What's the Most Money You Have Found . . ?

I used to work at the credit union branch in Chapel Hill on Elliott road and sometimes over lunch break I would take walks at the shopping center across the street - one time around the Christmas holidays I was out walking and I saw a credit union money envelope and I picked it up and it had $500 in it - I went back to the branch and we were able to figure out who it belonged to and got the cash to that person
 
I used to work in a building that had a bank on the ground floor. Because it was an old building, I believe it is the oldest multi-floor building in Uptown Charlotte, when I left the building I had to walk through the bank on the ground floor. Once I saw an envelope on the floor, picked it up and there was $400 in there. This was like 20 years ago. I immediately went to a teller and asked to speak to a manager. A manager was within hearing distance and came right over. I handed him the envelope and explained how I found it. He said they would handle it. A couple of months later, I asked the bank teller, a cute young female, if they were ever able to get the $400 back to who lost it. She said no one ever asked about it, so they used to $400 to have an extra special Christmas party that year. At that point in my life, $400 wasn't going to make or break me. But really, they couldn't even give it to charity or invite me to the Christmas party?
 
Found a hundred dollar bill laying on the ground right outside of a grimy porta-potty at a local fishing hole.

I stood there staring it for a minute going over a few things in my head.
1 - Was this a prank (was it urine soaked or did it have shit smeared on the downward facing side)
2 - Was it ever in the floor of that nasty port-potty (same issues as above but unintentional this time)
3 - This one is out there, but was this some dirty porta-potty paid sex money that got dropped.

Anyway, I kicked it over with my foot and there was nothing on the other side and it didn't look damp so the dirty porta-potty paid sex money went in my wallet.
 
When I worked bagging groceries at Kroger in high school one of my co-workers had a stack of fake folded over $20 bills that had a religious message contained inside. He'd drop those on the floor at the store and it was hilarious watching people do all sorts of weird things to make it look natural while they tried to pick it up without being noticed. They'd typically stick it in their pocket and bolt thinking they got away with something. Always funny to think about their reaction when they figured out what it actually was.
 
Enigma94 said:
When I worked bagging groceries at Kroger in high school one of my co-workers had a stack of fake folded over $20 bills that had a religious message contained inside. He'd drop those on the floor at the store and it was hilarious watching people do all sorts of weird things to make it look natural while they tried to pick it up without being noticed. They'd typically stick it in their pocket and bolt thinking they got away with something. Always funny to think about their reaction when they figured out what it actually was.
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As someone who probably would have acted just as you describe, . . ., that's just mean.
 
HandsonFire said:
When I was in high school a friend found 30k and gave it away to all of his friends. Bought friends car stereos ,drugs, booze, just gave 1k to a few people. He basically found money that someone had embezzled from someone else. True story no bullshit.
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That guy must of been a radical leftist socialist Democrat...

Giving away 30k for his friends to enjoy ?

When he could have invested that in the stock market to make even more $$$ for himself ???

Makes no sense :(
 
When my mom died we found $2700 in an envelope in an old fur coat. No way mom knew about it, pretty sure the coat was my grandma's or aunts (who both passed many years before).

Used most of it to pay for the college labor dudes we hired to help clean out her place and move all the furniture, etc.
 
My sister found $6k in an envelope in the closet of a house she was renting. She had been there for months, but no one had used that guest room during that time so nobody found the envelope. She returned it to the landlord who didn’t seem very happy that she had found it.
 
Rock said:
I completely forgot. I was running on the KU campus about 10 years ago and found a wallet leading to the student dorms. Opened it up and it had $350 in cash in it. All of the IDs you’d expect, student, drivers license, etc. I used Google and Facebook to figure out who the kid was. He didn’t have a Facebook/Instagram but his mom did. His parents owned a bank in Kansas City. I messaged the mom and said hey I found your son’s wallet, here’s my number. We arranged a meetup and here’s the interesting part.

Of course, I could have pocketed the money and said I found it empty or something. But, I just “knew” that the kid was going to give me a reward for finding it. Just felt it. So I was almost being nefarious in my desire to return it because I knew they’d give me a reward. And when I got there, the kid was kind of embarrassed, reached into my car from the passenger side and grabbed the wallet, opened it and threw a hundred dollar bill at me.

I still think about it sometimes because I did a good thing but almost did it because I knew I’d get a reward from it…
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Your story reminds me of one of my favorite human kindness stories ever.

About 15 years ago, I had an early morning flight with the family to Oahu. I was so exhausted when we got to the hotel (and couldn't check in early) that I accidentally left my wife's computer bag on the beach. I then forgot about it, which led to a fair amount of marital discord later in the day when we realized the bag was missing.

Later in the evening I received a call from someone who had found the bag. He was a surf instructor by the hotel. He had logged into the computer, found my Facebook page, which had a cell phone number in the about page, and used that information to call me. Otherwise, there would have been no way to know whose bag it was.

I then met him near the hotel and got the bag. He was with his girlfriend and the two of them were basically models. I then gave him $100 for saving my marriage, which I had to argue with him for a minute for him to take the money. He finally did, and then went a few yards down the street and gave it to a homeless person. Which is pretty impressive because Waikiki is an expensive place and surf instructors aren't rich.

So here you have two of the hottest people on earth, going to great lengths to figure out who owned the bag, and then giving the reward money to a homeless person.

I will remember those people for the rest of my life.
 
Calheel said:
Your story reminds me of one of my favorite human kindness stories ever.

About 15 years ago, I had an early morning flight with the family to Oahu. I was so exhausted when we got to the hotel (and couldn't check in early) that I accidentally left my wife's computer bag on the beach. I then forgot about it, which led to a fair amount of marital discord later in the day when we realized the bag was missing.

Later in the evening I received a call from someone who had found the bag. He was a surf instructor by the hotel. He had logged into the computer, found my Facebook page, which had a cell phone number in the about page, and used that information to call me. Otherwise, there would have been no way to know whose bag it was.

I then met him near the hotel and got the bag. He was with his girlfriend and the two of them were basically models. I then gave him $100 for saving my marriage, which I had to argue with him for a minute for him to take the money. He finally did, and then went a few yards down the street and gave it to a homeless person. Which is pretty impressive because Waikiki is an expensive place and surf instructors aren't rich.

So here you have two of the hottest people on earth, going to great lengths to figure out who owned the bag, and then giving the reward money to a homeless person.

I will remember those people for the rest of my life.
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I will remember this post for the rest of my life:love:

Thank you Cal

If only we had more Calheels and more human kindness surf instructors in America today...
 
C-Money said:
When I was a teenager a bunch of friends and I found this old pirate treasure in some caves and used it to save our families' homes from foreclosure.
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That's a great story to hear, I have quite a few pirates in my family and we've often wondered what could have happened with that treasure.
 
Not me but my buddy ( HVAC contractor) found 10-20k behind a filter on a return grill (it was in a bank deposit bag). This was during prep for an estate sale. He left it in place and told the real estate agent and owner.
 
1moretimeagain said:
I once found a 12 pack of beer that someone left in the bottom area of a shopping cart and returned the cart to the corral.
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Ah, college! My friends and I stumbled (probably literally) upon a 12 pack of beer sitting on the sidewalk while walking across campus late one fine weekend night. Free beer was the best kind back then.
 
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