Finding money you'd forgotten about!

amosworks

I think the best 2 have to be behind the sofa and in coat pockets!! Especially coats you've not worn for several months There's nothing nicer than reaching in to the pocket and pulling out a note

If you've raided your sofa savings and found nothing, then why not invite all your rich friends over for tea and try again?

hotdiggerdy

QUOTE=amosworks]I think the best 2 have to be behind the sofa and in coat pockets!! Especially coats you've not worn for several months There's nothing nicer than reaching in to the pocket and pulling out a note

true, found a fiver in my coat pocket the other day and £4.50 in change yesterday in an old rucksack i used for the gym and was about to throwout :eek:

skintchick

I had a big clear out a few years ago and found all my old 21st birthday cards. Of course, I started looking through them before I filed them away and found £20 in one of them!! REsult.

USually I am so clutter-free that I don;t lose money in the first place, so I can't find it later

Busybody

I was once selling a jacket at a car boot sale it had been hung there for ages then someone started to show an interest in it, he said he would have it, for some reason I felt in the pocket before I put it in a bag only to find £3! that was what I was charging for the jacket!! :eek:

livilou

this happened to me last week. A very good friend who recently started a new job phoned to say she was taking me out for a meal, her treat with he rfirst pay packet - she knows we have had a hard year bless her. I was so excited and got ready , dug around the bottom of my wardrobe for a small bag, as I was putting my phone in and my lippy i found 30.00 in the side pocket - well u would have thought I had won the lottery!!!! god knows how long it has been there as I cannot remember the last time I went out - so long ago!!!!

it was a nice feeling!
x

starlite_2

I was recently sorting out all our old vhs tpes to post them on freecycle
We had n 'ed wood' film and book boxset and i realised I should take out the book from the box, as I really enjoyed it

Real good job as there was a £20 and £10 in there..
A couple of years ago when O.H lost his cashcard he took out a sum of cash and was storing it in there for safekeeping,using as and when.
guess he forgot the rest when he got his card back
luckily the lady who collected them was lovely so i think she would have mentioned it had we not realised..but who knows?

Lucky for us as it was close to payday and we were down to the last few pounds...

molesworth

Packing to go on holiday a few years ago we found £50 in the pocket of the suitcase -left there from the previous year. It was lovely surprise - but I did feel a bit sick about all the times we'd been hard up for £50 in the intervening months...

$17mma

I recently found info on an ISA I have had for a while and forgot about. Called them up during the week and they said that I had over 1k in there. :eek:

RVK2

$17mma wrote:

I recently found info on an ISA I have had for a while and forgot about. Called them up during the week and they said that I had over 1k in there. :eek:

OMG!! :eek: how do you forget about £1000? Fantastic surprise though..spend wisely

RVK2

I sort of found some money. My iron kept tripping my switch thing so I put it outside to go to the tip as I didn't have the receipt and bought a new one. Was having a sort out of paperwork a couple of days ago and found the receipt. So I took it back today and got a refund. I didn't tell them that it had been outside in the rain and snow for the last month lol. So that's me £4.94 better off...a Tesco Value iron not recommended...it holds next to no water and doesn't get very hot, but then I paid less than a fiver.