History Main / ColdCash

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Parodied in a Creator/CarlBarks ''Scrooge [=McDuck=]'' comic where Uncle Scrooge fills his vault with refrigerators filled with his cash because fridges are the last place robbers look. He apparently didn't realize that many burglars also like to take some late-night snack when they're at it.

* In ''Film/{{Hummingbird}}'', Joey stores the cash he earns working the Chinese mob in the fridge in Damon's apartment.

* The 2006 film ''Film/TheSentinel2006'' has Creator/MichaelDouglas as a framed Secret Service agent who finds a foreign operative who is part of the conspiracy, and when doing a search of his apartment, rips the magnetic seal around the refrigerator door and finds fake passports and bricks of cash inside the door.

* One ''Literature/TalesOfTheUnexpected'' short story had a couple hide a diamond in the ice tray, but a burglar found it anyway. [[spoiler:Turns out he'd helped himself to a drink and swallowed it.]]
* A story in the 1930s anthology "The Great Women Detectives" with the title "Green Ice" puns on the term "ice" used for gemstones; a missing emerald is found frozen in an ice cube.

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* ''Film/CoyoteUgly''. Violet's best friend tosses a roll of cash into her freezer in case of emergency... and even that is cleaned out after robbers ransack the apartment.

* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': In the "Violent Tendencies" storyline, Robin, Spoiler and Violet are led by the Penguin to a fish processing place with the money hidden under the ice. It's fake, but Violet tries to steal it anyway until they're ambushed by the Korean Mafia.

* ''Series/ElleryQueen'': In "The Adventure of Colonel Nivin's Memoirs", a search of the Queens' apartment fails to find the files the searchers were looking for because Ellery had absent-mindedly placed them in the refrigerator.

* In the Violent Tendencies storyline of the ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'', Robin, Spoiler and Violet are led by the Penguin to a fish processing place with the money hidden under the ice. It's fake, but Violet tries to steal it anyway until they're ambushed by the Korean Mafia.
* Parodied in a Creator/CarlBarks ''[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]]'' comic where Uncle Scrooge fills his vault with refrigerators filled with his cash because fridges are the last place robbers look. He apparently didn't realize that many burglars also like to take some late-night snack when they're at it.

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* In ''ComicStrip/RexMorganMD'' the eccentric and possibly senile millionaire Milton Avery kept stashes of banknotes in the freezer, wrapped up to look like joints of meat.
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Compare and contrast EmptyFridgeEmptyLife. Compare StuffedIntoTheFridge, which refers to something (or rather, [[KilledOffForReal someone]]) else being in the fridge instead of money.

* In ''Series/{{Mom}}'' while Bonnie is rooting through her dead estranged mother's apartment she finds thousands of dollars in cash hidden in the freezer. After she pockets it the half-brother she never knew existed shows up and wonders why his mom said to look in the freezer.

* In ''ComicStrip/RexMorganMD'' the eccentric and possibly senile millionaire Milton Avery kept stashes of banknotes in the freezer, wrapped up to look like joints of meat.7

* In the Violent Tendencies storyline of the ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'', Robin, Spoiler and Violet are lead by the Penguin to a fish processing place with the money hidden under the ice. It's fake, but Violet tries to steal it anyway, until they're ambushed by the Korean Mafia.

* In the Wim Wenders movie ''Film/{{Until the End of the World}}'' (1991), the main character, Claire Tourneur, uses a futuristic looking fridge to stash the bills bank robbers gave her for transporting their loot into Paris.

* A story in the 1930s anthology "The Great Women Detectives" with the the title "Green Ice" puns on the term "ice" used for gemstones; a missing emerald is found frozen in an ice cube.

* Almost subverted in an episode of ''Series/StargateSG1''. Colonel Mayborne is strongarmed by Jack O'Neill into revealing some top secret information that is stored on Mayborne's computer. The only way that Mayborne can start up his computer without it setting off a booby-trap and frying itself is to insert a special floppy disk into the drive. Where does he keep the disk? In the tiny gap between the fridge and freezer sections of his fridge-freezer, rather than in the deep freeze altogether.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', robbers looking for the resident GadgeteerGenius's latest invention crack into his safe, and find his lunch. Reasoning that the inventor's a little absent minded, they look in the fridge and sure enough, the invention is in there.

[[caption-width-right:250:Well, that's one way to freeze your bank account.]]

Cold Cash refers to people using the refrigerator or freezer as a place to store valuables, usually cash. Compare and contrast EmptyFridgeEmptyLife.

Expect a {{Pun}} about 'frozen assets'.