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  • calmgirl
    calmgirl Posts: 604 Forumite
    The best thing my husband found was at Christmas, about 200 2nd class stamps, just lying on the floor. He did look around but there was no indication of where they could have come from so while we felt bad for whoever lost them it did pay for all of our christmas post and we gave his parents about a 100 of them too
    Money's too tight to mention!!!
  • my dad recently went to get a chinese takeaway as a treat for the family. paid by credit card. went outside and found £20 on the street paid for their treat lol!
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  • Smiley_Mum
    Smiley_Mum Posts: 3,836 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Last year I was in a cafe in town and was waiting to pay for my drinks etc and saw a tenner lying on the floor. Picked it up and asked the few people that were before me in the queue but it wasn't theirs so it paid for lunch.
    “Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” - Oscar Wilde
  • RacyRed
    RacyRed Posts: 4,930 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Don't usually find much but this week a £10 note literally flew into my face! I managed to grab it before the wind carried it off again. No idea where it came from and there were very few people around.

    Shared it with a big issue seller in the hope that that luck will come back again. icon7.gif
    My first reply was witty and intellectual but I lost it so you got this one instead :D
    Proud to be a chic shopper
    :cool:
  • pandas66
    pandas66 Posts: 18,811 Forumite
    Over Christmas a good friend of mine found penny after penny and after a recent run of 'bad luck' she was more than happy to accept good luck into her life. Things have changed for the better for her too.
    Panda xx

    :Tg :jo:Dn ;)e:Dn;)o:jw :T :eek:

    missing kipper No 2.....:cool:
  • Smiley_Mum
    Smiley_Mum Posts: 3,836 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Usually find pennies, 20 pences, 5 pences on a daily basis too. Found a fiver on the floor of M&S underneath a bunch of clothing racks too. Gleaned a few pound coins out of the Tesco trolley stores too, usually the one with dodgy locks!!
    “Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” - Oscar Wilde
  • Yorkielass
    Yorkielass Posts: 2,235 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Haven't found much for a while odd penny here and there then on Thursday night was on campus and a girl went and got a drink from a vending machine - put a £1 in for a 90p drink took the drink and walked off - so I just went and checked the change tray and there was 10p :j think I need to make it my business to walk past the venders more often - these students have more money than sense me thinks
    Initial Mortgage January 2024 - £160,000
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  • Smiley_Mum
    Smiley_Mum Posts: 3,836 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Found a £2 coin under my chair at Starbucks the other day. Paid for my hot chocolate, nice. :-)
    “Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” - Oscar Wilde
  • Agutka
    Agutka Posts: 2,376 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    When I was but a young girl I walked past a dip in the pavement on my way to school. This dip would turn into a puddle on a rainy day. In that puddle there were always coins. For what seemed like weeks one autumn I would find money in that puddle. Amazingly, I also remember the day the puddle was empty. It confused me. I never found coins there again...
    :wall:
  • grownup1
    grownup1 Posts: 270 Forumite
    Most weeks I find coins (mostly small) at the taxi drop-off point in front of Cambridge station, where people have been scrabbling with change in a rush to catch a train. Don't mind a bit of competition if you want to keep your eyes peeled too. Makes commuting slightly more exciting! Probably works at most stations.
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