To find a lost wallet and keep the money inside

@M3ganne true, someone could justify anything in their head because "I need to feed my kids" still doesn't make it right though. It's someone else's money, it's so worrying that even needs to be pointed out!

and the victim may also be on the breadline too. A victim may not be able to heat their home or eat. A victim may not be able to buy their prescription of essential medication.

stealing from a personal wallet is much much worse then stealing from a big faceless supermarket corporation which makes millions in profit (not that I agree with that either).

That would really shake my opinion of him as a trustworthy person. Has he dodgy morals in other areas? I fully expect so.

What a disgusting man

I know I definitely wouldn't take it. I've handed in bags as well as straight cash that I've found a number of times without thinking about it.

I couldn't be with someone who stole from others. I've heard others talk about keeping stuff they find and I just look at them differently. I just assume they're someone not to be trusted who will take from you when you're not looking and will happily save themselves at your expense if it came to it.

My nan once found £20 on the road and went to take it to the police station and the policeman said they had no way to get it to the owner but "I'll take it" my nan said "no you won't!" and donated it to charity instead.

I remember going to the beach with a friend for the day as a kid and I left my purse at the pub we had a meal at-I remembered half way home but it was too late to turn back. My mum called the pub later and there was no sign of it. It only had like £6 in it but I was gutted and felt really bad for my mum that Id lost her money. I'm sure it was obvious it was a kid's purse as well.

That depends how badly I needed money.
its easy to be moral in the abstract, but the fact is if I needed to feed my kids and there was money there that could feed them, I think most people would take it.

I’ve found a wallet a couple of times. Once I was food shopping with my dad and picked up a wallet thinking it was his and started playing with it - just opening and shutting it absentmindedly. It was only when he came to pay and got out his own wallet did I realise and was like whose is this then? We handed it in to customer services.
i once left my wallet in a taxi. I was a student at the time but the taxi driver managed to get in touch with the university who then got in touch with me. Nothing was stolen and I was so grateful

This. He's a real prize, isn't he? Not.

"Essentially has the attitude that everyone is out for themselves and if he hadn’t kept the air pods/pinched money from a found wallet-someone else would do it."
Bollocks

I think this thread has shown you he is wrong

I once found £30 on the pavement - I phoned the local police and they said that given it had no-one to identify it - they can't deal with it .Many years ago I found a purse with £100 in it - I took it into the police station. it was recognisable so they took it in.

I am astounded that some (SOME) people think stealing is OK. & I do think it is stealing. I have many different interests etc with Dh but basic honesty is a no brainer.

Legally that is stealing and a real crime.

My 72 year old friend dropped his wallet in Morrisons. Some git found it and kept it. He was so distressed at losing his cash and his cards that he had a huge stroke a few hours later.
OP, your DH would qualify as a grade 1 scumbag for doing something like that. How would he like his pension taken off him? Revolting.

At Tesco someone who was filling up their tyres with air had some money left on there when they'd finished. Came to tell us so we could take advantage. As she drove off I realised she'd left her purse on top of the machine. Took the purse into the Tesco garage. Even though this was two to three years ago I still think about it sometimes; hoping that she'd thought to call in at the shop and ask if it had been handed in. At the same Tesco someone had left their handbag in a shopping trolley park. Took that into customer services, hoping that they'd realise what they'd done and see if it had been handed in. The idea that you might not be caught stealing in these circumstances is something that simply wouldn't factor into what I did.

On a different note my husband had his wallet pickpocketed on a train. Shortly afterwards the wallet was posted back to him after being found in a bin (presumably address traced through driving licence). Of course cash and cards were gone. But the wallet held a Polaroid of our son taken on the day he was born by the staff in the baby ICU unit after a difficult 28 hour birth, so we could have that connection whilst we were largely separated from him. I was in a room on my own for nine days and could see him when I wanted, but that was limited due to my birth injuries. He was home and well by then but the photograph was precious. It wasn't in the wallet. Who would take that and why? We would never get that moment in time back. Some people are absolute shits.

urgh What a horrible man but you reap what you sow so the universe will deal with him

He sounds horrendous as well as being a thief.

I was thinking about this. It’s probably easier to stand by your morals if you’re not down and out and that’s not to say that impoverished people have no morals.

But if I were that skint mum or dad struggling to feed the family would I be tempted to keep the cash? I’d like to think I’d hand it all in.

No, unless I were absolutely starving. A friend in university dropped her wallet with her fortnightly pay in cash in it. She was on her way to the bank two streets over. She never saw it again. That money was for her flight home for Christmas.

Fuck me. Absolutely not.

I think I interpreted the voting differently from everyone else, judging by how few voted like me, compared to the high number of comments which seem to agree with me.

I said you would be unreasonable to steal the money.

This. ^ The OP's husband sounds vile to me to be honest. I couldn't be married to someone like this.

Only a thieving piece of shit would keep the money. Hopefully if your DH handed the wallet in (after stealing the money,) the person who lost the wallet reports the money missing and he is tracked down on CCTV and charged with theft.

Does he not have a Dad or a Grandad, would he be happy if someone robbed them too?

Absolutely not. That's theft, pure and simple

The only time I would keep money was if I found it in the street because there is no way I could ever trace the owner . Most finds in the streets are coins and single notes .

That is awful. I left my purse in train station toilets when DS distracted me - trying to find something in my bag.

I realised quickly - and on rushing back I saw a lady hand it to staff. Complete with cash. To do anything else is disgusting.