Sure, I find spare change every now and then on the ground....found a dollar once in an automated-cashier bill dispenser, but I found $20 bucks in a store parking lot once....who else had found, if not maybe more than that??
Posted by Panic (Member # 21074) on :
just 20 here. a couple of fives in bars at the end of the night.
Posted by LeDaemon (Member # 198) on :
Years ago at a gas station I found a wallet with close to $300 cash in it with no ID, or anything else in it. It was one of those cheap fabric velcro fold over ones that probably belonged to some kid and held all his money he had been saving for for a year.
I turned it in to the attendant at the gas station, but my guess is he probably just pocketed the cash. Nothing much else I could've done except kept the cash myself I guess, but I would've felt guilty about it.
Posted by Salvy_Mic (Member # 13384) on :
I don't think I've found any more than a $20 bill.
Posted by FtLckr26 (Member # 13998) on :
I found $10 in my dad's wallet when I was little.
Posted by FootLongSub Zero (Member # 19380) on :
When I was about 17, I found a wallet on the ground at the local shopping mall which had $60 in it. It had I.D and credit cards and stuff so I went to the post office, bought a bubbled envelope and appropriate stamps, pocketed the rest of the dough and posted the wallet back to the owner....
Posted by Elvzz (Member # 14178) on :
Aside from finding money in my own clothes. Here is a URL in CA to find money that I got from my atty. It is secure and run by CA gov't. You can search on an estate, parent, yourself, etc. Money can be in the form of anything from overpaid car insurance premiums, state benefits or overpaid taxes. Sorry to be serious, but hopefully there is plenty out there for all of you. Pension plans are required by ERISA to turn any plan monies to the state if they are unable to reach any participant after a certain number of tries. Peace!
[ February 06, 2008, 12:22 PM: Message edited by: Elvzz ]
Posted by footjoyboy (Member # 26478) on :
Back when I was @ 15 yrs. old, I found a $1.ºº bill three days in a row in different locations. Have also found $20.ºº at least once.
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Posted by shook (Member # 12484) on :
i found a 50 once when i was a kid after playing hockey at an arena.
Posted by Patrick (Member # 1169) on :
My brother and I found $100 in a mall at closing time. It was just rolled/folded up by the door. Our natural instincts told us to turn it in, but even my dad at the time was saying if it doesn't get claimed, you best bet someone at the mall is getting $100.
Later on I found about $80 in a farm store parking lot. Same deal, just folded up with no wallet or anything.
Patrick
Posted by Cain (Member # 8492) on :
I found $47 dollars one time in the supermarket that i worked at one time and had to wait a month before i got it in case the person came back to claim it.
Posted by Hal (Member # 3484) on :
Quite a few times, actually. Apart from the random 10 or 20 Euro bill or some coins here and there, I once found 500 DM (about $300) on a fun fair as a kid...about ten years later on the same fair I found a purse with 200 DM. About five years ago I found a purse with over 300 Euros in a public bathroom.
-Hal-
Posted by bluetoelover (Member # 14736) on :
I remember as a kid once me and my friend found a 20$ bill outside a bingo hall! Me and him "lived like kings" for the rest of that day! Those were the days..having $20 meant you were "rich"! Best place to find money by far is a night club...lots of drunk people dropping bills EVERYWHERE's!! Especially around closing time..and no I dont feel guilty picking it up and pocketing it...because it was more than likely some drunk college kid who is living off of mommy and daddy's wallets.
Posted by MitchC (Member # 20084) on :
One time when I moved from Connecticut to NJ, my parents had a dispute with a bank that we all had some money in. I had thought the bank had taken all the money from a joint account my mom and I had to settle the dispute. Five years later, I got a letter from the bank saying I had $840 in "Unclaimed money" sitting in an account in their bank, and that I had 30 days to claim it. So, I called the bank, submitted ID, and documentation, and, less than a month later, I had an $840 check. It wasn't a wallet on the ground, but, I'd say that to end up with $840 left over from what we thought had been a seized account, wasn't a bad outcome.
Mitch
Posted by A&F_FootDude_05 (Member # 2999) on :
Not a whole lot to brag about but have found a little over a dollar in change on the ground at a few parking meters in the last week that have been forgotten about in the cold snow and are starting to show now that the weather is actually above freezing (but not by much.
Posted by FootLongSub Zero (Member # 19380) on :
$2.70c under the drivers seat today Posted by Foot Lover Of London (Member # 2420) on :
Someone sure is...I Dropped a £10.00 note this evening...Something caught my eye as I left my jacket pocket but thought it was a wrapper...Now im home I know it was the £10 note Posted by sofatater (Member # 4209) on :
When I was about 8 years old I found a large (it felt that way in my small hands) roll of bills in a parking lot of the local general store. My mom was with me and made me turn it in to the store owner. A couple of days later the owner of the store gave me $10.00 and said it was from the guy that dropped the roll. I don't remember how much was in the roll though. After that I stopped telling my mom when I found ANYTHING! Posted by Toetapper (Member # 6473) on :
A couple of unremarkable chance finds but, generally, the only money I ever found was my own and that was just as unremarkable.
Posted by dinosaurjr (Member # 20300) on :
My new neighbor across the street when I was 16, was demolishing the home he just bought. The crew found a box with about $100,000 in it.
Later, the very old wife of the former (now passed on) owner, who herself was almost dead in the hospital, tried to sue the new owner..
Man! Couldn't we all get so lucky.
Posted by A&F_FootDude_05 (Member # 2999) on :
I found a dollar bill at school weeks ago! And I found a quarter on the ground 3 minutes later!!
If there's any laughter from me geting happy about finding a $1.25 I will welcome it....I live in an ecomony that SUCKS right now and it's the United States economy...sorry this particular post is starting to seep political
Posted by imation_pc (Member # 1480) on :
I dont think ive ever found a huge bill. I think 5 is the biggest ive found. One night at a 24/7 convenient store, i saw a dollar on the ground. I walked over to it, stepped on it, looked around, picked it up. I walked a little more, another dollar, so i did the same thing. walked around the aisle, then i found a 5 and a 1 dollar bill together, so i pocketed 8 dollars. Well, i didnt pocket them, i just used that money to buy what I was going to buy in the first place, lol but its all good.
Posted by A&F_FootDude_05 (Member # 2999) on :
I found a $10 bill in a store parking lot earlier this month....just this morning [20 mins ago] I found a $5 bill in a grocery store parking lot...
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