The Money Bin

"A day without looking at me Money Bin is like a day without sunshine!"

- Scrooge McDuck The Money Bin is a three-cubic-acre building where Scrooge McDuck stores the portions of his money that he earned by himself. It was originally featured in the Uncle Scrooge comic book stories created by Carl Barks. It has also been featured in many of Scrooge's animated appearances, such as Scrooge McDuck and Money, Sport Goofy in Soccermania and DuckTales.

Origin
As shown in Don Rosa's 1994 comic The Invader of Fort Duckburg, the Money Bin was built shortly after Scrooge moved to Duckburg. In the DuckTales episode "Once Upon a Dime", Scrooge reveals that he built the bin because he had entered the diamond market and could no longer sleep at night because all the money he was storing under his mattress raised his bed too close to the ceiling, necessitating a more suitable storage facility for his money.

Scrooge's favorite pastime is to dive off a springboard into his money and swim through it.

Location
The traditional location of the Money Bin is on top of Killmotor Hill. The money bin sits atop Futterman's Fault, a fault line which would prove catastrophic in the event of an earthquake.

Break-ins
Although the money bin is a skyscraper and vault (filled with three cubic acres of money), on various occasions it has been pulled around by a tractor, lifted to the top of a mountain, stolen by aliens from the bottom of the ocean, and blasted open with a cannon.

The money bin is the victim of repeated assaults by Scrooge's enemies who try to steal his money, such as the Beagle Boys, who are after the bulk of Scrooge's money, and Magica De Spell, who is after Scrooge's "Number One Dime". To protect against these attempted break-ins, Scrooge has installed the greatest security system in the world to thwart any thought of even trying to intrude onto the premises.

Design
Don Rosa's 2001 story "The Beagle Boys vs. the Money Bin" contains two pages with detailed plans for the Money Bin.


 * Basement
 * A large room, with doors leading to all the other rooms in this floor
 * Employee Coal Donation Bin
 * Existing Well
 * Furnace
 * Stairs going up to the Ground Floor
 * Generator Room
 * Main Generator
 * Backup Generator
 * Redundant Backup Generator
 * Backup Redundant Backup Generator
 * Pump Room
 * Skunk Oil Vat Room (see Fall-Away Floor in the Ground Floor) (this room is located behind a locked door)
 * Storage and Intruder Trap Workshop


 * Ground floor, with various traps
 * A welcome mat at the entrance (which is ironic, considering the quantity of traps in this floor)
 * Carpet tacks
 * Bear traps
 * Cannon
 * Electrified flooring
 * Free range spiders and snakes
 * Acid pool
 * Mines
 * Fall-Away Floor, which causes "guests" to fall on the Skunk Oil Vat Room in the Basement
 * Chute Exit and Ash Can (see Trap Door in the Eleventh Floor)
 * Guard post, between the employee stairs, the private elevator and a locked gate which is the only access to the rest of the floor
 * Employee stairs, leading up and down
 * Private elevator


 * Second Floor — Bullion Bins
 * A corridor, leading to all rooms in this floor
 * A room with gold bars
 * A room with silver bars
 * A room with platinum bars
 * A segment of the Intruder Ejection Chute (see Trap Door in the Eleventh Floor)
 * Guard post, in the same place as in the Ground Floor
 * Note: This floor is inaccessible through the employee stairs, because they are walled
 * Private elevator


 * Third Floor — Precious Gems Cribs
 * A corridor, leading to all rooms
 * Fifteen rooms, each with one type of gem: Rubies, Sapphires, Star Sapphires, Jade, Turquoise, Fire Opals, Black Opals, Amber, Topaz, Emeralds, Pearls, Black Pearls, Diamons (Big), Diamonds (Bigger) and Diamonds (Really Huge)
 * A segment of the Intruder Ejection Chute (see Trap Door in the Eleventh Floor)
 * Guard post, in the same place as in the Ground Floor
 * Note: This floor is inaccessible through the employee stairs, because they are walled
 * Private elevator


 * Fourth Floor — Important Documents
 * A corridor, leading to all rooms in this floor
 * The corridor contains a larger segment with file clerks
 * A room with slightly used carbon paper
 * A room with half used pencils
 * A room with contracts
 * A room with stocks and bonds
 * A room with deeds
 * Two toilets
 * A segment of the Intruder Ejection Chute (see Trap Door in the Eleventh Floor)
 * Employee stairs, leading up and down
 * Note: This floor is not accessible through the elevator, because the elevator is walled


 * Fifth Floor — Communications
 * A corridor, leading to all rooms in this floor
 * Mail Room
 * Non-Canceled Stamps Reclamation Bin
 * Erased-Address Envelope Reclamation Bin
 * Eraser Dust Reclamation Bin
 * A room with the Switchboard
 * Wireless Room
 * A room with the Mailbag Carrier Recovery Station
 * Two toilets
 * A segment of the Intruder Ejection Chute (see Trap Door in the Eleventh Floor)
 * Employee stairs, leading up and down
 * Note: This floor is not accessible through the elevator, because the elevator is walled


 * Fifth Floor — Communications
 * A large room with tables, each table having a Ticker-Tape Placement (TYP)
 * Two toilets
 * A segment of the Intruder Ejection Chute (see Trap Door in the Eleventh Floor)
 * Employee stairs, leading up and down
 * Note: This floor is not accessible through the elevator, because the elevator is walled


 * Sixth to Tenth Floors
 * These are unpartitioned areas, similar to the fifth floor, that allow for numerous employee desks and file cabinets
 * These floors and not shown in the project, but presumably they also have this, like the previous floors:
 * Two toilets
 * A segment of the Intruder Ejection Chute (see Trap Door in the Eleventh Floor)
 * Employee stairs, leading up and down
 * The elevator is probably walled


 * Eleventh Floor — Executive Office
 * An entrance room
 * Employee stairs, leading down only
 * Private elevator (last stop)
 * Very hard chairs
 * Another toilet
 * Storage Room
 * Worry Room
 * Assay Lab
 * Library
 * Armory
 * Scrooge's office
 * Spiral stairs, leading up to the Twelfth Floor
 * Scrooge's desk and chair
 * Trap Door, leading to the Intruder Ejection Chute (the intruder passes through all the floors, exits through the Exit Chute at the Ground Floor, and lands in the Ash Can outside the building)
 * Number One Dime display
 * Map of the world
 * Ticker-Tape
 * A toilet
 * Vault Door, leading to the Cash Vault
 * The Cash Vault, which is a huge single room, containining money all the way from the Eleventh Floor to the Ground Floor
 * Platform
 * Ladder
 * Depth Gauge
 * A hatch in the roof
 * See also the Secret Entrance in the Twelfth Floor


 * Twelfth Floor — Private Quarters
 * Living Room
 * Dollar sign carpet
 * Couches and sofas
 * Bin Defense Control Room
 * Utility Closet
 * Pigeon Roost
 * Kitchen
 * Bath
 * Bedroom
 * Drapes
 * Closet
 * Secret Entrance to Cash Vault
 * Study
 * Trophy Room
 * Spiral stairs, leading down to the Eleventh Floor
 * Elevator Service Room


 * Thirteenth Floor
 * Coin Hopper for Master Bath Shower

Trivia

 * Flintheart Glomgold, too, has a Money Bin, located in South Africa. Flintheart's Money Bin is similar to Scrooge's, but it has a pound symbol (£) instead of a dollar sign. Flintheart's Money Bin first appeared in the 1956 comic book story "The Second-Richest Duck" by Carl Barks. This story features the first appearance of Flintheart himself.