Help. If you were a three year old, where would you hide £100??

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MIL came on Friday, stayed, and went back home this afternoon. She's just now called to say that she has discovered herself £100 lighter (five £20 notes). Apparently she left said notes on a low shelf where toddler had easy access FFS. She swears she has searched all her own possessions from top to bottom and can't find the bloody money. So, where might you put £100 if you were three??

Why would anyone take £100 cash out of their purse and put it on a shelf if someone else's house?

I'd say in the bin or toilet

Toy shop.

That's where I found my Cartier watch after DC had been playing 'buying sparkly things'. It was 10mth before I found it obviously I cancelled the hefty insurance claim.

Sounds a potty thing for your MIL to have done!

But that aside, have you got the energy or patience to have a game of 'shops'? Offer a big chunk of chocolate cake if she pays you some money.

I agree wit the treasure hunt game , offer something more appealing to a three year old as a reward.

We have shutters on the windows and my son has 'posted' stuff through the gaps in these numerous times

Anywhere it can be "posted" like a letter. My sibling once posted a load of notes into the video player.

Seat cushions. Bin. Toy till. Dolls pram

In the boot of a ride-a-long toy.

My OH would give his mother very short shrift with that scenario.

He'd have a cursory look, a chat with 3 year old, and tell his mother she'd been very foolish.

The more I think of this the less sense it makes. Why did she take the money out? Why leave that much laying around? How did she forget to pick it up when she got ready to leave? Does your 3 year old have form for picking stuff up? Does MIL have form for forgetting/doing stupid shit like leaving cash sitting in someone elses home?

I dont like it.

I don't get why you'd leave so much money on a shelf in someone's house? Bit weird to me.

The various places my sons have hidden things includes: -
Out of the cat flap
In the bin
In the laundry basket
In shoes
Down the back of the computer
In the computer cupboard
Under their bed
In a toy box
Between things on the bookshelf
In their bed
In the garden
In a kitchen draw/cupboard
In short, it could be anywhere. I'm also rather about this, I suspect mil is either outright lying or has forgotten what she's done with it herself.

BULLSHIT!!!

Our hiding places seem to be toy car, cash register, daddy's good (therefore pretty much wedding or funeral only ) shoes and bizarrely under the dog blanket

dd2 would have eaten them.

MIL is basically saying she visited you and rested £100 on your low shelf planning to pick it up before she left but forgot it? Why would anyone do that?

Quick update as I work through your many (and hilarious) suggestions. We have floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in the front room on both sides of the fireplace. Where the sofa is?'c the bottom three shelves of one are ideal for cups of tea/pens/piles of crap so it's easy to put stuff down there, but it's equally easy for DS to get in the gap, especially as the bottom two shelves are his "library".

I asked DS if he played with any money this weekend, and he very delightedly took me to his penny postbox, which he did indeed play with yesterday. (Only coins inside.) Showed him some notes and asked if he'd played with any of those - he didn't really seem to get it but said "those are daddies" and promptly took them off me and delivered them to DH. (!!!!) If I'm honest, I think MIL has lost/forgotten/misplaced it. She's increasingly having minor memory problems so perhaps unsurprisingly she's absolutely adamant that she hasn't forgotten at all, probably because she doesn't want to have "that" conversation with DH again. Before I start down that route though I want to be able to say that we looked in every conceivable place.

Right, back to working through your suggestions.

Mine put ten quid in bin at this age. I asked her if she had seen it and she told me

Oh the poor lady. She must need it to say anything. She probably spent it.

I once lost £65 and about 3 months later found it in a box of Monopoly (thanks to ds1).

I bet she has simply forgotten. Tough one.

Mine would have put the notes in the bin at that age. along with the TV remotes, car keys, phones, magic calculator, diary etc etc

My ds posted various debit cards under the front door mat, but also popped keys into a toy lidded saucepan, which was then put in his toy cooker...only bit of cooking I can remember him doing (lazy 16 year old) good luck x