Find a penny, pick it up...

lipidicman

moggins wrote:

What did annoy me though was when my three year old spotted a pound coin on the floor outside a local garden centre and gleefully ran to pick it up as she knows that any money she finds she can spend it on sweeties.

Some rotten sod had glued it to the floor!!

My dad was at the motorshow and the guys on one stall had done this to get a few laughs at the public's expense. One guy didnt see the funny side and pulled a knife...........which he used to cut a hole in the stalls carpet and wipe the smile off their faces.

Chipps

My son used to make a fortune as a small child looking round the playing field near the pub! But when he found a larger amount - he twice found £10 notes, once when doing his paper round & once in the trees not far from said pub - I made him take them to the police station, just in case someone did miss them.
A month after each "finding" he was £10 richer, as they had not been claimed.

nicki_2

I once found £80 on the floor of the bank. Obviously someone had dropped it so I handed it back in to the cashier who took my details to pass on to whoever claimed it. A month or so later I got a phone call from the same cashier telling me that no-one had claimed it so it was to be credited to my account I went out and spent it in a mini-shopping-spree

Also once when I was on a night out with OH up in his hometown I went to the ladies, closed the door on a cubical and there was a £5 note sitting on the floor Since OH had been drinking quite a bit (and about twice as much as me) I decided that after a "small" walk we would use the £5 to get a taxi home as it would be a VERY long walk back to IL's. Anyway, rather than spend more than the £5, I sat and watched the meter all the way back to the house, at the bottom of the street it clicked over to £5 so I said to the driver "Just here will do, I think he needs the walk before his mother sees him". That night it took us about 30 minutes to get home, including walking to the taxi rank, whereas if I hadn't have found that money it could have taken us 90+ minutes. So I got OH and myself home in one piece (all be it cold by the time we got to the house) and the taxi driver got £5 more than he could have

Smiley_Mum

It's funny this thread should be posted up, I was thinking about this the other day, just the amount of money that you come across lying in the street. This week alone I've picked up around £2, found £1 coin today and just see five pences, pennies lying all over the place. I've also found tenners and fivers too. Makes you wonder just how much money there is lying around in the streets right now.

empfun

Smiley_Mum wrote:

It's funny this thread should be posted up, I was thinking about this the other day, just the amount of money that you come across lying in the street. This week alone I've picked up around £2, found £1 coin today and just see five pences, pennies lying all over the place. I've also found tenners and fivers too. Makes you wonder just how much money there is lying around in the streets right now.

Yeah, and we're just ordinary people walking around the block. Can you imagine the bonus package the street cleaners chalk up. Love to hear their stories.

penrith

MATH wrote:

When I take my 8yo for her swimming lesson she likes to peruse the empty lockers. They cost 20p ea but the coin mechanism returns your 20p when you reinsert they key - only most people forget;) She came home £1.40 richer. Budding MSE'r or what?:D

I remember doing that when i was about 9 or 10yrs old when our local swimming baths began introducing the lockers. Went swimming every saturday morning and almost always came out with some 'pocket money'. Maybe that's where my Money saving started?

Smiley_Mum

empfun wrote:

Yeah, and we're just ordinary people walking around the block. Can you imagine the bonus package the street cleaners chalk up. Love to hear their stories.

But.... if you are in one of the little ride on street sweeper thingummies, then I don't suppose you make much. Just if you are a traditional street sweeper, brush in hand, trolley etc.

Wonder how much money you'd come up with if you went over the Glastonbury site with a metal detector.

BWZN93

I once found £3.80 lying in the bottom of a trolley at Tesco's once, which pleased me! Later that day I found a full and unopened packet of ciggys in the park. My mum always says 'the lord will provide'.... I personally feel that its the universe providing necessities, but, hey - who am I to argue with whoever it is that provides..

Jo xx

Queenie

Chipps wrote:

My son used to make a fortune as a small child looking round the playing field near the pub! But when he found a larger amount - he twice found £10 notes, once when doing his paper round & once in the trees not far from said pub - I made him take them to the police station, just in case someone did miss them.
A month after each "finding" he was £10 richer, as they had not been claimed.

Good for him!!! :T :T :T

Just a little word of caution if you are finding notes ... there is a law of "theft by finding" ... while it's great to find odds n bobs on the street, it's always worth handing in notes. As citizens we have an obligation to "take reasonable" steps to return them to their owners.

Years ago, I dropped my purse in town (baby in sling+ twin pushchair in tow) which split open and the contents blew about. Of the "kind" souls who "helped" me ... I was handed back the coins, totalling 67p and the "notes" totalling ... £3 (ah yes, the days of the pound note!). The remaining £40 was never retrieved/handed in/found. That was all the money I had in the world and 3 children to feed.

Just a thought.

shelly

I hate car boot sales at the best of times and one sunday hubby nagged me to go....so we got up early and we went to our local one.He was looking at some stalls and I was standing there like...."Can we go yet?" and just at that moment a piece of paper was heading my way blown by the wind,I didn't take much notice to start with but as I was so bored I watched it land at my feet.Took me a few seconds to realise it was a £5 note!! I picked it up and stood with it in my hand.....I looked around for a few minutes waiting to see if someone ran up to me claiming it was theirs....no-one did so I put it in my pocket.:D I was well chuffed.


I love the Jackass sketch where they put a dollar bill on a hook and length of fishing line and watch people chase it down the street.:rotfl: