He found thousands of dollars in a piece of furniture, returned them and received a surprise reward

A man who was hired to remove furniture from a home located in the city of Brisbane, Australiawas found in the same Thousands of dollarsbut far from keeping it, he returned them to their owner and received a surprising reward.

Jesse Stewart, the citizen Australianfound AUD$7000, a total of US$4731, before throwing the furniture in the trash.

How the Australian man found the money

Stewart was hired by a woman who was looking for abandon her furniture, so his task was to help her get rid of an old TV table that had several drawers. To do so, the man went to the woman’s home, looked for the furniture and took it to a garbage dump.

Before throwing it away, he thought of checking it and that’s when he found a plastic container with medicines in one of the drawers. According to the protagonist, at first he did not give importance to the discovery, although when he picked it up he noticed that it weighed too much so he decided inspect it.

At that moment, Jesse found the rolled bills and revealed that he was very surprised: “I couldn’t believe it, I had never come across something like this. To be honest, “The first thing I thought about was keeping it.”he told the Australian media 7News.

However, despite his first intentions, he decided to return him to his owner, with whom he had a good relationship since, as Stweart revealed, she had hired him for different jobs over the course of a year. “I felt too guilty, I was not able to appropriate the dollars,” he said.

Upon returning to return the money, Jesse says that the woman didn’t even remember that she had the money stored there, which is why she showed herself “super happy“with the attitude of man.

The reward

Finally, due to his good deed, the lady decided to reward Stewart with a total of US$200which he described as a “generous tip” in a post on his company’s Facebook account, Get It Gone Rubbish Removal, where he also recounted the situation.

In addition, he revealed that he usually works reselling belongings that people abandon and that he has tried to “revalue some things”, however, he had never found money, which seemed like a “craziness“.