9. Long-Term Smart®

After a lifetime of diligently saving, a woman in Tel Aviv, Israel, had accumulated a nest egg of over a $1 million. The grandmother of four didn’t believe in investments or banks; in fact, her bank was her mattress, and she had slept on the same mattress for decades. In a surprise gesture, however, the lady’s daughter bought her mother a new mattress and threw the old, tattered mattress into the trash. By the time the daughter ...

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