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What type of storage container should I use for my small bullion collection? any why?

My safe!

haha, no thanks, the small bit I have I intend to keep .

Seriously, I use a safe, a safety deposit box, and I even have a little glass display that I hang on my wall to appreciate part of my collection.

I think as long as you keep the metals from rubbing up against each other, and out of direct sunlight and/or dampness you should be alright.

What about a hollow book? Keep it in at the bottom of a pile of books. Hide your stash in the open. I have one, and I think its cool.
Or a Barbasol Can Safe. Like Jurrasic Park. Or a Del Monte Fruit Can Safe. Or in an electrical outlet safe. Or a wall clock safe.

I'm looking for a container to keep in the house that's also air tight or close to it

deacon wrote:What about a hollow book? Keep it in at the bottom of a pile of books. Hide your stash in the open. I have one, and I think its cool.

I so need to look up how to do this!

I've been thinking a lot about renting a very small storage unit because I don't want to take any chances if I ever get robbed at home. It's only $40 a month for the smallest unit where I'm at. I'm more of the, store anywhere but your home and bank, type of person. I do know a person who has buried it in their backyard and now has a bunch of poison ivy bushed on top of it. I know this will never happen but I have also considered purchasing a huge can of bear mace and putting that in the storage unit also just in case I'm ever made at gun point to go to the storage area so somebody can rob me.

RD5 wrote:

deacon wrote:What about a hollow book? Keep it in at the bottom of a pile of books. Hide your stash in the open. I have one, and I think its cool.

I so need to look up how to do this!

There are book safes that you can purchase online. Not that expensive if you want to go that route.

RD5 wrote:I'm looking for a container to keep in the house that's also air tight or close to it

You could vacuum seal them in a food saver.

Individually bagging each piece and then putting them in tupperware with an 02 absorber is about as fancy as you need to get for non-numismatic bullion.

A co-worker was stashing money in old magazines he was sure no one would bother reading; a few hundred in each. One of his tenants went through the whole stack and cleaned him out. $10,000. Don't bet on a hollow book being safe.

What collection? My entire collection sank to the bottom of a deep lake several years ago in an unfortunate boating accident.

I store my collection in my boat.

one thing you have to think about is weight.
you may have a small collection now but in the future it will be large.
money is heavy.
will the floor or where ever you store your collection hold the weight?

Two of the things I learned from being robbed last year:

1. If you've read or heard about a hiding place, there's a very good chance that thieves have also read and/or heard about that hiding place and will search there first. In other words, once someone has suggested a hiding place (especially on something as public as the internet), don't use it. This also means you should never disclose your own hiding place ideas.

2. Store your items in as many different places as feasible. "Don't keep all of your eggs in one basket."


As far as what type of container(s) to use; as long as they aren't being jostled around, and there isn't a lot of moisture, just about anything will work (Tupperware, plastic bags, paper bags, envelopes, used/empty food containers [cottage cheese containers, peanut butter containers, etc.], glass bottles/jars, ammo boxes, and so on…).

Doctor Steuss wrote:Two of the things I learned from being robbed last year:

1. If you've read or heard about a hiding place, there's a very good chance that thieves have also read and/or heard about that hiding place and will search there first. In other words, once someone has suggested a hiding place (especially on something as public as the internet), don't use it. This also means you should never disclose your own hiding place ideas.

2. Store your items in as many different places as feasible. "Don't keep all of your eggs in one basket."


As far as what type of container(s) to use; as long as they aren't being jostled around, and there isn't a lot of moisture, just about anything will work (Tupperware, plastic bags, paper bags, envelopes, used/empty food containers [cottage cheese containers, peanut butter containers, etc.], glass bottles/jars, ammo boxes, and so on…).

great post. Whatever you do, Id keep it in more then one spot myself. So fire or theft or whatever wouldnt leave you without some of your stash.

Treetop wrote:

Doctor Steuss wrote:Two of the things I learned from being robbed last year:

1. If you've read or heard about a hiding place, there's a very good chance that thieves have also read and/or heard about that hiding place and will search there first. In other words, once someone has suggested a hiding place (especially on something as public as the internet), don't use it. This also means you should never disclose your own hiding place ideas.

2. Store your items in as many different places as feasible. "Don't keep all of your eggs in one basket."


As far as what type of container(s) to use; as long as they aren't being jostled around, and there isn't a lot of moisture, just about anything will work (Tupperware, plastic bags, paper bags, envelopes, used/empty food containers [cottage cheese containers, peanut butter containers, etc.], glass bottles/jars, ammo boxes, and so on…).

great post. Whatever you do, Id keep it in more then one spot myself. So fire or theft or whatever wouldnt leave you without some of your stash.

+1 to that. I keep some in a safety deposit box, some hidden at home, and some in a safe in a building we own.

Inside a new 30 cal ammo in a 870 lbs safe that is bolted to the floor.

Find 2-5 safe, private locations and split it up. Don't keep all your eggs in one basket! Also, hiding in plain site works, but hiding somewhere no thief would look is better. Think in the wall, in the floor, buried in boxes of crap, etc.

CtrlAltBernanke wrote:I've been thinking a lot about renting a very small storage unit because I don't want to take any chances if I ever get robbed at home. It's only $40 a month for the smallest unit where I'm at. I'm more of the, store anywhere but your home and bank, type of person. I do know a person who has buried it in their backyard and now has a bunch of poison ivy bushed on top of it. I know this will never happen but I have also considered purchasing a huge can of bear mace and putting that in the storage unit also just in case I'm ever made at gun point to go to the storage area so somebody can rob me.

Poison Ivy??? Yikes. Pretty creative idea though!

Roses and blackberry work well, too.

People living out away from town up in the interior generally build a cache house on stilts (mainly to keep bear and other vermin out of the storage), used in part for the supplies they need in case the house burns down. The nearest Holiday Inn might be a half year walk, no roads.

You might stash a cheap wall tent, some cheap and new sleeping bags in large sacks (prevent matting), maybe a stove and lantern... Used gear works, but be sure to give it a cleaning before storing.

Be sure you protect your stuff from vermin; I had a squirrel store about 10 pounds of bird seed in my stuff one year. Still finding the blasted stuff.