r/interesting • u/Jezirath • 19h ago
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u/meanvegton 19h ago
One random day.....
Husband: what happened to the nightstand?????
Wife: oh that, I always thought it was ugly and gotten a replacement
Husband: .........….........
Based on real life stories where wife or husband thrown away their hidden stash furniture and had to search for it at the dumpster or rubbish chute.
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u/unclestickles 18h ago
A fellow I worked with had a coworker who was demolishing drywall in a house. While smashing out the ceiling a box fell out and almost him in the head. It had close to 100k in it. Turns out the house was owned by a guy who had a bakery, and I guess stashed cash up there to avoid paying taxes. He never told anyone I guess and developed Alzheimer's. The kid turned in the money to the owner, and after that they had security guards watching the demolition crew's every move.
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u/ECNguy 17h ago
That's crazy. He hid 90k in the ceiling to avoid taxes. That's smart your friend turned it in.
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u/EconomyMongoose7994 17h ago
Amazing to just stash 80k like that and literally forget about it. I wonder what he planned to do with it
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u/ChellyTheKid 17h ago
It's funny 70k really isn't that much money, very easy to spend it. Just like lottery winners if you don't know what you're doing it will gone before you know it.
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u/SweetLemonPopsicle 17h ago
Yeah, I mean 60k isn't as much money as it used to be. Times have changed so much from when he first hid that.
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u/cautioussidekick 16h ago
Yeah big rats in the roof. $50k would go a long way towards pest control
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u/SpecsOnThe_Beach 16h ago
$40,000 wouldn't even get you a new roof
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u/Icy_Skin_6352 16h ago
30k is not that much lol
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u/Armadillo_Dear 16h ago
Let’s be honest in 2026 how far is 20k even gonna get you? A used 2023 Honda accord?
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u/New_Classroom7456 14h ago
Does Reddit only have the same jokes? Holy shit it gets boring fast
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u/No-Dimension1159 12h ago
Funny that he is honest and turns it in just to get security guards checking on him
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u/Mystery_Member 11h ago
People who lived through The Depression or heard about it as children where the banks literally locked the doors and failed learned that cash is king. Always had some stashed for emergencies.
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u/Standard_Set_5566 15h ago
Few months ago in Flanders Belgium, 9 million in gold bars, discovered during renovation works
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u/Jezirath 19h ago
Who the hell throws away a piece of furniture without telling their spouse?
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u/Inevitable_Shift1365 19h ago
Found the guy who has never been married
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u/sora5634 18h ago
Nah, that’s just straight up stupid. Its a shared home and you do not just straight up throw away things without informing the other. Im married and its common sense to ask first.
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u/TiredWiredAndHired 17h ago
Yeah, unless something is completely 100% mine I won't throw it away without at least asking my wife.
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u/2052JCDenton 16h ago
Wife tells husband, "That piece of furniture is ugly, I'm going to toss it and get a new one." Husband replies "Yeah, just don't do it yet, I need to clean it out." Two weeks later: "You cleaned that thing out yet?" "Not yet, I'm still working on other stuff." Three weeks later: "Clean that thing out because I'm going to toss it next week." "Yeah yeah I'll do it." Four weeks later: "YOU DID WHAT??!!?!?!?!"
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u/sora5634 16h ago
Still not a reason. In this scenario i would force them to clean it out the day i would need to toss it. Gave them enough time
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u/2052JCDenton 16h ago
Had this happen to me (though on a lesser scale). Got a deadline, agreed to the deadline, missed the deadline. Real world hurts sometimes.
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u/justastackofpancakes 9h ago
I think you missed the whole "without telling your spouse" qualifier. You gave an example scenario where the fault lies entirely in the husband's laziness since the wife DID bring it up to the husband, multiple times even.
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u/isolatedheathen 17h ago
Yeah I ask my wife before I toss a rusty spoon and she's going to ask me before she tosses even a random screw because we know how each other feel about these things a whole ass piece of furniture is an in-depth discussion about could it go to another room then can we use it in the garage then maybe sell it finally as a last resort I get to break it down and toss it!
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u/General-Yinobi 17h ago
You jest, but this is the correct way, if i am going to throw a bunch of rust stuff, i collect them and put them in a box or bag or w/e, and have them take a look before we throw them away.
There is almost always some benefit that can be extracted from old stuff before throwing them away, my closer friend is a handyman, i always give them the stuff i am gonna throw to take a look at, most of the times they extract materials &/or spare parts from them.
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u/isolatedheathen 17h ago
I promise no jest here all seriousness and yeah the reason I break down the end pieces is for the sweet sweet extraction of last valuables
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u/meanvegton 18h ago
Surprise!!!
Do you like the new furniture that I bought???
I think you would love it when I first see it.
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u/TrainingTheory552 15h ago
i get that this is probably how most marriages are, but to those people who this applies, why do you marry someone that has zero communication with you?
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u/Annanake420 15h ago
One day my ex came home with two guys who picked up the couch and left with it. Turns out they were the new neighbors. She offered to them because I " said I was gonna buy a new one ".
The truth was maybe a week before I had remarked how I liked the style of some random couch on T.V.
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u/Invisible_Target 13h ago
Who the hell keeps a stash of cash hidden from their spouse? lol
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u/coffee_warden 10h ago
My wife will sort of do this. Ill just come home to find it in the garage for me to take out to the garbage.
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u/homelessbunt 15h ago
I worked for 1-800GOTJUNK in California. Last job of the day another crew did a garage clean out for this woman. They picked everything up, took the loaded truck back to the lot and left it overnight to take it to the dump in the morning.
The next day the husband called, frantic and asking if we by any chance still had the water cooler his wife told us to take. It was still in the back of the truck so he came and picked it up.
Turns out he stashed 150K in cash inside the water cooler.
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u/LetmeSeeyourSquanch 2h ago
Who's getting a hidden compartment drawer and not telling their spouse about it? Lol
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u/Invisible_Target 13h ago
If you’re partner has a secret stash that you don’t even know about, you have some serious relationship problems
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u/Timely_Mention8535 13h ago
Wrong... the element of surprise can exist, like, putting money aside for a vacation.
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u/fartonme 14h ago
This happened to my friend's family. Mom traded in old junky minivan for a new SUV as a surprise. $18K hidden in the seats by dad.
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u/maginster 14h ago
Yeah someone in Poland recently threw out a chest of drawers with 300 000 PLN in it (around $75000), luckily they managed to recover it
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u/one-without-theother 8h ago
Like the guy who’s hard drive was thrown out, with 250 million dollars of bitcoin
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u/Little_Princess_837 5h ago
this feels like it could be easily solved with some basic communication
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u/ScooterTheBot 1h ago
Holy shit this happened to my mom. Grandma hid all her gold jewelery in the mattress. When she died, dad threw it out. When mom came home and told dad they freaked the heck out and went back for it but by then it was long gone
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u/WolfieVonD 18h ago
This reminds me of the time where rent was due and I just did not have the money for it. I didn't know what happened, I budgeted and did everything right but for some reason, I was like $1000 short.
As I was packing my shit, ready for the inevitable eviction, I found like $1500 cash in my nightstand. I forgot that I had pulled out rent already and kept it somewhere "safe"
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u/Joker-Smurf 12h ago
I used to stash birthday money in my books. Then completely forget about it.
Years later I’d be reading a book and bam, here’s $50. Or here’s $100.
There is a non-zero chance that there is still money stashed amongst the pages. I did check them all, though not overly thoroughly.
A couple of years ago, tired of having to keep packing them up everytime we moved house (due to lease ending and rent increasing), I drove the books 1000km away to my parent’s house. My niece and nephews now have their own library.
(I did tell them that there may be money in some of the books, and to please let me know if they find any)
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u/Middle-Luck-997 10h ago
Holy crap. I used to the same thing when I was a teenager.
Except I’d forget which books I kept the money in.
And it would take me forever to find the hidden bills again. 😂
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u/26_paperclips 8h ago
I never hid the money but i have used cash as a bookmark. Its a good motivator to finish thebooks since it means youll get your money back
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u/Huge_Leader_6605 16h ago
Imagine getting evicted, and the land lord finds your money when getting ready for next tennant lol
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u/Lost_Possibility_647 9h ago
I used to save money inside a eagle statue on my desk, one day my mother threw it away as it was "ugly", almost 30 years later I'm still salty.
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u/half-giant 19h ago
And then you went and showed all of Reddit where it is.
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u/Jezirath 19h ago
Yeah, but they have to open it.
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u/OriginalTayRoc 19h ago
Guess where most people would leave the little unlocking tag.
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u/doge_ucf 11h ago
I would assume this is just a magnet. I have child proof locks like this on my cabinets so my pets can't open them.
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u/Batman0043 17h ago
Is it racist if I think the guy in the video is 100% Armenian??
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u/Fair-Comedian-9682 12h ago
How do you know it's a guy?
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u/Medium_Gap7026 10h ago edited 10h ago
and also gay because of the lube for his butthole in the drawer.
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u/ThaGr1m 8h ago
Lube isn't for butt only....
You can lube the entire person to great effect
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u/VII_OF_IX 18h ago
Why aren’t there keys on top when it throws it in there and then suddenly, two magnet keys when he goes to lock it?
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u/DeltaBlast 10h ago
Because of compression. If you pause, you can kinda make out the keys when going in.
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u/jscottvo 19h ago
^ Yes, where his condoms, phone and cash are. What a weird combo.
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u/TheCriticalGerman 18h ago
What’s up with the lube bottle being in there?
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u/Alices_Hubby_Kleiner 18h ago
Engagement bait.
jk.
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u/Horse_Dad 18h ago
Looks like he’s ready to skip the engagement and marriage and go straight to fornicating.
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u/Klo_Was_Taken 17h ago
Believe it or not people like to masturbate sometimes
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u/TheCriticalGerman 16h ago
Crazy but my question persists why lube in a hidden spot with money?
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u/Negative_Elo 16h ago
fr I have my money, lotion, and tissues out on the mantle above the fireplace like a true god-fearing american
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u/WeinMe 13h ago
Who uses lube to masturbate? I've never been without my foreskin, but does the need stem from not having foreskin?
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u/SptDude 19h ago
If this is real, where can I get one. Thanks in advance
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u/NoNeedForAName 18h ago
It's probably homebrew, but honestly there are plenty of Bluetooth locks out there. Just find some furniture like that where you can hide one. A few screws and a drill bit and you're set. You can probably even have it unlock with your cell phone or something.
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u/torgman2 19h ago
How did tapping a plastic thingamajig secure that?
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u/Impossible_Stock8885 18h ago
Holy shit this is some next level insane tech, think of all the things that you can hide from people who are in your house
Definitely useful when you're getting robbed too it's not like they just smash your shit - oh wait
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u/Ill_Initial8986 18h ago
I have a shelf version of this for a pistol. Works great. Had it for years.
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u/MidnightFlirttt 16h ago
My bank account balance already mastered this invisibility trick long before I even saw this video
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u/belovedmaintenance9 16h ago
You just showed the internet your hiding spot, now you gotta find a new one
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u/Grievous3 16h ago
Becomes a tomb when the batteries die, unless there's an easy way to get to them; but that defeats the purpose. Same if you lost the tag
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u/Jimblob2522 15h ago
To be fair $10k probably wouldn't fuel a Honda accord for 6 months in this economy🤔
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u/Background-Front-925 15h ago
My porn collection disks can stay safe now, for offline usage some day
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u/Accomplished-City484 15h ago
I bought a piece of furniture that has a good hiding place like that, it doesn’t lock or anything but it’s just a place you wouldn’t think to look. But sadly I have nothing of value to put in there
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u/KeyAside5900 15h ago
Where can I get one of these last time I ordered from some account on IG and it never came 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂I need a reliable site
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u/Kagura30 14h ago
They have sunthin similar for cars also u have to find thr lil spot when it beeps next to the steering wheel then u can start the engine 😏
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u/shortercrust 13h ago
If I were robbing the place I would 100% look there. I used to hide stuff in the same place - but without the tech - as a kid.
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u/Landslip 12h ago
Imagine trying to get your condom out secretly. "Brrrrrrrrt"
"What was that?"
"Ehm...."
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u/Silent25r 7h ago
In before someone accidentally breaks your nightstand. Don’t worry, they replaced it.
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u/s3sebastian 6h ago
If you hide your money like this, also get a safe that is light enough to be carried but hard to open, throw in some bolts and old paper so that it sounds something is in there, and only secure it poorly to the wall and make it easily discoverable. A thief would think the valuables are in there, steal the safe with the worthless content and stop searching for a stash like that.
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