I'm a Pirate. I found $2000 in a chest.

[theboss]

Here is a crazy story.

So...My wife's parents are clearing out their basement in anticipation of downsizing/retiring.

And they are sending us all these boxes of stuff. Pictures. Her mother's old school stuff. Old newspapers. Old toys. All kinds of junk. Some of it is cool (Life Magazine from after the Kennedy Assassination). Some of it is weird. (1976 Philadelphia Flyers calendar).

In the crates was an old wooden box with a lock. We didn't have a key. It sat in our kitchen for a week.

Last night, our friend was over and managed to pick the lock. (I make friends with people with special talents). In the box was a bunch of doll clothes that probably belonged to my wife's mother when she was a kid. It clearly came from the grandmother's house.

Also in the box was bank envelope...with $2000 in cash. $2 GRAND!!

We think her grandmother withdraw the money and hid it there for some reason and then got sick and died immediately after. (She literally got ill on a Friday and was dead of cancer in about a week). My grandfather grew up in the depression too, and he had money hidden all over his house. (Who knows...maybe in a year, I'll have money buried in the back yard. Everything old is new again).

That money was in the box until her grandfather died three years after the grandmoither...And then the box was in her parents' basement for ten years. And then we found it last night.

This is the kind of thing you read about.

[Drunken Girlfriend]

1. Re:2000 dollars

That's awesome!

Care to share your new found wealth? lol

[theboss]

4. No

No, I would not.

[Blue Diadem]

2. Cool!

Have you checked out the dates on the bills, that may give you some indication of how long that money was in there.

The '76 flyers calendar could be a sports collectible. You might want to check out ebay or one of your local sports collectible shops to see if it has any worth.

[theboss]

3. The bills were early '90s up to '95. Which is when she died.

So, that's the best clue.

There are some things that are going on Ebay. We are going to frame the Kennedy stuff. But there are a bunch of toys from the 40s and 50s that are in great shape. Some in the original boxes. That stuff is going to collectors (if there are any collectors in this economy. 4 years ago, we probably could have made $3 Grand of this stuff. Today...who knows?)

[ipfilter]

5. Today you will pay that much to eBay in fees. nt

[greenbriar]

6. My grandma was a young wife during the depression when she died we found money in all kinds of plac

seems like every pair of socks and rolled up undergarments had money rolled in them we found almost 20 thousands dollars in her dresser in various items of clothing


it seems she had a huge distrust for banks