How long will it take cash buried in plastic bags in tupperware containers to mold? How can it be prevented?

-- $ (@ .), July 07, 1999

Answers

Bury it in a length of PVC pipe with a cap on one end and a threaded plug on the other. Place dessicant (to absorb any moisture) in the pipe with the cash. You won't have any mold.

-- fake (fake@out.com), July 07, 1999.

Not a problem in Australia, all our currency notes are wipe clean plastic. True!

RonD

-- Ron Davis (rdavis@ozemail.com.au), July 07, 1999.

I would go further than that. I would first make sure that the bills are completely dry---probably by heating them in the oven for, say, an hour at low temperature. What the heck, bills can actually be WASHED in a clothes washer. Why not do that (using a flow- through bag), then dry them in the dryer, and you'll have cleansed out all kinds of residual bugs, etc.

Then I would use dessicant in each plastic bag, and clean the storage container with bleach before packing in the bills.

Dope the threads of the PVC pipe with teflon thread sealer to make sure that it's water-tight. If you're going to bury the container, I would suggest tying a 6-7 foot nylon or polypropylene cord to it which would be visible from above ground to help you find it when you need it.

-- gizmo (t@m.net), July 07, 1999.

Save only crisp bills.

Put them in food dehydrator overnight.

Transfer to a mason jar that was preheated in the oven to 150 F.

Seal the jar. "Cash Preserves"

If you want to get clever, get a really big jar, and fill with rice about 2 inches on bottom, set cash in middle of rice jar and fill the rest. (Uncle Sam's Rice)

-- alan greenbacks (AG@fed.com), July 07, 1999.

How long will it take before you get it that I am a Pro that can tell you there is not a problem?

-- Y2K Pro (2@641.com), July 07, 1999.

good laundering money tips

-- h (h@h.h), July 07, 1999.

Here's what you do: (1) Buy gold bullion with money. (2) Place gold in jar (3) Bury jar

-- Midas Mulligan (migas@gg.com), July 07, 1999.

$ (@ .),

Send me, via e-mail, the location at which the cash is buried. I'll come over, take soil samples, run some tests, and give you a full report on molding times.

-- No Spam Please (nos_pam_please@hotmail.com), July 08, 1999.

Y2K Pro troll is a paid Government Agent assigned to mislead the masses. He does not realize that he is doing an extremely poor job of it. Every one of his posts shows his total stupidity. Most Americans will see throught his continual stupid blaberings. The Gov. should fire him!

-- Y2K ready (Y2Kready@aol.com), July 08, 1999.

Nice try smegma breath. I assume it is you impersonating me all over the forum - should I expect support from the Doomer Sysops? Not likely...

-- Y2K Pro (2@641.com), July 08, 1999.

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-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), July 08, 1999.

Why do trolls have such bad vocabularies???

-- Gypsy (GypsiGold@aol.com), July 08, 1999.

Let me think about this for a minute.....see if we can follow this logic train to some reasonable conclusion - or at least until it derails...

The reason anybody would want to "stash" money (cash) is because they do not believe that the banks witll either be open, or be functional early next year. Okay.

If a person is going to "stash cash" - then they don't want to put it in their house (all in one place) or else one single accident or fire (or theft) could take all of the stashed cash - seems reasonable.

So they plan on hiding it in various places, and some of those places are outside, and some of those outside places could be damp, dark, and warm enough to grow mildew. Could be - but this assumes that the outside places don't freeze, and are 'damp" enough when stashed to grow mildew.

But what I don't understand is why this is a problem - if any person (assuming great troubles occur, and occur long enough that this reader does need his stashed cash) needs to use cash to buy something, will his seller refuse "cash" because it is "mildewy" or "moldy"?

Anybody see any faults in this reasoning?

Seems to me that this is a very minor problem, that while it may occur in limited cases under extreme conditions, that the results are not severe enough to be worth the concern, nor will the likelihood of mold be severe enough in the time of concern - up to a few months at least - to cause the basic value of the money to have been either "eaten" or "destroyed".

Others have postulated that the fundemental value of a "one dollar" bill may be destroyed if confidence in the money system is destroyed. (This seems possible, though not very likely.) If it does occur, then the presence or absence of mold is equally meaningless.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), July 08, 1999.

This would have to take the cake for one of the most stupid posts I have read. Downunder Pauline

-- pauline jansen (paulinej@angliss.vic.edu.au), July 08, 1999.

Vacuum sealer

-- A (A@AisA.com), July 09, 1999.