AIBU to regret handing in cash found in a wallet?

Karma will return for you. You did the right thing handing it in.

So you’d be ok if you lost something of value and the person who found it kept it because they too were skint?

Why would you think it wouldn’t get back to the owner?

My FIL once found a wallet in the bar at a holiday camp, it had a significant amount of money in it. He handed it in.

The following night a call was put out to ask the person who handed it in the meet the owner at the bar as he wanted to say thank you.

The owner was a Dad with young children who had the entire family’s holiday money in that wallet and he got it back because FIL handed it in.

You don’t know what will happen but you certainly will ruin someone’s day possibly even week if you didn’t hand it in.

The world is hard enough m, don’t add to others misery.

Judging other people by her own morales, I guess.

Your HUSBAND made you hand it in. He frogmarched you to the train station ticket booth/enquiries desk. You would have kept it if he hadn't been there.

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Why did you hand it in? Did it not have any ID in it?
I’ve found 2 wallets, and both time I found the wonder through the phone book but searching their surname and address, and I called them. Because yes, train station staff aren’t going to do much to return it.

It’s a shame that your husband had to make you hand it in,and you didn’t think it was the right thing to do.
It wasn’t your money.The wallet might have had some form of ID so station staff could contact the owner.You don’t know for a fact that the owner won’t get their £200 back.
Shame on you for wanting to keep it.

I’m always fantasising about finding a large amount of money and I finally did

No OP, you found someone else's wallet which had THEIR money in it! Maybe you need to get out of fantasy land and focus on earning your own money.

Oh yes definitely if it was a wallet/purse etc. would have handed in to police.

Someone else's money!

I work in a supermarket and we get full wallets back to the owner quite regularly. People are nicer than you think! Op ye need to have a talk on what will change your circumstances, that’s pure desperation and it’s sad you’re in this situation. We are in a bad state at the moment and are looking at cutting stuff and me getting a new job. You can’t go on like this (huge hugs)

Why on earth are you assuming that the train station staff will steal it?

But this wasn't a loose note on the floor this was a large amount of money in a wallet, on a train which makes it far easier for the person who lost it to be traced or know where to ask if it has been handed in

That’s different as no wallet. I found a £20 blowing around the middle of a road, nobody in sight and it would’ve got lodged under a car wheel in the gutter. At the station, two army cadets were collecting so I put it in their bucket - felt right as I’d just moved away from Aldershot (home of the British Army).

you will get good karma op

I’ve absolutely had lost property returned to me from trains and shops, including a purse with money in it, so I wouldn’t be so quick to try to justify that not handing it in would have been okay because it’s not going to get back to its owner anyway. Once somebody realises their wallet with £200 is gone they’ll be frantically phoning all the places they’ve been that day.

Yes I noticed that! It’s a wallet OP - someone’s possession. Doesn’t matter if it had 10p or £1000 in it. You instinctively hand it in without even opening it! What is your cut off incidentally? If I was your DH I’d be feeling really uneasy about you right now.

A few years ago I found a $50 note (Australian) on the footpath when I was walking to the train station after work. I picked it up and looked around but there was no one in sight at all, so I had no idea who it might belong to. I asked a couple of friends what they thought, should I hand it in at a police station
etc. They all told me not to bother and I was mad if I did. I didn’t end up handing it in, but I also didn’t want to just spend it all on myself so I put half in the Salvation Army bucket when I next passed it and I bought a lotto ticket (I didn’t win).

Anything handed in will be logged and stored for a certain amount of time and afterwards dealt with in line with the company procedure. It will not be taken by staff members, it would be classed as theft to do so.

@FinderskeeepersIn the past yes I would’ve been all like “I’ve been raised right and it needs to go back to the owner” hoiking bosom etc but it happened to me that I was literally scraping together coins and I found £30 cash and handed it in to the office of leisure area where I found it- I thought that they would give it back to me if it didn’t go back to the owner but how could it go back to the owner because you can’t trace notes unless you’ve got the serial number? 🤔 and then I enquired after it and they said not claimed-of course- they’re just given it to charity well you know I’m a charity when I’m so poor myself! so the next times after that that I found cash, I just kept it. (also what’s to say that was even true about charity? the lady who handled it could’ve kept it anyway?) I don’t think people really understand “struggling financially” unless you are 🤷🏽‍♀️

I too find it bizarre that you rummaged through their wallet and then counted THEIR money. I've found wallets before and looked for ID to try to contact them- counting their money would be the last thing I'd think of doing!

So you are assuming that the train staff are as corrupt as you wanted to be?

You did the right thing op, I think you’d have felt dreadful and guilty if you’d have kept it.

Yes, this. Not money, but twice I've lost high-value items (a camera and and iPod) in public places, and nice people handed them into lost property so I got them back. I agree with the point about behaving with integrity; you and your husband are decent people.

100% this.