Bank of Grandma · Est. under the mattress
She kept her savings where no bank could reach them. $MATTRESS trades against gold, and holders are paid in gold.
Under penalty of grandma
Grandma's market report
In 2000 she put $1,000 under the mattress. Kept as cash, it is still $1,000. Kept as gold, it is worth about fifteen times that today.
One block = $1,000. Gold: $279/oz (2000 average, LBMA) → $4,194/oz (Oct 11, 2026). Cash not adjusted for inflation.
Mattress Chronicles · from grandma's scrapbook
Real stories of money kept in mattresses and couches, clipped from the news. Every one links to its source.
A cleaner took an old mattress from a grandma's garage to the municipal dump. Inside: about €50,000 in cash and jewellery. Police searched the dump and found it within about an hour.
Returned to grandma.
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A grandmother in her eighties saved the 1 million won her son sent each month and kept it in her mattress. During a renovation her children threw the mattress out. A man taking out a table spotted it by the bins and looked under the cover.
18 million won returned by police.
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A woman surprised her elderly mother with a new mattress and threw out the old one. The mother's life savings were inside, reported as the equivalent of $1 million.
Searches at three landfills found nothing.
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Howard Kirby bought a used couch at a charity store. His daughter-in-law unzipped a cushion and found $43,170. The couch had belonged to Phillip Fauth, who died in 2019.
Every dollar returned to his granddaughter.
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Three roommates bought a Salvation Army couch, felt something crinkle in the armrests and found $41,000 in envelopes. An elderly woman had hidden her life savings there for years.
Returned. She gave them $1,000.
Read the sourcePenalty: call your grandma today.