Share Your Best Money Finds

[Delirium]

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!!!!!

If you're ever in Connecticut, look me up. It would be an honor if you came to dinner sometime. 

[ebfd11]

Mine was similar to Rich.. found an envelope with over 3300 in it. I had to think twice but stopped by the local police department and handed it in.

I left my name number and all the normal info. At day 29 I get a call from the Sargent saying there was a lady there to see me.

Come to find out it was her income tax return and she was using it to buy a better vehicle for her and her kids. She offer me a reward but I refused it. Even though I was on hard times I didn't need the money. All I asked for was a thank you and I was happy.

She tried to get me to take the money but I refused. I told her instead of giving me the money donate it to the local food bank so people have a chance to eat.

She agreed... and I think I made her week... sometimes instead of paying you back ..it's better to pay it forward.

[SPKmes]

When I was 10 I found a wallet...I had a look and saw 5 bucks....the old man owned a dairy so gave him the wallet...guy came in and gave me a reward of 5 dollars....a few weeks later I heard the old man talking to someone about it....it had 800 dollars in it....freakin cheap skate  hahaha

and just the other day was on my way to the lunch bar for a feed and found 50 dollars..... had an extra big feed and bought myself a couple of fish for my tanks...bonus

[colmbo]

$100,000 in a Nordstrom shopping bag left on the X-ray machine at an airport screening point. Spent the night recording serial numbers.

[Wiley]

Closest I've come to significant found money is I once got couriered somebody's paycheck(!) who had the same name as I did.  I was a poor student at the time, and could've used the three grand, but I figured it was the universe testing me, and no possible good would come of it if I tried to cash it, so I just contacted the company to rectify the error.

Used to get the occasional call from creditors looking for that other guy too.

Wiley.

[cpxxx]

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

    

Found myself in the same position, she earns the big bucks. I earn the pocket money flying planes and the rest of the time I'm Mr Mom for my two boys.   

As for finding money, only the other day I found twenty Euro while walking to the store! I soon converted some of it into beer.

Another very windy day I saw some banknotes flash past me.  Someone has just lost their money and I looked around but there was no one. Then I looked down and saw they were coming out of my pocket. After a mad dash I got most of them back except the one that blew into the sea. As it was a stormy day I wasn't about to follow it.

My best though was when I found my own money. I was picking something up from the floor in my rather messy room when I noticed cash beside the leg of a table. I picked it up and counted it. It was the equivalent of a thousand US dollars. I couldn't think how it got there. Then I remembered how I'd won it betting on the horses months previously and left it on the table. It must have fallen down the side and I'd forgotten it. Imagine forgetting that much money? I guess I had plenty at the time. Not any more!

But the best money found story didn't happen to me. A crooked property developer went bankrupt. He lost his business and his house. When the house was sold (for €3 million) the new owners decided to fit a new bathroom and the builders found €200,000 ($277,000) under the old bath. The crook said it wasn't his and that the cops planted it! Sadly the government go most of it but the builders got 10k and the owners 5k which they gave away because they're millionaires anyway. Now that's a nice find.