Ever found money in your tractor?

[Richard]

Know of a guy who built a wooden box, maybe size of shoebox. It was totally sealed but for a slot.

Had decent cash flow so he & wife decided every single week, they'd drop $20 in it. Over the years, $20 became $50 and every now & then $100 when times were good.

Wife gets ill and fights cancer of something like three years.....finally passes away.

Couple years later he meets new gal and get married.

Couple years later they decide to move to new house so he's cleaning out old house. He finds a box. He knows immediatly what it is.

He realized he better let the wife know....so he calls her in.

My understanding is it was something like $175,000 and now, he's worried about getting busted for having that much cash...."are you dealing drugs?"

I told him that the story sounds legit (and if it IS legit) then he would have dated bills going back said 30 (or whatever) years... Now, if they're all dated 2018, he's got a problem.

I don't know what his final solution was. What he was doing at that time was simply using the cash for when they went to dinner or other life things, keeping the cash they would have spent in their account.

Nice box.

 

[Jstpssng]

The first winter I worked for Maine BPL I was issued a truck which somebody else had been using. Those 70s vintage GM pickups had nothing to keep things from sliding down into the defroster ducts. One night when stopping at a coworker's house I tossed the keys up onto the dash, and heard them rattle down into the heater system. I messed and messed with it, working the heater controls until I finally got my fingers onto a key, then carefully worked until they entire ring of keys came out.
The only problem was, they weren't my keys.

 

[LouNY]

I've put money into tractors for many decades, never found any in them.

 

[CobyRupert]

Know of a guy who built a wooden box, maybe size of shoebox. It was totally sealed but for a slot.

Had decent cash flow so he & wife decided every single week, they'd drop $20 in it. Over the years, $20 became $50 and every now & then $100 when times were good.

Wife gets ill and fights cancer of something like three years.....finally passes away.

My understanding is it was something like $175,000.....

Nice box.

Let’s say this guy and first wife were married for 20 years. They’d have to put in $168 in the box Every Single Week, no exceptions, for those 20 years. Not just when times were good.
If 25 years: $135 every week
30 years : $112
35 years: $96

$175,000 in neatly stacked STACKED $100 bills would be about 8 inches tall (6 inches long, and 2 1/2 inches wide). If they were all $20’s, the neatly ordered stack would be 40 inches tall.
(If somebody wants to send me $175,000 of mixed denominations I promise to tell you how big of a box is needed to loosely slide them into)

....but just think how much money he’d have if you do the calculations for compounding interest over the same time period. Or if invested in the stock market...