Woman Finds DINK Grandparents’ 1949 Tax Return, One Figure Has Her Stunned

A woman could barely believe what she was reading after stumbling upon her grandparents’ tax return from 1949.

Carlee Wengel from Olympia, Washington, was going through an old storage unit when she came across a batch of documents bearing her grandmother’s name. “There was an entire box of tax returns dating from 1948 until like 1993,” Wengel told Newsweek .

“My first reaction was how little the 1040 [tax] form had really changed since then. My second reaction was that my grandma was a queen since she put her name on the tax return as she was the one filling it out.”

Once Wengel got over the initial amusement and began reading through the figures on one of the forms, from 1949, another feeling took over: shock.

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