Feb. 28 (UPI) —<\/span> A Scottish woman who rediscovered a bank account she hadn’t touched in over 60 years was surprised to learn her $3.35 balance had ballooned into $335.<\/p>\n Carol Allison, 74, who grew up in the Philippines, said she was visiting her grandmother in Scotland when she was 6-years-old when the older woman helped her open an account at Trustee Savings Bank, which is now TSB.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Allison said her grandmother kept the bank book from the deposit and it was passed down to her when her grandmother died at the age of 80 in 1969.<\/p>\n Allison, who now lives in the Stockbridge area of Edinburgh, said she recently rediscovered the bank book, and two others, while cleaning her house.<\/p>\n She took the book to the bank and discovered her account was still active. She said the $3.35 she had invested in the bank more than six decades earlier was now $335.<\/p>\n “I was really pleased and thanked my grandmother, under my breath, when they told me I had \u00a3250 [U.S. $335],” Allison told the BBC. “They said it had continued to gain interest all that time.”<\/p>\n Allison said she is now planning to find out if the other two bank books bring any further unexpected windfall.\n<\/p>\n “I’m now going to see how much has accrued in the other two now, it’s very exciting,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carol Allison of Edinburgh, Scotland, said she found the bank book from a forgotten account she opened more than 60 years earlier and discovered her $3.35 balance had increased to $335. File Photo by wavebreakmedia\/Shutterstock Feb. 28 (UPI) — A Scottish woman who rediscovered a bank account she hadn’t touched in over 60 years was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1006707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nCarol Allison of Edinburgh, Scotland, said she found the bank book from a forgotten account she opened more than 60 years earlier and discovered her $3.35 balance had increased to $335. File Photo by wavebreakmedia\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n