^^ oh hell yes, I worked at a movie theater in HS too. we always used to find all kinds of money and other cool shit.

7/31/2009 1:58:31 PM

55 bucks in a guys wallet after he took a dump and left the wallet. it was at the bathroom to sears when i was like 10. i found him like 5 minutes later nearby still in sears and was like you left your wallet in the bathroom. he got it and was like thanks etc

7/31/2009 2:00:28 PM

I remember one time we found a cell phone, and this was in like 1995 when cell phones weren't that common. we sat in the stairwell and called 1-900 numbers.

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7/31/2009 2:04:07 PM

$34 on the sidewalk during my walk home from the bars on glenwood

used it to buy my drinks the next night

7/31/2009 3:47:28 PM

my stepdad said he left his wallet with like 600 bucks in a phone booth once for like 4 hours and when he got back it was still there...i was like duddddddddddddde

7/31/2009 3:51:19 PM

lol, nobody uses phone booths anymore unless they need to get out of the wind to smoke some crack.

7/31/2009 4:44:18 PM

my uncle once left 10k cash in an airport bathroom on accident. he and my aunt were flying to china to adopt, and i guess they needed - or felt as if they did - to bring 10k with them. unclear.

some good samaritan returned all of it to an airport official.

my aunt was about to murder my uncle.

7/31/2009 4:49:58 PM

^^it was like in the 80's

7/31/2009 4:54:45 PM

Back before college I would hide my cash in my room, but one summer I came back from college and found $100 I forgot about. That was a good day. It probably sat there for a year or two.

I've never found a lot of money that wasn't already mine though. Maybe a $20 on the road.

7/31/2009 5:29:52 PM

I found $100 when I was like 10 in my neighbor's driveway. People would always cut through his yard to get from one neighborhood cul-de-sac to another (he was cool with it). My mom made me go with her to knock on a couple doors (we knew them all pretty well) and ask if they had lost money. (obviously you follow that up with oh yeah how much?)

I got to keep it but of course at 10 my mom made me save it

7/31/2009 5:46:57 PM

Found about $150 in a wallet with cards etc, looked the guy up on facebook, messaged him on facebook...then mailed it back to his address at ECU using some of the money in the wallet

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7/31/2009 6:16:44 PM

holy shit $100 would've bought all kinds of awesome shit when i was a kid

7/31/2009 6:20:18 PM

$50

7/31/2009 6:21:13 PM

im going to take some $20 bills, rub them in explosive powder, then leave them in airport bathrooms


turn that money in, or walk through security with it

7/31/2009 8:32:33 PM

I found $70 at RDU when I was about 13 or 14
I found $20 in the parking lot where I used to work about 5 years ago
I found $5 on the brickyard and $7 walking the dog in my old neighborhood

The other day, I left my wallet (~$100, credit cards, debit cards, ss card) in the chair at Starbucks. 30 minutes later, I noticed it missing and went back to retrieve it, and some guy was sitting in that same chair. I asked if anyone had turned in a wallet, and the manager said no. So I went over and asked the dude to get up and it was still there. Whew.

7/31/2009 9:35:56 PM

I was in California back in like 5th grade. Lost my Tevas at the beach to some massive waves, and as I tried to recover them, I got distracted because I found a wallet. It was full of cash, but I can't remember how much because evidently it belonged to a surfer who found me rummaging through it and thanked me for finding it. So I didn't get a penny out of it, but I guess it was somewhere around $50-100.

Other than that, I watched a dude drop a 20 near the Vortex at Carowinds when I was a kid, and even though the place was packed, I managed to run over and pick it up after he walked off and before anyone else found it.

I also found a coin collection in this chick's house one time. Back in '02 or so, there was this skank that always hung around my roommate and the gay dudes who lived in my suite. She had my friends' couch, so we went to pick it up and the apartment manager told us to take anything we wanted, because it was all about to get trashed (she went MIA and stopped paying bills and all, supposedly moved and left everything behind). It was finders keepers for my friend and I, and I got the coin collection. I'm guessing the value of that may have topped out around $50, and I still have it sitting somewhere. Surprised I didn't try to trade it off for a bag of weed.

8/1/2009 1:07:37 AM

i found $40 the other day by out apartment complex pool. i remembered a mom with a young kid asking people on that side of the pool if they had seen something but couldn't hear what she was looking for. when i found the $ i figured that was what she was missing so i turned it in to the apt complex manager. she knew the woman i described so the money ended up back with its rightful owner. while it would have been nice to keep the money, i was told that the lady was really happy and relieved to get it back and that made me feel good.

8/1/2009 1:19:13 AM

$100 bill under a coke machine at the Inn at Pelican Bay in Naples, FL

8/1/2009 8:22:12 AM

About a year ago I found like 50$ outside a hibachi restaurant in Dunn. My girlfriend and I were walking out and she stepped right on top of it and didn't notice. I picked it up and wasn't sure if she would get mad at me for keeping it so I didn't say anything. A little bit later we went to Dairy Queen and I paid using cash (something I rarely do) and she was like wtf? I told her I found it outside the restaurant and she said she would've kept it too.

8/1/2009 9:57:18 AM

$5 behind the sandwich counter of my old job. manager wanted it since she thought the register was going to come up short that night. But it didnt, so i got to keep it.


does anyone else pick up discarded lotto tickets on the ground to see if they are actually winners? i do that a lot when I'm jogging in the hopes up finding some free money

8/1/2009 11:45:21 AM

i pulled up to the atm one time and it asked me if i wanted to make another transaction; the person in front of me forgot their card

8/1/2009 11:47:10 AM