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You know the old saying, one person's trash is another person's gold. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8092942.stmIsrael woman 'bins $1m mattress'
The older woman's entire life savings were hidden inside the mattress
A Tel Aviv woman has been searching through Israeli rubbish dumps after she said she accidentally threw away a mattress containing $1m (£700,000).
The woman, identified only as Anat, had bought a new mattress for her mother as a surprise and threw away the old one, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported.
A search of three landfill sites has so far turned up nothing, said the paper.
When the woman realised her mistake, she rushed out to retrieve the mattress but it had already been taken away.
She hurried to the Hiriya local dump, only to find the mattress had been shipped to one of two larger landfill sites, along with another 3,000 tonnes of rubbish collected that day.
A search of the first site, Ganei Hadas, proved fruitless so she moved onto Efeh, close to the Dead Sea.
Yitzhak Borba, the director of the Efeh site, told Israel's Army Radio the woman had been "totally desperate" when she arrived.
He was reported to have kept some of his staff on overnight to fend off treasure hunters and help the woman.
But despite being unable to retrieve the mattress and its hidden fortune, "Anat" appeared philosophical about her loss.
"People have to take everything in proportion and thank God for the good and the bad," she said.
There has been no comment from her mother. In IC XC, Father Anthony+
Everyone baptized into Christ should pass progressively through all the stages of Christ's own life, for in baptism he receives the power so to progress, and through the commandments he can discover and learn how to accomplish such progression. - Saint Gregory of Sinai
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Dear Father Anthony, I had heard or read this the other day and am speechless about it. The poor older woman who had saved that money. Ofcourse, the daughter did not know about the money, and thought she was doing something nice by replacing the mattress--and had the mother told the daughter that she was using the mattress to squirrelaway her money in, most likely she would probably not have been able to save it in the first place ( if you get the drift )!!  Considering that it would have been the daughter's inheritance, she took it in a very spiritual way...and good for her. I suppose you never miss what you didn't have in the first place! In Christ, Alice
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Maybe she should have asked dear old Mom if she wanted a new mattress.
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With older relatives, it's always good to ask before doing anything. Too many kids presume that what they do will be appreciated. Often it is not.
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That's true. It's so easy for sons and daughters to start treating their elderly parents like children and make decisions without asking. Since this is the time when independence is beginning to go,respect is really important to help preserve their dignity.
'Philosophical' my shoe.Yeah, the daughter could afford to be 'philosophical' but that strikes me as a whole lot of chutzpah on her part. Alice, you're so much less cynical than I am.God bless you.
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Yeah, the daughter could afford to be 'philosophical' but that strikes me as a whole lot of chutzpah on her part. Alice, you're so much less cynical than I am.God bless you. Dear Indigo, Perhaps, but I do see your point. Notice that I didn't comment on the poor mother...I can certainly understand her not being as 'philosophical' as her daughter!! Fondly, Alice
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Dear Indigo, Perhaps, but I do see your point. Notice that I didn't comment on the poor mother...I can certainly understand her not being as 'philosophical' as her daughter!! Fondly, Alice Yes, if you notice in the article's last line the poor mother (now a million dollars poorer) offered no comment. You can only imagine what is going through her mind when the shock wears off. Somehow being philosophical probably wouldn't be on that list.
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It's so easy for sons and daughters to start treating their elderly parents like children and make decisions without asking. Since this is the time when independence is beginning to go,respect is really important to help preserve their dignity. Yes, if you notice in the article's last line the poor mother (now a million dollars poorer) offered no comment. You can only imagine what is going through her mind when the shock wears off. Somehow being philosophical probably wouldn't be on that list. Christ is in our midst!! I'm sure the poor mother is one of those with whom I so often deal. Either the Great Depression or governments whose banks can't be trusted have made many elderly people deeply distrustful of having their savings anywhere but where they can immediately get their hands on them. Call it the need to be able to flee in some instances. I was relating the other day a story of a family cleaning out their mother's home after her death and finding large denomination bills between the pages of the books in her library. A sewn slit in the back of the couch yielded almost enough to pay for the funeral. Mattress? Sure thing. Empty coffee cans squirreled in the basement? Ditto. Hole in a wall behind a picture? Sure. How about the man who had a half million dollars tightly wrapped inside small metal cans that had held baking powder and neatly hidden behind some panels along the sill between the foundation and the wall of the first floor in his basement? And it's often the case that parents keep their cards close to their vest in keeping their independence. Don't want the kids to know everything. How about pulling all the drawers out of a bureau and putting money in large manila envelopes behind the drawers? Don't send those old furniture pieces to a second hand dealer when you're dissolving the estate. And how do I know this? So many of them will come into my office and confide this kind of thing to me day in and day out. BOB
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I hope when my will is read, it will say, "being of sound mind and body, I spent it all."
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I well remember my husband telling me a tale of what happened next door to his parents. The local JW head lived next door to them - nice folk and actually they came to an agreement that no JWs would turn up on my in-laws doorstep  So in that respect all was quiet and peaceful - we will ignore the 'swimming pool' that was built in their back garden with steps the width of the pool itself down into the shallow end. One year while they were on holiday there was a 'break in' next door and my husband and his father were asked to go into the house with the police to see if they could spot anything missing . As it happened they didn't , but, in the course of checking the house, they found large quantities of bank notes stuffed down behind the backs of the central heating radiators !! This was counted out in the presence of the police and was placed in safe keeping in the nearest bank for them on their return. Seemingly there were more banknotes that Raymond and his father didn't find ! 
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"being of sound mind . . . When I went to get my will revised, my attorney wanted to know if I really thought I wanted this put in it. He felt an immediate challenge being possible. 
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You have just made me check our wills That statement is missing - so obviously our Lawyer decided we were of UNSOUND mind
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Whenever I have *any* doubt in the matter, whether from what I'm told or my own observations, I make sure that the person sees a physician earlier in the day, and that the physician writes a quick note that the person is competent to execute the will or trust.
In a couple of cases, I had to postpone execution, as the person wasn't sound enough that day, but was fine soon after.
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In a couple of cases, I had to postpone execution, as the person wasn't sound enough that day I think it's always best to postpone executions until the person is sound - makes for a much better spectacle that way (sorry, couldn't resist)
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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In a couple of cases, I had to postpone execution, as the person wasn't sound enough that day I think it's always best to postpone executions until the person is sound - makes for a much better spectacle that way (sorry, couldn't resist) LOL!  VERY cute!! (I am glad that you didn't resist the urge to inject some humour...the above sentence really set itself up for it!--sorry dochawk )
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