Imagine selling your home and the buyer comes to the closing toting a 30 pound briefcase containing $400,000 in South African gold Krugerrand coins. That’s exactly what happened in Sarasota, Florida.
In the residential purchase contract, the buyer and seller — both Americans — agreed to the gold transaction for a $1 million home.
In a HeraldTribune.com article entitled Guess this buyer saw a golden opportunity, writer Tom Boyles quoted Realtor Kim Ogilvie as saying,
“This was a first,” Ogilvie acknowledged, adding in Realtor fashion: “It really shows you the depth to which buyers will go to use their resources to acquire properties they think are well-priced.”
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Dozens of Salvation Army bell ringers experienced an amplified feelings of generosity from gift givers this year. There were reported accounts of over 30 gold coins donated in Salvation Army kettles.
There’s likely many more. It’s nearly impossible to track special coin donations on the national scale through news accounts.
Anonymous donors in the Chicago area alone have reportedly given at least 15 gold and nearly 60 silver coins. Although each was given by someone with a generous heart, most don’t make the news as there’s no face and resulting story to associate with the person giving.
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Earlier in the month we started to report on news accounts of generous people dropping gold coins into Salvation Army kettles throughout the US. Unfortunately, we had to stop. People were just being too generous and we couldn’t keep up!
This time of the year often brings out the best in people, but it’s my opinion that so many are generous throughout the year. We just hear about it less often.
(Which reminds me… you may be interested in checking out HappyNews.com. It’s not a fluff site. As their tag line indicates, it offers real news, compelling stories and is always positive.)
If you’re a Friday Fun Blog reader, you’ve probably noticed I enjoy short videos. This week is no different. I was browsing YouTube™ and came across a WGAL News 8 report on donations. The gold tooth will catch your attention immediately along with the Krugerrand gold coin.
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Earlier this week a generous and anonymous donor placed a one-half ounce American Gold Eagle coin into a Salvation Army kettle.
More reports of kind-hearted donations dropped into the traditional red kettles have followed.
Today, the Sioux City Journal reported donations of a quarter-ounce gold South African Krugerrand turning up outside a Kmart on Monday and then a one-ounce Krugerrand on Wednesday.
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