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Post by Taildragger on Mar 9, 2021 13:10:33 GMT -5
While I was out walking the dogs, a $5 bill blew down the street in front of me. That's the first, significant folding money I've found while walking the dogs since COVID started.
3 or 4 years ago I found two twenties waded together in the gutter. That's the most loose money I've ever stumbled across.
Found a wallet with more than that in it once, but it also contained ID, so I saw to it that the owner got it back. Maybe that makes me a "sucker", but I guess I hope somebody would do the same for me if the shoe was on the other foot.
Yeah, yeah...I know: "honesty is its own reward" (and usually, the only reward).
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Post by rok-a-bill-e on Mar 9, 2021 13:25:27 GMT -5
I found a fifty on the floor of my store when closing up one night. I left it laying around all month but nobody claimed it, so I did. Also saw a customer drop a bill from his pocket when walking out. I called after him that he dropped his money, and he got mad! First it was "what are you trying to pull here?" and when he saw it was not some scam, he got even madder and said "well if I dropped it, then I don't want it!", along with some choice profanities. It turned out to only be a One, but I kept that one too.
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Post by Ricketi on Mar 9, 2021 13:31:44 GMT -5
I found a fifty on the floor of my store when closing up one night. I left it laying around all month but nobody claimed it, so I did. Also saw a customer drop a bill from his pocket when walking out. I called after him that he dropped his money, and he got mad! First it was "what are you trying to pull here?" and when he saw it was not some scam, he got even madder and said "well if I dropped it, then I don't want it!", along with some choice profanities. It turned out to only be a One, but I kept that one too. Thats not a reaction you would expect. Ungrateful turd.
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Post by Larry Madsen on Mar 9, 2021 13:47:04 GMT -5
Found a couple of $100.00 bills at work
One could not be claimed (by me) based on where it was found. The other was for my trainee and I don’t know if he was able to claim it or not.
Has to spend 30 days in lost and found before any finder can claim it. COVID hit and we were shut down when the 30 days expired on my trainee 😧
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Post by Mfitz804 on Mar 9, 2021 13:47:35 GMT -5
Years ago, I had a friend find $1,000 cash in an envelope on the ground at Great Adventure. No identifying marks, nobody looking for it, etc. the concern was, when you turn in $1,000 in cash in an envelope, is it actually going to get back to the person who lost it?
Torn between being honest and turning it in, or dishonest and keeping it, he did the only sensible thing and stopped at a music store on the way home to buy a Strat Plus.
I have a theory that in your lifetime, you will lose as much money as you find and it all turns out even. that said, I am not sure I would've had the balls to do what my friend did.
In college, my wife and I found $an odd amount, like $574 or something, also in an envelope, on the last day of classes. I am guessing someone sold their books, closed their commissary account, whatever.
We posted a flyer that if anyone could tell us the exact amount of money found, we would turn it over, and notified campus security of same. Never heard anything, so we kept it.
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Mar 9, 2021 14:07:54 GMT -5
I grew up boating on the Mississippi river. I found a $5 floating near a marina one time. I also was walking out of the movie theater one time and looked down to find $20 bill sitting there. I was probably about $13 at the time and that seemed like a massive amount of money.
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Post by Buster on Mar 9, 2021 14:09:17 GMT -5
When I was riding my bike as a kid, I noticed some shiny things in the middle of the street about a block away from my house. Circling around, I saw it was a pile of nickels. And then I saw another pile about 10 feet away, and then another pile, and another...
I spent 20 or 30 minutes picking up change from the pavement. I speculated that someone must have left a bag of rolled up coins on the top of their vehicle before driving off.
In all, I think I remember it being about $18. I had to walk my bike home to keep it from falling out of my bulging pockets.
I don't remember what I did with it but that was a ton of money for a 7-year-old in the mid-1960s.
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Post by tahitijack on Mar 9, 2021 14:10:54 GMT -5
Found a clip of bills totaling $100 during Sundance Festival in Park City a few years back. Just strolling Main Street and stepped on them. Picked them up and slipped into my pocket. i waited a while to see if anyone came looking, after 10 minutes I moved along. I figure over my life its a little pay back for all the overcharges, too much tips, and other losses.
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Mar 9, 2021 14:28:39 GMT -5
A couple years ago I was walking my dog down at the beach. We got near the beach house, which was closed for the season, and I saw a dollar bill stuck in the marsh grass. So I picked it up and stuck it in my coat pocket. Then I saw another one a couple feet away and another on the pavement leading back to the beach house. Finally two more along the foundation of the house. All these went into my coat pocket.
We got back to the truck and once in the warmth and confinement of the interior, a stench emerged. I thought at first that either I or muttface had stepped in dog crap, but a quick survey determined this was not the case. When I got back in the truck and took off my gloves it became clear that they were the source of the vile odor.
My guess is someone felt the need to drop a deuce behind the beach house and then "cleaned up" with American legal tender. I didn't even wait to get home -- I stopped at the nearest dumpster and deposited my gloves, my coat, and the defiled simoleons.
That "free" five bucks cost me about a hundred.
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Post by Taildragger on Mar 9, 2021 14:39:12 GMT -5
They say that money is really dirty stuff. Guess they're right...
BTW: my found five didn't "smell like ass". Just wanted to make that clear.
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Post by jhawkr on Mar 9, 2021 14:44:25 GMT -5
I found a fifty on the floor of my store when closing up one night. I left it laying around all month but nobody claimed it, so I did. Also saw a customer drop a bill from his pocket when walking out. I called after him that he dropped his money, and he got mad! First it was "what are you trying to pull here?" and when he saw it was not some scam, he got even madder and said "well if I dropped it, then I don't want it!", along with some choice profanities. It turned out to only be a One, but I kept that one too. Should have asked if he had any others that he didn’t want! My beagle “Tippy” sniffed out a $20 wadded up in a Pizza receipt. Good dog! I loved that dog!
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Post by Think Floyd on Mar 9, 2021 14:44:51 GMT -5
I used to get a coffee at Dunkin Donuts a few nights per week before work. One night years back, I looked down and saw some bills on the floor in front of the counter. ($20 or $30, I don't remember anymore.) I knew that this cash was dropped by a customer, but I was the only customer there, and no one was leaving when I went into the store. I thought about turning it in to the employees, but knowing them, I knew that they'd just keep it. Besides, I always give them a generous tip, and the fact that they never saw the money meant that they didn't bother too much with making sure that the customer area of the store was always clean. So, I figured that since I returned "lost" money in the past, maybe this was my reward. (Once many years ago when pulling up to a bank's drive-through teller, the person before me left their envelope and money [$120] in the tube. I informed the teller, and sat in the parking lot for a while, and soon this little old lady drove up looking for the money she left behind. We were poor, and my wife wanted me to keep the money, but I won't do that.)
A few years after I found the money at DD, I was there getting coffee and some bills were sticking together and half falling out of my wallet as I was paying. I got in my car, and just to make sure I didn't drop anything I looked in my wallet. Uh-oh... I'm missing a $20. Now, when I walked out, a man and his little girl walked in, and when I looked back at the store after realizing that I dropped a $20, the little girl came out and walked toward my car, asking if I had dropped any money. I told her no, and smiled. She went back inside to her dad, and I figured that to me, 20 bucks was just 20 bucks, but it might be worth a lot more as a "reward" to a little girl who did a good deed.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Mar 9, 2021 14:46:18 GMT -5
When I was a kid in elementary school, we lived about three miles from a huge shopping mall in Florida. There was a large vacant property along the west perimeter of the parking lot, and the wind was always out of the east and pretty stiff in the late summer and fall.
So my friends and I would walk the edge of the scrub in the vacant lot in the evenings and always go home with at least $20 in our pockets. People pulling out their keys would lose paper bills, which would blow under the cars and end up hung up in the scrub about 20 feet from the curb.
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Post by Buster on Mar 9, 2021 15:07:48 GMT -5
When we were kids we would head to the high school early Saturday morning after a Friday night football game to search under the bleachers. These weren't "lucky" finds because we knew from experience what would probably be there -- lots of change, a few bills, a Zippo lighter or two. Also found a cheap Timex lady's watch once. Those bleachers were perfect for things falling from pockets.
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Post by jazzguy on Mar 9, 2021 15:12:08 GMT -5
a few years ago i found out that the owners of my favorite Chinese restaurant were retiring so I went to the liquor store to buy the chefs a couple 6 packs. found three $20's on the sidewalk outside the bar in the rain.
last year found two $100 bills laying next to a building
playing in clubs is usually good for finding some bills, happens all the time, right into the tip jar they go
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Post by gato on Mar 9, 2021 15:42:57 GMT -5
I once lost $1,000 at Great Adventure years ago, in an envelope. It must have fallen out during one of the rides. I was supposed to buy an egg wallop press that my grandmother wanted, on the way home from the park. I told her what had happened and she said not to worry. "Someone will turn it in." Of course, she also said that four leaf clovers were good luck. (there was one in the envelope).
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Post by Mfitz804 on Mar 9, 2021 16:04:53 GMT -5
Also remember one time going to the boardwalk at Point Pleasant, looked around for street parking to no avail, and wound up in one of those rip-off lots right by the boardwalk. I was annoyed that we were probably going to spend two hours there and it would cost $20 rather than about $5 at the municipal meters.
Parked my car, opened the door, and there was a $20 bill sticking out of the sand. Picked it up and reimbursed myself, $20 parking was now free. And close to the boardwalk.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Mar 9, 2021 16:05:05 GMT -5
I once lost $1,000 at Great Adventure years ago, in an envelope. It must have fallen out during one of the rides. I was supposed to buy an egg wallop press that my grandmother wanted, on the way home from the park. I told her what had happened and she said not to worry. "Someone will turn it in." Of course, she also said that four leaf clovers were good luck. (there was one in the envelope). I know a guy you should talk to...
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Post by Taildragger on Mar 9, 2021 16:38:08 GMT -5
If NSR's "benefactor" had really been such a big-time tycoon, he would've wiped with 20s...
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Post by thumbpicker on Mar 9, 2021 16:59:33 GMT -5
My wife is a bloodhound when it comes to finding money laying on the ground. I don't know how many times she has done this. Finds a big wad in front of the ATM at the bank. Wants to turn it in but is afraid of what would happen. Hangs around in front of the bank lobby for 45 minutes and sure enough she spies a little older woman walking around the lobby and checking with the tellers several times. My wife walked over to her after watching a while and asked if she was looking for something. The older lady said yes she had cashed her Social Security check and got a few blocks away on foot before she realized it was gone. She had come back on the slim chance someone had turned it in. She said she was trying to figure out how she was going to get by. My wife said that was terrible and how much did she lose? The old girl knew down to the dollar amount. My wife forked it over quick. The old gal just lit up! You want to turn it in to the bank but you don't know for sure if it doesn't wind up in someones pocket and goes no farther. She has found money laying around several times but it's usually not that much. It feels good to know there are still people who will do the right thing.
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Post by LTB on Mar 10, 2021 4:17:40 GMT -5
When I was about 12 years old I found a $20 bill at a Buddiies Super Market. Mom had me turn it in. No one claimed it after 30 days so they gave it to me. That was a lot of money for a kid in 1964 😄
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Post by Leftee on Mar 10, 2021 6:18:39 GMT -5
I found a penny the other day. After last year, who finds those laying on the ground?
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Post by rickyguitar on Mar 10, 2021 6:48:12 GMT -5
Playing at some club somewhere. Wife and toddler son were on the road with me. Yeah, pretty broke. Looked down when i was at the bar and saw a $20. I casually put my foot on it till everyone had moved on. Spent it at the grocery the next day. In 85 $20 could buy more food than now. It was a good thing.
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Post by gato on Mar 10, 2021 7:36:18 GMT -5
I found a penny the other day. After last year, who finds those laying on the ground? At 73, any coin I find lying on the ground stays there. I don't want to be featured in someone's LOL Tik Tok video, trying to pick it up.
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Post by Leftee on Mar 10, 2021 7:56:35 GMT -5
I found a penny the other day. After last year, who finds those laying on the ground? At 73, any coin I find lying on the ground stays there. I don't want to be featured in someone's LOL Tik Tok video, trying to pick it up. I’m living on the edge.
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Post by Ragtop on Mar 10, 2021 8:26:36 GMT -5
I found a penny the other day. After last year, who finds those laying on the ground? Maybe 40 years ago I was walking to my car in the parking lot when I spotted a dime on the ground. Just kept walking for a few steps; I mean, who stops for a dime? But then I said to myself, "Who are you, Warren Buffet? Don't walk past free money!" So I turned around and picked it up. Still do, to this day. Makes me smile, keeps me humble. Bet I've collected 2-3 bucks over the years!
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Post by Mikeyguitar on Mar 10, 2021 8:58:31 GMT -5
BTW: my found five didn't "smell like ass". Just wanted to make that clear.
Hmmm...where's the filter? Should that read, "smell like donkey"
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Post by WireDog on Mar 10, 2021 9:09:09 GMT -5
One summer I worked for a thoroughbred horse trainer at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, in California. My role was to hot-walk the horses after they trained, muck the stalls, feed them, and accompany them on race-days. I was an art student in college and wanted to work on my horse-drawing chops. I actually lived in a vacant stall, as did a few other grooms.
On of the owners came by to see his horse one day. He was young and wealthy as one would expect. As he was walking back to his car he pulled out his keys and I saw a puff of green "salad" come out of his pocket along with his keys. It quickly blew into the high grass nearby. It was a nearly deserted day at the fairground stables - it was the off-season and no fair was going on.
Being in poverty, I happily grabbed a rake and unobtrusively raked up that glorious mess of green 20 and 50 Dollar Bills that sullied the stable.
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Post by gato on Mar 10, 2021 9:14:46 GMT -5
"If Bill Gates was walking down the street and saw a quarter, he (in theory) would definitely not pick it up. In order to have the relatively same amount of money on the street that it would be worthwhile to him, Gates would have to stumble across $45,000 on the ground. That’s the equivalent of a quarter ($0.25) to you and me."
According to Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Post by Mikeyguitar on Mar 10, 2021 9:19:43 GMT -5
Isn't it odd how "obvious" paper money looks on the ground? You can tell it's not in its natural habitat...it just looks so out of place and obvious.
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