History Main / ColdCash

-->'''Bullwinkle:''' Well, whaddayaknow. [[IncrediblyBadPun Frozen assets!]]

ColdCash refers to people using the refrigerator or freezer as a place to store valuables, usually cash.

* Parodied in a [[CarlBarks Scrooge]] [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse 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.

* ''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.
* Apparently done in that ''ConfessionsOfAShopaholic'' movie... the trailer shows the main character pulling her credit card out of the freezer, where she's stored it in a block of ice to try and prevent herself from actually using it, although this is also seriously recommended by financial recovery sites as a method for reducing credit card use.

* 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.

---> '''Blanche''' "The freezer's my other hiding place."
---> '''Dorothy''' "It's everybody's. The robbers know that. They don't even open drawers anymore.

* From Creator/MontyPython's ''The MoneySong'':
--> ''I've got ninety-thousand Pounds in my pajamas,''
--> ''[[ColdCash I've got forty-thousand French Francs in my fridge...]]''

* In ''ModernFamily'', Luke keeps his money in the freezer after hearing about [[LiteralMinded frozen assets]].

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** In a ScoobyDoo series, another uncle hid a full cache of jewels. And that's not the only evidence he's Shaggy's Uncle. He's also "allergical" to ghosts.

-->'''Horace Rumpole''', ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'', defending a fence who did this with some [[TheHouseOfHanover Georgian]] silver

-->Members of the jury, an Englishman's freezer is his castle...

-->'''Rumpole''': An Englishman's freezer is his castle...

* Variation: In one of the ''AnastasiaKrupnik'' books, it's revealed that Anastasia's father keeps his manuscripts-in-progress in the crisper, in case the house burns down.

* The 2006 film ''TheSentinel'' has 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.

* In ''UptownGirls'', one of the first scenes features Molly Gunn taking money from her freezer before going to a party. In her case, is to show both how rich and how much of a [[BrainlessBeauty airhead]] and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} disconnected from reality]] she used to be.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMeetsTheBooBrothers'': Shaggy has an Uncle who once hid a cache of jewels inside a refrigerator. [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Shaggy's Uncle indeed.]]

* Almost subverted in an episode of ''{{Stargate SG-1}}''. 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 ''DuckTales'', 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.

* In the Violent Tendencies storyline, 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.

* Parodied in a [[CarlBarks Scrooge]] [[DisneyDucksComicUniverse McDuck]] comic where Uncle Scrooge fills his vault with refrigerators filled with his cash because fridges are the last place robbers look.

* Parodied in a [[CarlBarks Scrooge]] [[DisneyDucksComicUniverse 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.

* Apparently done in that ''{{Confessions of a Shopaholic}}'' movie... the trailer shows the main character pulling her credit card out of the freezer, where she's stored it in a block of ice to try and prevent herself from actually using it, although this is also seriously recommended by financial recovery sites as a method for reducing credit card use.

* The 2006 film ''TheSentinel'' has 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.

* An episode of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' had a hitman hiding his payoff money inside his fridge. Detectives easily find it because he put it in a box of ''corn flakes'', and remark he was only "half-right" about the hiding-valuables-in-the-fridge trick.

* From MontyPython's ''The MoneySong'':

--> ''[[ColdCash I've got forty-thousand French Francs in my fridge...]]''

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* ''ScoobyDoo'': Shaggy has an Uncle who once hid a cache of jewels inside a refrigerator. [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Shaggy's Uncle indeed.]]

* The "freezing room" in the GameShow ''EstateOfPanic'', including a deep freeze with ice cream bars that had money hidden in them.

* Parodied in a [[CarlBarks Scrooge]] [=McDuck=] comic where Uncle Scrooge fills his vault with refrigerators filled with his cash because fridges are the last place robbers look.

* Parodied in a [[CarlBarks Scrooge]] McDuck comic where Uncle Scrooge fills his vault with refrigerators filled with his cash because fridges are the last place robbers look.

* An episode of ''LawAndOrder'' had a hitman hiding his payoff money inside his fridge. Detectives easily find it because he put it in a box of ''corn flakes'', and remark he was only "half-right" about the hiding-valuables-in-the-fridge trick.

* [off-topic example] In an episode of ''{{Ironside}}'' a financial advisor advisor recommends that he take the money sitting in his bank account and put it to work for him in diversified investments. Ironside declines the suggestion replies, "Cold cash gives me a warm feeling."

* [off-topic example] In an episode of ''Ironside'' a financial advisor advisor recommends that he take the money sitting in his bank account and put it to work for him in diversified investments. Ironside declines the suggestion replies, "Cold cash gives me a warm feeling."