One day, a newly married man goes to the attic of his new home to put a few
    things in storage. While there, he notices a large steamer trunk sitting
in
    the corner. He tries to open it and finds it is locked.
    
    Puzzled, he calls his new bride up to the attic and asks her about it. She
    tells him that it is hers and that it only contains some personal things.
    
    He accepts her answer and eventually forgets the matter.
    Three years later, while cleaning out the attic, the man runs across the
    trunk and again asks his wife what's in it. She again tells him that it
    contains only personal things, but this time he is more persistent.
    
    So she sits him down and reminds him that she makes him happy when he's
    feeling down, that she keeps the house meticulously clean, that she cooks
    him fantastic meals seven days a week, and that she gives him all the sex
    he wants, anytime he wants it. Then she tells him if he is happy with all
    of those things, that he should forget about the trunk because she will
not
    talk about it.
    
    "Fair enough," says the husband, and he finishes cleaning out the attic.
    
    On their 25th wedding anniversary, he pulls the trunk down the stairs,
into
    the middle of the living room floor, and calls to his wife. "Honey," he
    says, "We've been married for 25 years and I think it's time we had a
    heart-to-heart talk. What the hell is in that trunk? " The wife protests,
    reminding him once again about the clean house, the good food and the
great
    sex. "I don't care," he tells her. "After 25 years we ought to be able to
    talk about anything. Now open this damn trunk!"
    
    She takes a key from a chain hanging around her neck and opens the trunk.
    Inside are three ears of corn and 25 thousand dollars in cash.
    
    "Hell!" shouts the surprised husband. "What's going on here?
    Where did all of this come from?"
    
    "Well, sweetie," replies the wife, "you said we could talk, so I'll tell
    you what you want to know. Over the years, I tried to stay faithful to
you,
    but I wasn't always successful. Every time that I cheated on you, I put an
    ear of corn into the trunk."
    
    The husband could not believe the shocking confession. He mulled it over
in
    his mind for a few moments and finally said, "All right, I admit I'm not
    too thrilled about this, but I did say we should be honest with each
other,
    so I guess I can live with three ears of corn in 25 years.
   
    But where did all the money come from?"
    
   "Well," she replies, "Whenever the trunk got full, I sold the corn."