AIBU to regret handing in cash found in a wallet?

I’m really glad you ended up handing it in, OP, even though you didn’t want to - that takes real effort. In Islam, doing something good when it’s difficult or against your own desires carries even greater reward. I know this isn’t charity, but I genuinely feel the same principle applies here.

I'm chuffed when I find something that belongs to someone else, it's like I turn detective mode on to get it back to them.

I've found a few things in my time and people are so happy to be given them back it makes you feel great, you should chase those kind of good feels rather than excitement of stealing someone's money.

The person who lost it could be tight for money too and it is theirs. How do you know they’ll never see it. Surely the person who lost it would check with the train station lost and found. check

No, everyone fantasises about winning a large amount of cash, or being given a huge pay rise. Decent people do not fantasise about stealing it.

And I also left a handbag on a Tesco trolley and almost left the car park, and a small bag dropped off a buggy once and was found by the nearby house owner. The Tesco trolley man handed it in to customer services and the home owner called my bank who contacted me. Neither took any money !!! So I have left/lost a purse/bag with purse three times, and three times an honest person has handed it in with all the money.

Shame on you, OP. Most people don’t need their spouse to remind them to be a decent human being.

Yes - bloody awful.

Years ago when DS1 was a preschooler I left my purse in the train station toilets after having to root around in my bag for wipes. I’d not long left the loos before I realised. We rushed back to find a lovely lady handing it to staff. I’m now very grateful that OP wasn’t in the toilets that day.

I found a purse on a sink in a supermarket loo. Handed it in and then posted on a local Facebook group, where I’d found it, where I’d handed it in, that it had cash in, and the initials from the name on the cards. I realised after I left it might not have the cash in when they went to claim it. Then panicked they’d think I took some of it!
Theres no police station near and we were on the way to an appointment.
But my conscience was clear!

Cash found on the road/pavement whatever, do a good look around that no one seems to have dropped it, pulling things out of pockets etc and then yes, I would (and have) kept. Cash in a wallet… no. Assuming it wasn’t just cash but other cards etc? Much higher chance the person could actually be able to get it back!

You fantasise about stealing? At the cost of some other poor person who is losing that money? No, people don't do that. Not decent upstanding people anyway!

When I was younger, I fantasised about progressing my career to earn more money. (I then worked hard to successfully achieve that). Stealing it or inheriting it is not something to dream about!

I left my wallet on a train, it was handed in. I hit my cash back. Your cynicism isn’t an excuse for theft.

the only thing the OP feels dreadful about is telling her husband she found it ..she appears to have no morals..

Wow regretting not stealing is wild

Don't regret being honest, theres no reason why the train people werent as honest as you.

If this happens in future consider calling the person direct if youre worried. I did that twice with a wallet (took quite a bit of tracking down in both cases, both were tourists!) and once it was an ipod.

Yes they do if its not claimed after 12 weeks, thats why they take your contact info.
I've found an evolope with money before and was contacted by the police after 12 weeks to come and collect it as nobody had claimed it, same with my grandmother who found a gold watch.
Sometimes being honest pays off and you get to keep it other times you get to feel good about knowing that you've been able to help someone get their property or money back

What kind of person would you be if you’d kept someone else’s money? A deplorable one.

You did the right thing, finding a tenner in the street with no id or wallet might be fair game but finding a wallet in a station with £200 quid, you have to hand it in.

Good karma (not that I believe in any of it) had already happened in these scenarios

they take it from the amount you return.

it’s only if you find cash.

:p okie ...

That isn’t karma

I returned my lodgers' deposit of £400 when I was straight broke even though she left damaged and she ran up a £900 energy debt by roasting the property to the point she was walking around in her knickers - purely out of guilt.

Now, I have a new job where I make 3x my previous salary.

Karma comes back, in time. Trust <3

Someone might have stolen it so it might as well have been me profiting from the theft...

Of course you don’t take money out of someone’s wallet that you find!!!
the fact that you even thought it was a potential option is shocking.

such a weird thing to beat yourself up about, the money wasn’t yours and you didn’t do anything wrong here. Yes you theoretically could have pocketed the money but in the grand scheme, it won’t have helped you much and you may have had a guilty conscience afterwards. At least now, your problems haven’t grown any further ie you’re in the same position you were in, as opposed to a worser position. Betterment from finding someone else’s lost wallet is, a strange mindset imo.

I once found a £10 note on the floor in Asda - I handed it in at customer services and then a few days later I found a £20 note on the floor in a park - I assumed it was the universes reward for my honesty and kept it 😂