The couch was purchased by the pals from a Salvation Army store in February.
The Little Rebellion claims that following a movie, the students reported feeling crinkles in two built-in side pillows on the couch.
Werkhoven, who is majoring in geology at SUNY New Paltz, told CBS News, “It had like two or three of these bubble wrap envelopes.”An inch and a half of hundred dollar bills were torn out, and we were freaking out.
The companions were so shocked by what they had found that they nearly tore the couch to pieces.
They took pictures along the route and promptly counted the money after all the gifts had been opened. It came to an astounding $41,000 in total!
According to Russo, a SUNY graduate, “you get excited as you keep counting more and more money, like Reese was thinking about buying a boat and a car for his mom.”
However, when the students noticed that one of the envelopes bore a woman’s name, their happiness gave way to moral skepticism.
As soon as she saw the notification with her name on it, the entitlement vanished. “Because we didn’t make that much money,” said Guasti, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College.
The parents of the students assisted them in their search locate the fortune’s rightful owner. In order to prevent it from being taken, the parents also instructed their kids to keep the stockpile a secret.
The young man called the woman after Werkhoven’s mother eventually located her in a phone directory.
Werkhoven remarked, “I think I found something that belongs to you, and she’s like, ‘What?’” and I say, ‘I found a couch,’ and she says, ‘Oh my God, I left a lot of money in that couch.’?”
According to the elderly woman’s friends, who wished to remain anonymous, she told them that her ailing husband had given her a sizable sum of money prior to his passing so that she would have money following his passing.
She buried it beneath her room’s old couch as she had nowhere else to put it. She claimed to have saved money on the couch for thirty years. She spent several months in a rehabilitation facility after undergoing back surgery not long ago.
Her physicians advised her children to get mom a new couch while she was there in order to alleviate her back discomfort. At the Salvation Army, it was like that.“That couch was almost not our choice,” Russo told thelittlerebellion.com.”It smells and is rather unsightly, but it was the only couch that was the proper size for our living room.”
After returning the money, the three claimed they don’t feel guilty about doing morally and will even join the elderly woman and her family for supper.
Werkhoven told CBS News, “I think it’s just that anyone can do good if they will themselves to it.”
“To be honest, I don’t give it much thought, but I believe it went as planned.”Russo went on.
However, the good Samaritans left with something. The woman’s present to the three children was $1,000!
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