How much change do you find each week?

garfield33

Each week - not a lot. Though I found £1 in a changing room yesterday, that was my best booty for quite a while. Paid for the locker!

However, on a family holiday on a canal boat about 15 years ago, me and my sister moved a cupboard and found loads of Dutch banknotes (this was pre-Euro) - my dad couldn't understand why we were so keen to borrow the finance bit of his newspaper to look at exchange rates it was about £300! We handed it in, but no one ever claimed it and I think we got it back again.

gettingthehangofthis

Ironically I think once my debt is paid off i'll stop doing this so much, gives me less time to look up at the view instead of at the pavement. Will let others have a go. Nice way to think of it is as a resource that can be called on if need be.

SpecialBrew_2

When my youngest son was a toddler he was notoriously grumpy (which is strange, because he's one of the most easy-going people I know now) and spent most of his time sulking with his thumb in his mouth and his head down. Consequently he was forever finding money on the floor, and it was like walking round with my own personal sulky little loose change detector.

I try to imitate this occasionally, without the bad attitude (and without my thumb in my gob!), but I'm such a daydreamer that it takes a real conscious effort on my part and I'm usually walking around again with my head in the clouds within minutes. I did once spot a fiver on the pavement a split second before my mate did when I was a teenager and we were on the way home from school - I can't remember what I did with the money, but my pride in the speed and grace of the dive I executed to get it before she did remains with me to this day

When I was a kid we were almost permanently skint, although we never went without anything. My mum and dad would go without before we did. One time when I was about fourteen my dad was completely out of tobacco - he'd already had to give up his regular little drink each evening, and going without a smoke was doing his head in. The atmosphere was awful, so me and my sisters decided to go round to the library in the next street just to get out of the house. When we got back, my Dad apologised to my mum, announced that he couldn't go without a smoke for another minute and then disappeared in the direction of the off-license. A moment later he was back, having discovered twenty-seven pound notes (this was 1978, before pound coins) scattered around the front garden. We could only conclude that they'd fallen out of one of the library books we'd just borrowed.

I don't think I've got a 'Karma' tale, but the above experience is the most memorable among many smaller which have taught me that money will turn up from somewhere if it really needs to. I've also experienced a time when it didn't, but grim though it was, I realise with hindsight that it didn't need to. I'm probably happier than I was before the event, and certainly no worse off.

Which is a bit of a drawback really when you're trying to take up 'Sulking For Profit' where your son left off. Must try harder

Flippyflop

julie2710 wrote: »

Amusement arcades are great for finding money! My two boys 5 & 8 quickly realised when we were on holiday in May that it was much better to keep the 20p worth of 2ps I'd given them and spend their time checking the trays of the machines along with the floor for left behind money! They ended up with over £5 each in less than an hour!

We do this all the time! My eldest son & I are particularly lucky with cash finding, we have a special sealed tin that we always put it in, that lives in the hallway & last year before we went on holiday I opened it & we had over £70 that we used for our pre-holiday meal at Frankie & Benny's.. Thank you careless people! :cool:

Pee

I always pick up pennies on the basis that "see a penny and pick it up and all day long you will have good luck." Oddly enough I would feel more embarrassed about picking a 10p up. I have found the odd pound coin and once found a £20 note. Thinking about it, i don't walk where other people do much at the moment i.e. high street, pavements etc.

HOK3Y

I don't feel embarrassed one bit! I've had a brilliant day with it today - 9p found in various finds plus a new crisp £5 at the self checkout in Morrisons! Second fiver this month which is just unheard of so I'm quite chuffed with myself to be fair! I'm going to start a roadkill tracking challenge next month if you guys are up for it??

Chrisblue1962

Found only 7p today but better than nothing.

I love the term “ Roadkill ” for change found lying around in the road, pavement , shops, etc :rotfl:

oldtrout

gettingthehangofthis wrote: »

One of the things people try to do to help pay off debts is picking up money off the ground.


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Help pay off debts by picking up money? Honestly?

Over the years, I've probably found about £1.50 .. mind you I live in Yorkshire, so folks have nowt to 'lose' on't ground in't first place

HOK3Y

oldtrout wrote: »

Help pay off debts by picking up money? Honestly?

Over the years, I've probably found about £1.50 .. mind you I live in Yorkshire, so folks have nowt to 'lose' on't ground in't first place

I live in Yorkshire too and have found £14.90 since October 1st!

quantic

Dunno if this counts, but I found a load of 20 pound notes wrapped in an elastic band when I was about 12 (16 years ago) came to about £500-600 if I remember rightly. I took it to the police station to see if anyone had lost it and they had me fill out some paperwork.

They rang me back a couple of weeks later to say it hadn't been found and said I could keep it. £600 was a lot of money to a 12 year old, especially 16 years ago!