When was the last time you found cash on the ground?

Not that it happened all the time, but when I was younger I found dropped cash on a regular basis. A $5 here or a $20 there. I even found $200 once in a parking lot that was in a white envelope with no other markings. But times change, 99/100 times if you asked me if I had any cash on me the answer would be no. Everything is debit for me these days, and I suspect it’s much the same for everyone else because I got to thinking that the last time that I found cash on the floor was in a bar probably 7 years ago when I scored a $5 that was mashed up next to the rail.

When was the last time you found money?

Hmm, serious money, not the odd coin?

Now that you mention it, I can't remember finding folding money on the ground in years and years.

Have found a couple Metropasses (monthly Toronto transit passes, worth in the hundred buck range).

I was on a beach trip with a group from my church when I was 16, and we started finding bills in the water - nothing smaller than a $20. Turns out the Coast Guard had nailed a boat off the shore of North Carolina two days before. Whether the boat was sunk, or the loot was intentionally chucked overboard, we weren't clear, but between us, we found over $300, and other people seemed to make out similarly well.

Since then it's been two decades of pennies and nickels. :(

I've never found anything larger than a $10, and not in a while. If I ever do come across a large sum I hope I have as cool a story to go with it as OCS.

And talk about a conscience-free find! I'm defective or something, because finding $200 in an envelope would just make me think of old ladies losing their pill money or some other equally sappy thing. :P

Yeah, that thought crossed my mind right as me and two fresh beers were settling into our bleacher seat at the Cubs game that occured thanks to the find, but maybe it was hitman money or it was going to be used to purchase heroin for kindergartners. One never knows.

Cubs won too.

I found a nickle AND a penny just the other day! Oh, and I also found a quarter in the change slot of a pop machine a week or so ago. Sweet! :D

I've found several €10s and €5s in my time. The best time I found a €10 was on the floor of a pub when I was flat broke. Sometimes people drop money in our store and never claim it. I believe we found a €50 one time on the floor. After my dad died I found a wodge of notes in an envelope he had hidden on a bookshelf! There was probably €400.

I found $400 in a parking lot 3 years ago. Haven't found anything bigger than a dime since then.

A few years ago I was working part time driving for an auto auction. I would drive 100 to 150 cars about 1/8 mile each. Just enough time to search seats, console and glove box. I'd rake in about $40 to $50 each time I worked. Plus CD's, rings and other goodies. Auction policy was we could keep anything not part of the car. One driver found a wedding ring and turned it in so the auction could contact the previous owners. A week later he received $150 reward from the previous owners. After the auction dealers would pay $30 to drive a car to their lots. I made more on the side than I did for driving.

Just found 25p in the washing machine pump. It is usually screws that I leave in my pockets that cause all the rattling :)

Found around £200 on the floor in IKEA. Asked a guy in front of us if he had dropped it and he looked kinda relieved and grateful, thanked us and walked off. Wondered later if it really was his?

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Originally posted by RabbitMage

I found $400 in a parking lot 3 years ago. Haven't found anything bigger than a dime since then.

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That's what you get for blowing all your cash karma at once.

I found a twenty on the ground about a year ago at a gas station. When I was a kid it seemed like we were finding money all the time, but it is a lot rarer nowadays. I also found somebody's entire wallet on the ground once when I was about ten. I dropped that off at the police station, since it's a wee bit easier to find the owner that way.