New York: The last time you dug into your couch cushions, what did you find? Some lint, a pen, maybe a couple loose coins? Whatever you came up with, it likely paled in comparison to the $40,000 (Rs 23,39,200) three friends found in their couch, a secondhand piece of furniture they’d just picked up at a thrift store.

Reese Werkhoven, a New York college student, and two friends, Cally Guasti and Lara Russo, had just bought the couch for $20, reports SUNY New Paltz’s student newspaper, The Little Rebellion, and were sitting on it for the first time, when Werkhoven brushed against an envelope under the armrest. Inside that envelope: $700 in cash. “I almost peed,” Werkhoven recalled. “The most money I’d ever found in a couch was like 50 cents. Honestly, I’d be ecstatic to find just $5 in a couch.”