We know this economic crisis has been harsh, but we thought the old trick of stuffing your money in your mattress was at least still safe. Not so. Even the mattress is suspect now.
An elderly woman in Israel had apparently been stuffing her mattress with money for years. She had put her whole life savings in there, a sum worth more than $1 million. The mattress had gotten so old, and presumably so lumpy, that the woman's daughter bought her a new one as a surprise.
Unaware of what was filling the old mattress, the woman's daughter threw it in the trash, and the garbagemen took it to the dump. The next thing you know, the two women are rummaging through three different landfill sites, frantically tearing through beat-up mattresses. They still haven't found the money.
I sincerely hope you aren't stuffing your savings in your mattress. Even in the current environment, I think we can find better places for it than your bedding.
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