Did you hear the one about the roommates who picked up a couch for $20 bucks, get home, and find $40K stuffed in the cushions?

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According to the AP, It was a day like any other in quaint little New Paltz, N.Y. when a local student and his two roommates purchased a used couch for $20 and found $40,000 in cash stuffed inside.

WABC-TV in New York City reports that, These three lucky dudes bought the couch from the Salvation Army in early March. State University of New York at New Paltz student Reese Werkhoven says he found the first envelope of cash, they continued the search and found other envelopes stuffed with money.

One envelope had a woman's name on it. After debating what to do, the roommates contacted the woman and delivered the money to her the next day. The money belonged to a 91-year-old upstate New York widow who had hidden it there.

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