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  • Gingham_Ribbon
    Gingham_Ribbon Posts: 31,520 Forumite
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    The £20 I found and handed in at the theatre finally came back to me in the form of a cheque just before Christmas. :j

    Just found my old post and I found £40, not £20. I wonder what happened to the rest of it? :(
    May all your dots fall silently to the ground.
  • Rikki
    Rikki Posts: 21,625 Forumite
    The most money I've found was a £10 note while out walking in the park. Plenty of pennies on the path, last week a fifty pence.
    I once found a purse in the toilets of a motorway cafe and handed it in.
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  • SueRob_2
    SueRob_2 Posts: 153 Forumite
    My son found a rabbit, which we did keep, he's still alive & well & very friendly. His previous owners did a moonlight & set him loose as they left.
    Today at work we cleared out the cupboards & I've been given 2 plastic trays, a storage box & some labels. Woo Hoo
    Sue
    The mind is like a parachute, it works best when open
  • I always pick up the coppers I see on the street. Most I ever found was a £75 wage packet when I was wee. My parents handed it in to the police and the owner gave me a £15 reward. :j
    Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
  • Lillibet_2
    Lillibet_2 Posts: 3,364 Forumite
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    This year I'm saving/keeping records of everything I find:idea:. So far it's been a measly 3 elastic bands & that's only 'cos the dog found them first & tried to eat them:wall: (if I gave royal mail the bill for the number of times he's been to the vet over this they'd have to put the cost of stamps up again......:eek:)
    Post Natal Depression is the worst part of giving birth:p

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  • calleyw
    calleyw Posts: 9,896 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper I've been Money Tipped!
    FunkyFairy wrote:
    Elastic Bands the red ones the post man leaves. I have a rather big rubber band ball now.

    Doubt that yours is as big as this one

    :rotfl:


    Yours


    Calley
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  • twink
    twink Posts: 3,826 Forumite
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    i read somewhere that if you are feeling down you walk along with your head down not me i am looking for pennies and sometimes pound coins too i keep them in my jacket pocket then give them to charity
  • moggins
    moggins Posts: 5,190 Forumite
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    I've decided that I am heading out to one of my local streets at 6am on Sunday morning. There are so many bars in that street that traffic is actually banned from them on a Saturday and Sunday night. I could make a fortune picking up all the loose change dropped by drunks. :D
    Organised people are just too lazy to look for things

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  • Wig
    Wig Posts: 14,139 Forumite
    Recently:
    Found a parking ticket on my windscreen last week.
    Found 200m of two strand 4 point galvanised barbed wire. :confused:


    Ages ago:
    Found 20 quid walking home from pub
    Found lots of pound coins by kerb where some drunk had dropped them.
    Found Galvanised watering can in skip.
  • metherer
    metherer Posts: 560 Forumite
    As a kid I always used to be finding stuff.
    My best find was a nearly new swiss army knife, which i used for years until i lost it - hope someone else found it! :o

    Used to find a couple of tenners and fivers a year, on average, plus all the 1ps and 2ps.

    Nowadays i don't find so much, but then i guess i'm not looking properly. As a child it was my only source of income, but now i'm earning... :rolleyes:

    Oh, and while i remember, November the 6th always used to be the best day.
    We'd get up early, go down to the site of the previous nights bonfire, and look for money that had been in sofas put on the fire. When we were teenagers we moved to searching them before they went on, and used to find paper money too! :T


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