Imagine you and your friends decide to purchase a couch for your new apartment to make it comfy. You decide you want to skip the furniture stores and head for something a lot cheaper. You find a couch at a thrift store for about $20, and now everyone is set to lounge around at the apartment.
Even though it costs $20, you notice it’s very lumpy… so you check it out and inside, you find $40,000 dollars! What do you do?
When I read this story below, I had to think long and hard before even coming up with a solution.
From Liftable:
Reese Werkhoven, Cally Guasti and Lara Russo, college students, were screaming with excitement as they discovered a whopping $41,000 stuffed in various envelopes inside the old couch. To say they totally freaked out is an understatement.
“It had these bubble wrap envelopes, just like two or three of them,” Werkhoven said in an interview. “We ripped them out and [I] was just like freaking out, like an inch and a half of $100 bills.”
“The most money I’d ever found in a couch was like 50 cents,” he added. “Honestly, I’d be ecstatic to find just $5 in a couch.”
Then, the students made another startling discovery: a bank statement with the name of a woman who the money presumably belonged to. The trio was now faced with a moral dilemma.
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The students tracked down the rightful owner of the money, a 91-year-old woman who hid her life savings inside the couch, because she didn’t trust banks. The woman slept on the couch after a hip surgery, and her daughter, trying to be helpful, sold the couch and bought her mom a new bed.
These kids are awesome. I am still debating, but I am applauding these kids. They did the right thing and gave the money back. I think I would have been so angry at my daughter for selling the couch without asking me but everything turned out great.
What would you have done with $40,000? So many possibilities huh?
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