A woman in Tel Aviv, Israel, gave her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise gift, throwing out the old tattered bed her mother had slept on for decades. The gesture ended up bankrupting Annat’s mother, who had stuffed her savings of nearly $1 million inside her old bed for decades, Annat told Israel Army Radio.
A massive search is under way at the city dump, where security has been beefed up to keep out treasure-seekers who have heard Annat’s story in Israeli media.
Annat, who did not want to reveal the rest of her name, told Israel Army Radio that she woke up early Sunday to get a good deal on a new mattress as a surprise for her mother.
She fell asleep that night, exhausted after lugging up the new mattress and hauling down the old one to be taken out with the trash.
When her mother realized the next day what her daughter had done, she told her that she had been using the mattress to stash away her life savings and had nearly $1 million padding the inside of the worn-out mattress.
Annat ran downstairs, but it was too late. The garbage truck had already taken away the money-stuffed mattress.
And speaking of banks…
) a single US note has dimensions of 2.6″ x 6.1″ x 0.004″. This gives a volume of roughly 0.07″^3 per US note. For a typical king size mattress of dimensions 76″ x 80″ x 12″ (again, according to the infallible internet) giving a volume of ~73,000″^3. Finally, 73,000″^3/0.07″^3 works out to about 1.05 million notes fitting in the mattress. So if she takes the springs completely out, she could actually use $1 bills.
