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Thomas Daigle
Paid final house payment in pennies
Posted By: Walsh
7/06/12 11:00 AM
Apparently all that loose change collecting in the couch cushions pays off: A Massachusetts man who vowed to pay his last mortgage payment in pennies made good on the pledge.
Thirty-five years after purchasing the house, one Thomas Daigle and his wife, Sandra, walked into Milford Federal Savings and Loan Association--after alerting the bank to their plan--with 62,000 pennies in two steel crates weighing approximately 400 pounds apiece.
The twosome had moved into the Milford home, where they still live,...
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