Comments on: One Million Dollars Down The Drain

By: Regal Sleep

Regal Sleep — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:57:06 +0000

I would love to get that old mattress as a gift and find all that money in it! That would me amazing…

By: Johnny

Johnny — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:58:18 +0000

That is a really crazy story, I have heard of lots of older people hiding money in their walls and all sorts of creative places. It’s too bad they choose to keep their money in places like this, because you always take the risk of something strange happening like a daughter selling your mattress, or a house fire. There was a guy in my local town who was rumored to have all of his savings in his house, and a couple of punk kids caught wind of it, and went to his house and pistol whipped him until he gave up the location. Luckily they were morons and were caught less than a day later, and the man got his money back, but he had to have facial reconstructive surgery.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:35:16 +0000

I really feel sorry for that woman, no matter whether this very story is truth or fake, anyway, it’s not the problem of just single citizen, it is a problem of many people. Life of the retired in Israel is not that sweet. Certainly, Israel is rather developed country, developed in many aspects, including medicine, so on the medical level the old citizen are well maintained, but on the social one they are really not. They don’t get the pension from the national budget, they just get little sums of money accumulated during the years of their work, which they paid over to the Institute of National Insurance. Moreover the situation has worsened by the tough reforms held by the Finance Ministry, which increased the retirement age and decreased the pension size.

What I really don’t understand is how she could hide it from everybody, especially from her daughter…She slept during years on one and the same mattress without even causing even any suspicions?

By: Silicon Valley Blogger

Silicon Valley Blogger — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:51:59 +0000

Some of it was local currency, I wonder how much of that would make a difference in poundage. Yes, sounds fishy. Maybe the story tellers wanted the attention through this type of sensationalism. For the life of me, I can’t believe it would be make the “news” at all. And here I am propagating it, of course. Perhaps we should just segue into a discussion about the forlorn state of our “news” channels, shall we?

By: nick

nick — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:36:25 +0000

One million U.S Dollars weighed in at 1100 pounds. Goes to show that the story is full of shit. I think they would have figured it out when they needed a forklift for a mattress.

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:38:29 +0000

It’s really hard to believe. But if that is true??? My heart would surely break.

By: kosmo @ The Casual Observer

kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:22:19 +0000

I’m with Frank – it’s definitely possible, from a technical sense. As I heft the ream of paper on my desk … yeah, you could easily sneak the weight of three reams into a queen sized mattress. Queen mattresses are kind of heavy.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:14:45 +0000

I’m with Frank on this one. I think the real illusion to be uncovered here is just how much space a million dollars takes up. If you look closely at the image, you’ll notice that you can see the top of a black shelf just behind the first stack of bills. Also take into account that they are stacked in a way that maximizes the volume of the pile. I think Hollywood’s been tricking me.

Perhaps the money was why the mattress seemed so “ratty”. The daughter thought the stuffing was falling apart or something.

By: mattress

mattress — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:53:11 +0000

So sad, if true.

That’s a big IF however, as you’ve pointed out some serious holes in the story.

I’ll stick with putting my money in the bank……..

By: Harris

Harris — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:00:06 +0000

Though it sounds too much, exaggerated as some have said, i just simply pull out the red line of the story that one should not put all things in one basket. or simply saying ‘don’t put all eggs into one basket.’

in business, investment is a matter of prudent. all business people will say ‘business diversification’ which simply means not to have only one income streams, but a long list of ways to invest money.