Post Your Stories & Pix Of Found Money

Very cool MrPink2018. Nice bars.

I alluded to this in my post the other day. Behold:

The Epic Jackpots of Tuesday, November 28, 2023

On my campus, the physics, astronomy, and math buildings are all connected, and each has a set of vending machines so I can kill three birds with one stone over the span of about 9 minutes. In the final building, at about 5 PM on Tuesday, I noticed a full change slot at the snack vending machine, indicative of the machine having spazzed out (similar to what got me my epic $4.50 in one spot jackpot back in May) - so I started scooping everything that was in there out onto the floor so I could pick it all back up. To my delight, it came out to $7.25, mostly quarters - itself record territory if we're talking strictly coins!

Some three hours later, I was done studying for the evening and found myself face to face with a full reject bin at my friendly neighborhood Coinstar machine. With the coin pocket of my pants already full from earlier, I had no choice but to just grab handfuls of change - mostly nickels, and only one at all problematic in terms of weight or size - and throw them in the pocket with my keys. I counted everything once I got home and there was some $6.58 in that reject bin, and my total for the day came out to a whopping $15.47!


The quarters are in stacks of 12 ($3). The Coinstar finds are stacked separately from everything else; each stack has 10 nickels ($0.50). Pre-1970 nickels are the three stacks in the corner, separated by decade; the oldest was a 1940-D. Truly one of the greatest days of my life in terms of finding money.

And now, for good measure, a 1946 wheatie that had been looking good for 77 years old before being dropped at a McDonald's drive-through and driven over by vehicles...truly sad what happened to this one in the last 24 hours of its circulating lifespan before I rescued it around 6 AM Wednesday morning.



Oh, and today I also found a 3 Musketeers bar and two packets of Skittles that somebody had apparently bought from a vending machine and forgotten to take...I find pens sometimes too at a vending machine that dispenses school supplies. Pens are profoundly useful for me as a college student, so those I appreciate!

awesome haul! far out!

This is typical of what I find.... and they were greasy, too

i picked $2.40 last night, all well-scattered change. nothing interesting, so it all went into the coffer.

$10.08 on the week. when was my last ten-dollar-plus week (coin only)? the second week of april this year.

friday night I scored an Old Navy fleece hoodie with blue & white candy-stripe draw strings, size S, so I didn't keep it, I just moved it along. it was brand-spankin'-new, smelled like it just came off the rack at the clothing store. I picked it out of the street on my way to a kitty.

last night I rolled up to what turned out to be a bag, on it's side, sort of crumpled a bit, so I investigated it, discovering a bottle of water and a handful of xmas candy, likely thrown from a float during the friday night xmas parade. fifty feet away in the same parking lot I discovered another bag, a red bag bearing the monroe county sheriff's department emblem and xmas sentiment:



warms the cockles, doesn't it?

i didn't keep the first bag, but I nabbed the contents of it.. I did keep the red bag, tho, and that red bag, too, had a lil bit o' candy in it..



it looked to me like that huge parking lot may have been an area utilized by the xmas parade floats, before and/or after the parade.. those red bags may have been used by the volunteer ppl on the floats tossing the candy and/or those red bags may have been distributed to anyone needing a bag to stow all the collected candy thrown from the floats..

i didn't go see the parade, but I nabbed a handful of candy & a bottle of water because of it.

That's a big win!

Epic indeed!