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Found Money
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What happens in Key West stays..
LetsTalkWDW
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- Jul 15, 2014
I've been wandering around North America the last few months and I just noticed I have lost a lot of money in my travels. By my estimate, you guys owe me $10638 (and some pennies). Oh and I want my coffee can back too, please.
littleblackegg
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- Sep 6, 2014
I have a policy of donating all found money to our local food bank/shelter. That way I don't lie awake at night guilty I found some family's grocery money and spent it on myself. This caused quite a conflict in our family when my nephew found a wallet with $300 in it in a parking lot. His mom thought it was OK to keep the money and toss the wallet ID and all. I thought the wallet and the money and credit cards should be turned in to the police. Eventually they realized I was going to turn the empty wallet over to the police and the police would want to know about the money, so they let me turn it in. Honestly, people get so dishonest over a little money!
I was once snorkeling in the Gulf of Mexico and found a $20 bill underwater sitting on the sand. Absolutely no way I could have tracked down the owner of THAT so I really didn't feel too bad! What goes around comes around. I'm sure I've probably lost money at some point that went into the pocket of another.
You should have left it with a nearby mermaid in case someone came to claim it. Bad juju for you.
I can understand the grey area of loose cash. But this is unquestionably not okay!
Praying Colonel
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Same basic thing happened to me at a Kroger a few years ago. In a back corner of the store I found a plain envelope with about $90 in it. I took it to customer service and they took my name & number--they said they'd hold it in their safe for 2 weeks and if no one claimed it I'd get it. I expected it to get "claimed" but 2 weeks later I stopped by & it was still there, so they gave it to me.
littleblackegg
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I know, right? I thought I was going to have to kung fu everybody that afternoon, including my poor husband, who was advocating for bailing on the whole scene and leaving them to their crimes. My nephew needed to see at least one grown up in his life not act like a felon, even if I had to get all loud and threatening to do it. I really knew how Batman must feel that day.You should have left it with a nearby mermaid in case someone came to claim it. Bad juju for you.
I can understand the grey area of loose cash. But this is unquestionably not okay!
MickeySP
Cruisin with sunnies & cold longnecks
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- Jan 11, 2005
A lot different than a random bill in a parking lot. Wallets, yep I actually try to track down the owner, since it's part of my job. Random money, I try to observe if anyone is looking for it, if so give it back. If not coffee is on me!! Oh it does depend on the amount, big amounts hold for a time period.
Claire&TheBoys
The Queen of the Castle!
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My sons and I were helping to do a sweep of the balcony seats in our local civic center after our church's annual Passion Play earlier this year, and one son found a Walmart giftcard. We asked the stage manager (employed by the civic center) to give it to lost and found. He said no, that we should call the box office during business hours and tell them that we'd found a giftcard, but not for where or how much (we looked it up online to see if it had any money left on it). He thought the box office staff would take it, I guess. So that's what I did. I left my name and number in case anyone called looking for a giftcard. After about 3 or 4 months, I let my son have it, since he'd found it.
I don't think I've ever found substantial money just lying on the ground. Maybe a buck, but never $20 or $50.
My sister and nephew were visiting apartment complexes near his college and saw a car stop and a girl jump out and grab something off the road. My sister thought it looked like cash. When she pulled out of the parking lot, she saw more and made my nephew get out and he picked up $40. There was definitely no way to trace that!
I don't think I've ever found substantial money just lying on the ground. Maybe a buck, but never $20 or $50.
My sister and nephew were visiting apartment complexes near his college and saw a car stop and a girl jump out and grab something off the road. My sister thought it looked like cash. When she pulled out of the parking lot, she saw more and made my nephew get out and he picked up $40. There was definitely no way to trace that!
MamaLema
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I have never found money but when my son was 7, we went to WDW and I did not know that my son had put his entire savings 300+ in a wallet and brought it with him in his pocket. He went on Haunted Mansion and left it on the seat. It was a very unique wallet that we got while travelling in South America. We asked but no one turned it in.
I know that the person who found it had no idea it was the life savings of a little clueless boy but I hope karma got them!
I know that the person who found it had no idea it was the life savings of a little clueless boy but I hope karma got them!
smokeyblue
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I found a small diamond (likely a side stone) in my office behind my desk. It seems quite strange because I'm the only one in the area other than housekeeping and the only reason they are there is to vacuum because I throw out my own trash. Presumably they would have sucked up a diamond if they lost one. I asked around to see if anyone lost it, no one did. I've kept it for about 4 years now. If I ever have a friend or relative that loses a stone about that size, it's theirs!
My husband found a wallet along a trail when he was hunting. It belonged to an older man 2 states away.
It was soaking wet when he brought it home and we emptied the papers, pictures and $800+ in cash onto the table to dry out. It was before we had internet so we called directory assistance to try to get a phone number for him. When we called the number, an elderly woman answered and I did NOT want to scare her. I told her who I was, that there was nothing wrong but did Joe Schmo live there? She replied yes, and we told her we had his wallet and where it was found and what was in it. Even his DD214 copy was in there, along with his veterans medical ID.
Turns out he was at a hunting camp nearby with his sons and she had just spoken to him, and he never mentioned the wallet. We left our number for him to call us and we would meet him to return the wallet.
He was very appreciative and said he did not expect the money to be there, then tried to give us a $100 reward which we declined. Since we met him at a pizza place, we just asked him to buy us a pie and we would be even.
We received a yearly Christmas Card from them until they both passed away.
It was soaking wet when he brought it home and we emptied the papers, pictures and $800+ in cash onto the table to dry out. It was before we had internet so we called directory assistance to try to get a phone number for him. When we called the number, an elderly woman answered and I did NOT want to scare her. I told her who I was, that there was nothing wrong but did Joe Schmo live there? She replied yes, and we told her we had his wallet and where it was found and what was in it. Even his DD214 copy was in there, along with his veterans medical ID.
Turns out he was at a hunting camp nearby with his sons and she had just spoken to him, and he never mentioned the wallet. We left our number for him to call us and we would meet him to return the wallet.
He was very appreciative and said he did not expect the money to be there, then tried to give us a $100 reward which we declined. Since we met him at a pizza place, we just asked him to buy us a pie and we would be even.
We received a yearly Christmas Card from them until they both passed away.
Erin1700
<font color=purple>At least I am bragging about us
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- Nov 12, 2006
My mom just lost $80 in the supermarket. She has no idea how she dropped it!
When she realized it was missing, she searched her house, purse, etc. She called the store as a last option.
Someone had turned it in!!
The store had their name and number so my mom asked if they could call the lady to thank her and tell her my mom left a small reward for her.
When she realized it was missing, she searched her house, purse, etc. She called the store as a last option.
Someone had turned it in!!
The store had their name and number so my mom asked if they could call the lady to thank her and tell her my mom left a small reward for her.
MataHari22
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- Aug 8, 2013
I was a General Manager of a restaurant and also a store manager somewhere else, I've lost count how many times I've found wallets, purses, and money over the years. If there was ID inside, I would always call the person and return it. I would always hold any money, wallets, etc with no ID for one month in my safe. A lot the money that was found, I just donated to charity (like anything $10 or under). Twice we found $100 and no one ever claimed it, so I donated half, and bought pizza for my the entire stores' employees with the other half. For less than that, I would donate half, and buy them donuts on the shift I was working or something like that.
You cannot believe the amount of customers that accidentally throw money, wallets or car keys in the trash. Or leave them on the tray with the food.
You cannot believe the amount of customers that accidentally throw money, wallets or car keys in the trash. Or leave them on the tray with the food.
BLAZEY
DIS Veteran
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- May 29, 2006
I found $150 In the parking lot of my university when I was a student. I turned it in to campus security. They took my name & number and dated the envelope. After 30 days if nobody claimed it it was mine. I got a call about a month later to come get the envelope with the money in it. I turned it in and gave the person that lost it a good chance to get it back so I collected it 30 days later guilt free.
dfchelbay
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- Sep 7, 2008
I'd probably find an establishment that hires & trains their employees better than Olive Garden does when kicking uniformed, on duty police officer out because he was armed. If that's the lack of intelligence in the front of the house, makes me wonder what's going on in the kitchen & those handling the food...lol
I'm keeping loose money, However you are dead on right about the wallet, I don't care if there is 2K in cash in the wallet, I'm returning it.....
I have found wallets with ID and called the owner. One time I found a check book.
DH is the one who finds a lot things like that though. In the last month he's found $20 twice when leaving restaurants after grabbing lunch. He had one really big find once. I was out driving with him on our way to the pawn shop to sell some jewelry and stopped at a stop light at the bottom of the on ramp of the highway. Suddenly DH flung open the car door and got out. Gets back in the car wiggling a pack of dirty wet cigarettes all excited and happy. I was like ??? Then he shows me the back side of the pack. There was a folded $100 bill and when he pulled it out there was another one and another one and another one and... Over $1,000. The pack was half buried in the snow bank and we figured it had been there for at least a week which was when it had last snowed. No way to track down the owner as there was nothing to mark who the pack belonged to. At the time DH was out on disability so we looked on it as a blessing and used the money to pay bills.
DH is the one who finds a lot things like that though. In the last month he's found $20 twice when leaving restaurants after grabbing lunch. He had one really big find once. I was out driving with him on our way to the pawn shop to sell some jewelry and stopped at a stop light at the bottom of the on ramp of the highway. Suddenly DH flung open the car door and got out. Gets back in the car wiggling a pack of dirty wet cigarettes all excited and happy. I was like ??? Then he shows me the back side of the pack. There was a folded $100 bill and when he pulled it out there was another one and another one and another one and... Over $1,000. The pack was half buried in the snow bank and we figured it had been there for at least a week which was when it had last snowed. No way to track down the owner as there was nothing to mark who the pack belonged to. At the time DH was out on disability so we looked on it as a blessing and used the money to pay bills.
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