Death | Eternity | Greed | Heaven | Money | Possessions | Self

TAKE IT WITH YOU THE RIGHT WAY
A greedy man was diagnosed with a terminal illness. He was determined to prove wrong the saying, “You can’t take it with you.” After considerable thought, the man figured out how to take at least some of his money with him when he died. He told his wife to go to the bank and withdraw enough money to fill two pillow cases. She was then to take the two bags of money to the attic and leave them directly above his bed. Right after he died, he would reach up and grab the bags on his way to heaven. Several weeks after the man died, while his wife was cleaning the attic, she noticed that the pillowcases of money were still where she had left them. “Oh, that foolish man,” she exclaimed. “I knew I should have put that money in the basement.”