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Hard cash, cruel joke
Where do we stash money? In Timbuktu? In Kilimanjaro? Nope. Deposit money under bathroom tiles or hide it in the lakebed of the Hussainsagar or use a Harry Potter wand to store cash.


Best bet

Fevicol solution
Money, which can be taken anytime, can be hidden in high heels, shoes, socks, secret pockets in your inner wear, your car's dickey, in the folds of your handkerchief or between the pages of books - indigenous ATMs. For current accounts, you can ...
No loss more gain
Use a Harry Potter wand and make your money and other valuables invisible to others. Or invest the money in tele-serials, as they never end. Deposit the money in corporate hospitals and colleges where there will be no loss. T. ...
Tree-top locker
Just spend Rs.500 plus and voila you can have a bank of your own installed instantly in your backyard, thanks to Mr. Ganu of Hortus Consultants! Buy a neem or banyan tree huge enough to look bushy and have it transplanted. Keep cash and ...
No gas this!
Install giant-size... err... god-size Ganesh idols ala `Devudu chesina manushulu' and make use of his large belly. Empty vessels make much noise. This old proverb is no longer valid. If you are in the cooking business, all those large vessels ...
Cash on auto consultants
Auto consultants can keep the money beneath the battery compartment of their vehicles. Tutorial college principals can keep it under the encyclopaedia on their bookshelves while realtors can hide in the look-alike water sumps in the northeast ...
LJTV - one hell of a combo
Why not the Government set up a national bank under the leadership of Lalu Prasad as bank manager and Jayalalithaa as cashier, Telgi as accountant and Veerappan as watchman. No one will even dare to dream about stealing this money. Another ...
Veerappan are you there?
Saving money for your daughter's marriage? Then deposit with Veerappan's kidnap-back policy with special perfumed interest. No chance of losing it! Another safe place is Government files. No need to fear about anyone discovering it. Nearer to ...
The base of it all
People should bring pressure on the Government to establish a big cellar in every town with safes, locks and security. In the midst of police vigilance, people's hard-earned money is safe and they won't mind for not getting interest. They ...
Bank on Swiss safety
Follow the ancient technique of `lanke bindelu.' Keep all your money in steel or brass containers, seal them properly, dig a deep ditch in the house and bury them safely. In emergency or important occasions, take them out without anyone seeing ...
Fill it, shut it, reap it
Make large donations to two or three political parties. You are sure to reap the benefit when the particular party comes to power. Or, find companies run by crooks protected by politicians or politicians protected by crooks, and invest in ...
Flush with gain
Do you have a flush tank in your toilet, which is out of use? If so, that will be the best secure place to keep your money safe and protected. None of the thieves will search there. But be careful and don't reveal this secret to anybody else till ...
Cave times are better
We are talking about hiding money personally. Make a cave in the backyard and hide the money. Or put the money inside your bed and stitch it. Make a locker personally in your house wall and maintain it. Buy a big doll, and put the money inside ...
Homely ATM
Purchase an ATM machine and install it in your house. Load it in the beginning of the month and finish it by the end of the month. Or set up a cooperative bank using causin.co.in and appoint fair looking MBA girls in place of bank probationary ...
Rotate to peace
Keeping the money safe is very difficult. So don't hide it, instead spend it every day and enjoy. No money, no tension. This is the best policy. Rotate the strike, every day with a fresh and empty hand. This is the real way to gain peace. ...
Gotta fake it
Get some fake notes and imitation jewellery and keep them in your almirah while keeping the real money in the kitchen or drawing room. The booty that the thieves steal from the almirah is fake, and your savings will be ...
Key to saving
Why worry if the banks are closing down or the rate of interest is coming down every year? Deposit with the good old money lender. I am sure he has learnt enough of lessons and he will be more honest than our cooperative ...
It stinks? So what!
Hide your money in the lakebed of the Hussainsagar. The horrible smell will keep away all thieves. Or ask your mom or wife to keep the money inside the salt and pepperbox. Durbhakula Suman, Kakinada ...
Ssshh... koi hai?
Divide your khazana and keep them in freezers, air-coolers, CPUs etc. Hi-tech safety. Sshh... koi sunnena paaye.

Swetha. B, Hyderabad


Become mirchi seth
Keep money in the under layer of the mirchi box or even in the flush tanks in the bathroom.

K. Santhi Swaroop, Hyderabad


Channel it out
Sport is the casualty as cable operators lock horns with channels. Entertainment is the target when the cable guys take a strike break. In between, viewers sit, gaping at blank screens and wondering why they still have to pay every month as the ...

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