Do you ever find money?

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Prov910

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Do you ever find money? Not like a dime or penny, but cash? I realize this sounds unusual, but every so often I find money lying on the ground. It might happen three or four times per year. It happened twice this summer. Generally it's just $5 or $10. I've found a $20 bill a couple of times. I found a paper sack with nearly $400 in it one time. I found a 1910 standing liberty quarter out in a cornfield once. (I grew up on a farm.) I don't go around looking for money. And I don't have particularly good eyesight. It just happens. Weird, huh? :)
 
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Do you ever find money? Not like a dime or penny, but cash? I realize this sounds unusual, but every so often I find money lying on the ground. It might happen three or four times per year. It happened twice this summer. Generally it's just $5 or $10. I've found a $20 bill a couple of times. I found a paper sack with nearly $400 in it one time. I found a 1910 standing liberty quarter out in a cornfield once. (I grew up on a farm.) I don't go around looking for money. And I don't have particularly good eyesight. It just happens. Weird, huh? :)
I'm not too proud to pick up pennies and dimes off the sidewalk, but that's all I've ever found. (I figure a penny free is still a penny for free. lol) And, I average about $.10 a year.

And then one year we were group home parents, and the boys drove me nuts. I find pennies and dimes. They kept finding $1 and $5 bills! Often together. (Like $7-$8.) And they were usually with us when they spied the money, so I could have been looking in the same direction, but never saw it. :eek:

My "best" find? A wheat penny in the 1980s. (Worth three whole cents at the time.) :rolleyes:

Oh, wait! Does a credit card count? I did find a platinum card in the grocery store parking lot a couple of months ago, but I handed it into the customer service counter of the store, in hopes frantic-owner might think he lost it in the store.
 

Prov910

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Ha ha! I pick up pennies, dimes and nickels too! In fact I found a dime just yesterday laying on the floor in the supermarket. Of course I picked it up! :)
 

Blain

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Mainly I find pennies nickles dimes and the rare quarter but a dollar bill or two is the most I have ever found, I don't keep the pennies and nickles I just keep the dimes and the occasional quarter
 

blue_ladybug

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I find green money on the ground rather often. A few months ago, I found $40 on the sidewalk outside my apartment building.. :) A few days ago, I found a quarter in the road. I found half of a 50 dollar bill once, on the railroad tracks, couldn't find the other half which bummed me out.. lol
 

Magenta

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Yes, I do :) And I also dream of finding money :D
 
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I find green money on the ground rather often. A few months ago, I found $40 on the sidewalk outside my apartment building.. :) A few days ago, I found a quarter in the road. I found half of a 50 dollar bill once, on the railroad tracks, couldn't find the other half which bummed me out.. lol
Bummed the owner out more. Usually when it's half of a big bill it has something to do with a bet or promise with a friend. (Promises like, "I'll be back this way in two years, so let's use this to remember each other, and when I come back, we'll use it to have dinner.)
 

Blain

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I find green money on the ground rather often. A few months ago, I found $40 on the sidewalk outside my apartment building.. :) A few days ago, I found a quarter in the road. I found half of a 50 dollar bill once, on the railroad tracks, couldn't find the other half which bummed me out.. lol
Man you are luck, maybe if I get an orange tabby my luck will increase
 
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Mainly I find pennies nickles dimes and the rare quarter but a dollar bill or two is the most I have ever found, I don't keep the pennies and nickles I just keep the dimes and the occasional quarter
We used to have a "Bahama bottle." It was used, originally, as one of those huge water-cooler bottles. Every time I did the laundry and money fell out, I'd put in in there. I'd also put found-coins in there. The dream was to get it full and then we'd go to the Bahamas on a "free" vacation. The reality was usually we needed extra money when the month was longer than the money.

But we still have a change container. About once every three years, it would get full enough to take it to one of those change machines, and it usually averaged out to $100 -- Christmas money. lol

We started using debt card, so a lot less change. And now those change machines are gone. But I think we have a solid $50 sitting in it anyway.

Pick up the change. In 5 or so years, you might surprise yourself how much money it adds up to.
 

blue_ladybug

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The strangest places I have found money, has been in garbage cans, and tucked into a brick stone wall in the park across the road here. Oh and a bunch of change in a trash barrel at the baseball field.. YES, I tipped it upside down to get the change..lol.. It was like, $1.50 worth of change. :eek: I found $2 tucked into the brick wall across the road here one time when I was headed to the laundromat to do my laundry. I was like, "cool beans".. LOL
 

blue_ladybug

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Over the last 4 or 5 years, I've saved up all my birthday, Christmas, yard sale, refund, and found money--I've got about $1,500 right now, sitting in my house.. In every single denomination from ones to one hundreds.. And my birthday is in a couple weeks, so I'll be adding to it.. :)


We used to have a "Bahama bottle." It was used, originally, as one of those huge water-cooler bottles. Every time I did the laundry and money fell out, I'd put in in there. I'd also put found-coins in there. The dream was to get it full and then we'd go to the Bahamas on a "free" vacation. The reality was usually we needed extra money when the month was longer than the money.

But we still have a change container. About once every three years, it would get full enough to take it to one of those change machines, and it usually averaged out to $100 -- Christmas money. lol

We started using debt card, so a lot less change. And now those change machines are gone. But I think we have a solid $50 sitting in it anyway.

Pick up the change. In 5 or so years, you might surprise yourself how much money it adds up to.
 

Blain

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The strangest places I have found money, has been in garbage cans, and tucked into a brick stone wall in the park across the road here. Oh and a bunch of change in a trash barrel at the baseball field.. YES, I tipped it upside down to get the change..lol.. It was like, $1.50 worth of change. :eek: I found $2 tucked into the brick wall across the road here one time when I was headed to the laundromat to do my laundry. I was like, "cool beans".. LOL
( goes to check out every trash can in the neighborhood ima gonna be rich muahahaha)
 

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Sometimes i do, I just give it away though.. the last money i found i stuck it on someones fence so someone else could get it.
 

Blain

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Here is a question for you all and there is nor right or wrong answer so no need to be afraid to be honest. If you were walking and found a bag full of 100 dollar bills stuffed to the brim but it was sitting near an area that you knew drug dealers and drug makers tend to do their stuff what would do with the money especially if your really needing financial help?
 

blue_ladybug

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I would probably find something to pick up the bag with and take it to the cops and tell them where I found it...


Here is a question for you all and there is nor right or wrong answer so no need to be afraid to be honest. If you were walking and found a bag full of 100 dollar bills stuffed to the brim but it was sitting near an area that you knew drug dealers and drug makers tend to do their stuff what would do with the money especially if your really needing financial help?
 

G00WZ

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Here is a question for you all and there is nor right or wrong answer so no need to be afraid to be honest. If you were walking and found a bag full of 100 dollar bills stuffed to the brim but it was sitting near an area that you knew drug dealers and drug makers tend to do their stuff what would do with the money especially if your really needing financial help?
If i know who they are i would give it back to them, because for a dealer to come up short usually means he is going to have issues with whoever supplying him to be out there dealing in the first place... and with those guys they don't mess around with their money, and they sometimes will even kill each other over it.. and to return it back to the dealer means you probably just saved his life.... even though his sales are probably ending/destroying others... but even with that, doing what is righteous is above all of that so yea..

It kindof reminds me of this gang kid i used to sit behind in math class, he dropped about half a lb weed sack on the floor, and i just picked it up, tapped him on the shoulder and said "yo" and handed it back to him, the look on his face was both relief and astonishment.
 

Magenta

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Here is a question for you all and there is nor right or wrong answer so no need to be afraid to be honest. If you were walking and found a bag full of 100 dollar bills stuffed to the brim but it was sitting near an area that you knew drug dealers and drug makers tend to do their stuff what would do with the money especially if your really needing financial help?
I would not touch it :p
 
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Here is a question for you all and there is nor right or wrong answer so no need to be afraid to be honest. If you were walking and found a bag full of 100 dollar bills stuffed to the brim but it was sitting near an area that you knew drug dealers and drug makers tend to do their stuff what would do with the money especially if your really needing financial help?
I'm between using it to pay off my student loans and turning it into the police and hoping nobody claims it so I can use it to pay off my student loans.
 

Prov910

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A few years back I bought a large metal cabinet--like a file cabinet except it has a dozen or so small drawers. When I got it home I found a box of collectible coins tucked away in the back of the bottom drawer. All sorts of antique and silver coins in neat little cardboard and plastic coin cases. The box weighed about two pounds. After thinking about it a couple days, and feeling guilty, I went back to the shop where I bought it and asked the guy if he ever had people calling him for things they had left in furniture that he purchased. (He buys stuff from several sources--mostly from companies that are downsizing). He said no, he hadn't received any such calls.

Well, after a few days I was still feeling guilty. Somebody had lost this, and I hadn't done enough to find the owner. So I went back to the shop and talked to the guy again. This time I told him that I'd found a box of collectible coins, and asked if there was any way of finding out where this cabinet had come from. He told me that he had bought that from a large company with dozens of offices around the country. They had purchased a couple other companies, and shut down several plant sites, and shipped some of the furniture from each plant back to the main headquarters. They constantly shipped office furniture back and forth between their headquarters and a half dozen or more plant sites. He assured me that there was no possibility that they could find out the source of that cabinet. I didn't feel guilty anymore. :)