Forget cash in the attic. You may just have เล่นสล็อต a small goldmine sitting on your front drive.
Because among all the strange things going on with the pandemic-hit global economy, what is happening to used car prices is one of the strangest.
For those of you who remember TV's archetypal second-hand car dealer, Arthur Daley, you might want to picture him rubbing his hands in glee. Though there's nothing dodgy going on here, just market economics.
On Wednesday, the ONS inflation rate for used cars hit 4.4% for June alone. Raw stats from industry sources put the rises even higher, in the double digits.
It's not just the UK either. Last month, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pointed to the same phenomenon in the US. There, used car prices rose a record 10.5% in June, on top of three months of consecutive rises, leading to an incredible year-on-year inflation rate of 45%.
I recently visited Nuneaton Cars, a mid-sized dealership, which before the pandemic served customers around the Midlands region.
The boss told me that individual cars sitting on his forecourt were surging in price by thousands of pounds, even while social restrictions applied. He was finding buyers were attempting to gazump each other to get hold of used cars already marked as sold.
Like many dealers, Nuneaton Cars had found it worthwhile during the pandemic to invest in nationwide delivery of their cars, serving customers as far away as Scotland and south-western England. Unable to turn up for test drives, customers bought based on demonstrations over Facetime.
So what is happening? The industry blames the pandemic-linked shortage of new cars.