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Poll Question
So about a year ago I started thinking that I seemed to find quite a bit of change on the ground. I wondered how much change I would find in a year. So, on July 1, 2010 I started putting any money I found into an old pasta sauce jar. I also made a rule. If I saw a coin on the ground, no matter how small or out of the way, I had to go pick it up. Well, it's one year later and here are the results:  (I should also mention that the paper bills were turned into a lost and found for two weeks (where no one claimed them) before they came home with me.)     As to the poll question, I was just wondering what the rest of you do when you see money on the ground. Is it worth picking up?
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Jeez, where do you live, next to an armored car service run by the Beagle Boys? That's quite a haul! Or do you wander the streets 24x7 with your head down?
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Rest in Peace
United States
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My guess is that arthrene lives next to a junior high school where they commonly pelt each other with small, hard objects.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I will always bend over and pick it up! I love free money of an kind!
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Valued Member
United States
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Only if it's copper.... Just kidding, I pick it all up.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I always pick free money up. One time I found a Mercury dime. Another time I found Walking Liberty half dollar. Seems like I found an Indian Head penny once in high school. Had to ask my dad about it. Funny story. When I went college there were some prankster type guys that would super glue coins to the sidewalk. They would be in a pattern that looked like some one dropped a couple of coins on the ground. It was funny to watch people try to get them. What was even funnier was that people go used to coins on the campus square being glued down so they never bothered to try and pick them up. Quarters would sit on the ground for hours and no one would even slow down. |
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I should mention that some one scratched "GOOD LUCK" on the Walking Liberty. I suspect it was a graduation gift back in the day, then was soon lost. I was looking for it so I could take a pic of it but I put it in a special place so it would not get lost...
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United States
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Holy smokes, I've never found a 20$ bill in my lifetime let alone in a year....
I need to mover where you live! Some clumsy folks there.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Holy smokes, I've never found a 20$ bill in my lifetime let alone in a year....
 Me either. The best I have ever done is a $1 bill. When my kid was about 4 years old we were in the base exchange in Sigonella, Sicily. He came running up to his mom and I said "Mommy I found a dollar". I looked down to see what he was holding and the first thing I spotted was Ben Franklin! I said son that is a $100 bill. The wife reported that some money was found, but no one ever came forward to claim it so he ended up with some big time cash for a 4 year old. |
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United States
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Wow, of all things you would find in Sicily, an American note.
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I always pick up money I see on the ground, guess I got it from my Dad who passed away a couple years ago at 81, he did it most of his life right up until he got sick when he was 80. After he passed away my Mom gave me a coffee can with over 500 wheat pennies he had found over the years. "Nothing really rare, but helped my wheat collection". As far as the largest amount I ever found it was a wallet lying in the middle of the street back in 1963 when I was a teenager it had almost 100.00 in it, I took it home and showed my Dad it had identification in it he said it's up to you what you do with it, it's close to Christmas and that's a lot of money "which it was back then" I thought about it for a while and being young and having that much money I wanted to keep it, but decided I should take it to the owner, my Dad drove me to the address and this frail older lady answered the door and I could see she had been crying and when I showed her the wallet she started crying and hugged me and said her husband had just passed away and this was all the money they had, she had dropped it on the way home from the store, she offered me 5.00 reward, but after hearing and seeing her I said no that's ok, she said God Bless you son you're going to be a millionaire someday, lol well that never happened, but I did tell the story to Doug Stephan on his radio program, and he said I am going to send you that 100.00, and he is a man of his word, a check came in the mail for 100.00 a few weeks later. After I returned the wallet I felt good, and was glad I did it, and my Dad told me "I'm proud of you, I was hoping you would make that choice...
Sorry for the long story...
-Hank
Edited by tartop
07/02/2011 2:22 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Not sure where someone would live where there is that much money laying around but with the economy the way it is, not sure how long any coin would lay on the ground. In the last 50 years I can't remember seeing anything larger than a cent on the ground. And do to way to many operations, picking up a penny is just not something I could, would, should attempt. When it comes to finding money I don't even know to many people that ever find anything on the ground worth anything. I do know someone that cleans up in a bar after it closes and he does find coins on the floor. Most don't look like coins after being on a bar's floor all night.
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That is a great idea to keep track of. I own a C-store and I personally clean the carwash vacuums to pull the change. Most of the time I find around $3.00 a week mostly in pennies but hey it adds up.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I always pick coins up. I can spot them from across the parking lot. I also check all vending machines, pay phones, arcade games. heck anything that gives back change.
When self checkout at grocery stores first came around, I was finding loads of money. people didn't realize the bills were dispensed under the counter.
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"I'll pick it up if it's convenient" and by that I mean I will pick it up if no one is looking, or if the person or persons looking won't judge me.  Quote:
Sorry for the long story... No need to apologize, it was a good story.  |
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Canada
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I do pick it up but it's mostly pennies I find and I pick it up because I think it's lucky. I have no idea how you find paper money because in my 29 years, I have never seen any bills just laying around.
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Posted 07/01/2011 8:26 pm
