Miser's Final Wish

There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his money. He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than just about anything, and just before he died, he said to his wife, "Now listen, when I die, I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the afterlife."

So he got his wife to promise him, cross her heart, that when he died, she would put all the money in the casket with him.

Well, one day he died. As he lay stretched out in the casket, his wife,all in black, sat in a pew next to her closest friend. When they finished the service and just before the undertakers closed the lid of the casket, the wife said, "Wait just a minute!" She rose with a shoebox in her hand, came over and placed it in the casket.

Then the undertakers locked the casket down and rolled it away.

Her friend said, "I hope you weren't crazy enough to put all that money in the casket."

She said, "Of course I did; I promised. I'm a good christian, I can't lie. I promised him that I was going to put his money in the casket with him."

"You mean to tell me, you put every cent he ever saved in the casket with him?"

"I certainly did, " said the wife. "I gathered it all together, put it into my account and wrote him a check."