To find a lost wallet and keep the money inside

I once found a wallet in an airport in Switzerland with a fortune in cash in it.
I handed it in but then thought I should have tried to contact the person directly as who knows if someone else might have taken the money!

I did once find £30 cash in the street, and another time 40 Euros. I kept those, as no way of finding out who they belonged to!

Nope I'd hate the karma that would come with that!

Op I hope you never take him to your friends or family's homes and ask visitors to watch their handbags and wallets when they come round

Who has voted YABU OP - and why?! Fellow thieves?

Wanker

I was walking one morning and a woman pushing a buggy far ahead of me on a Sunday morning dropped her handbag - it fell off her buggy- it was an expensive brand, and I could see a thick fold of £20 notes inside {It wasn't fully zipped up}

Probably a couple of grand, easily. {this was about 15 years ago}
I ran up to her asking if she'd lost anything? {Hiding the bag from view}

She looked and gasped in horror- I handed her the bag back - and said ''everything is still in it'' - I didn't take a single £20 from that wadge of cash.

I suppose my dad counts as a 'boomer', but he can certainly not afford to lose money from his wallet. Not everyone over a certain age is flush, and your husband is a tit.

Yes, it would definitely be stealing. £10 note on the floor no one looking desperately in their pockets? Free money! Inside someone wallet - stealing.

Nobody is doing this. Staff working in shops have constant easy access to money. Nicking money out of a wallet isn't worth your job

So basically you are married to a thief,

What a toerag. "Theft by finding" is a thing

That is pretty disgusting but hopefully he’s joking…?! Funnyyyyy 😬

I found a wallet in my garden once so I posted it onto Facebook. No credit cards or money was in it and it was soaking wet. It had photographs inside along with a couple of different store cards

The owner came to pick it up and basically made out like I had taken things from it! If I find one again I'll just bin it.

@FindersKeepers1 Just out of interest what does he consider a boomer?

It's a nasty term thrown about and most of the time people cannot show me who these people are without asking them personally for their age.

I work in a supermarket and people hand purses,.wallets, handbags and mobile phones In several times a day everyday so definitely not the majority do you live in a dodgy area

That is theft.
When I was a poor student , I found a wallet ( in a Boots store) with over £500
I informed a sales assistant at Boots. I left my mobile number but held onto the wallet.
A gentleman contacted me an hour later and I met up him and returned the wallet
I did not leave the wallet at the store because I had previously heard of people handing in wallets and staff keeping the money

Firstly, keeping someone else’s AirPods? Gross.

Secondly, no, I would never steal. I found a wallet once that contained £400 in Home Bargains car park . I went to hand it into the store but then decided against. I gave them information that I would take it to the local police station and hand it in there, which is what I did immediately. Keeping the money wouldn’t have crossed my mind.

Another time I accidentally left my wallet above a catalogue in Argos. When I went back it was gone. No one ever handed it in. It contained £150 (my birthday money, I’d turned 18) and my bank cards. I was devastated.

Gross. That would be theft by finding.
I found a wallet once, and took it to the person's address (driving license was in there). Taking money out of it didn't even cross my mind.

Your DH is a thief
I would hand the wallet in without even looking inside if in a shop because I have morals and decency

Well if the old boy is a boomer...what is your revolting husband? A thieving piece of shite? A whingeing snowflake?
Please leave him- he sounds absolutely amoral and a bastard.

You're the one married to someone with shitty morals. What do you want anyone on here to do?

I left my purse on the bus one time as a student, and unusually I had more than £10 in it - about £60. Someone handed it in at the bus depot and I got it back almost straight away all intact (realised as soon as I got off the bus). Also dropped my travelcard on the train once and someone handed that in.

I found a wallet at law school and handed that in, paying it forward. Also found a credit card on the crossing near school - handed it in at the school office as it likely belonged to a parent, then posted about it on the local FB group. I try and treat others' lost belongings as others have treated mine.

Well you won’t be comfortable for long if his manager notices an unexplained increase in the stationery order and realises someone is thieving. Can you imagine the shame? If he’s lucky he’ll be allowed to resign. If not, do you think he’ll walk into another job? People talk and nothing stays secret forever. What if he gets too cocky and they get the police in? Will your DS still think his dad is right to keep things when his mates are laughing at him because his dad is doing community service on a roundabout somewhere? And bang goes renewing any insurance in his name. And all for what? A cheap thrill?

It’s stupid. And it’s pathetic. And contemptible that he’d steal from a pensioner. I know shoplifters who would draw the line there.

Doesn’t this make you lose all respect for him? Do you want this man as your husband?

He wanted to steal from an elderly person?! And his justification was that they are old….