Dear Marist Poll: I have doubts about this one…
The Marist Poll recently reported that “for both women — 28% — and men — 25%, the freezer is the most popular place in the home to keep their money safe.” I don’t know anyone who stashes cash in their freezer. I posted the link on my Facebook to see if this is a common practice that I was unaware of and got some amusing responses. A few:
* I don’t hide cash in the freezer. However, from a movie I got the idea to freeze my credit card in a bowl of water to keep me from using it. It didn’t work.
* I wish I had cash to freeze but I’m a journalist.
* Not quite the same thing, but when he died, Richard Yates had left his unfinished manuscript in the freezer. I remember hearing it was because he didn’t have a firesafe, and in case the building caught fire, at least the book would survive.
* Marist Poll: 27% of Americans say they hide money in the freezer
* What my Facebook friends/subscribers say about hiding cash in the freezer
My main man Shaft kept his gun in the freezer.
UH, JIM ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Jefferson_corruption_case
W.J. Jefferson, D-La., had $90,000 in freezer.
” .. A few days later, on 3 August 2005, FBI agents raided Jefferson’s home in Northeast Washington and, as noted in an 83-page affidavit filed to support a subsequent raid on his Congressional office, “found $90,000 of the cash in the freezer, in $10,000 increments wrapped in aluminum foil and stuffed inside frozen-food containers”. Serial numbers found on the currency in the freezer matched serial numbers of funds given by the FBI to their informant ..”
Ditto, the Corleone Family.
“My main man Shaft kept his gun in the freezer.”