Did I Damage My Silver Coins?

Thank you very much mkfarm!

Much appreciated.

Hi junior e,

Many thanks for welcoming me and for your reply.

I must say, that hiding place next to the washing machine was absolutely fabulous, had the washing machine not been next to it! I only discovered that small hiding place a couple of months ago and I have been in my flat for 15 years!

I will certainly review my hiding options. A safe would be great, I will have to do some thinking.

As per a bank safe deposit box, I was alerted to the fact (through Mike Maloney's book) that either the bank can go bust and seize your silver and gold or indeed, the government can have sticky hands!

Home is definitely the safer place.

Hello, Marielle, and welcome to the CCF forum!

If you want to keep your hiding place, consider damping the vibrations from the washer. This is easy to do by putting down 2 squares of plywood with a square of foam of some sort between them and putting the washer on top of this "sandwich". This will raise the washer slightly but most are adjustable enough that it won't cause any problems with the water and electrical connections. The foam will absorb most of the vibrations and might even make it more quiet as well.

I agree with the suggestion of having a safe or perhaps a bank safety deposit box. Everything we do has limitations but most are a lot better than nothing.

Yes, you just have to wonder about that. I mean, it would be SO simple when building a house to install a drain in a laundry room and slope the floor slightly towards the drain. It makes me wonder why this is not a standard feature.

We have a utility closet for our water heater with this feature. The house A/C system also dumps its condensate into this drain.

Waow, thank you so much for all your answers and your welcoming me!

Gosh, everyone is soooo nice on this forum I am blown away!

My washing machine is now famous and well, I use it at night when electricity is cheaper. It is easier in the winter because it starts at around midnight (more chances of me being awake!) or so but in the summer, with that extra hour, it starts after 01.00 (usually dead to the world by then) - you always have to add an extra 20 minutes to that to make sure it is at the lower rate (I've got a thingybob that lights when the rate is cheaper anyway).

Yes, I agree that I should always be in attendance as my godmother's washing machine's electric wire caught fire one day - luckily she was in attendance and stopped it...

Everything is sooo expensive in England that you have to try and save money (and buy more coins! :)

Thanks everyone!

Lastly it takes a couple of weeks at least in a humid environment for your silver coins to start toning so nothing to worry about by opening the tubes for a few minutes to inspect them.

Marielle!

Yes, you damaged them. No, you didn't lower the value much, because they're bullion.

Probably for the same reason that breadboards are always place RIGHT ABOVE the silverware drawer where all the knives are. Such things are common when people who do not know a think about cooking are involved in designing the apparatus for same.

My wife has also noted that the bedrooms / laundry room mismatch is a serious faux pas in her life. She made me swear to fix that in our next house, which I did. As they say, "If Momma ain't happy, nobody's happy!".