Find a penny, pick it up...

starlite_2

My bf worked at the womad festival a couple of years ago, doing recycling after the festival (basically walking around with a bin bag searching for cans, paper plates or the worst fag butts. he wasn't paid for this as a free ticket and all meals were proided,but they were told that they should pool whatever they find around the site. he came across an incredible amount of money, abandoned bottles of wine, torches, 24 packs of lager! even tents and camping cookers etc. all the coinage was divided between the staff and he got over £80..and they drank the booze at a staff party on the last night! The abandoned camping stuff was all washed and dontated to a local charity.
Fortunately this was a fairly small event and so hadn't turned into a mudbath like glastonbury. Imagine the layers of goodies buried under michael eavis's farm in the churned and hardened mud over the years! If anyone was to do an archaeological dig in many years time they would be very confused by what lurks under an innocent looking field in Somerset..he he.

lipidicman

henhog wrote:

Here's a tip for all the runners out there. If you get up early to run, plan a route that makes you go past a few of the local pubs. More often than not you can find money dropped on the floor. Best find ever was a £20 note - but often find lots of smaller coins!! It's a good incentive to get out of bed and run!

Fancied a walk on Sunday morning - so I went via the pubs. This was about 8am so not mega early but I didnt see a single coin on my 2 mile walk. Oh well, the fresh air was a good enough reward!

bonnie_2

asda seems to be best for picking up money we have had £35 of the floor not in one go,also the butchers £16 the kids found £15 in my flower bed one year another time the eldest went to be sick in the drain and there was a fiver in it. the other week my husband bought a new clothes airer home which someone had put out for rubbish.

starlite_2

bonnie wrote:

one year another time the eldest went to be sick in the drain and there was a fiver in it. .

he he he...guess that consoled him/her for the throwing up.....lmao..sorry but i am in a very silly mood tonight
iIfound a £10 outside the bookies on my road and didn't feel remotely guilty as I knew it was about to be blown or had been won by 'immoral gains' he he he

Katinkka

hornetgirl wrote:

Apprentice Tycoon, I'm also a great believer in what goes around comes around. My favourite is to pass on a car park ticket if it has unexpired time on it. Did this at Kew Gardens yesterday - you pay £3.50 for the whole day, so it seemed silly not to pass it on. The man's face was a picture - I think he thought it was a con until the ticket was in his hand! Hopefully he will then go on to do something nice for someone else and so on...

This is customary in Beverley station car park which is near me. Its£2 for a whole day. I have given out loads of tickets and have often been presented with a ticket on entering the car park. SOmetimes peopel stick the tickets on to the machine. Its a really nice custom.

Bennifred

Katinkka wrote:

This is customary in Beverley station car park which is near me. Its£2 for a whole day. I have given out loads of tickets and have often been presented with a ticket on entering the car park. SOmetimes peopel stick the tickets on to the machine. Its a really nice custom.

I like to do this, too, whenever I can, but some of the carparks round here make you put in your car registration number (the machine doesn't print the ticket until you do!) when you are getting your ticket, with the warning not to pass it on, or else! :mad:

HOLsale

nicki wrote:

All my found money goes into my PIN money so it just gets re-absorbed. My uncle puts all his change into a box every night until the box is full. Last time he counted it out he had about £120 :eek: He then put the money into his savings account to go towards home improvements and a holiday

my grandfather always paid for everything with cash

each night he, like your uncle, used to empty his pockets of change. it went into an old ashtray (he'd quit smoking ages ago so at least it was still useful ) then when that got full it went into old mayo jars and under the bed.

every summer when i'd come stay with them for a few months while school was out me, my grandma and my grandpa would sit counting out change. usually it was $300-$400 in change! and that's really saying something because in the states it's rare to get 50cent pieces or susan b anthony dollar coins so the vast majority of 'big money' coins were 25cent quarters!

took ages to count but they'd usually spend it on me taking me places and buying me clothes i actually wanted to wear!

HOLsale

henhog wrote:

Here's a tip for all the runners out there. If you get up early to run, plan a route that makes you go past a few of the local pubs. More often than not you can find money dropped on the floor. Best find ever was a £20 note - but often find lots of smaller coins!! It's a good incentive to get out of bed and run!

petrol forcourts are good too... when i still had a car i often found money laying about on friday and saturday evenings

HOLsale

hornetgirl wrote:

I always pick up pennies too - and other coins - as my mum always told me it was good luck. Best ever was on holiday in Bournemouth once, when I found three £1 coins lying together on the pavement. My husband got out of his car once and stepped onto a £20 note in the gutter.

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we once found a pram that had broken wedged into a hedge. it had a buggy board (also broken) on it

we actually went to inspect it to see if either were salvagable, neither were but we found 2 £20 notes stuck in the bottomside of the buggy board! :eek:

we took that money and walked away fast :rotfl: it was truly abandoned out in the middle of nowhere but we were so desperate for money at the time

i truly believe that if you are generous even when things are tight if you really need money the universe will provide... it certainly did then

HOLsale

hornetgirl wrote:

Apprentice Tycoon, I'm also a great believer in what goes around comes around. My favourite is to pass on a car park ticket if it has unexpired time on it. Did this at Kew Gardens yesterday - you pay £3.50 for the whole day, so it seemed silly not to pass it on. The man's face was a picture - I think he thought it was a con until the ticket was in his hand! Hopefully he will then go on to do something nice for someone else and so on...

i've done this with all day bus tickets and underground tickets...

just don't let the attendents or bus drivers see you do it!