Elderly man clutters whole flat with newspapers, volunteers carefully pick out cash hidden in the pile
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Instead of a bed, an elderly man slept on stacked sheets of newspaper for over 10 years.Volunteers from Keeping Hope Alive recently stepped in to help clean up and refresh the cluttered rental flat in Clementi when the 76-year-old man was hospitalised, ensuriElderly man clutters whole flat with newspapers, volunteers carefully pick out cash hidden in the pile
Instead of a bed, an elderly man slept on stacked sheets of newspaper for over 10 years.Volunteers from Keeping Hope Alive recently stepped in to help clean up and refresh the cluttered rental flat in Clementi when the 76-year-old man was hospitalised, ensuring that he had a clean, safe space to return to, according to MustShareNews.The volunteer initiative revealed in a Facebook post on Nov 11 that the flat had no furniture — only newspapers which covered every inch of the floor and stacked chest-high.Also, the volunteers realised that he had been stashing cash in the pile, and they managed to pick them out, digging deep into the rubbish.«Uncle had been sleeping on newspapers for over a decade. When they got dirty, he simply laid fresh ones on top. Layer after layer, year after year,» it wrote.Photos shared in the post show piles of newspapers and sundries in the flat. Read more
