So I saw this article not too long ago, and there was just no way I couldn’t blog on this one!
Basically what happened was this: A family was shopping at Whole Foods market in the OC, they bought a box of crackers, and once they opened them up at home, there was an envelope inside with $10,000 in it!
I swear, this is no joke! That’s definitely the biggest “prize” I’ve ever heard of being inside of a box! The family that discovered it was pretty amazing … instead of going on a wild shopping spree, they actually called the police once they discovered the money. It turns out that the police had actually gotten a call from Whole Foods saying that an elderly lady had come into the store in hysterics a few days before. She was claiming that she accidentally returned the wrong box to Whole Foods a few days earlier - she said the box she accidentally returned had her life savings inside!
Now don’t get me wrong, I definitely felt bad for the woman (and extremely amazed that she got the money back), but the first thing that went through my mind once I read this article was, “Why would someone keep that much money in a box … AT HOME?!?” My second thought was, “Shouldn’t they know better?” Why did she have all that money in the box? She said that she had lost confidence in her bank, and decided that the safest place for her money was at home.
So I don’t mean to be totally cheesy, but this is such a textbook “lesson” that the credit union is always trying to tell us! Our money is the most safe when it’s deposited into our account. Seriously, she is lucky the right people stumbled upon that box of crackers – or else she would’ve lost her entire life savings. I’m not sure most people would be that honest!
If you wanna check out this story (just in case you don’t believe me!), read it here.
Kim