Share Your Best Money Finds

[BreakingBad]

An earlier post about a  found $100 made me think about the times I've found money, how nice it is.  Here are my best in order:

1.  Park City Utah 1998:  Sat at barstool and looked down to find $80 of 4 folded $20 bills.  Place was packed, dark, smoky and loud.

2.  Old Dallas Cowboy Stadium 2006:  In line for a hot dog, looked down and found a $50.  Left with more money than I came in with.

3,  Dallas Farmers Market 2008:  Saw a real old guy with shaky hands fumbling his money while paying in front of me, and dropped a $100.  He didn't realize it until I told him.

4.  O'Fallon, Il, 1978:  First find, a $5 just sitting on the snowy pavement.  Had to share it 50/50 with my friend walking with me who claimed to see it at the same time.  ok fine...

5.  Every fall I leave a fiver in one of my short pockets so I can find it again in the spring.

[Someguy63]

Found a penny in the middle of a street yesterday. 

[Lusche]

Finding cash money... Pha! Peanuts! I found a woman that's subsidizing me for 10 years now... 

[guncrasher]

800 dollars in gold and silver coins found in attic at my current apt.

gf spent them at face value a couple of years later to buy alcohol.


easy Congress easy goes.




semp

[puller]

Found a $100 laying on the ground in front of a convenient store...walked right inside and bought enough beer and fuel for whole weekend   

[puller]

Also...wife and I were leaving casino about 2 weeks ago flat busted...she found a $20 in the parking lot...I apparently walked right over it as she was behind me...Can anyone say Denny's? 

[Slate]

   Not a lot of money but I was walking out back of where I work and it's all blue stone, I look down and see a round shape the same color as the stone. It was a US 1898 half dollar, 98% silver I think. looked it up and they can go for hundeds but this one maybe 20 bucks due to being tumbled in blue stone for who knows how long.

    Looked again several times but never found any more.   

[mbailey]

Found an envelope with $1246.34 (remember it like it was yesterday)  outside the grocery store. Picked it up and ran it downtown to the police station. Then went back to the grocery store and let them know that i found it, and that it was at the police station if someone came in claiming they lost it, he took my name and number just in case no one claimed it.....finders keepers rule   
Next day i get a call from the officer I left the envelope with, come to find out it was an elderly woman that dropped the envelope that contained her Social Security money. The lady called me later that day, and said she wanted to give me a reward.....i refused, but she insisted..... My reward?  4 dozen home made chocolate chip cookies that were to die for!!!!!

[morfiend]

Finding cash money... Pha! Peanuts! I found a woman that's subsidizing me for 10 years now... 

   I hear ya Lusche!   Been Mr Mom for longer than I can remember,is that 110 or 220,whatever it takes.....



    

[Brooke]

Found an envelope with $1246.34 (remember it like it was yesterday)  outside the grocery store. Picked it up and ran it downtown to the police station. Then went back to the grocery store and let them know that i found it, and that it was at the police station if someone came in claiming they lost it, he took my name and number just in case no one claimed it.....finders keepers rule   
Next day i get a call from the officer I left the envelope with, come to find out it was an elderly woman that dropped the envelope that contained her Social Security money. The lady called me later that day, and said she wanted to give me a reward.....i refused, but she insisted..... My reward?  4 dozen home made chocolate chip cookies that were to die for!!!!!

<S> to you, Mr. Bailey!  You saved that elderly lady a great deal of pain, and the home-made cookies for that are worth their weight in gold!

[Randy1]

Found a penny in the middle of a street yesterday. 

If it is heads up, you keep it for good money days ahead, heads down leave it.  Old saying.

[BreakingBad]

Found an envelope with $1246.34 (remember it like it was yesterday)  outside the grocery store. Picked it up and ran it downtown to the police station. Then went back to the grocery store and let them know that i found it, and that it was at the police station if someone came in claiming they lost it, he took my name and number just in case no one claimed it.....finders keepers rule   
Next day i get a call from the officer I left the envelope with, come to find out it was an elderly woman that dropped the envelope that contained her Social Security money. The lady called me later that day, and said she wanted to give me a reward.....i refused, but she insisted..... My reward?  4 dozen home made chocolate chip cookies that were to die for!!!!!

Classy move.   

[danny76]

I was behind a guy at an ATM on a Friday afternoon, I was about 19, and pretty much broke but for about fifteen pounds, this guy had withdrawn three hundred pounds and left it there in the slot of the machine, taken his card and walked away. I took the cash and followed him into the store, tapped him on the shoulder and gave it him back.

He was about 60 years old and wearing filthy overalls, he looked absolutely exhausted.

He never said a word to me, just stood there looking shocked as I walked away

Feel good about that to this day

[Someguy63]

If it is heads up, you keep it for good money days ahead, heads down leave it.  Old saying.

First I've gotten musta been heads down.  That explains why I haven't found anything above a dollar in the last 10 years. 

[Rich46yo]

A very large amount I wont disclose in the glove compartment of a vehicle once, the owner already in critical condition in an E.R. .

Turns out it was all legit, no drug dealer or anything. The family was ecstatic the father survived and their lifes savings were brought into the Hospital and inventoried for them to retrieve later. I refused an award and would have even if regulations allowed it.

I dont keep things that dont belong to me in general.