When I was in college a group of female friends convinced me and a couple of buddies to carry a couch they found on the side of the street up to their second floor dorm room. The only way to get it done was via a narrow, doublebacked staircase. It took forever. But, being guys, we would not fail.

Finally when we completed out task, one of the girls plopped down, stuck her hand under the armrest...and pulled out a giant fistful of spiders eggs. The reason why this couch was sitting at the end of a driveway became clearer.

We were asked to remove the couch from the premises.

After all that work to get it up the stairs we concluded there was only one way to get it down. We threw it off the balcony. After taking safety precautions, of course.

However, after reading this story of three New York college students who found $40,000 in an old couch they bought for $20 at a Salvation Army thrift store, I wish we would have inspected our sofa more carefully before destroying it:

The trio found the money in envelopes stashed in different parts of the couch. They said they instantly started discussing the things they could do with the money, until they found a deposit slip, according to the WABC report.

The students tracked down the woman whose name was on the envelope -- a 91-year-old who hid the money because she didn't trust banks. The woman's children donated the couch when she was in the hospital with a broken hip.

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The woman ended up giving $1,000 to each of the students as a reward for returning the money. Not too shabby for a $20 investment.

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