Or Strange Places People Hide Money…
I just read an interesting story about a woman who found $10,000.00 in a box of crackers at a Whole Foods store, and while I have heard of Whole Foods being called “Whole Paycheck” I never thought I would hear of someone receiving such a handsome one from them…Here is the story.
About 10 years ago while setting up a house for an estate sale in Santa Rosa I found a Bic pen box that look something like this…
This was the house of an elderly couple who had been in the Jewelry Business. There were many wonderful antiques and all sorts of collectibles there, including many vintage firearms.
In one of the closets there was a large safe. I like finding safes, even when I don’t have the combination to the safe – a safe represents a mystery, a great unknown.
I like to find out about the unknown at estate sales.
So I hired a safe cracker, by the way you cannot find a safe cracker listed as a safe cracker in the Yellow Pages, you have to look for a locksmith who can crack safes. Guess what we found in the safe…drum roll please…That’s right we found nothing in the safe….
Now people who are in the jewelry business as is well known, also deal in diamonds. So in the closet of the master bedroom we found a lot of paper diamond bindels on the floor. Here is a picture of a box of them.
Look for little white envelopes when you’re setting up for an Estate Sale
Essentially how a jeweler uses these small squares of paper is to make a small envelop from them into which they put as many or as few diamonds as they may wish. In this manner they can manage their diamonds according to the 4 C’s of Diamonds. In other words, they can separate them by their “Cut” “Carat” “Clarity” and “Color.”
As I have already written, I like surprises, and a good mystery – the motto for my Estate Sales Company is “Help People Find.” So I unfolded and looked into about 100 of these little diamond packets…Guess what I found in the envelopes…drum roll please…That’s right we found nothing in the envelopes.
Dang and Double Dang…
Here is what I found loaded under the bed of this estate…
Well, at least it was a surprise, by the way, if you find that you have inherited firearms, and you feel that they may be collectible, you can go to my Inherited Firearms site, and fill in one of my forms, and I will forward your information on to someone who can help you properly research their values.
Eureka I Found It!
It was while we were going through the drawers in the master bedroom that my then partner Julie, found “The Bic Pen Box”…drum roll please, and guess what was inside it, that’s right – $10,000.00. And may I report – the family was very pleased…
So here is my little estate sales warning:
Don’t throw anything away…be careful, you never know – look through everything…
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Hello,
I’m having an education here. It’s worth taking the time to read some of the articles, and the experiences that are shared in these writings. I can’t relate to the story on “finding $10,000.00″ but it’s interesting reading. My story is much different. Given the opportunity, I would like to share it some day.
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