I don't think there is a safe place to store money, if it's not making money it's slip sliding away. I was looking at an inflation calculator and plunked in the $5125 I paid for a car in 1969 and it said that would be close to $37,000 today. So if I'd had stashed that cash in my garter belt I'd have lost $32,000 in buying power.
Imagine spending a million bucks for a bottle of booze and finding the butler and upstairs maid drank it and broke the bottle.