A woman has shared the life-changing find she came across when working in a charity shop – and she has kept the truth about that day a secret for four years
Everyone loves a bargain – but one charity shop worker couldn’t believe her eyes when she came across a life-changing item in the store room. She explained how she was in charge of sorting through donated socks, underwear, bras, shoes, purses and bedding and went about her duties like any ordinary day.
She said on Reddit: “We would collect brand new stuff and hold them back for a ‘sale’ we would have four times a year with all the brand new stuff. We happened to get six or eight brand new bras and one of my co-worker’s boxed them up for our sale. At least four months went by between the time we boxed up these bras and the next time I saw them again, so they weren’t new, and if someone had noticed something was missing and came in asking for them back, we would try our best to find their items as long as we could.”
However, throughout their time in the storeroom, nobody came in to ask about the box of bras so they just sat on a shelf waiting to be marked up for sale.
She said: “A week before everything goes out onto the floor for the sale, we check everything over, make sure it’s priced, and price them if needed.
“These bras in their boxes were something that needed priced and I pulled one out of the box. Behind it was a thick bank envelope with nothing written on it. I opened a desk drawer and put the envelope inside there.
“I grabbed it when I went on my lunch break, and it was full of cash. After counting it, I realised it was $8,000 (£6,000) and put it in my bag without saying a word to anyone.”
She didn’t tell anybody about the envelope of cash until she changed jobs – and even at this point, she undersold them on how much was inside it.
“I undersold how much it was by a lot, telling them it was a few hundred,” she added.
“I never heard anything about it and no one ever asked anything about the box, so I don’t think the person that donated even knew they did.
“Part of that money was used to help me get a car so I didn’t have to walk to work anymore.”
Commenting on her post, one user said: “If you handed it in your boss would have kept it so better you than them!”
Another user added: “This happened to me when I worked at a dry cleaner’s. Found a couple hundred in a regular customer’s pants pocket and handed it to the owner’s wife.
“She kept it. The owners were loaded, that customer was loaded, and I was making $3.35 per hour.”
A third user said: “Honestly, if it sat there for months and no one came looking for it… that feels less like stealing and more like the universe throwing you a lifeline.
“Not saying it’s right, but I get it. You used it to get a car and keep going that’s better than that cash ever would’ve done sitting in a bra box.”
One more user added: “That sounds kind of nice. Probably some older woman died and her kids had to clean out her house, but it was tedious and they were over it, so they stopped being meticulous.”
