Carol Sutor, a financially-strapped Philadelphia area woman who discovered $30,000 in cash in some clothes, cited karma for the reason she did the right thing and returned the money to its rightful owner.

"I had to give it back," Carol Sutor, of Bristol, Penn., told the Phillyburbs website. "I believe in karma, whatever I do will come back to me, good or bad."

The money came to Sutor in a very unusual fashion.

"My cousin lives in Medford [N.J.]. She has a daughter. The daughter's mother-in law-died," Sutor said, according to Phillyburbs. "So the mother-in-law had all these really good clothes. My cousin calls and asks if I want the clothes for my mother. So I says, sure, drop 'em off."

Sutor discovered the cash in a canvas bag on a hangar that was part of a clothing collection she received from her cousin.

"So I unwrapped the bag, and there was another bag in another bag in another bag, one of those deals, you know? So I'm thinking maybe what's in here are important papers. So I opened up the last bag, and got a surprise," she said to Phillyburbs.

Inside the bag were bank envelopes which contained numerous $100 bills. Initially, Sutor thought the money might be from a boardgame but eventually she realized the cash was legit.

She said that if she kept the money, "I'd never be able to look [my cousin] in the eye again."

Her cousin, Marlene Lattanzi, eventually took the money and counted out about $30,000.

Sutor said to Phillyburbs that Lattanzi took the money and left.

"She calls her son-in-law, whose mother the money belonged to, you know, and tells him what happened. And you know what? Ten minutes later my cousin comes back and hands me $1,000 of the money," Sutor said. "Her son-in-law said thank-you for returning his mother's money."

Earlier this month, a Delaware college student found $1,800 that was mistakenly deposited by an ATM.

"My eyes just opened really wide, and I was like, 'Oh my god, this is $1,800 right here,' " Devon Gluck told The News Journal. "It's pretty crazy."

But he also took the honest route by returning it.

"After a couple days of just thinking about it, the right thing would be just to return the money," he said. "I mean, it was just eating at me at the time because it isn't mine and I didn't even know what to do with it."

Compounding the act of kindness is the fact that Sutor owns and operates an insurance company which has been hit hard by the economy.

"Things are tight. You struggle in your business, like everybody's struggling. But when you struggle you think, oh, wow, if only I had money, my troubles would be solved. And so all this money shows up, but it's the wrong way for it to come," she told Phillyburbs. "It wasn't mine and I knew it."