Man buys ‘uncomfortable’ ottoman from thrift store for $70 – makes jaw-dropping discovery inside cushion

At one point or another in time we’ve likely all imagined what it might like to purchase, inherit, or stumble upon something that turned out to be far more valuable than we could have imagined.

Say, for example, an old vase handed down by your great grandmother that actually turned out to be centuries old and worth a fortune, or an old painting you picked up at a market that just so happens to have been painted by a world-famous artist who’s been dead for four-hundred years.

For the most part, such wishful thinking is exactly that: wishful thinking. The chances of you accidentally happening upon something that’s going to pocket you thousands of dollars are, unfortunately, very slim.

And yet odds are there to be upset. Just ask Howard Kirby, an elderly man who likes to go shopping for items at a secondhand store in Owosso, Michigan.

In December 2019, he set out to find some furniture for his man cave, and headed to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore to see what he could find. There he purchased a used couch and matching ottoman for a mere $70.

What he ended up getting was far more than he bargained for…

“I don’t know how to say it, I’m blessed,” Kirby told M Live. “I’m blessed beyond words.”