Finding money

[Mobile Manicure]

My husband has always been lucky and finds money in the street. I'm talking notes. Nothing mega but usually a fiver or a tenner, once even a twenty. He always sees it before me. Must have his eyes glued to the ground while my head is up in the clouds.

Now my 11 year old has the gift. Today we're out to lunch at a pub for a meal with Grandma and she goes off playing the fruit machines. Well, not really, just pretending, she's only 11 and has no money. Then comes running back to tell us there's money in the tray. I stroll over, have a look, and sure enough it's filled with £1 coins. Major haul. I'm thinking......what do we do? So I gather it up and chuck the coins in my bag. Then spend the next hour watching the machine while having our lunch to see if anyone comes to reclaim it. No one goes near it, no one approaches the staff at the bar about the money and I'm wondering what to do. If someone was missing it I would have jumped up and given it to them in a flash but no one did.

I'm wondering if I should ring the pub, explain what happened and then if they've got someone claiming it, they'll have to identify which machine it is from and I'll return it. I'm just thinking the person who answers the phone could say they have someone missing the money but then keeps it themselves.

In other words I want to return it to it's rightful owner. Not line the pockets of a staff member. What would you all do in my situation?

 

[x3stephanie]

If it was me, i'd keep it. Finders keepers! Or maybe I'm just mean?

 

[Annemarie]

If it was me I'd keep it too. Unless it was a wallet or a purse I'd hand them in without a doubt.
I've found 2 £5.00 notes in the street on 2 separate occasions within the last month.

 

[AmeliaR]

A little old lady hasn't dropped a fiver on the floor and you've pick it up!! It think something like that its no ones money so it may as well be yours!
There's been a number of times were ive physically been running down the street after a client who has accidentally pay me to much like when 2 £10 notes were stuck together or given me a £20 instead of £10.

 

[xxAmyxx]

You were good enough to wait and see if anyone came back for it and they didn't. I'd keep it and see it as good karma

 

[lydia c]

Keep it ! Others wouldn't hesitate , I wouldn't lol Xx

 

[Mobile Manicure]

I don't feel so bad now. I'm really honest when it comes to money, like when a client accidentally gives me too much I always tell them. It happens quite a bit. If I found a wallet I would hunt down the owner or hand it into the police but this is different i suppose.

I was in a bank once and an elderly customer in front of me pocketed a stack of £20 notes in his back pocket and strolled out. It was sticking out and I chased him down the street and stopped him to advise him to put it somewhere safer. I don't think he was all there to be honest. Would have been a real easy target.

I just find it really weird how someone can win all that money in a fruit machine and just leave it there!! How can you not notice? The bells and whistles would have been ringing, not to mention the sound of all those coins falling into the tray....unless the player was perhaps deaf and didn't pay attention? Very odd indeed! :?:

 

[gillian w]

I can't wait to change our settee when I Hoover underneath I can feel the weight of coins jingling around in the bottom of it.Its going to be like a casino machine in Las Vegas when I slice open the bottom.Mind you its probably mostly beer bottle tops

 

[x3stephanie]

I can't wait to change our settee when I Hoover underneath I can feel the weight of coins jingling around in the bottom of it.Its going to be like a casino machine in Las Vegas when I slice open the bottom.Mind you its probably mostly beer bottle tops

Haha, I love this.

I also think its fantastic when you find your money in a coat pocket or an old purse. Bingo!

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[ChicUnique]

I vote keep it too.


And re finding money, I found £10 in my handbag today - super chuffed haha xx

 

[Tomme]

Keep it. I know it might seem a little mean, but if the gambler wasn't so stupid they would have a few extra quid in their pocket.
A purse, phone or handbag is a different story, there are ways to track the person down, but losing a few pound is something that happens to us all, and often to the stupid idiots (I was one of them for years and lost £700 worth of mobiles in 2 weeks over 3 phones).

I find money quite often, always my own sadly, usually in old coats or clothes I had worn for a night out, nice little bonus's of £100 or more at a time that I spend on rubbish I don't need at all x

 

[Cholo]

Hmmmmmm.

If you were the one that the money belonged to, what would you want the finder to do?
I don't like the idea of benefiting from someone else's loss. What goes around comes around.
I vote to give it to charity (sorry!)

 

[becky30]

How much are we talking here, just a few quid or £50 or even £100???
If its just a few quid then keep it! If it£100's I wouldn't have even dared to take it out the tray!!

 

[Lynne Baker]

I would keep half and donate the other half to a charity close to your daughter's heart.
That way you give something back to the universe.

 

[Jigglyb4ll]

Ask your daughter what she wants to do with it...x

 

[Mobile Manicure]

What a good idea. I'll let her keep half and give the other half to charity. I'll feel better about it then. Can't help feeling guilty! She absolutely loves dogs (we don't have one) so perhaps the Dogs Trust. By the way, it was £40.

 

[dandelionpoppy]

Not really the same thing, but I paid for 2 items in H&M yesterday, totalling £24.99, by cash. I gave the assistant a £20 and £5 note. When she tried to hand me back £5. 01 I pointed out the error. She at first tried to say I had made a mistake, and then said in an embarrrassed way,"Oh!That's worrying!" Tbh I thought she might have thanked me, but I wouldn't have felt right walking off with it.

Then, when I got home I picked up an e-mail from a pupil's parent apologising for forgetting to pay me for the last lesson. (I get so involved in the lessons that I forget too!)

I do think it pays, in every way, to be honest.

If you can't re-unite the money with the owner then Lynne (as always) has given sound advice.

 

[becky262]

i would keep the cash