Nice find! $1!!!

[MYellowRose]

;D Thought you guys would get a kick out of this. On my way to the library lately I've been getting off the bus and walking through a couple of parking lots then up a street to get here. Today I happened to have a plastic shopping bag with my lunch in it. In the first parking lot I found a couple of Marlboro pack that I took the Marlboro miles (ie. UPC code) from and a squashed can. I decided to put my lunch in my tote bag and keep the plastic bag for cans if I found any in the next lot. I found another can and another cigarette pack and while I was turning to see what else was by the car stops I spotted a DOLLAR BILL against the one next to where I was. That $1 means that I can get two iced tea refills in the 32 oz. thermal mug that I carry almost constantly. Oh yes, I think I've got about 6 or 8 cans now and hope to find some more on my way home. This won't seem like much to some of you but since I live on a fixed income finding a dollar is fantastic to my way of thinking.

[gypho]

Anytime I find money, it's fantastic!!! I found a $1 bill on the floor of a photo shop a week or so ago... I asked if anyone dropped it, when everyone said "NO," I put it in my pocket! Good for you MYR!!!

gypho

[hillbilly_mom]

Free money!! How cool. ;D

[tufhelp]

I don’t know if I am one of the only people left who will stoop down to pick up a found penny, by I do it every single time I spot one. I guess I got in the habit of looking at the ground for stuff while I was in the Army doing “police call”, this is where we would all line up an walk across a parking lot or an open area and pick up everything that shouldn’t be there.

I haven’t quite ever allowed , myself to pick up a penny or two from those “take a penny – leave a penny” trays you see at stores these days – but I always thinking about it!

[MYellowRose]

Tufhelp I forgot about "policeing" the area in the army, thanks for the reminder and memory.
I too stop and pick up pinnies and any other change I find, it all adds up, slowly but surely.
That dollar allowed me to get a tea refill, 32oz. as I believe I said in my post, at a local barbecue restaraunt. It also left me with another 50 cents, the refills are 42cents and 4 cents tax, for a refill on Wednesday. At this time of month I'm usually totally broke, I had 18 cents to my name before finding that dollar.

[American_Infidel]

I always check the change slots in the pay phones and coke machines. Also when I used to do my laundry at the laundromat, I always found change in the bottom of the washer and occasionally I would find a bill stuck to the side.

[okiefrmsapulpa]

It's always wonderful to find money. 33 yrs ago when I was pregnant with my daughter, I was working in a hospital. Coming back to the floor I was working on, I found $20 in the elevator. I picked it up & asked the others in there with me if anyone had lost it. They said no & to use it for whatever I needed it for. I needed it for my prenatal vitamins, YES! Twelve yrs later, I was walking home from a convience store when I found $300 in an empty lot. Two weeks later, I won $107 from a radio station. I got my bills caught up & bought myself 3 pairs of slacks at Sears Surplus.

Oh, yes, found money is wonderful. & normally, it comes when you need it most.

Tresa

[lost1]

:'( :'(I've never found enough money to amount to anything, but, I've always been very good at losing it.....

[DonnaKay]

Have you ever wondered what happens to money you lose? Hopefully it's found by someone who needs it more. I've lost money a couple of times. But I try to never let it bother me. God has always taken care of me and I trust that he always will. I just figure that someone needed it more.

Donna

However, I'm always glad to find some too ;D

[Gwynyvyr]

At one job I worked I was given the *ick* jobs because I was the *new girl*. One of those jobs was sweeping the entire store after we closed. Nobody else wanted to do it and since I was *low man on the totem pole* I got the chore.
First night I found a $50 bill.
Second night a $20.
By the end of the first two weeks I had found a little over $150.00, counting change. :o

They wondered why I continually volunteered after that to sweep up!

The most I have found at my current job was a dollar.

[MYellowRose]

Gwynn what are you doing work wise now? Did you go back to cleaning at the mall or what?
I've got my 50 cents, actually I've got a total of 68 cents, and after I finish here at the library I'm going to go get my tea refill. Got some glazed donuts to go with it. LOL No I didn't steal them, got them at one of the places I go to every once in a while for food.

[sma]

once, i worked at a music store in the mall and someone had dropped $100 in front of the register. we held onto it for a couple of days but no one came to claim it so i got to keep it.

i always pick up change that i find on the ground. change really adds up quickly. i remember buying groceries with change that i'd collected over a period of time. i put it all in a piggy bank and next thing you know i had over $10. came in handy when i was broke.

when i was in college, my mom (who is on disability and doesn't have much extra) would always try to give me money and i would always refuse it. well, once she stuck $20 in a package of pantyhose that i had on top of my laundry basket. that package dropped behind the couch of my apartment where it sat for a couple of months at least. i was completely broke, had no gas in my car, no groceries...nothing and i didn't get paid for another week and a half. i happened to move the couch to look for something, found the pantyhose which i'd lost and was happy cause all my other ones had runs. opened them up and there was the $20. i called my mom and she said she'd put it in there but had forgotten all about it. i ended up keeping that money since i was so broke.
donna's right though, i've often come across a few dollars when i've really been in a bind. God most certainly does provide and often times in some very unusual ways! :)

[leera]

I found a $100.00 bill n my parents' driveway one time,asked my Mom to make sure it wasn't dad's and used that to pay some bills and buy a few new pairs of pants.

I also found $50.00 on the floor at work once,got to keep it too,paid the phone bill with it.

Here's one you'll like,the asst manager found $450.00,yep that much,laying on the floor at work.That was in Feb.........it's still in the safe at work.......waiting for the DM to tell him what to do with it.

I told him we should use it to make an anonymous donation to the Red Cross or something.......since we're not going to be allowed to keep it.

Lesson learned,never tell your boss you found money on the floor..........unless your register comes up short.........

[nancy1340]

A long time ago I worked with a girl that was going though some hard times $$ wise . I was a bartender and she was my barmaid . I made a excuse to go over to a table and talk to some of the customers . On my way back I bent over at her station and ;)"picked" ;) up some money . I asked her if she droped it and she said "NO" . I told her "Well it's at your station so it's yours". I can't remember how much it was but she never knew I was the one who "dropped" it .

[edward_4576]

I'm always watching the ground, I've found a charm from a charm bracelet. The largest denomination I've ever found was a fiver, but I'll stop to pick up a penny. I've found free coupons for donuts and such as that. I've thought about those scratcher tickets, In some cases if you fill them in you can qualify for a second prize, but I don't want to spend the money on stamps.

[MYellowRose]

I remember a few year ago my sister and her oldest son stopped at a Whataburger for sodas on the way to buy groceries. As she unlocked the truck door for him she happened to glance down and found a folded bill on the ground she put it under her purse on the seat and told him to leave it until they were out of the parking lot. He pulled it out and unfolded it anyway and found it was a $100 bill! The immediately went and spent it at the grocery store!
One year after her second son was born and she was doing income taxes at the nearby mall I was walking back to her house to do her block walk for the American Heart Association and happened to glance at the ground near a bar and found a $20. I don't have luck like that too often but when I do the first words out of my mouth are "Thank you, Lord".
I still remember my daughter fussing at me for stoppin in the middle of a four lane street to pick up a quarter. She told my "you could get run over". I told her yes but I did look both ways before bending down to pick it up.
Also remember on the way to church on morning, I think I was about 14 at the time, glancing down and seeing a small pile of change on the ground. I quickly scooped it up and found two or three more before my mother told me to quit piddling around and catch up with the rest of the family. She didn't believe what I was doing until I showed her the handful of money I had then she promptly confiscated it. Wish I had just stuck it in my purse and kept my mouth shut. It wasn't the least bit unusual when I was growing up for my parents to take whatever little bit of money my sister and I happened to have. "Just borrowing it for groceries" was their usual excuse. I understand the need for food but I never did understand why my sister and I were required to fork over our money why my stepfather worked. Sorry I got off topic there.

[American_Infidel]

Another place I check out is the carwash. The machines usually only take quarters and it is not uncommon to find a few quarters on top of the machine.

[MYellowRose]

I just remembered one I missed out on, a diamond ring! A friend and I had gone to the restroom at a gas station downtown and when she sat down on the toilet she glanced down at the floor and saw something twinkle. Picking it up she realized it was a ring, it actually fit her perfectly, so she kept it. A couple of weeks later she had it appraised and found out it was worth about $3,000! That would have kept me in clothes and fed me for a good year at least had I found it as I would have sold it! LOL

[blackpowderbill]

Rose,
I make a fair living & still pick up cans here and their.

I use to come home from work with a bag of cans every day. Now that the factory is now working 3 shifts I'm not so lucky. {ya know cause Hillary brought 200,000 more jobs to the area}

Those cans by the end of the week paid for my skeet shooting, maybe a lunch or my coffee.

;D

[DV8]

I recently saw them bulldozing a local applebees resteraunt to rebuild another. when they were ready to leave, I asked a superintendant if I could gather the aluminum from the awning, he told me to help myself to whatever I saw I wanted, just to be careful.

I had found a gold mine, almost. I got all the bathroom & kitchen fixtures, (all white brass) the door handles were SOLID heavy brass, and the awning's which were aluminum framed.

I filled my pickup truck, & the next am I went to the recycling yard & got $519.11 !!!

I woulda kept sifting, but it got too dark. when I went back, that afternoon, it had all been loaded into dump trucks & hauled off.

~DV8

[MYellowRose]

You are SO lucky! There's a small subdivision going in not all that far from where I live and if I had a vehicle I'd be out there on a regular basis asking for anything they wanted to get rid of!

[LaDonna]

My husband picks up up metal and sells it. He gets little old motors and inside they have 'copper'. He tears things down, seperates the stuff and then off to the metal place. He gets anywhere from 100-500.00 depending on his load. He also is friends with a local A/C man and the man gives him air conditioners on the halves, they split the profits there. Aluminum, copper, and junk metal bring money and if its free, then thats all the better.

I found a $100 dollar bill at the laundry once, almost made me sick to think someone lost it. I went straight to the attendant, whom I knew very well and he said he knew who it belonged to. Later I found out, it belonged to this wealthy man who did clothes there and the attendant kept the money. I was so disappinted and mad at myself, but you know, I did what was right, he was the one who was wrong. The old man who lost the money was a nice man and a friend of mine and we were about the only ones in the laundry that day. He could have dropped it there on purpose, for someone needy. And me, being so honest, I gave it to the attendant. I was just so mad at myself after I found out he kept it.

ladonna

[leera]

I've been tempted recently to check into getting a part time job cleaning up construction sites...........just imagine what goes into the dumpster when new subs. get built.........

I collect pop bottles at work,and where ever I happen to see them laying around........the assistant manager at work is good for about $5.00 a week in bottles.

Sometimes on my way home at night,I cruise through a couple of the car washes.........have found at much as $2.00 in bottles in one stop.

We are currently reworking our finances for the new year,so will be trying anything and everything we can to make more money.........

[MYellowRose]

My best friend called me on Wednesday to tell me she had a check at her house for me from an H&R Block class action lawsuit for $103! Yeah!
I picked it up Friday, cashed it and put some in my checking account. Used $20 from it to replace the $20 I had taken from the rent money on Wednesday, after I found out about the check-not before, and bought a few other things. I've still got about $45 left, most of which will be spent to stock up on a few groceries and buy some postage stamps. I LOVE to get news like that though I still can't figure out why it was sent to me at her house as I haven't stayed there since March and April of 2001 after I came back from TN and didn't want to move back where I had been before.

[mcfay]

Once my daughter and I had taken a tempory job at a place where they made saddles and other things. Well I was on a sewing machine, but they put my daughter in the saddle dept. By the end of the day, her hands were so swollen she could not close her fingers. We did not have any asprin, and only had some pennies that were loose in our purses. We stoped at Wal Mart, when I started to pay for the asprin with the pennies, the checker would not take the pennies because they were not rolled. We left and went to a grocery store next door and bought the asprin with the pennies. When I started back to the car, laying in the middle of the parking lot I saw a cash register recipt folded up. I picked it up and inside folded with the recipt was a 10 dollar bill. I gave thanks to God for the money and we stoped and bought burgers for dinner that night.

[fishinhunter]

hey edward i always look at tossed lotto tickets.it would surprise you how many people miss winners.iv found several $5 winners and 1 $20. winner.i always pick up pennies and sometimes there are dimes and nickles in that pile of pennies.you just never know.

[MYellowRose]

Was walking across a parking lot yesterday and saw a penny which I promptly bent down to pick up. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a nickle and scooped it up also, not much money wise but eventually it will all add up!

[creekside-angie]

I always pick up change off the ground.One of my kids gets imbaressed when I do but so what? He doesn't get that way when he needs lunch money and I hand the found change back to him!! ;) I also alway keep my eye out on garbage day to see what other people are throwing out, got some good stuff that way!Only got a whole dollar in my "living room suite" and that was for the sofa! Not pretty or matching in any way, but functional!! ;D

[snuffy]

;D
Great stories,
I'm reminded of a time a few years ago; I was the driver for a Red Cross Blood bus(you've probably seen them) and working a Wal Mart about 100 m. from base.
A young lady & I drove down that AM and had about an hour to kill before the others arrived so she & I went and goofed around in Wm. Coming out and walking across the parking lot; I looked down & saw some money folded in half. Two tens and a five. Happy Days!!
I got back to the bus and was talking to the girl, she seemed down and I inquired why.(mistake) .
"I lost my money somewhere" What? how much?
"Twenty-five" she replied. "What size bills?"
"Two tens and a five."
AAAAAAGH... Here, I found it in the parking lot.

anyway, I need all the credit I can get with St. Peter.

PS: I once met an old man on a Wally world lot, pushing a bike around the fence looking for something.
I asked him did he lose something and could I help him look. He replied with a grin, no thanks son, I check the lot everytime there has been a high wind. On the down-wind side, that's where you'll find money that people drop and are too lazy to chase in the wind. He said he has made as much as 40 or 50 bucks in one week-end in windy weather.
Pretty smart Huh?

Snuffy