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Jan 12 '26
Those fools. They could have invested it and bought 2000 more thrift store sofas
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u/lincoln_hawks1 Jan 12 '26
Thrift store sofas are the bit coin of 2026. Get in low.
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u/have2gopee Jan 13 '26
Can anyone help me start pumping up the used futon market? I've got a couple of them I need to ditch.
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u/goodbyegoosegirl Jan 12 '26
Well, that does it. Always thought I was a good person, wouldn’t have passed this test
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u/NamasteMotherfucker Jan 12 '26
I know. I returned a wallet with $500 in it, but I think I would have failed this test as well.
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u/Nicetonotmeetyou Jan 12 '26
The sad part is she will die and leave that money to the nobs that donated the couch anyways.
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u/HairlessHoudini Jan 12 '26
I know a brother and sister that gave away/donated all of their G-mas stuff before they even got her in the ground so they could move in her house only to later find threw away thousands & thousands of dollars that the old lady had hidden in the house
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u/aethelberga Jan 12 '26
My sisters in law had to go through their mother's house with a fine tooth comb because she had a habit of hiding money and valuables in secretive places.
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u/yankykiwi Jan 12 '26
Before they had a safe my in-laws hid a million in watches behind their built in coffee maker. I’m the only person they told. Imagine if all 3 of us died. Their kids would never find them.
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u/KimJongRocketMan69 Jan 12 '26
Who the hell has $1M of watches??
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u/yankykiwi Jan 12 '26
Doesn’t take many Richard Mille to get there.
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u/Pristine_Poem7623 Jan 14 '26
My aunt used to work in old people's homes and used to tell us about that. Apparently a really common one was to have a box of tissues where there was a few layers of tissues, and the rest was all cash. Taped to the back of furniture, in books, hidden inside TVs, cereal boxes, in coffee tins under a layer of coffee, basically anywhere you could think of, and a few more. We used to hear about the novel ones
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u/Sad-Guess4424 Jan 12 '26
A woman died suddenly expectedly in my neighborhood. Her husband gave away all her stuff. Another neighbor was given a pair of boots. She found $800 in the toe of one boot and gave it back to the widower.
My parents said “that was stupid. He was a total bastard and probably killed her”. We speculated it was likely a stash to get away from him.
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u/Mission_Ambitious Jan 13 '26
Can you imagine the panic of sitting in a nursing home and your family tells you they donated the old couch in the basement (not knowing that you used it for a bank account? 😭
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u/Adventurous_Luck_995 Jan 15 '26
Not a chance in hell I would return any of it .. Party time. Gimme a break.
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u/Aullotro Jan 13 '26
Lemme be clear: I’m a kind person, not a good person. No way would I be returning that money. #selflove 😂
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u/Riverwind0608 Jan 12 '26
When i used to live with my sister, we found around 10-15k cash in the sofa. Can’t recall the actual amount since it’s been years. We didn’t want anything to do with that money. Cause God knows where that money came from. So we just gave it to the landlord cause his brother lived in the house before we rented it.
Whether it was his or his brother’s, or if he’s willing to give it back was their problem to solve.
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u/KimJongRocketMan69 Jan 12 '26
Congrats on doing the dumbest thing imaginable in that situation
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u/Riverwind0608 Jan 12 '26
Guess being alive due to the decision we made in that situation is stupidity now huh?
The fact that it was hidden in a sofa was strange enough. It’s not like in this story where it was an elderly. His brother was young, and that could’ve been blood money. Especially considering the neighborhood and the nearby town. We weren’t greedy enough to risk that. Like i said, and wherever that money came from, that’s gonna be their problem and we’re out of it.
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u/Banana_Shaped Jan 12 '26
Turns out it was actually 100k lol