An Italian who stashed €20,000 (£17,700) up his chimney noticed his goals go up in smoke after his spouse lit a log hearth.
Fearful about burglars, he used the chimney as a hiding place in summer season for the government-issued bonds.
In winter he would transfer them earlier than the couple used the hearth to warmth the flat in Rome’s Monteverde district.
However this 12 months he forgot earlier than his spouse unwittingly lit a hearth for Christmas. He informed Il Messaggero newspaper: ‘Once I noticed the flames I practically handed out.’
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An Italian man who saved €20,000 (£17,700) up his chimney noticed his goals go up in smoke after his spouse lit a log hearth. [File image]
He added: ‘I believed it could be a protected place the place thieves would by no means consider wanting.
‘My spouse didn’t know I’d hidden them there.’
All just isn’t misplaced, although. The person contacted his brother who works within the put up workplace who informed him that if he had saved the serial variety of the bonds, it is perhaps potential to reissue them.
