Daughter Throws Away Mattress W/ 1 Million in Cash

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JERUSALEM - An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress she said had almost $1 million inside, setting off a frantic search through tons of garbage at a number of landfill sites on Wednesday.

The woman told The Associated Press that she bought her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise present on Monday - and threw out the old one.

The next day, she said, she remembered that she had hidden her life savings inside the old mattress. "I woke up in the morning screaming, when it hit me what happened," said the Tel Aviv woman, who asked not to be identified.

She went to look for the mattress, but it had already been hauled away by garbage collectors, she said. Searches at three different landfill sites turned up nothing.

She said the money was in U.S. dollars and Israeli shekels. She refused to say how she acquired such a large sum. "It was all my money in the world," she said. There was no way to verify her claims, and she refused to disclose key details.

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said he was not familiar with the case and no report had been filed.

The Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot published a picture of the woman searching through garbage at a dump in southern Israel. The picture shows the woman, dressed in a white top and black pants with her back to the camera, picking through a huge pile of trash that fills the frame about 10 feet (3 metres) in all directions.

Yitzhak Borba, the dump manager, told Army Radio that his staff was helping the woman, saying she appeared "totally desperate." He said the mattress was hard to find among the 2,500 tons of garbage that arrives at the site every day.

He said he increased security at the site to keep would-be treasure hunters away.

The woman said the money had been stashed in a mattress because she had had "traumatic experiences with banks" in the past. She would not elaborate.
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Israeli woman mistakenly junks mother's mattress with her $1 million savings

If I were the daughter, I'd be kicking myself by now. :lol: Say goodbye to inheritance. :lol:
 
Geez she should've been more careful from what she threw.
 
Another reason why stuffing the mattress with money is NOT a good idea.
 
Hide under the ground. Sound fun to being pirate. Arr arrr!
 
This is why we have banks.

A mattress is a really bad place to hide money anyway, what if the house catches on fire? Then what? All that money goes up in smoke!

She's just going to accept that she made a huge mistake and kiss her money goodbye.
 
:shock: Whoa an bad decision to stuff there! I am sure she had learned the hard lesson! Should had used the bank to leave her money there.
 
Don't forget that there are old timers that grew up in the depression era that still hide their money in barns and in mason jars buried all over the property. This is why when a person buys an old house and when they renovate it they will sometimes find the walls have been stuffed with money. In the depression, the banks closed down and many people no longer had access to their money. This is why a lot of older people have thousands upon thousands of dollars just stuffed away in mattresses, hidden in barns, buried in mason jars in the backyard, have them hidden in the freezer, etc.
 
LuciaDisturbed said:
This is why we have banks.

A mattress is a really bad place to hide money anyway, what if the house catches on fire? Then what? All that money goes up in smoke!

She's just going to accept that she made a huge mistake and kiss her money goodbye.
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pro
money keep secure for you
con
bank eat some your cents
 
Frisky Feline said:
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yes. if the cigarette drops on it and it encourage to fire!
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I knew a woman that was a hooker , I do not like her , anyway she kept all the money she made as a hooker, $22,000 in her home. Her house burned to the ground! Easy comes , easy does!
 
PowerON said:
pro
money keep secure for you
con
bank eat some your cents
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Yeah, but not enough cents to discourage me from keeping my money in the bank. It's better than keeping money in my mattress, and then some dumbass tenant who does not know how to handle a candle knocks one over...the whole building goes out in smoke including my money in the mattress...no thanks, my money is better off and much safer in a bank! That way I will have money to find a temporary motel room or find another apartment in such events. So the bank eating a few cents from my account every month is a real small con, really.
 
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