£140... gone

La_Tristesse_Durera

Just like that

I can't believe how careful I've been with my money over the last 6 months, I'd saved this £140 to take away on holiday with me on Friday, I opened my cupboard today (where I'd been keeping it), and that's it. Gone. I've searched the whole house, including the bins, but it's not there.

I live with three others and over the last few months the household account has been running very low, and the Halifax messed up my standing order last month so we're still awaiting my share to go into the house account. Would my mates take the money without asking?? They're denying all knowledge of it as I have just texted them.

This money was for one final holiday where I could relax and spend a couple of quid, my first Payplan payment was to be in September. I can't believe this. The holiday is paid and I've taken a week off work. I just don't know what to do. Do I call the police?!?

It's just one thing after another

Toomuchdebt

OMG that must be awful.I guess either one of them has taken it or you put it somewhere else and forgot.If you don't mind me saying so I'd never ever leave £140 lying around if I was living with friends-they might be trustworthy but their friends might not be IYSWIM.I hope you find it.I don't know if the police would do anything.Have you looked at the back of all the shelves/drawers?Could it have got caught up in paperwork or clothes or something?

DontDoDebtKids

OMG! I really hope it isn't someone you share with who took the money.

I'd suggest having a sit down with all of them and telling them what has happened and, if none of them come forward, say that you'll have to take the matter to the police.

Hopefully that will do the trick.

Also, I'd suggest perhaps keeping it somewhere safer in the future...

My wallet perhaps? (JOKE!!!)

climbgirl

No offence, but the police aren't going to do much about this. I think you need to talk to your housemates (without being accusatory!) and see if they know what's happened, or if anyone's had any friends around recently etc. Are you absolutely sure it's lost and you've not just misplaced it?

This is why I'm more a fan of savings accounts than piggy banks...

La_Tristesse_Durera

Yeah it was daft keeping it in there but I do it often. Halifax have put a few blocks on my account recently so when I got paid this month I took the £140 out and tucked it in my cupboard, on the top shelf next to the coffee jar. I've just popped out to get food, opened my cupboard and saw the gap where the money's been for the last 2.5 weeks.

I've texted them all and they're denying it. I know two of them wouldn't but the third I'm not sure I can trust.

I've checked everywhere even though I haven't moved it. Checked washing machine, tumble dryer, all my pockets and clothes, bins, drawers, down the side of kitchen appliances etc etc...

Got home about an hour ago and haven't stopped looking or texting housemates about it. I can't believe it. I don't even have the energy to get upset about it. Why oh why does this always happen?!? Is it too much to ask to have a normal life? Ie go to work, come home, enjoy my evenings & weekends?!? Why's everything got to be a fight the whole time. It's always one thing after another after another.

Uniscots97

I know its difficult but you've got to stay calm about it. Text your flatmates and tell them to be home by certain time for house meeting. Ask them who has been in the house and who else could have had access to your stuff (and money). Although the police probably won't be too helpful, tell your flatmates you need answers as you've already informed the police. That should scare them into opening up if it was one of them who has done it and you'll be able to see the reaction on their faces. Hopefully its been a misunderstanding and it'll all get sorted out. But just a thought, has any of them bought anything pricey recently?

La_Tristesse_Durera

unixgirluk wrote:

I know its difficult but you've got to stay calm about it. Text your flatmates and tell them to be home by certain time for house meeting. Ask them who has been in the house and who else could have had access to your stuff (and money). Although the police probably won't be too helpful, tell your flatmates you need answers as you've already informed the police. That should scare them into opening up if it was one of them who has done it and you'll be able to see the reaction on their faces. Hopefully its been a misunderstanding and it'll all get sorted out. But just a thought, has any of them bought anything pricey recently?

Argh I just don't know what to do. I'm going to go outside in a minute and calm down. I've told them that I'm calling the police and had no reaction really, it hasn't scared them.

I thought the same about any of them buying expensive things recently, we're all going on holiday, all earn around the same amount etc... the cash could have been taken and used to pay bills in the local Post Office so they could get away with it easily.

The one who I can't trust has been getting on my back recently as I've paid £380 into the account rather than the £400 per month for a few months. The house account is in his name and he takes care of the bills. I've opened his cupboard and there's no money however my freezer bags that were in my cupboard fell out of his... so he must have been in mine at some point.

I know that I've got no way of getting it back. They'll just deny it and that's that. Harsh lesson learnt.

postingalwaysposting

aww La Tristesse Durera it must be hard, i feel for you and hope your find/get the money back but can i just ask why did you leave it in the kitchen (sounds like the kitchen) and not your room? surely it would have been safer? :rolleyes:

Fran

La_Tristesse_Durera wrote:

The one who I can't trust has been getting on my back recently as I've paid £380 into the account rather than the £400 per month for a few months.

Well it could be understandable why he might have taken it, if you've not been paying your share for a "few months" and yet have cash lying around. Also you said

the cash could have been taken and used to pay bills in the local Post Office

so you presumably think this is what's happened.

La_Tristesse_Durera

postingalwaysposting wrote:

aww La Tristesse Durera it must be hard, i feel for you and hope your find/get the money back but can i just ask why did you leave it in the kitchen (sounds like the kitchen) and not your room? surely it would have been safer? :rolleyes:

Yeah I left it in me kitchen cupboard... no idea why, I quite often leave the odd bit of cash there out of habit really, I have done in the past, sometimes I leave it in a sock in my chest of drawers but this time in the kitchen... it's been safely in there for 2.5 weeks, and now 2 days before my holiday it goes

going2die_rich

Have you checked to ensure it hasn't fallen behind the cupboard etc through any cracks? Double check the things in your cupboard as if it's clothes it's so easy to have got tangled in them, so make sure you turn them inside out if you haven't already.

If this is where you always keep your money, think back to the last time you went to put money it/see it and try and recall if you actually did put it back their as you may have found a new hiding place for it (thats happened to me a few times too - too many good hiding places in my room, lol)
or could have been distracted and shoved it somewhere else meaning to come back to it