A Kenyan woman who sells secondhand clothes, popularly known as thrift wear or okrika, has flaunted what she found in her wares.
In a video making the rounds online, The woman, Christabell Wambiu, who deals in leather clothes unpacked her bale of clothes and found something that made her happy.
Via her TikTok handle, the woman showed the foreign currency she found in her bale of clothes.
She showed herself unboxing her bale of clothes at the beginning of the video. Christabell showed off the 500 euros note (approximately 785K) she found inside one of her bales.
She checked its equivalent in her local currency and displayed the amount in the video.
Christabell captioned the video: “pov you gave thrifting a chance.”
Watch the video below:
@wambuichristabell pov you gave thrifting a chance… #fyp #goviral #vira #viral_video #trendingvideo #foryoupage
Many who came across the post shared their thoughts on the woman’s discovery as the video went viral. Some reactions are shown below:
Mitchell Amanda said, “I remember back in 2018 kuna mathe gikomba got usd equivalent to around ksh 1.8m kwa boot. let me tell you maina she gave us the rest of the shoes for free as she was running to the bank.”
Janet said, “You are lucky.”
kalispera said, “500 euro bill stopped producing years ago, ppl on my age and more (30 yo) we have seen plenty. If you have one you still can use it, but soon as you give it ti any company will go for destroy at bank.”
@charleeno said, “Ok but isnt a 500€ purple? Thats not real?”
@Maxl said, “What are all the people talking about? Of course 500€ in paper exist. This isn’t the newest version of it but it still is real.”
@taltosh drink and more said, “I’m from Italy and this 500 € note exist… is the old one.”