Forgot the most important part…DON’T TELL ANYONE you are going to be keeping 10 large at home. Even the bank teller – tell them you are doing something else with it, anything but keeping it at your house.
It greatly increases your risk of being robbed – and perhaps tied up, threatened, and killed – if any other human on the planet knows you have cash at home.
Even if you tell an honest individual, they are likely to tell the story to someone else who will tell someone else and so on. As the economy continues downhill and someone needs quick cash, guess where they’ll come?