Roommates Buy Old Couch For $20, But It Was Worth So Much More

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It Was Her Life’s Savings

Britannica

Back in the late 1920s when the stock market crashed, tons of Americans had lost their hard-earned money that had been put in different banks. The Great Depression had forced everyone to mistrust the banking system, which is why this couple decided to store their money at home rather than lose it again if another recession should ever happen again. But considering that she had been using her incredibly old couch to store a lifetime’s worth of savings, one had to wonder, how did she lose it in the first place?