Mine was a one-dollar bill.

My daughter-in-law and I went shopping and found about 20 cents of penny's in the parking lot. And no, she wasn't too proud to pick them all up.

Me thinks that men don't like to carry a lot of penny's in their pockets.

Years ago I was going into a music store to buy a guitar. I saw a wallet in the parking lot, picked it up and found several hundred dollars in it.

I took it inside and gave it to the guys at the counter. They checked it and said the guy was just in the store and had just cashed his paycheck and would be very happy to have it back.

I bought the guitar I was after and they threw in a free case for returning the wallet and money.

Other than that I found $20 on the side walk once.

A herbivore like you could buy a lot of salad with $20 . . .

Herbivore? Herbivore? Are you kidding? I own a Traeger smoker you know? Meat is my middle name...sort of, depending how you spell it.

And $20 wouldn't cover the cost of the 9 lb. pork belly I bought at Costco and have curing in my garage fridge, to be smoked on Sunday.

Speaking of non-herbivores, we have salmon running in the creek on our property. While sitting at the fire pit, we watched an otter pull one out and devour it with one of its younger ones a couple days ago. I pay my cable bill to watch stuff like that on TV!

So, Johnny, you are ambivalent about my use of the word herbivorous?

Well, OK, maybe one herb :) But $20 doesn't get really you much!

saw a dollar bill ~




down in a latrine one time ~




threw in a twenty ~

When I was ten years old, I found $70 in my dad’s wallet.

In retrospect, I should have mentioned it to him.

But without that seed money you would never have amassed your present fortune.

Somehow seeing "EOD" and "seed money" in the same post makes me feel a bit ambivalent.

It all makes more sense once you realize that among bivalves like EOD and me "seed" is the past tense of "see."

Ah, I seed your point.

If you want to be absolutely correct, it’s “I done seed yer point.”

I wish you would just leave my arguement in-tact.

$5 in the pocket of a blaser...so I skipped SS and headed for the confectionery for Cokes and liquorice

$437.00.
In 1987 at a Jitney Jungle (Grocery stores in Mississippi). Went to buy a paper from the metal coin taking newspaper box. Found a ladies wallet sitting on top. Had $437.00 in cash in it. I took her license out and looked through the store to find her. She was gone. Had the store manager broadcast her name over the speakers. No response. Didn't want to leave her wallet with the manager. Went home and looked up her number in the phone book and called her. She didn't even know it was missing. She had just cashed her Social Security check, went grocery shopping and bought a paper on the way out. She lived about 5 miles away. I met her 30 minutes later in the Jitney parking lot. She was 76 and a widow. She was very grateful. Didn't offer a reward (I would've declined it) but told me that I must be a good Baptist boy (little did she know) and that she would pray for me. Strangely, that made me feel good.

That's a great story.

I remember it like yesterday. She was driving an Ice blue Olds Delta 98. It was a land yacht. She might have weighed 100 lbs. I remember thinking that she needed to downsize her vehicle.

I’m laughing at the thought of you raising your voice, and the $20 bill, “Did anyone here lose this 20 bucks?”

I saw a penny on the floor near the register line at a supermarket. I held it up and yelled, "Did anybody here lose a penny? Anybody? It has a picture of Abraham Lincoln on it..."

I found a $20 bill in a parking lot once. I felt like I hit the jackpot!

I'm one of those people who is constantly scanning the ground. IMO the absolute best place to look for coins is an amusement park. I always go home with a pocketful of coins, just from looking at the sidewalks. I imagine the workers who check under the rollercoasters do even better.

Once when I was working retail a customer had a purchase just under $100, handed me $ but it was 2 NEW $100 bills stuck together; I handed the customer the extra $100.

$1,500.00. But it was mine. I had put the money in a safe place and then forgot where the safe place was. It was in different safe place.

I think it was around $50. Found it in a toy store and as I was talking to the owner about it when a kid came in crying that he had lost it. I was so happy it turned out the right way :)

Damn! I gotta teach my kids that scam!

I found a $100 bill on the floor of the bank and gave it to a cashier. She said, "I'll take that!" LOL

But I did also find a $20 bill outside and so I kept that. Well, until I spent it.

On a downtown corner, beset on all sides by panhandlers, I looked to step to cross the street and saw a 20. Picked it up and had lunch.

I was on vacation in Rome many years ago, walking down the street and enjoying the sites on a shoestring budget, when I passed by an ATM by a tiny side-street. A recording on it, in English, was saying quite loudly "please take your money" over and over again. Curious, I turned to it, saw that a thick bundle of Euros was sticking out of the slot like the machine was sticking its tongue out. Automatically I grabbed it (no saint I) and walked off as nonchalantly as possible.

Later, when I had a chance to sit down in a secluded spot, I counted it and found that it was $250 Euros, a substantial sum for a backpacker like myself. I used my good fortune, in thanks, to buy myself a couple of extra days in Rome and gave generously to a few beggars that I met in my walks around the city.

Believe me I know what an insane story that is. I still slap my forehead thinking about it all these years later, that such a weird thing should happen out of the blue, a random ATM machine literally imploring a random passer-by to take money out of it.

My daughter did the same thing in Vienna.

I once left money in an ATM. I felt like such a chump when I realized it a few hours later.

I don't find money, I lose it... and other people find it. That's how it goes. And so it grows...

I usually lose multiple hundreds (too many times actually) but generally only find smaller bills, like 5$ & tens, and that's been five to ten (years). That's my luck!

I'm not a big loser.

I just don't find money.
I have to make it.

ufotofuNLI Wrote:
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> I don't find money, I lose it...
>
> I usually lose multiple hundreds (too many times
> actually) but generally only find smaller bills,
> like 5$ & tens, and that's been five to ten
> (years). That's my luck!
>
> I'm not a big loser.

I am! (Or was.)

In my drinking days I went into a bar I frequented and sat down. The bartender came up and poured me a big one, just what I wanted, "Hey, I'm a regular, nice to be known," I said to myself. I reached for my wallet, but the barkeep waved, "It's on the house."

"Nice, thanks!" I said. "What's this all about?"
"Oh, don't you remember? Last night you tipped me a hundred."

When cab driving, I occasionally had huge tippers, usually intoxicated. If the booze hadn't made them generous, they probably had fumble-fingered their denominations.

So nice their denominations could help yours.

Pell grants when I was going to go to college. It was a life changer.

$180000 cruzeiros in Brazil. About $60 US.

One hundred billion dollar zimbabwe note. Worthless but fun.

At the time, the exchange rate was about 5½ Francs to the dollar, so it was about $17. My companion and I really did need money at the time, but neither of us thought that God had blessed us. Instead we walked up and down the street looking for people who might have lost it. The trouble was it was the middle of the day and basically no one was around. So we kept it.

That said, I once had my wallet stolen with 250 Marks (about $135) on a train in Germany, and I once lost a change purse with $200 in the US.

Tyson

I was sitting at a bus stop once wearing my tatty old coat, when some girls walked up and started pitching pennies into the gutter. I looked over at them and said (surprising myself), "If you're just going to throw those away, I'll take them."

They each walked over and poured their loose change - a few dollars' worth altogether - into my cupped hands, before hopping the next bus.

In retrospect, I guess I might have looked like a homeless person, but even still, the idea of throwing away pennies and other small loose change is anathema to me.

Of course, I'm also the guy who paid my entire bus fare once in pennies before the local bus system where I was living stopped accepting them.

Tyson



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Found approx $90k after i subpoenaed my ex wife bank records. My TBM wife had secret bank account in her name for years..I also found out she was paying nearly 20% gross tithing..she was paying on my income in her own name behind my back.

quarter on the ground. Bend down to pick it up and found it was actually glued to the ground. Some kind of prank. So I went to my truck, got a screwdriver, returned to the scene of the prank and pried that sucker up.

Oh sd! That is SO you :)

3 cents left on top of the TV set

Hey, that was mine!

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Reading this thread has been so entertaining it’s made up for the time I left that money in the ATM.

$4,475

$50 which was convenient as I needed to get a taxi at the time.