 Uncle Ollie made a good salary, but they lived frugally because he insisted on putting 20% of his paycheck under the mattress. The money, he said, was going to come in handy in their old age. When Uncle Ollie was 60, he was stricken with cancer. Toward the end, he made Aunt Emma promise in the presence of his brothers that she would put the money he had stashed away in his coffin so he could buy his way into heaven if he had to.