How great does it feel when the universe hands you unexpected money? Like when you take your winter coat out of storage and find a few twenties folded together in the inner chest pocket. Or when you’re crossing the street and there’s a ten dollar bill on the ground in front of you. Maybe it’s an extra awesome tax return, a few bucks from a family member or a raise at work. These monetary surprises sure do add a little joy to your day especially when it helps pay off debt or finance a much-needed family vacation.
Now imagine finding tens of thousands of dollars, stashed and hidden away for years in a house, discovered by complete accident–or was it destiny? How would you react and what would you do?
Andy Rasmussen and his wife Carissa from Bloomington, Minnesota, have been remodeling houses for 13 years. Their company, Accessible Homes, renovates and helps to create more comfortable living quarters for people living with disabilities and require better accessibility. They’ve been doing this for a while and are passionate and very honest about their work.
On this particular day, as Andy and his crew were in the middle of renovating another home, the team came across something most peculiar under the floorboards. Laid out before him was a bag of cash. “It’s $20s and $50s, I’d say $30,000. Maybe more.” It was moldy, stinky, wet and ripped open and nibbled on by mice, but it still was what it was–lots of abandoned cash left behind. “When we opened up the floor there’s a heat duct that was run under the floor,” Rasmussen said. “And so someone previously must have gone into the utility room and thrown the money up on top of that duct. Pretty crazy.”
The house is owned by Bethesda, a nonprofit that provides housing and services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The bag of money will be going straight back into the nonprofit. “It speaks to the integrity of our guys and our company,” Rasmussen said. “That we have honest, hard-working people working for us and that it is not going to waste. It’s going to the nonprofit that can help people with disabilities.” Rather than the cash just sitting there collecting dust, the money will be going to good use.
How’s that for some good karma for Andy and Carissa?
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