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I was in the middle of NOWHERE eastern Oregon. We were miles from the nearest asphalt. I happened to look down and find a $20 bill. There were no roads, camps, no nothing anywhere close.

Spent it on beer ASAP.
 
Found a wallet in the middle of the road, full of cash. Drove it to the police station. The officer at the desk sarcastically said. “Let me guess it’s got 2g’s in it”. Then laughed at himself.

He opened it and found the 2g’s. It was sad how surprised he was and how awkwardly he looked at me. The owner had called crying, it was his rent money and he lost his wallet.

The police expected me to steel the cash.
 
I find my own money. Apparently I'll put envelopes with a few hundred away in safe places and forget about them:laughing:

One Christmas 10 years or so back, things were going to be tight, really tight. About a week before Christmas I moved some shit on a high shelf and found an envelope with 700, and have no idea what it was from or when I'd put it there:laughing:
 
Projectjunkie said:
I find my own money. Apparently I'll put envelopes with a few hundred away in safe places and forget about them:laughing:

One Christmas 10 years or so back, things were going to be tight, really tight. About a week before Christmas I moved some shit on a high shelf and found an envelope with 700, and have no idea what it was from or when I'd put it there:laughing:
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Very similar experience for me as well. Here's a cut n paste from an earlier post of mine....

A very long time ago, I wound up winning a Tofu making kit in a white elephant office Christmas raffle :shaking:

Anyway, I needed a place to stash some cash some where no one would think or bother looking in, so I put a roll of 20's in the Tofu box and put it in our "Emergency Supply Box" in the garage.

Over time I had forgotten about it.....

In my recent move out of California, I was going through things to sort out and toss before my move. Came across the "Emergency Supply Box" to sort out and a synapse fired off in my head when I saw the Tofu making kit; and I suddenly remembered about the cash I had hidden..... :bounce:

Nice score, even though it was my money originally.....
 
Mother left her purse in on the shopping cart in the Walmart parking lot with over $6000 in it. Realizing she doesn't have her purse an hour later; races back the Walmart. Manager hands her the purse....Not a dime was missing. This shit only happens in Hurricane Utah... :dustin::dustin::dustin:

Back in the 60's, my sister when she was 5 y/o. Finds $1200 bucks under a rear floor mat of our shitty VW bug... :homer:
 
GonPostal said:
Very similar experience for me as well. Here's a cut n paste from an earlier post of mine....

A very long time ago, I wound up winning a Tofu making kit in a white elephant office Christmas raffle :shaking:

Anyway, I needed a place to stash some cash some where no one would think or bother looking in, so I put a roll of 20's in the Tofu box and put it in our "Emergency Supply Box" in the garage.

Over time I had forgotten about it.....

In my recent move out of California, I was going through things to sort out and toss before my move. Came across the "Emergency Supply Box" to sort out and a synapse fired off in my head when I saw the Tofu making kit; and I suddenly remembered about the cash I had hidden..... :bounce:

Nice score, even though it was my money originally.....
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Yeah, once during one of the upswings in the guns and ammo market I found 1k rds of brass 5.56 I'd completely forgotten about:laughing:


I get anxious when moving because I worry about stuff I've squirreled away
 
bigun said:
I worked at wreaking yrd for a while in the 70s, when ever a new wreak was brought in the first thing we would do was search it for valuables, found out on some vehicles you cout take off the horn ring and find stuff. most was a hundred dollar bill, but 20s were not uncommon
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My dad had a towing company and would have me go through wrecks before they got to the junk yard. "Go in that van and get anything out you can. Stay away from the drivers seat, his brains and vomit are all over the window and that seat. Don't let your sister go in or see the blood and guts."

I was 5yrs old. 8 track tapes were the thing. I never found money that I remember.
 
SIL has a house that she bought from the family of a man who lived there his whole life and passed. She had lived there for about 12 years and used one of the bedrooms just as storage. Her son wanted to stay with her while her was traveling back and forth to the Bay Area to work so he didn't have to get a house for the 2 weekend/month he would be back in town while not working. Now that someone is staying in the room, they realized no cold air from register in that room, or at least not enough to cool it down.

She calls an AC company and the guy is in the room and comes into the kitchen and tells her he thinks he found the issue. The duct is blocked about 2 feet behind the register. With stacks of cash.

They pull it all out and lay it on the bed.

42,600 in cash.

She gave the AC guy $1000 tip.

True story Jack!
 
Had a buddy that need the passanger airbag out of a 95-98 mustang local pick-n-pull had one told him he needed to go get it he didnt have the time and was short on cash told him ill grab it for him just pay me back went to pull it and $250 fell out last owner must of had it stashed on top of it.
 
Found a wallet laying in the road in front of my house. I can't remember how much was in it, but it wasn't much (less than $40 probably). Drivers license was in there. Some young kid. I drove over to the address since it wasn't far and nobody was home. I put the wallet on the front door stoop.
 
DannyK said:
Found a wallet laying in the road in front of my house. I can't remember how much was in it, but it wasn't much (less than $40 probably). Drivers license was in there. Some young kid. I drove over to the address since it wasn't far and nobody was home. I put the wallet on the front door stoop.
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Found a girls sytle wallet in front of my house a couple years ago. Had a few hundred, credit cards, but no ID.

Had some coworkers Facebook stalk her name and sent messages to all the matches asking for a descripition of the wallet and if it was theirs. Finally found someone who described it perfectly and the contents.

She came and got it that night. Turns out, she was at a neighbor's a few houses down and left it on the top of the car she thinks and drove away.

She was hot as fuck! DIdn't even get a hug :shaking:
 
Whenever the cops would do a dui checkpoint where i used to live (people always posted about them in the community facebook page), id go out and check the roadsides in the morning in both directions just before where the checkpoint was. Found drugs, cash, a taurus revolver, drug paraphenalia.

Saw a guy drop a fat wallet outta his pocket at the grocery store and caught him, gave it back. He chipped me a hundy.
 
Ransil said:
My wife seems to find money all the time pennies and up ...... She looks at her feet when she walks so I think that helps,when we ride bikes she see snakes I never see cause I'm looking 100 yards ahead for bears and deers.

She found $100 bill yesterday by the "money tree" next to the dumpster.

Best I did was a $20 bill in high winds blowing by me in a Walmart parking lot.
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She is observant while you are oblivious :flipoff2:
 
Projectjunkie said:
I find my own money. Apparently I'll put envelopes with a few hundred away in safe places and forget about them:laughing:

One Christmas 10 years or so back, things were going to be tight, really tight. About a week before Christmas I moved some shit on a high shelf and found an envelope with 700, and have no idea what it was from or when I'd put it there:laughing:
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My mother does this. It is the running joke that one day when we have to clean the house out, we will need to go through it with a fine tooth comb to not throw $$$ out. Books, picture albums, under lamps... no idea why she does it still, but I think it stemmed from not having $ growing up and always making sure she had a 'back up stash'.

I used to keep a $20 in the car stashed away for gas ect. Try to keep a bill in the wallet tucked away, cause never know.
 
I’ve lost money and recovered it hours later in a public park, scattered by the wind.

Single $20s and maybe a $50 bill but not that often would I see cash. I see a lot of change on the ground but I never pick it up.

Found a few bucks in my TJ when I bought it
 
When I was about 7 years old, I was at the state fair. Walking through the building I found about $70 on the ground. The “adult” I was with made me turn it into the state troopers providing security. I was told if no one claimed it, I would get it. I never saw it. I have suspicions. This was 67 so for a kid, it was a ton of money.
When my grannie was alive, she would find cash all the time. She just saved it for Christmas presents. It usually totaled into the high hundreds. You could always tell how good a year grannie had by the christmas present.
 
95stepside said:
all this talk of finding wallets reminds me of this

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That video reminded me of when I spotted a phone in the middle of the road and stopped and picked it up. I took it to work and a couple hours later it rang and the owner was calling. I told him where it was and he said he'd come get it. When he came to get it he didnt even say thanks. I wished I'd left it in the road to get run over. :laughing:
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I found 100 pesos folded tightly around some coke or meth at a gas station in Platteville Colorado. Dumped the drugs kept the pesos.
 
When I was a teenager we used to prowl the local bars next to the payphone banks. All the patrons calling taxis would over pay in the phones and never get their change out of them. We would easily rack up $10 to $15 bucks in an hour or two. Enough to get one of the drunks to buy us a 6 pack and some smokes.
 
Nothing for me recently but I got a few notable tales from the 80's.

Gather round youngin's I have a tale for you. Way back in the 1980's we carried cash and sometimes lots of it because there were no such things as bank cards or ATMs to dispense more cash.

There was a club, the Rock Pit. I pretty much lived in that bar 3 nights a week, great bands, hot and cold running women and cheap alcohol to be had by all. You could easily drink hard all night on $50 and maybe even have cab fare home.

One night right before payday I ran out of cash there and head hung low I began walking home. I was passing a 7-11 and figured I would grab a couple of chili dogs to soak up the booze in my gut. I am at the register paying for the dogs when I look down, you know at the candy bars and crap on the shelf below the register. Well there laid a nice crisp hundy. That hundy sure came in handy when it came time to pay the rent the next morning.

ATMs had just hit the banks and I didn't know a thing about them until a friend of mine showed me what it was all about. So this night I run short of cash at the ol' Rock pit and head up the street to the bank to use the ATM for the first time. I stick my card in and look down and the tray of this thing is full of cash. I figured maybe it just had spit it out on it's own or something. I made a $20 withdrawl and scooped it all up.

The next Monday I gave the bank a call and asked if anyone was missing cash, left my name and number and never ever heard another word about it. Almost 2K and back then that was a LOT of money.
 
DozerDan82 said:
My mother does this. It is the running joke that one day when we have to clean the house out, we will need to go through it with a fine tooth comb to not throw $$$ out. Books, picture albums, under lamps... no idea why she does it still, but I think it stemmed from not having $ growing up and always making sure she had a 'back up stash'.

I used to keep a $20 in the car stashed away for gas ect. Try to keep a bill in the wallet tucked away, cause never know.
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My grandpa was raised during the depression and does the same thing. I've heard it's common for folks from that era.
 
I lose my wallet all the time. Enough so that most of my cars have a Ben Franklin somewhere.

kinda related story. Buddy is taking his 90 year old father in law to the hospital. Casually emptied his pockets and had $20k in cash. Old man had a cash only business and didn’t believe in banks. While he was in the hospital, they went through his house and found a small fortune in cash. The family convinced him to at least get a safe….
 
I'm not sure how much money I found. I was standing in line for the ATM machine in the tunnels under downtown Houston. When it was my turn, I noticed the guy's card still in the ATM and "Next Transaction?" on the screen. I was too honest/stupid and called the guy back.
 
Somebody at local dump might have had a excellent day about two years ago, back story is during covid my mother wanted to sell one of her pickups she didnt use anymore,so i dealt with people and sold for her,10k in cash,gave her the cash as she hated banks,always has no biggie to me,for two years she kept asking if i needed any money as i was going thru divorce, never took any but always knew where she kept her stash money so it was available if needed, then she had a stroke,lost a lot of mental ability with it,i move her in with me and was cleaning out her house and made sure to check the stash places to get cash out of unoccupied house,didnt find but few hundo in normal places, i ask her if she spent it or hid somewhere else, she has no recollection of it,she was bit of a hoarder so when house was close to sale time i made a lot of dump runs and after the last run like two weeks later out of the blue she had a good mental day and just tells me," make sure you get under my computer desk and bring all the old shoes in old shoe boxes,i put all my cash in the toes of my old shoes and out them back in the boxes"............um you mean the old shoes in old shoe boxes i threw out to the dump like two weeks ago??????
Yep at least 10 grand in cash who knows how much more got tossed, maybe some lucky dumpgoer got lucky and found wads of cash that day before it got buried. Makes me a lil sick sometimes to think why i didnt look thru everything better
 
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