We always see in the movies how one million dollars cash easily fits into a suitcase. There is nothing fantastic about it. You can get such a sum into a small package if you stack 10,000 of the $100 bills. One couple decided to find out where you can hide one million dollars cash and conducted an experiment. It exchanged $10,000 bills for $1 currency notes. Since $1 bills are the same size as $100s, this experiment accurately indicates the mass of $1,000,000.

Each of these sizeable plastic bags holds $1,000 bills. It’s our equivalent of $100,000.

This could be a million dollars on a DVD rack.

This is what a million dollars cash on a bedspread looks like.

Only $8,000 if the bills are ones or $800,000 if the bills are hundreds will fit in a plastic shopping bag, and it will probably rip if you try to lift it.

A million dollars will fit inside a microwave oven.

A Nintendo Game Cube is about the same size as two $1,000 bill bundles.

$1,000 bills is a stack 10 centimeters thick... if it's packed tightly.

Loosely packed, the money expanded to about 150% of that size.

A million dollars in a washing machine.

A million dollars in the refrigerator.