How often do you find money?

How often do you pick up change off the ground? How much do you find? Do you think you find more because you are a coin collector and precious metal hunter so are therefore always looking but also willing to be "that guy" who picks up every penny?

I tend to find at least a dime or penny on the street every day. Rarely a quarter or nickel.

To think, even if I conservatively find only 10 cents per week that's over $5 per year!

 

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I find something on the ground at least once a week. When it's raining or the weather is nasty I find more. Outside of the Walmart door I've watched people look and pass on a dime or quarter because of the weather.

 

Just last Wednesday, I was at Wendy's when I spotted a quarter on the floor just below the donation box. So, I picked it up and put it in the donation box. If it had been on the other side of the room, I would have put it in my pocket. ~ Chris

PS. I'm always looking on the ground, even when walking through a parking lot. Fortunately, I haven't been hit by a car yet!

 

I always pick up change on the ground. It all adds up. When I lived outside of Boston, I would walk to and from a park to go jogging (walking was my warm up/cool down) and would always find money. I used to throw it in a jar and after 3 years ended up with almost $50 in change. I used it to buy a good bottle of Tequila.

Who says picking up change isn’t worth it?

 

I put everything found in a jar last year from January 1 until December 31. I found $84+. It is worth looking to me.

 

I found a roll of pennies in the parking lot one time. I also found a $100 bill in the Wal-Mart parking lot. It was mine. Before I went into Wal-Mart I knew exactly how much money I had in my pocket. Went shopping and stood in line at the register. Once I got to the register, I realized I was $100 short. I knew it must have come out of my pocket when I fumbled with my car keys. I was pretty much resigned to the fact I was in the store for over 10 minutes and there are literally millions of people living around me. Surely, it was some one's lucky day. That someone was me. The wind is howling this day. As I walk back to my car, there sits that $100 bill in the middle of the parking lot. Even a blind person could have seen it.

 

When I was working, daily. Now that I'm retired, maybe once every other week.

 

Gas Stations! Gas Stations! Gas Stations!!!

If you want to find a buck or two worth of change everyday walk around all the pumps at a busy gas station. People are constantly cleaning out their cars and drop change everywhere. I used to work here in Texas for Valero. I worked the night shift and at night I would walk around the pumps and parking lot. I would find at least a dollar every night!

 

I pick up pennies on the ground just to see if its got any numimatic value. Other than that I pixk up all coins and my beat find is a 1964 silver quarter and A 20 dollar bill

 

And restaurant drive throughs

 

I find money on the ground often. Coins and currency. There are four reasons for this (two of them particular to me, two of them more universal):

1. For several decades I put up with severe instability in both ankles due to high school basketball injuries. The slightest tilt in a sidewalk or small stone could send me down. Out of a need to protect myself from falling I walked looking down at the ground. I found literally pounds of coins.
2. After ankle reconstruction surgeries I still looked down out of habit. Then my daughter decided she would try to find more money than me. It turned into an annual contest. Her biggest haul: six $20 bills in a wad. Mine: a $50 bill.

3. I think a lot of folks NEVER look down on the ground. Just the other day I picked up a "parking lot zincoln" that must have been there a long time, as it was almost unrecognizable on the obverse side which was face up.
4. Picking up change on the street is evidently "beneath" some folks (pun intended). Not for me. As @myownprivy said, it adds up.

Steve

 

Last year walked out the front door to check the mail box. Something green was in a rose bush. Two twenty dollars bills neatly folded. The following week at a trail I walk regularly there was a twenty dollar bill in the empty parking lot. I see coins laying around the ground practically every day. I pick them up to see if there is numismatic value.
Even if there isn't I still got a free coin. When I was a kid, 10 cents got you a candy bar.

 

In nj at a wawa parking lot I went 14 finds in 14 visits but now in pa I am 1 for like 30 visits.

 

I go thru my wife's purse when her back is turned. This supplements my coin budget.

 

I went to a wedding reception about a decade ago and when my wife and I left, I found 3 folded $20 bills. I went back to the reception and spoke to the father of the bride and told him what I had found. He got everyone's attention and told them what I had found, but no one owned up to the loss. He told me to keep it. I went back to the car and took out an envelope from my briefcase and put the $20's in it and took it back to the reception and put in on the table with the rest of the gifts. The "kids" getting married would need all the help they could get.

 

Does anyone remember the complaint that was filed by a major fast food store that charged customers who picked up change at the drive-thru window with stealing? This was about 15 years ago. ~ Chris

 

Next time you are in an airport, check the floor. A lot of passengers lose coins going through security. TSA agents are required to turn all loose change in to the supervisor. They can't keep it. Many times at work I would see a coin on the floor and leave it there, wondering what it was.

However, no such rules applied outside of security. That's how I scored a $20 bill once!

 

My favorite is looking in coinstar machines...iv collected prob over 25 foriegn coins...from Colombia, Saudia Arabia, Mexico, Canada, South Korea, and Spain and believe or not just a couple of weeks ago a Silver 1962 Canadian quarter. I always always check vending machings as well people always never want 2 bend over to get that 1 nickel or dime lol and just leave them. The most iv found 2date looking in coinstars is $1.62 hard to believe people just leave it but better 4me lol iv also found 3 steel pennies there also....HappyHunting everybody

 

How often does your cat find money? My Ginger cat Elliot once came into the house carrying a five dollar bill!

 

I found two $20 bills in the parking lot of a casino once. I was a winner that day! Couldn’t exactly go inside and ask if anyone lost 40 bucks.