£4000 found when ripping out kitchen

[ElizabethDarcy88]

Today after having old kitchen ripped out our fitter found hidden a box and inside was £4000 in cash. ...we have informed solicitor who managed the sale. (It was a probate house sale) what do you think will happen?

My mum took my brothers & I to Chessington zoo in the 60's sat on a bench & found a handbag, she looked in it to fTRY & identify the owner & found a whole load of jewelry, (God knows why you take your jewelry to the zoo, we decided she was eloping)
So Mum handed the bag in to the desk or whatever it was at the time, (I was about 7)
Some time later she received a thankyou of a couple of thousand £

The 😂emoji at the end of this horrible little story is its crowning non-glory. It's almost unbelievable that people exist who would not only just take the money but have a lie prepared.

That is pretty bad

willwewontwe my mum has Alzheimer’s. Honestly, if you had any understanding of the horrors of dementia you would not have joked about this. You really need to sit down and have a word with yourself. You really think it’s ok to keep money from an elderly person, regardless of their health status, knowing they are still alive?

willwewontwe Blimey, that’s a terrible admission. Do you not feel guilty? If this is true, you’re a bad person.

Who would have thought MN was so full of people who happily steal from the elderly?

Alzheimer’s is why me, my siblings, my Dad and his siblings, and my Grandparents spent WEEKS ransacking my Great Grandmothers home prior to selling it to pay for care home fees. She grew up in absolute poverty and as a result, hid cash all over the house for her entire life.

We found money -

• Behind loose wallpaper in every room, in envelopes
• Inside all 3 mattresses
• Under floorboards
• Behind the kick boards in the kitchen
• Inside the long disused fire but still there because it was old and beautiful
• Shoved into the loft insulation

I’m still not convinced we found it all!

It didn’t say in the original post that the notes were no longer legal tender?

And I hope you got something out of your found items too 🤣

People on this thread are absolutely disgusting. I am ashamed for you. Stealing from people.

It’s bad enough that you’d keep the money @willwewontwe but to prepare a lie to tell its rightful owner and then brag about it is absolutely despicable. It’s not even remotely funny, however many silly little emoticons you embellish that nasty little story with.

The story from @willwewontwe is absolutely hideous. How horrid that you’ve not only decided to pocket this man’s saving, but have a lie ready incase he realises.

Op, you did the right thing. Please don’t let people on here make you think you’re ‘too honest’. My Grandad used to hide money in the house once he became ill and worried about leaving his family behind.

@willwewontwe shame on you

What a stroke of luck!

This is so unbelievably lucky omg! Imagine stumbling across £4.5K. I would have done exactly the same thing and had my lie prepared too

My FiL died about 5 years ago. A few months after my MiL was staring at the fireplace and thought “That looks odd!”. She removed a panel and found £25,000 stashed in there. The old bastard never told her about it. We wonder where else he hid money. She doesn’t want us going through everything, so we’re respecting her wishes. She’s quite disabled, both upper and lower body, so she’s unable to check where else it might be. I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t have been stashed in one place.

Given the tiny percentage of estates that are subject to IHT, it's unlikely. Surely the solicitor will just make contact with the other family visa their solicitor. If that costs £4k I'd be astonished.

It's shocking how many people would keep money that belongs to a bereaved family.

What confuses me is why people stash multiple thousands of pounds away in wardrobes/under mattresses/in wall cavities etc. Banknotes - British ones anyway - change every 15 to 20 years or so, and the old ones become obsolete. So, if someone found a stash that an elderly person had had there since the 1980s or 1990s, then surely the money would be useless?

Lots of reasons - don’t trust banks or paid in cash and avoiding tax are obvious ones. Old people don’t know about notes becoming obsolete, to be honest I didn’t know paper notes are about to stop being legal tender. It’s incredibly common - I found little stashes of cash all over the place when I cleared my parents’ house.

Notes are never obsolete only coins are. The Bank of England has to accept them forever.

But it's a dangerous game to play. Not only do you risk the 1000s of £££ of banknotes becoming obsolete, but also, what if you're burgled? I've lost count of the amount of times I've read about homes being robbed, and various tech and electrical items have been taken, and £3000, £4,000, £5000 etc in cash stolen.

I just think 'WTF did you have that much cash lying around the house for anyway?'

What a vile person you are @willwewontwe are you proud of what you'e done? The use of stupid emojis suggests you think it's some kind of jolly jape.

I don't believe in karma but you deserve a shitty retribution.

That's rubbish. They have no legal obligation to take old/expired notes that have not been legal tender for many years. Some banks will, some will not. They don't HAVE to.

That is a bit of a corker isn't it?

Yeah, why the F would you take 1000s of £££ worth of jewellery to the zoo?