A California family was stunned when they found something extra inside a box with crackers after grocery shopping – an envelope stuffed with $10,000 in cold hard cash.
The Rogoff family of Irvine found the $10,000 cash in a box of Annie’s Sour Cream and Onion Cheddar Bunny crackers that they purchased in a Whole Foods store in Orange County, California over the weekend.
Instead of going on a shopping spree, the family of Allie, Sandra, Max and their parents Debra and Joe Rogoff counted the bills they found in the envelope and took pictures before they called the police. The family was more curious than ecstatic about the money and wanted to return them to the rightful owner.
“We just thought, this is someone’s money. We would never feel good about spending it,” said Debra Rogoff for the Associated Press.
The police who were initially suspicious that the money was drug related contacted Whole Foods in Tustin and found out that an elderly woman had come in the grocery store a few days earlier, hysterical that she mistakenly returned to the store her life savings stashed in a box of crackers that she purchased at the store. The unidentified elderly woman had withdrawn her life savings from a bank due to the bad economy. Losing trust she stuffed all of her money in a box of crackers.
Returned foods are usually composted at Whole Foods, but the box of crackers apparently somehow made it back on the shelf from where the Rogoff family bought the re-sealed cracker box.
The family said that the owner of the money never called back to thank them, but that they received a new box of crackers from the Whole Foods.
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