A thrift store worker found four envelopes in a coat and their contents left for shell shocked. Guadalupe Resort earned her living by sifting through piles of donated clothes and checking the items quality. In 2017 though, Resort discovered something unusual while going about her daily business, something that stunned her in fact. And when the thrift store employee alerted her manager to the find, she too couldn't quite believe it. Resort comes from Garland, Texas and works at a thrift store in nearby Richardson. This shop is run by the Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas and endeavour that its website describes as a mental health and social services agency and one that's been helping the local community for over 65 years. And the organization uses its thrift store to help subsidize the services it provides. In order to do this however, it relies on contributions from individuals and businesses that it can then sell onto the wider public. Indeed, a motto on the Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas website states, when you give good stuff, we can do great things. Resort's job at the store meanwhile was hardly glamorous. It was however important. That's because she had to look over anything given for blemishes and holes. In essence, it was her duty to ensure that all donations were suitable for resale. So Resort spent her working day in the back room of the store checking through piles of clothes. And although every item that passed through her hands was different, it's easy to imagine that her job was monotonous. That is until one day in 2017, as that's when Resort would make a stunning discovery. She all began when the store worker was looking over a donated item. The garment in question was a smart black pea coat and could quite possibly have earned the organization some vital funds. Naturally then, as normal, Resort got to work on inspecting it to see if it was worthy of being sold. In December 2017, Resort would tell Dallas-based ABC affiliate, WFAA, I closed the coat and I checked a pocket. She then moved on to the other pocket and that's when she would make her flabbergasting finding. I checked the pocket here and this was full of money, Resort revealed. More specifically, she had stumbled across four envelopes, each of which turned out to be packed full of cash. And the Texas native couldn't help but gas when she realized just what she had found. Subsequently, Resort pulled the envelopes out of the coat and went running to her boss to share her discovery. It was just so much that she could hardly hold onto it, the thrift stores assistant manager Christina Russell said to WFAA. I looked at it and thought, that can't be real. Russell added we still couldn't believe it, $17,000. The sum was so vast in fact that she decided to contact her superior, Kathy Barker, who is Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas's COO. I get a call from Christina who's the assistant manager saying something crazy happened and she doesn't know what to do. Barker recalled in her interview with WFAA. The impressive pile of cash itself, meanwhile, was made up of $50 and $100 bills. And at first it may have seemed like a vital boost to Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas coffers. It was something any nonprofit organization could definitely used, Barker admitted, but that wasn't the right thing to do. Instead the envelopes were searched for any clue as to their origin. Finally, some writing was found and Barker was able to link that to someone named in the organization's database of donors. That person moreover turned out to be a 78 year old woman named Sherry. Sherry had donated the coat following her husband's death the previous January. The garment had been his and so it was a fair bet that he had been the one who would place the money inside the pocket. However, Sherry had no inkling that it was there, nor indeed did she know why he may have been stashing cash. When staff from Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas contacted Sherry however, she may have fell a wave of relief pass over her, since the loss of her other half the widow had been struggling for cash and the bills were wrecking up too. So needless to say, the impressive lump sum likely came as a welcome surprise to Sherry. I was really concerned about money so I didn't even reconcile my checking account this month, she said to WFA. I didn't even want to know what I'm going to be doing next year and what I'll have to give up. It's not unknown for thrift store workers to find money among clothing donations though. In December 2017 for instance, staff at a St. Margaret's Hospice Run Shop in the UK were surprised to discover 5,000 pounds balled up inside a pre-owned sock. And like those at Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas, workers at the UK store were concerned that someone handed the cash over an error. As a result they contacted the police who in turn began a quest to find the money's owner. But although more than a dozen people claimed that the cash could have been theirs, none of them could correctly describe the sock. So what did authorities do with that non-inconsiderable sum? Well, in December 2017, police constable Paul Thomas told Metro, because we were unable to trace the rightful owner, the money has now gone to the hospice he added, it's a wonderful result. By contrast, Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas returned every penny of the $17,050 to his rightful owner. Now Sherry didn't have to worry so much about finding the money to pay her bills. And although the funds would have come in handy for the organization, that was undoubtedly the correct thing to do. However, resource good deed didn't go unrewarded. In exchange for finding and returning the money, Sherry gifted her a thousand dollars. In fact, it turns out that honesty really was the best policy for everyone in the end. Please share this story with your friends below.