05-31-2005, 05:58 PM
OMAHA, Neb. -- Linda Stafford of Omaha said she has been going to garage sales for 30 years, and taking good-natured ribbing from her family all the while.
Perhaps that ribbing will stop, Stafford said, after she found more than $3,000 in bills dating from 1928 to 1953 in the false bottom of a chair she purchased for $2 at a garage sale.
Stafford said she was trying to make room in her garage for more furniture when the high-backed chair surfaced. One of her daughters, Mandy Rath, heard something rattle and they removed the bottom of the chair.
Inside a compartment were two paper packets, one with $10 in coins, the other with $3,060 in bills.
Stafford said she is not sure how she will spend the money -- perhaps at garage sales.
Perhaps that ribbing will stop, Stafford said, after she found more than $3,000 in bills dating from 1928 to 1953 in the false bottom of a chair she purchased for $2 at a garage sale.
Stafford said she was trying to make room in her garage for more furniture when the high-backed chair surfaced. One of her daughters, Mandy Rath, heard something rattle and they removed the bottom of the chair.
Inside a compartment were two paper packets, one with $10 in coins, the other with $3,060 in bills.
Stafford said she is not sure how she will spend the money -- perhaps at garage sales.
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