Posted on 01/23/2020 10:32:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I’d have to re read but I thought $ went into couch by grandpa of donors? They’d sort of have a hereditary claim if that were the case. But you do have a plausible lawyersque argument either way.
I had a relative who was a hoarder.
While cleaning her house, we found stock certificates, dividend checks, various uncashed checks, and cash hidden among piles of old newspapers that were stacked to the ceiling. We retrieved stacks we’d already tossed in the dumpster & went thru them again, shaking out every newspaper. We found an additional $3000 we’d originally missed.
Jewelry was in coffee cans in the pantry and in the freezer. Inside a locked, rusty old filing cabinet were sterling silver flatware, more stock certificates, sacks of old coins, and patents granted for items she’d invented, but never marketed.
These findings prompted us to take a second look at every. single. thing in her house. Knicknacks, kewpie dolls, figurines, vases, china— it turns out— have manufacturers’ markings on them which can easily be looked up on the internet to determine their value to collectors, and there are online sites for buyers & sellers of collectibles.
A lot of that stuff we thought was 25 cent yard sale crap turned out to be worth big bucks.
How were they stupid? Couch was grandad's and he stashed it in a cushion unbeknownst to them.
Sorry. I was speaking in generalities. “such people”.
I’m in agreement with others that Kirby had no moral or legal reason to turn that money over to the family.
The couch came from Habitat for Humanity. He could have easily donated the money back to that charity.
Survival of the fittest, right?
No.
Finders Keepers.
That’ll teach em!
When I was about 12, my widowed grandmother remarried a widower named Bill.
I remember hearing stories of my mom and her sisters helping Bill clean out his house and finding thousands his late wife had stashed.
I found this video recently about a antique dealer who bought a hoarders house and found much the same.
Part 1. We bought a hoarded house! 100 years of stuff! what will we find???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb4SpyeH5IQ
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