Word: stashed
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...Angela, a publicist in Ohio, has been happily married for 20 years, yet she continues to feel the need for a secret stash of cash. "I always want to have a little on the side just in case I have to pick up in the middle of the night," she confesses. "You never know what's around the next corner." By pocketing a portion of the money that's budgeted for her lunches at work and keeping her gas-mileage reimbursement checks--"the money my husband never sees"--Angela (who, for obvious reasons, prefers not to be identified...
...mouse game, albeit an updated version. No one knows how many wives hide money from their husbands, but there is evidence that the practice is widespread. A survey of 1,000 professional women conducted by working woman magazine in 1995 found that 13% of those interviewed had a secret stash. Women who have been divorced may be more likely to keep hidden funds: 1 in 4 women surveyed in 1999 by the Stepfamily Association of America, 71% of whom were married for the second time, said they kept some money aside. Author Heidi Evans estimates that millions of wives hide...
They certainly have been blazed—just ask Damon Stoudamire, who tried to smuggle marijuana through an airport security checkpoint by placing his stash in the box that goes on the x-ray conveyer belt. Maybe not the best plan, Damon...
RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLANS Your first New Year's resolution should be to ramp up your retirement savings. Given that you don't pay taxes on money in qualified plans until you take it out, you should stash your cash there instead of giving it to the IRS. As Jeff Kelson, a tax partner at BDO Seidman in New York City, points out, "Changes in retirement plans have been magnified to allow for more deductions." Contribution limits on 401(k), 403(b) and 457 plans increase by $1,000 to $13,000 this year...
...soldiers to bang the lid of each crypt; if it sounded hollow, the troops hoisted the 250-lb. granite slab and looked inside. On its second graveyard hunt, on July 4, the platoon netted a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher and 31 RPGs. A later search turned up a stash of the explosive C4. Afterward, the platoon nicknamed itself the Tomb Raiders...