A fellow I worked with had a coworker who was demolishing drywall in a house. While smashing out the ceiling a box fell out and almost him in the head. It had close to 100k in it. Turns out the house was owned by a guy who had a bakery, and I guess stashed cash up there to avoid paying taxes. He never told anyone I guess and developed Alzheimer's. The kid turned in the money to the owner, and after that they had security guards watching the demolition crew's every move.
It's funny 70k really isn't that much money, very easy to spend it. Just like lottery winners if you don't know what you're doing it will gone before you know it.
People who lived through The Depression or heard about it as children where the banks literally locked the doors and failed learned that cash is king. Always had some stashed for emergencies.
Nah, that’s just straight up stupid. Its a shared home and you do not just straight up throw away things without informing the other. Im married and its common sense to ask first.
Wife tells husband, "That piece of furniture is ugly, I'm going to toss it and get a new one." Husband replies "Yeah, just don't do it yet, I need to clean it out." Two weeks later: "You cleaned that thing out yet?" "Not yet, I'm still working on other stuff." Three weeks later: "Clean that thing out because I'm going to toss it next week." "Yeah yeah I'll do it." Four weeks later: "YOU DID WHAT??!!?!?!?!"
I think you missed the whole "without telling your spouse" qualifier. You gave an example scenario where the fault lies entirely in the husband's laziness since the wife DID bring it up to the husband, multiple times even.
Yeah I ask my wife before I toss a rusty spoon and she's going to ask me before she tosses even a random screw because we know how each other feel about these things a whole ass piece of furniture is an in-depth discussion about could it go to another room then can we use it in the garage then maybe sell it finally as a last resort I get to break it down and toss it!
You jest, but this is the correct way, if i am going to throw a bunch of rust stuff, i collect them and put them in a box or bag or w/e, and have them take a look before we throw them away.
There is almost always some benefit that can be extracted from old stuff before throwing them away, my closer friend is a handyman, i always give them the stuff i am gonna throw to take a look at, most of the times they extract materials &/or spare parts from them.
i get that this is probably how most marriages are, but to those people who this applies, why do you marry someone that has zero communication with you?
I'd say it's more of a problem that a spouse would not mention the hidden compartment than anything, my husband would tell me 'hey this is where the secret stash is' so then there would be no problems. I'm assuming they are hiding the stuff from burglars not each other.
One day my ex came home with two guys who picked up the couch and left with it. Turns out they were the new neighbors. She offered to them because I " said I was gonna buy a new one ".
The truth was maybe a week before I had remarked how I liked the style of some random couch on T.V.
I worked for 1-800GOTJUNK in California. Last job of the day another crew did a garage clean out for this woman. They picked everything up, took the loaded truck back to the lot and left it overnight to take it to the dump in the morning.
The next day the husband called, frantic and asking if we by any chance still had the water cooler his wife told us to take. It was still in the back of the truck so he came and picked it up.
Turns out he stashed 150K in cash inside the water cooler.
Holy shit this happened to my mom. Grandma hid all her gold jewelery in the mattress. When she died, dad threw it out. When mom came home and told dad they freaked the heck out and went back for it but by then it was long gone
Normal people are honest with their partners. If you feel the need to hide shit from them, especially a fuck ton of cash, that’s not a healthy relationship.
If you need to hide valuables from your spouse don’t hide them in your home… And maybe ask yourself why you need to do such a thing? Maybe you should talk with a professional
If your spouse is literally throwing away furniture without telling you, then you have a spouse problem. No one should be disposing of furniture without a discussion. It's too big and too expensive.
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u/meanvegton 20h ago
One random day.....
Husband: what happened to the nightstand?????
Wife: oh that, I always thought it was ugly and gotten a replacement
Husband: .........….........
Based on real life stories where wife or husband thrown away their hidden stash furniture and had to search for it at the dumpster or rubbish chute.