Sauna, ice bath, tennis, sex shop, beers, Japanese food… and fifteen thousand dollars in cash.

The randomness of my day is what makes life worth living.

Experiences are what make life. If I had a choice to have pimples or not as a teenager, I would take it. If I had a choice of doing prison for a month, without any charges, I’d give it a go. Happy or sad, easy or tough, I’ll always say yes to something I haven’t done or experienced.

Yesterday was a collection of random experiences all rolled into one.

How often do you find $15k in the basement of your house with outdated bills from twenty five years ago?

That’s exactly what happened to me. It’s kind of a mystery who’s cash it is. But it’s also not. I’m pretty sure it’s from the previous owner, who was a Y2K doomsday prepper. Now it’s mine.

The thing is, you’ve got to break up the cash so it’s below the $10k threshold of getting too many questions from the bank. So that’s what I did. I took $8,195 into the bank and tried to exchange it to current day bills.

The first bank was very cagey, “where did you get this!?” asked the teller.

I was nervously confident, knowing I hadn’t done anything illegal but also a bit on edge about what they’ll think. Did he really just find this cash under the house? Or is he a drug dealer?

“I found it in the basement of one of my dads houses and he’s asked me to come in and exchange it” I replied.

More questions.

They sent me on my way and I headed to my personal bank which took the cash, counted it three times and promptly deposited into my account. Success.

I love experiences like this. And all the nuances that come with it. Mostly the curiosity of the mind going in all directions.

Embrace life, say yes, and make the most of any experience.