Man Finds $45,000 Squirreled Away in Garage, Returns It All to Previous Owner

This can only be proof that the world still has some really decent people in it.

In one recently reported story, a man found $45,000 hidden away in a home into which he and his family recently moved — and gave it all back.

This happened in Salt Lake City, in a suburb titled Bountiful. The name of the suburb would certainly have appeared to what the man in question ventured into when he found seven boxes full of money hidden in the garage of the house had recently bought. But the man thought that the previous owner might have had a different purpose in mind.

Seems the previous owner was a man who saved all that money over the years. The man and his wife lived in the house for many years, until his wife died, in 2005. The man lived on a few years, dying in 2010. His children now own the house.

The return-the-money man, the new owner of the house, said he could envision what he thought the hide-the-money man, the previous owner would have wanted — to give the money to his children. One of the man's sons recalled that his father did indeed like to squirrel money away but that he had no idea the amount of hidden cash would be that much.

Anyway, all of the money is now in the hands of the children of the previous owner. As the new owner said, "I felt like I got to write a chapter in his life, a chapter he wasn't able to finish and see it through to its conclusion."

So the guy, who had the chance to quietly spend the $45,000 on his own wife and kids, gave it all back to the rightful owners. As it should be.