FOUND FORTUNES: ORDINARY PEOPLE FIND TREASURES: "What Would You With Unexpected Riches"
Book Details
Author(s)JACK WEST
PublisherONE WIERD WEEK PUBLISHING
ISBN / ASINB00NEVKUOI
ISBN-13978B00NEVKUO2
Sales Rank1,012,022
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
FOUND FORTUNES - We would all like to be the Count of Monte Cristo and get fabulously rich but without the imprisonment part.
Everyone hopes to find something. I think we are hardwired to be optimistic and what could be more optimistic in a lifetime of struggle with marriage, mortgage, work, children, bills and health than to find an unexpected treasure. Simply, we all desire something for nothing.
We would all like to be the like the farmer in China who recently stumbled over a 17-pound gold nugget lying on top of the ground. Each of us wants to find the treasure because in a primal way each of us believes we deserve such a bounty.
There was the Australian couple walking along a beach and found a 32-pound chunk of wretchedly smelly ambergris. They sold it for $295,000 to be used making quality perfume.
What would you do if you rented a new safety deposit box like the couple in Brooklyn and found $60,000 in stacked cash inside the box?
Even Goodwill stores are repositories for treasures. The 81-year old Massachusetts man purchased a $3.00 framed painting that his daughter took to television’s Antiques Roadshow. Somebody’s castaway turned out to be a 1650 painting and sold for $190,000. Another Goodwill shopper recently purchased a $5.98 watch out of the display case and with a single telephone call sold it to a collector for $35,000.
Where would you expect to find 450 Canadian gold coins, 500 platinum bars and nearly six million dollars in U.S. currency? Of course, in the trunk of a dusty Budget rental car that had been sitting in an airport-parking garage for over a month.
How many commercial fishing crews have cursed the luck to have their nets snag something on the ocean bottom? One crew’s tangled and ripped nets came back aboard with corroded stacked of silver coins leading to the whereabouts of a sunken 1783 Spanish ship and 19-tons of treasure.
If we only could manage to be in the right place at the right time then you and I would have our own - FOUND FORTUNES -, the lucky people who find treasures landing in their laps. And who knows, maybe we have our own barn find, lottery ticket, or backyard gold coin bonanza waiting for us?
Everyone hopes to find something. I think we are hardwired to be optimistic and what could be more optimistic in a lifetime of struggle with marriage, mortgage, work, children, bills and health than to find an unexpected treasure. Simply, we all desire something for nothing.
We would all like to be the like the farmer in China who recently stumbled over a 17-pound gold nugget lying on top of the ground. Each of us wants to find the treasure because in a primal way each of us believes we deserve such a bounty.
There was the Australian couple walking along a beach and found a 32-pound chunk of wretchedly smelly ambergris. They sold it for $295,000 to be used making quality perfume.
What would you do if you rented a new safety deposit box like the couple in Brooklyn and found $60,000 in stacked cash inside the box?
Even Goodwill stores are repositories for treasures. The 81-year old Massachusetts man purchased a $3.00 framed painting that his daughter took to television’s Antiques Roadshow. Somebody’s castaway turned out to be a 1650 painting and sold for $190,000. Another Goodwill shopper recently purchased a $5.98 watch out of the display case and with a single telephone call sold it to a collector for $35,000.
Where would you expect to find 450 Canadian gold coins, 500 platinum bars and nearly six million dollars in U.S. currency? Of course, in the trunk of a dusty Budget rental car that had been sitting in an airport-parking garage for over a month.
How many commercial fishing crews have cursed the luck to have their nets snag something on the ocean bottom? One crew’s tangled and ripped nets came back aboard with corroded stacked of silver coins leading to the whereabouts of a sunken 1783 Spanish ship and 19-tons of treasure.
If we only could manage to be in the right place at the right time then you and I would have our own - FOUND FORTUNES -, the lucky people who find treasures landing in their laps. And who knows, maybe we have our own barn find, lottery ticket, or backyard gold coin bonanza waiting for us?
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