scared to have cash

Many people are scared to follow Dave Ramsey's advice and start carrying cash. They are scared to have $1000 liquid cash in their home, thinking someone will break in and take it or rob them of it. People, no one knows you are carrying cash except you. Also, if someone is to break in your home, you should want them to only take cash. People are foolish to think it is better to have credit cards or check books taken. Banks have given a false sense of security that if this happens, your money will be refunded to you. This may be true, but in the meantime, you have bounced checks, overdraft fees, ruined credit. An affidavit of forgery must be filled out before any of this is restored and this may take years to fix your credit (if it ever does). Plus you run the risk of further identity thefts. If cash is taken, it can still be refunded to you. A simple police report and a call to your home insurance provider can take care of this. Then that's it, no other fees or feelings of fright because a stranger, a theif knows your name. Save yourselves the trouble, buy a safe, bolt it to the floor in your home out of the way and lock your things up. Reinforce your home security by installing a "texas deadbolt" (which goes deep within the door frame, that way if someone is going to kick your door they have to kick in the whole frame) Install an audible alarm (don't bother signing up for monthly alarm service, in six minutes you'll be cleaned out and the police won't get there any sooner and the damage will be done). Lock all sliding glass doors and reinforce them with a bar to keep them from sliding open. Keep all ladders unavailable to upstairs windows and keep your hedges cut down low. Purchase flood lights set on motion, an inexpensive camera system at your front door would be nice. You can get one at Lowe's or Home Depot for as little as $100 dollars. A case is more likely to be solved with id of a theif. Probability of the theif being known to the police is high and many times they are recognized by the Investigator, and often times, even by you.