It's worth a lot more than a Cracker Jack prize.
A mysterious do-gooder in Oregon has been hiding $100 bills inside everyday products such as disposable diapers and toilet paper.
"Benny" has become a local legend in the northwest city of Salem, where the anonymous gifts have been turning up for the last three years, prompting citizens to keep the bills as mementos and pay it forward with their own money.
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The cash first started appearing in May 2013, stuck inside various products at local grocery stores and slipped under items at craft fairs, arts festivals and Cub Scout fundraisers.
The bills have found their way into tip jars, under the storage basket of a stroller, through cracked windows of parked cars and onto grocery store shelves.
A local newspaper columnist christened the mysterious philanthropist "Benny" because Benjamin Franklin’s image is on the $100 bill.
Then, when others started taking credit for the donations, the donor started signing “Benny” on the lower right corner of the bills.
“Benny” has hidden more than $50,000 so far, according to Capi Lynn of the Statesman Journal, who keeps a spreadsheet of Benny drops and has been writing about the secret gifts since they first started appearing.
The bills have helped a homeless couple sleep in a warm bed for a few nights, put food on the table of those in need and helped a struggling new widow who was waiting for her husband’s Social Security payments to kick in.
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But they’ve also ignited a cult of compassion in Salem among those who have been “Benny’ed.”
A woman who found a bill donated it to the Union Gospel Mission, according to the paper. Another recipient gave the $100 to a pharmacy to help those who can’t pay for their prescriptions.
More than half of those who reported finding a bill said they had paid it forward by giving it to a charity or someone in need.
“The bills are so cherished by some finders that they are keeping them as mementos,” Lyn wrote in Thursday’s paper. “They’re still paying it forward, but with their own cash or check.
“People are posting them on refrigerators, displaying them on bedside tables, carrying them in their purses and putting them in protective sleeves.
“It’s a reminder, they say, to give and be like Benny.”
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