Found on the ground...

sammy_kaye18

Did the tesco receipt thing a few times - christmas just gone i was at tesco annoying people by going through the self serve till with about £40 of goods and on christmas eve! . Anyone some kind person had left their receipt on the cashpoint where the food slides down after - 43 points on it - which i had added to my card - landed. Am trying to get my sister into getting a tesco card to help her out especially since she has 2 young children and i think it will benefit her.

have founda fiver on the floor before which i stuck in my pocket and then used to treat my little boy to lunch in town and a pack of sweeties for being a good boy

Apart form that i havent really found anything else -i do have a spare change tin though which i think if i find anymore pennies ill add them in there.

Oh yes and the pound coins being left by shopers in tescos trolleys

Smiley_Mum

Found a fiver in M&S at Christmas time. Have found a few tenners over the years, another fiver in M&S but in the last wee while, not a lot, pennies and two pences. My youngest finds money all the time, even when it's been dark whilst walking home from town. He found a £1 coin on the way to school one day.

Austin_Allegro

A few years ago, I found two passports on the pavement, one British and one Irish, for the same person. Very odd!

When I was a kid, I saw a man stop his bicycle and check a fag packet on the ground. How disgusting, I thought. Fast forward to my student days, and I was doing the same thing! Often found packets with two or three ciggies left.

troglodyte

I love this thread! I'm a womble at heart - they were my childhood heroes!!
I've never found anything all that exciting on the street, but a few useful bits and pieces. Found a £10 note on two occasions over the years, but usually just a few pence. Quite a collection of pint glasses found in odd places. Found a nice fleece child's hat a few weeks ago, green camouflage pattern but my daughter loves it. Found a pair (most unusual) of wool gloves with FCUK COLD on them in the street the other day; they'd been run over quite a few times but washed up nicely so took them to charity shop. Found a lot of nuts (the metal sort) a few weeks ago dropped by workmen putting up new street signs. Still wear a nice scarf my Mum found in a hedge years ago. Found an abandoned houseplant on a couple of occasions, and a whole collection of preserving jars. Went to the local recycling centre a few weeks ago with some cardboard etc and came home with a pair of breakfast-bar-style kitchen chairs. Another time picked up a 'Johnson's baby' purple box which is absolutely perfect as a toy toolbox for my daughter - was so pleased with that! Also another time found someone throwing away exactly the thing I had been looking for - a sort of chrome combined magazine rack and double toilet roll holder, in perfect condition - fished that out of the scrap metal skip before it got buried! I also used to find things in the paper banks - I loved collecting recipes especially from Country living and Sainsbury's magazine and sometimes found pristine copies of those being recycled (my boyfriend at the time commented I was the only person he knew who made withdrawals from a paper bank - but I have a fabulous recipe collection that I use a lot!) My favourite places though are skips. I have a small paperback book on small-holding (can't remember the title but if you have seen it you'll know the one I mean) which contains the line 'Skips are a fantastic source of everything ... I never pass one by' and that is so true! In skips I have found yards and yards of bubble wrap, a decent wheelbarrow, lots of firewood, lots of wood useful for building things like chicken coops, rabbit hutches etc, chicken wire, roofing felt, a nice wood and cast iron garden bench and two wooden arm chairs, doors, windows (to use in garden), plant pots, bricks, topsoil, greenhouse staging, a nice bookshelf, useful storage shelves, a folding chair, an office chair (gave away on Freecycle), a pine TV table... I'm sure there are more things but I can't remember any more at the moment. If I see a promising-looking skip (eg a house being renovated) I often go past for another look a day or two later. Also when I used to live on a boat I went diving in the river and found some useful mugs and a couple of earthenware casserole dishes.
Walking or cycling is definitely better for scavenging - you get more time to see what's around, without having to stop the car and go back to look! Can be hard to carry things away though.
I'm supposed to be working and this is just making me want to go for a stroll around to see what I can find!:rotfl:
Oh yes I save receipts with unused points too, from Tesco's or Co-op. If you find one that says 'if you had a card today you could have had xxx points' just pick it up and next time take it to the counter along with your shopping and explain that the last time you came in you forgot your card so can they add the points please. That's what I do anyway.

ma-ri-ella

scuzz wrote: »

Just take the receipt and your club card to the Customer Services and ask them to put the points on for you. They'll do it no questions asked

Think the time limit is around a week, but I'm not certain.

the only thing with this is if you do it to often or are seen on camera they will stop adding on points for you altogether because its not allowed:(

mrbadexample

Found £30 this morning when I walked round my mate's house to collect my car (just a wee-bit too drunk to drive after the rugby-fest yesterday!)

Guess I'll be off to the police station tomorrow - I keep thinking it might be someone that really needs it - could be someone on here! :undecided

scuzz

For the first time in ages, I actually found a coin on the pavement.....

..... a whole penny!!:rotfl:

Oh well, it's gone in the coppers jar

Fern_Merkin

Around our way people often leave quite good quality items in the back street in the hope that someone will take it away. I have had many useful objects like garden planters, edging stones and a computer table!

Best recent find is a picture frame with glass that is perfect for a poster I have. Just need to remove the ubiquitous poorly printed Monet at voila!

Long may this continue! :T

Chocmonster7

My latest find is a 1p coin, which appeared when I removed the skirting board in my spare bedroom that I'm rennovating at the moment. It has the date stamp 1971 so now I know when that room was last decorated!

EssexGirl

Not exactly a "find" but it was nice....When I was about 5, I was on a tube train with my mum and a man came over and said I was the happiest looking kid he had seen and handed my mum some notes and told her to get them changed up for me. Turns out he had just come back from Saudi Arabia with "spare change" and couldn't be bothered to go to the bank! Was about £30 which was a very handsome sum 30 years ago..... I remember I got bought a lovely dress that I had my eye on but we couldn't afford

I found a gorgeous Dior silk scarf on a bus once. Loved it, wore it so much, it was the softest and warmest scarf I have ever owned. then one day I left on the tube... I like to think it whoever found it loved it as much as I did.


I thought I'd found 12p outside my local Tesco the other day, but something made me kick the coins first. Lucky I did cos they were glued to the pavement lol. Bet theres a security camera trained on it and the staff have a good laugh.