Its hard to think of much bigger an “oh shit!” moment than an Israeli woman would have had. She bought a new mattress on Monday and threw out her old one. Fair enough. However, on Tuesday, she remembered she had hidden her life savings inside the old mattress – she claims the amount is more than a million dollars.
By the time she realised, the garbage collection had already taken it. Searches at three separate dumps turned up nothing. One of the dump managers confirmed she was desperate and his staff were helping her, but said with 2,500 tonnes of rubbish arriving every day, the mattress would be impossible to find.
Oh shit! Lesson for this lady – while our banks may be bloodsucking leeches with all their fees and charges, it beats doing your money because you had all your money stuffed in the mattress (you know what they say about financial strategy, diversify, don’t put all your eggs in one basket …does stuffing it all in your mattress count the same as that?)
you know, i heard this story on the radio this morning and thought of you straight away LOL glad you blogged it!
Great story! What we probably haven’t been told is that a small child spent a night sleeping on that mattress… leaving the resultant paper fortune urine-sodden… hence the bed being dumped…! Muwahahahaaa!
How could she have possibly slept in that bed with a million dollar in it? Wouldnt it have been very lumpy? Or did she use it as mattress stuffing?