Post Your Stories & Pix Of Found Money

Very good, MrPink!

Sounds plausible.

it has been a while since we last saw the dancing banana here:





that fiver was in the drive-up lane (of a popular fast food & beverage chain) way back by the menu board, nowhere close to the drive-up window. first fiver of the year. that's as good as two weeks of pickin.

a little while later, I discovered this:



see all those coins? all zincolns, twenty-five of them. of course, every one of them had been driven over. trashed, all of them, but they all went into a tube regardless.

and then I picked a dime from somewhere else.

so, three stops for $5.35. I have 2 full tubes of zincolns, i'll roll those up and add them to the bank bag.

i was previously working on cycle 21. I recently swapped-out nine 1g bars of Au from the bag of street-acquired treasure for two coins from my collection:









my 2016-W 1/10oz winged liberty gold commemorative and one of my 2008-W/Rev. '07 burnished ASEs went into the bag of street-acquired treasure. those are two coins that I do not want to sell. this move allowed me to sell the nine bars, but still retain the overall value of the bag. the cost of the nine bars is nearly exactly what the cost of those two coins were when I bought them. that worked out nicely.

so, gone are cycles 10, 11 and 15, and partly gone are cycles 9 & 13. those two coins became cycle 21. I am now working on cycle 22, which just bumped up to $63.

$81 to go to achieve $5K.

i was shocked, I nearly sailed right past it. odd place for it so far away from the window... that place closes at 7pm, so it had been lying there for about 5-6 hours, and no one else ventured through there?... good for me. I find cash so infrequently these days that I sometimes wonder if i'll see it when I happen upon it. a find like that puts away any doubts I might have about my eyes' ability to see cash on the ground. joy.

Congratulations, MrPink2018! You scored pretty big!

thank you thank you.




the experiment is no longer about whether it'll work or not- because it clearly does- but how long it can continue. last night's picks plainly shows why: as long as we use this system of currency there will always be instances of it being lost or tossed.

tonight's major score wasn't cash or coins, as I picked only fifty-six cents.

there's a Pizza Hut across the street from a bank where I feed a kitty. I roll past it every night. I had just fed that kitty and was leaving the bank property. as I crossed the street and approached the Hut I saw a tidy stack of boxes on the hand rails & knew what it was, so I stopped to examine it. I read the receipt stuck to the pizza box: 1 medium cheese pizza w/stuffed crust, 6-piece chicken wings w/sweet chili sauce and an order of cinnamon breadsticks w/a small tub of icing, and it was all still warm! fresh! thirty bucks-worth of grub! everything was still sealed shut in the boxes & container. that was about 12:30am; the Hut closes at midnight. that order of food was supposed to have been delivered to Rick's bar downtown. I don't know why it wasn't. or maybe it was & no one was there to receive it & maybe it came back to the Hut. I don't know, but I scored.

a little while later I also scored a 16.9oz bottle of publix purified water, unopened.

so... food, water & some change tonight. deal!