash and run. Maybe they won't destroy the rest of the camper that way searching. If it's that valuable, it stays home! We have no need to travel with a passport. But if we do, they travel right with us, just like our billfolds.

Where do you generally travel? 1962?

You might want to bump up that ten dollars a little. I think it may be just enough to make them angry. After all, breaking in does take a little work and they'll want to see some level of payoff for it.

Jack_Diane_Freedom wrote:
Not trying to be smart or insulting. But why would one carry enough cash that this would be a worry. I carry my cash in my pocket and use debit for just about everything.

I have always wondered this also as I have read here from some who do not use credit cards and carry cash with them. Seems old school to me.