Where You Guys Won't Find It

It was very typical of people who did not believe in banks, or who had known of their failures, to strategically locate a garden that would be in sight of the window in the bedroom where the couple or elder slept.

Having the garden allowed for digging without anyone really being able to see the difference between freshly turned soil and soil that was originally part of the garden's plowing.

The primary concern was that someone might see them, even with the garden being a good reason to dig. So the garden was often located so that it could be seen from the bedroom at night.

If you find an old property, find the upstairs main bedrooms, and spot areas near the house looking through those windows, you have a good bet. I've lucked into small caches myself doing that trick twice.

The very best thing you can do when you find a property that is still relatively the same as it has been for decades is to actually get a bag or jar of coins, and decide where YOU would hide it.

To just "imagine" that you have the jar or bag doesn't seem to work as well.

Having something valuable in your hands to hide will often lead you to the same place that was used before.

Time has a way of catching up to living things like trees and me. With GPS you don't need to mark the spot, but these ideas are making me think. Burying stuff with a tractor is easy. In addition to thirty silver shekels, I'll have my attorney give each heir photos of my stack and coin collections. And a shovel. Finders keepers. With a reverse mortgage they will have a year before the property is taken over.