MURFREESBORO, TN — Gary Fenwick, 48, confirmed Tuesday that he has been paying $89 per month to store a NordicTrack treadmill he sold to a coworker for $200 in the spring of 2019, having never connected the recurring charge on his debit card to an object he no longer possesses.

Fenwick stumbled upon the billing discrepancy while auditing his accounts following a New Year’s resolution he made in January and acted on in March. A review of bank statements revealed $7,476 in cumulative payments to Southern Star Self-Storage, a facility he visited once to drop off the treadmill and never returned to.

“The unit is still full,” said Fenwick, who drove to the facility after the discovery. “There’s the mat that used to go under the treadmill, a broken shop-vac, and what I believe is a futon from my first apartment. I don’t know when I put those in there. I don’t remember having a futon.”

“He’s been faithfully funding climate control for a futon he forgot he owned. I’ve seen worse financial plans, but not many.”

Dana Okafor, 41, a certified financial planner in the Nashville area, reviewed Fenwick’s situation and noted that the storage unit had been receiving more consistent monthly investment than his Roth IRA over the same period.

Fenwick says he has not yet contacted the coworker about the treadmill, describing the conversation as “complicated.” Southern Star Self-Storage confirmed the unit is paid through April.

At press time, Fenwick had renewed the unit for another month while he “figured out the futon situation.”