The sofa that a family from Michigan purchased used because it was uncomfortable turned out to be full of cash.

A piece of furniture that had been purchased for a total of $70 was discovered to be concealing more than $43,000!

A man from Michigan named Howard Kirby went to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in order to buy a sofa.

He discovered that the sofa’s ottoman was not very comfortable, a month after he brought it home to give it a test. Then, in an attempt to diagnose the problem,

Kirby’s daughter-in-law decided to unzip the sofa’s footrest and found that it was loaded with cash.

The Daily Mail claims that after first feeling the need to keep the money and speaking with a lawyer who said Kirby was under no legal need to return the money,

Howard Kirby made the decision to contact the resale company. According to the attorney, Kirby was under no legal duty to give the money back.

Kirby requests that the shop look for the original owners of the loaded coach and arranges a meeting with Kim Faith-Newberry,

the wife of the family who owned it originally. Faith-Newberry claimed that her grandfather had owned the couch and that,

prior to his death, he had concealed the money therein. A few years prior, her grandfather had gone away.

After deciding against keeping the money, Kirby claimed to NBC, ‘The Holy Spirit just came over me and said, ‘No, that’s really not yours.’’

Even though some might have preferred to keep the money for themselves, Kirby felt compelled by his religious convictions to return it.

‘As a born-again Christian, I want to do what Christ would want me to do,’ he stated to the local TV station MLive. ‘And I think that’s what he would want me to do.’

Customers frequently returned items to the thrift store, but they had never before gotten something so valuable.

In Howard’s case, he bought a sofa with the money, and that was the only prize he planned to keep for himself.