Man Who Was Living On $200 A Month ion
When Loren Krytzer walked into the California auction room, he was an unemployed man who was living on disability checks.
When he walked out minutes later, he was a millionaire.
“Everybody loves a rags to riches story,” he said with a laugh.
Loren’s life changed forever when he found out that a forgotten old family heirloom, a Navajo blanket from the 1800s which had been sitting in his closet for seven years, was actually worth $1.5 million.
This realization could not have come at a better time, as he was barely surviving living in a shack on the edge of California’s Leona Valley, and had lost a leg after a near-fatal car accident.
Loren said that the sale of the blanket “gave me a new lease on life. It truly did.”
Loren had inherited the blanket after his grandmother’s death because nobody else in his family knew how valuable it was either.
Loren had a thriving career as a freelance carpenter until the car accident cost him his leg. Afterwards, he was left with just enough money in disability to move into a friend’s shack
in Leona Valley.
