What's the back story here?
Shared the story with my wife and speculated that some relative of the furniture's owner owned the furniture before them, stored the money in a "safe" place, didn't tell anybody about it, then died and every thing went to an heir or heirs, who decided they didn't want the couch and footstool, gave them to the second-hand store (and probably took a charitable donation deduction for it too!!!),
Then it occurred to me: Okay, the buyer of the stuff returned the money in the footstool. What did he do with all the money he found in the couch? LOL!!!
So, I sez to my wife: Guess I need to figure out a plan for our money. And she asks: "What money? Have you been hiding money somewhere and not telling me? And I sez: Ooops!