It seems like the bank’s current ppi scandal has filled the country with mis-trust as increasing numbers of men and women are hiding their hard-earned cash beneath their divan bed base.

Some citizens across the world as well as America and the UK are keeping their money under their mattresses in reply to savings account rates of interest decreasing and the bank’s mis-selling payment protection insurance policies to tens of millions.

Numerous home-owners are trying to keep the majority of their throw away monies at home underneath a luxury mattress and up to 28 million in the US alone are going to do so. According to a report in 2009, Americans are forgoing classic financial institutions due to mistrust, cultural and language barriers or a belief there will be nothing left after bills are paid dues to taxes.

Bank accounts and private credit details are said to not be safe enough despite the fact that leaving behind countless pounds in ready money abandoned in a house doesn’t seem very safe either. Perhaps it’s something related to the truth that hackers gained access to data on as many as 200,000 credit card accounts in the USA.

The continental mattress was once considered a high risk location to hide cash, as technically the only security one can set up is a lock for the front door and windows and the security alarm. But even though the money doesn’t make anything or make any revenue, it is a much better and safer place to not lose anything reports suggest.