Howard Kirby, a man from Michigan, went to Habitat for Humanity ReStore to buy a couch. A month after returning home to try it out, he found that the beanbag on the sofa was a bit uncomfortable.
Kirby’s stepdaughter then decided to unzip the sofa footstool to find the problem and saw that it was stuffed full of cash.
After his initial urge to keep the money and see a lawyer who said Kirby had no legal obligation to return the money, Howard Kirby decided to contact the resale store according to the Daily Mail.
After insisting that the store find the original owners of the loaded bus, Kirby arranges to meet the family’s wife, Kim Faith-Newberry.
Faith-Newberry revealed that the sofa belonged to her grandfather and that he hid the money in the sofa before he died.
After changing his initial idea of keeping the money, Kirby told NBC, “The Holy Spirit just came and said to me, ‘No, it’s not really yours.'”
While others may have kept the money, Kirby felt compelled by his faith to return it.
He told local news station MLive, then continued: “As a born-again Christian, I want to do what Christ wants me to do. And I think that’s what he wants me to do. I do.”
The resale store was used to get customer returns, but an item of this high value was never used. In Howard’s case, he bought a couch, and that was the only bonus he wanted to keep.
