Found on the ground...

moggins

I have DD2 trained to pick up pennies as she's closer to the ground She found 20p in 5p pieces last week. I'll miss her when she starts school

Gingham_Ribbon

elvis_bloggs wrote:

I have picked up things all my life, I once picked up something and married it.

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I LOVE these responses! Keep 'em coming!

jazzyjustlaw

When I first saw this thread I though euegh that disgusting. I have never picked up anything other than money. There have always been things left on the ground such as hairslides where I live but I am not sure if I can pick things up will try.

kscour

My daughters are constantly looking out for coins when we're out and about but very rarely find any - must be the area we live in!
Eldest quite good at noticing money off vouchers though - found £1 off velvet toilet roll lying in a totally different aisle in Tescos once. They pool their finds in a little tub and share them out at the end of the month.
Didn't think about receipts for points though we'll have to keep an eye out for them!

Lillibet_2

Odd coins which all get thrown in the money box (if ever embarassed about picking up money I mumble "see a penny pick it up & all day long you'll have good luck" so that people think I am a bit barmy instead of broke. And I often adapt it to other things if I feel embarassed. Maybe I actually AM a bit barmy?:rotfl:)
Hair scrunchies
A camera (we handed this in)
A fleece (up Snowdon, can't imagine whoever left it was going to climb back up for it;))
A baby Einstine toy
A gold necklace (in a changing room in BHS, the assistant wasn't interested in taking it in case it was claimed:eek:)
A malachite ring
A £20 note (well, it was Kensington High Street and it was 10 years ago now!)
A £10 note (behind a wrought iron fence, had to go home & get a broom to be able to reach it:rotfl:)
Used soda cans (Hubby collects these & takes for recycling & gets paid by the black sack)
Plastic bottle tops (Local womens institute is saving them to recycle & get a wheelchair for local hospice)

Does anyone else often find coins in the reject slots of car park machines & phone boxes? I do:D Or am I the only one tight enough to always check the reject slots in the first place?:rotfl:

Mr_Skint_2

I once found Paula Abdul took her home and she sang at my Dads 50th (very handy).

Gingham_Ribbon

Lillibet wrote:

A £10 note (behind a wrought iron fence, had to go home & get a broom to be able to reach it:rotfl:)
Used soda cans (Hubby collects these & takes for recycling & gets paid by the black sack)
Plastic bottle tops (Local womens institute is saving them to recycle & get a wheelchair for local hospice)

Does anyone else often find coins in the reject slots of car park machines & phone boxes? I do:D Or am I the only one tight enough to always check the reject slots in the first place?:rotfl:

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I always check too. And I'm going to find out if someone round here is collecting bottle tops. And stamps come to think of it. Good to do a good deed and all that!

Love the story about the broom handle. That sounds so like something I would do.

I found £40 in a theatre earlier this year. I handed it in and the woman looked at me as if I was crazy. I gave her my details but never heard anything. She was raising her eyebrows and sighing like she was just going to bin my address the minute I walked away. I wonder if she pocketed it or if someone claimed it. I hope the latter, but if she took it at least it's her conscience not mine! :rolleyes:

culpepper

Oh is better at finding things than me.Once he found a caravan stabilizer at the side of the motorway.
DD found 2 £5 notes on her birthday.
I find odd small coins all the time.Just before last christmas I found a book of 1st class stamps with only one missing,then at easter I saw another stamp book and said to my DD 'cant happen twice' and picked it up to find 6 1st class stamps.
When I built this PC,I was going to save up for a monitor and saw 2 put out with the rubbish outside a shop.They said 'take them' and they both worked.

Curry_Queen

Allexie wrote:

(Does anyone else have to make sure nobody is looking when they do it?)

Ahahhhhh you thought no one was looking when you turned round, but I saw you :rotfl:

miacat

scuzz wrote:

Not found much at all lately

No one drops pennies around here anymore! Saw one in the pub on Friday night, but owing to the smell around there, I hate to think what was on it so left well alone!!

Tesco receipts that others drop with valuable points on are my favourite - next to cash obviously!

scuzz, funnily enough i saw loads of receipts outside sainsburys and thought of picking them up, but felt too embarrassed. but i kept thinking all those points waisted.