The last place you need to locate a missing envelope brimming with cash is in your shredder.
Yet, that is the place Ben and Jackee Belnap of Salt Lake City, Utah, found their $1,060 (£810), which they expected to pay for University of Utah American football season tickets.
Hunting down the missing cash, they were sickened to think that its destroyed - civility of their child, Leo.
Their two-year-old child enables shred to garbage mail, and was attempting to be useful.
"Leo encourages me shred garbage mail and only things with our name on it, or critical records we need to dispose of," Jackee told news station KSL TV.
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She and Ben had been setting aside the cash to compensate his folks for the football tickets.
Jackee revealed to USA Today the cash was "secured a file organizer until the point when the time had come to pay [Ben's] guardians".
The couple at that point set it on a counter to remind themselves to convey it - just for the envelope to vanish.
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After an expansive hunt, Jackee found the remaining parts in the shredder.
Be that as it may, the couple are in good fortune. The US Treasury office's Mutilated Currency Division guarantees "a recovery at full esteem" for decimated money, if they send it to them and their "prepared specialists" can sort it pull out.
Ben called the office and was told: "Sack it up in little Ziploc packs, mail it to DC, and in one to two years, you'll recover your cash."
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The US Treasury says it handles in regards to 30,000 cases and recovers ruined money worth about $30m consistently.
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