Under the bed

Forget diamonds. A voucher is forever. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

How organized is your house? Do you have a box somewhere filled with papers? Maybe more than one? 

A little over 20 years ago, a man named John Walker booked a flight from Nashville to Sacramento. At the last minute he couldn’t make the trip, so he called United Airlines.

It was too late for a refund, but the airline told him he could still get credit toward a future flight. Since we were still doing things on paper back then, United sent him a physical ticket voucher, in the amount of $378.

Mr. Walker put the voucher in a box. He forgot about it.

A few years went by. The Walkers moved from Tennessee to North Carolina. Mr. Walker slid the box under the bed in the master bedroom in the new house.

There it stayed, forgotten, for another decade and a half.

“I just never really thought about it,” Mr. Walker told WFMY television. But then one day, he was looking for something else, and he opened the box.

He found the voucher, and read the two-decade-old letter that had come with it:

“Domestic …