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Woman Finds $3,000 in Garage-Sale Chair
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| 5/30/05
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Posted on 05/30/2005 1:03:54 PM PDT by wagglebee
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posted on
05/30/2005 1:03:54 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
To: wagglebee
She should check those coins and bills, she may have more than she thinks.
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posted on
05/30/2005 1:06:52 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
To: wagglebee
Ah! That's where my money went...
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posted on
05/30/2005 1:07:31 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Candy is dandy...)
To: wagglebee
Stafford remembers what she paid for the chair, but not where she bought it. Maybe, maybe not. Even if she remembered, I bet a diet coke that there would be clamoring and pressure on her to return the money, even though she bought the chair.
Am I wrong on that?
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posted on
05/30/2005 1:08:18 PM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: TexasTransplant
I hadn't even thought about that, at the very least all of the quarters are silver.
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posted on
05/30/2005 1:08:27 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: TexasTransplant
The money notes are silver certificates...are they not?
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posted on
05/30/2005 1:09:13 PM PDT
by
DCPatriot
To: wagglebee
"Stafford remembers what she paid for the chair,
but not where she bought it." MAN, she must REALLY go to a lot of garage sales! How could you forget?!
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posted on
05/30/2005 1:09:20 PM PDT
by
jdm
(Estoy En Una Radio Mexicana (I'm On A Mexican Radio))
To: wagglebee
I would have kept quiet if it was my find.
To: wagglebee
And the bills could be Silver Certificates.
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posted on
05/30/2005 1:10:59 PM PDT
by
leadpenny
To: SkyPilot
"Maybe, maybe not. Even if she remembered, I bet a
diet coke that there would be clamoring and pressure on her to return the money, even though she bought the chair."
Is that a caffeine-free diet coke or just a diet coke? :)
10
posted on
05/30/2005 1:11:25 PM PDT
by
jdm
(Estoy En Una Radio Mexicana (I'm On A Mexican Radio))
To: wagglebee
"Woman Finds $3,000 in Garage-Sale Chair"
Well, boo hoo. I once found $3,000 in a bank account. <\s>
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posted on
05/30/2005 1:12:41 PM PDT
by
jdm
(Estoy En Una Radio Mexicana (I'm On A Mexican Radio))
To: wagglebee
I'd bet many coins and bills that old have value as collectibles aside from their monetary value.
12
posted on
05/30/2005 1:13:17 PM PDT
by
Tall_Texan
(If you can think 180-degrees apart from reality, you might be a Democrat.)
To: jdm
Actually, I find that quite believable. I've often remember the price of things I've bought at garage sales. The garages, on the other hand, all run together.
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posted on
05/30/2005 1:13:29 PM PDT
by
Huntress
(Possession really is nine tenths of the law.)
To: wagglebee
Whoever stuffed the money in that chair probably went through the Bank Holiday. There was lots of hoarding into the 40s.
To: wagglebee
I bought a near-perfect 1950's Zenith tube stereo console (AM/FM radio + turntable) a few weeks ago. The people selling it were cleaning out their deceased mother's house and they knew I would appreciate it (I'm an electrical engineer and love the sound of tube radios, amps, etc.). The deceased woman grew up during the depression, so I told her son to check the house for stashes of cash.
Hmmmmm....maybe I ought to check that stereo console out a little closer.....;^)
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posted on
05/30/2005 1:13:51 PM PDT
by
randog
(What the....?!)
To: Huntress
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posted on
05/30/2005 1:14:27 PM PDT
by
Huntress
(Possession really is nine tenths of the law.)
To: TexasTransplant
"she may have more than she thinks."
You're likely correct. I used to collect coins and some currency, way back in high school (yeah, I was one of the "popular" kids). (sarcasm) Anyway, her "$3,000" is probably worth in the neighborhood of $20 to $30K.
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posted on
05/30/2005 1:15:15 PM PDT
by
jdm
(Estoy En Una Radio Mexicana (I'm On A Mexican Radio))
To: jdm
How could you forget?! Selective forgetting. She doesn't want bad Karma.
To: wagglebee
We had a case here a few years ago where a bag of baby clothes was sold at a garage sale. The woman selling the items apparently did not know her husband had been hiding money in the bag. The police went to the media and said they were looking for the buyers and were thinking of pressing charges against them for not returning the money.
Yeah, that approach will work.
To: wagglebee
Likely the result of a stash during the banking crisis of the great depression. The true owner of the money, who put it there is long dead. Furthurmore, I'm willing to bet that the people she bought this from at the garage sale acquired the chair second or third-hand themselves and don't have any moral claim to the loot either.
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