Your Lucky Day!

First of all, I can spot money on the ground from about 50 feet away. Really.

Three best finds:

1. One day while walking down the main drag in my hometown, I cuold see a $50 bill on the sidewalk ahead. For some reason, I had to stoop down on that spot to "tie my shoe".

2. One night while getting on a transit bus, I could see some money laying on the stairs up into the bus. I picked it up, and when showing the driver my bus pass, gave him my business card to let him know that if anyone reported losing a sum of money, they could call me (no one ever did). Found amount: $65.

3. About two months ago, I drove my SO to work. She had something she wanted to show me at her desk. While we were walking across the parking lot to the door, I found three 20s and a 10. Again, I let someone know that I had found a sum of money behind the building and if anyone was missing some, they could call me. Again, no one did.

Found this in 1986. My best find so far.

When Burger King had their promotion with the money in the wallets and someone had dropped one of those wallets outside my job (convenience store). A customer brought it in that night and a coworker put it to the side, as it was busy and she never got to look at it. I came in the next morning and started poking around in the wallet, it turned out to be a $100 bill with the King's sticker over it.

Also, finding $10 underneath the condiment station at work.

While jogging along a canal in the middle of the city, a bicycle rider went whizzing by and out fluttered a few pieces of something. When I caught up to the spot, I picked up 13 dollars. My shouts went unheeded as he was a few hundred yards away by then.

In high school I delivered pizzas. One night in change I found a $1 bill with serial number 00000001.

Last year our church did a fund raiser where they put a big 5 gallon water jug and everybody dropped their pocket change. I volunteered the task of taking it to the bank to cash in the change. Of course I went through it all before I cashed it in. I found a bunch of tokens, a handful of wheaties, a few silver mercs, a few silver roosevelts, and a 1927 gold quarter eagle.

My brother and I were at the flee market in Grayslake, Il years ago. He picked up a Playboy magazine from the 60's, not paying attention to anything but the magazine, I reached down and picked up a $20 bill that was between it and the next magazine.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to become a professional archaeologist, but my mom said that I would never make any money at it. Later, on a family vacation, we climbed an Aztec pyramid together. While my mother was catching her breath and enjoying the view, I was looking down at the stones and rubble. There amidst the rocks were about $10 in Peso notes. My first comment to my mom was "see, archaeology can pay off!"

I've worked as a professional archaeologist ever since, but have never found paper money at any other site.

As a kid I was at our local park for a baseball game. Found $65 dollars behind the dugout. Went and told the ladies at the concession stand they held the money till all games were over. Nobody claimed it and I got to keep it.

And when I was in H.S. I used to work at the Atlanta airport for a newsstand and would tell the cashiers if they found any old currency to let me know when I did deliveries. Got a one dollar silver certificate one day. But the day one cashier had a fifty dollar silver certificate I didn't have enough money to get it.