When my grandmother passed away last year, I was the person who was put in charge of cleaning out her house.
If you knew my grandmother, then you know that she saved almost everything. Her house was absolutely full of things from top to bottom. So you could say that cleaning out the house was a major job. I didn’t really mind doing it, though. It was actually something that made me feel closer to my grandma. One of the things that I did first was clean off the tops of all of the heating vents and the air conditioning vents. My grandma had put books and magazines on top of the heating and air conditioning vents in the house and so everything was really stuffy. The indoor air quality in my grandma’s house was just terrible and I think that having stuff on top of the air vents had a lot to do with it. One I got all of the stuff cleared off the tops of the air vents, I boxed it all up and started on my next project. I wanted to give the HVAC system a chance to run regularly, so I decided to clean the dust and debris out of the air ducts next. When I went upstairs to her bedroom, I took the vent covers off of the ductwork in the corner of her bedroom. When I went to vacuum out the ductwork, I noticed that there was something inside of the vent. It was a box. When I pulled it out and opened it up, I found a dozen gold bars inside! I’m rich now, and I’m not telling anyone else in my family what I found. They should have volunteered to help me clean out the house!