How much change do you find each week?

yuppiebaker

I walk the same route to and from work every day, and generally find at least 1p every day :-) Have found a few 'silvers' here and there, but no notes yet!

sourcrates

Im quiet lucky at finding money, I drive for a living so always keep an eye out for anything, as its amazing what can be found at the roadside, to date ive found about £90 in varying denominations just dropped on the street, freshly killed pheasants are very common in the area I work in, people hit them, but never stop to pick em up ????? they are lovely roasted with garlic, always tell when there fresh as there are feathers everywhere on the road, no feathers, don't touch it !! also found a deer once, hit by a truck, killed outright, venison is yummy:)

Metranil_Vavin

The last time I found some decent money was when OH and I were on our way to see Muse at Wembley a few years ago. It was pouring with rain, and I spotted a £20 note in a puddle on the pavement! Then about 2 steps further on was a £10 note! I was amazed..obviously no one had spotted them as it was such a foul evening and in fact they had been walked over several times!

Betty_Crumble

was stood in a bar once when a woman patted my thigh, I side stepped (not my type lol) and she bent down and picked up £20 I was stood on. Wouldn't have been so bad but when I said sorry, I hadn't see it she said not to worry, she hadn't dropped it she just spotted it. Gutted haha.

lovely-cup-of-tea

I picked up a tenner on the way home last week. Up until that moment I'd been cursing the cold, rainy weather but had it been sunny I'd probably not had my head down and would have missed it!

michael1983l

sourcrates wrote: »

Im quiet lucky at finding money, I drive for a living so always keep an eye out for anything, as its amazing what can be found at the roadside, to date ive found about £90 in varying denominations just dropped on the street, freshly killed pheasants are very common in the area I work in, people hit them, but never stop to pick em up ????? they are lovely roasted with garlic, always tell when there fresh as there are feathers everywhere on the road, no feathers, don't touch it !! also found a deer once, hit by a truck, killed outright, venison is yummy:)

If the eyes are intact the roadkill is usually fine. Eyes are the very first thing to go.

Oh and I found a fiver the other day, I am absolutley on my knees too so it was wo0nderful and helped out greatly. First significant find for me in many a year.

Growurown

I used to volunteer for a local credit union. Every so often the local road sweeper would come in with all his finds, it was usually about fifty quid mostly in ones and twos with the odd bit of silver. It took ages to count it all! Plus it weighed a ton to take to the post office to pay in.

michael1983l

Parks where the yoofs hang around is normally a good place, they are the most likely in my eyes to throw away their coppers. Not old enough or wise enough to realise that every penny counts.

HOK3Y

michael1983l wrote: »

Parks where the yoofs hang around is normally a good place, they are the most likely in my eyes to throw away their coppers. Not old enough or wise enough to realise that every penny counts.

Agreed! A few months back, I watched two teenagers drop over 30p in small change on opening a purse, watch it fall, shrug and walk away. Me and two old ladies picked it up with no shame!

Scouter

I've heard that amongst the youth, peer pressure dictates that if you see money on the ground, or worse still if you drop money yourself, you don't pick it up, otherwise you get stigmatized as being poor. :eek:

Unbelievably sad...