LITERALLY... Burned $5000.00+ in cash (99% sure)

[ARC]

Usually when I hear someone losing that amount of money...

There is a casino or track of some kind involved.

Hope it turns up.

 

[Limitool]

Hello T-net friends.... I have no idea how many of my old "friends" are still around now here. I've pretty much been absent for about 5 years. Wife passed in May of 2019. That same day 4 of our kids were here. That same day we started to go through her jewelry, closets, drawers and shelves. We were all saddened by her death but it was a true blessing in the end. We were lying out items on the pool table and dividing things up. Everything was going smoothly and everyone was getting along fine picking out things they may want themselves or for others. Everyone knew we were ALL on the lookout for that "lost" / "missing" $5000+ bucks. Nothing, nothing and more nothing not showing up. Suddenly my daughter Chelsea comes carrying out a single white envelop stuffed with cash and throws on the pool table. She opens it and fans out $100 dollar bills across the table. She counts it. $3500 even total so NOT the missing 5K+. So I picked up the envelope and saw (as usual) the running total and dates of entering the envelope she always did. This envelopes last entry was dated 2+ full years BEFORE the 5K came up missing. I didn't realize her was going downhill before then. Chelsea found the envelope in a pant leg of a stacked up pile of Levi's and winter PJ's. My late wife never mentioned misplacing any money before the 5K came up missing. Where THAT money came from is beyond me except according to the dates on envelope it took her about 3 years to squirrel that away. The $5000+ is still missing....?? That's the latest and greatest on this story. I told my now girlfriend living here about that $3500 and finding it and her response....... Who said it was lost....? That may be true... Brad

 

[Peyton Manning]

Good to hear from you old timer

 

[ARC]

Welcome back Limit... glad you are back.

 

[SeabeeRon]

Glad you are back!

Remind me again the story behind the $5000??

When my mother-in-law passed my wife was going through her cloths to give to the Salvation Army and coming across cash stashed in shoes, pockets, etc. Remember our parents were WWII generation the husband was the "bread winner" and he gave his wife an allowance for groceries and household needs. She had been stashing this cash for years for that "Rainy Day"! Don't recall what it totaled out too.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Welcome back LT...

 

[pepperj]

Welcome back.
Condolences LT on the your loss.
It's good to hear that something was found, and it might of be the solution to the mystery after all.
Kind of missed the yearly post up of your toy box making, do you still do it?

 

[Limitool]

Glad you are back!

Remind me again the story behind the $5000??

When my mother-in-law passed my wife was going through her cloths to give to the Salvation Army and coming across cash stashed in shoes, pockets, etc. Remember our parents were WWII generation the husband was the "bread winner" and he gave his wife an allowance for groceries and household needs. She had been stashing this cash for years for that "Rainy Day"! Don't recall what it totaled out too.

"Remind me again the story behind the $5000??"...... Long story / short version. Wife stashed away $5060 dollars. All in hundreds +3 twenty's. Had all laid out on dining room table. I told her to put in bank and she didn't. Now at the time she was really going downhill physically / mentally. I went to sleep. 3 days later she asked if I took...? No. She said it's lost and I've looked for 2 days. Her world was tethered to a 50' oxygen tube. The table, bathroom and bedroom only was her limit. Torn that small world up and more... nothing. I believe she stacked it in the outgoing mail trash, dumped it within and I burned it all up 2 days before without knowing. 1st post is long version.... Thanks, Brad

 

[Limitool]

Welcome back.
Condolences LT on the your loss.
It's good to hear that something was found, and it might of be the solution to the mystery after all.
Kind of missed the yearly post up of your toy box making, do you still do it?

Stay tuned pepperj.... I'll work on an update on this forum tomorrow about that (yes!!!).

 

[dieselfool]

Good to hear you found something!
When my grandpa got old he was getting kind of eccentric and worrying about things. Being on the farm he usually carried a revolver to shoot rabid animals, groundhogs or just tin cans. He got to thinking if he died one of us grandkids would find his gun and bad things could happen. So he hid the gun somewhere without telling anybody. After he passed away in 1958 the family noticed this gun was missing so we all looked for it. For many years we looked high and low for it with no luck.
In 2014 my uncle (85 years old) who lived on the old home place heard a mouse in the drop ceiling in the basement so he got on a ladder and raised a ceiling block to set a trap. He took a flashlight and shined it around and halfway across the ceiling he saw a bundle of rags. Inside the bundle was grandpa's .22 cal. S&W revolver, fully loaded with 1950's ammo. I have it here on my computer desk right now. So you never know. This thing was lost for over 50 years!