Just found £90 on the pavement

[berri]

Do I keep it???

DH reckons if I hand it in to the police it'll just make it into one of their pockets, but I can't help thinking it might be some little old lady's gas money...or not!

WWYD?

I lost £100 once. Called the police station on the off chance someone had turned it in. Was extremely lucky that a little boy found it, and handed it in. The police had his details, so sent him £10.00 as a thank you.

As teenagers, my hubby and his friend found LOADS once. They handed it in and a while later got it all back as nobody claimed it. Why does this never happen to me?

Well done for handing it in :) If I'd lost £90 I would hope the finder would do the same.

If I hadn't seen anyone drop it I would keep it and I wouldn't feel bad either. I'm sure some of the people on here who are saying they wouldn't would as well. Some people would hand it in - but they would be in the minority imo.

I think the majority are saying they would not be dishonest

Why wouldn't you feel bad?

I would have kept it

I would have kept it but spent it on good things. :)

so if someone found a purse on a street with £90 in it, then they would keep that too?

Why does the amt matter and why does in a purse/not in a purse matter??

I found £10 in a phonebox once in a small childs purse.. it was beg of Dec.

I surmised it was some poor girls xmas spending money and handed it in .. never got it back so it must have been claimed

I'm at all the people saying they'd keep it. If you hand it in you'll get it back in a few weeks anyway, if the rightful owner doesn't claim it.

What nasty people.

And the idea that other people saying they'd hand it in must be lying! Just because you have no sense of right and wrong doesn't mean all of us are thieves- and it is theft to take it without making an appropriate attempt to return it to it's rightful owner.

I would hand it in and I don't believe I am the minority either.

If you wouldn't want someone to see you doing something (private parts aside) then you probably shouldn't be doing it.

Would you want your grandmother to see you keeping someone else's money?

The police do NOT "just pocket it", they wrap it in a little plastic bag and keep it for about 2 months, and if nobody claims it they ring you up to go and get it.

THEN you may spend it with impugnity.

That money could be an old lady's week's pension. It probably is an old lady's week's pension, as they are the social group least likely to trust bank cards and so will carry cash around.

I would hand in a purse, of course

but the reason I'd keep the 90 notes is I'd assume that noone would go and report it, I wouldn't

£90 to me means we eat, have electric, can have hot water, transport for almost two weeks. imagine if i had been struggling up the street with the dses after just lifting the money to go and do the shopping and buy electric. ds is tugging at my bag trying to wind me up. he pulls too hard and the bag falls. lots of stuff falls out, I scrabble about trying to gather up everything, the wind blows some stuff away, ds2 is whingeing in teh buggy, ds1 is having a right laugh at me on teh ground, i get distracted, assume i have gathered everything, get up and leave. arrive at teh supermarket and we have no money. retrace my steps and it is nowhere to be found. teh first place i would go is the police station because we need to eat and i cling on to all hope that some honest person has found it and handed it in.

but what if someone found and said "ah well, finders keepers, the stupid owner shouldn't have lost it"

that is why you hand it in, along with teh millions of other reasons why someone could desperatley need that money.

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"Yes, hand it in", you all cry. But you wouldn't actually do it, according to this study:

Only one in five would return a wallet

I would hand in a purse and if I saw someone drop it I would chase them. I also would never actually take anything from a shop/person.
The reason I wouldn't feel bad in this case is because it is money and has no-ones name on it. I would be sceptical as to whether it would be returned to its owner even if it is bagged and there is paperwork that doesn't mean that it won't all go in the bin the minute you leave the police station. I may be judging others by my own standards but I don't think that the police are exempt from being dishonest and I honestly think that more people would keep cash they found than the straw poll here seems to show.

What if it belonged to someone who really needed it and was going to make life extremely hard for them? How could you sleep knowing that? I couldn't, I would lie their worrying about an old person not being able to eat or kids not getting shoes for school or something...

You did the right thing berri.

What milliemoosmum said.

I am really shocked at the number of people saying to keep it. You did the right thing OP, well done.

When I was about 18 I was about to put my card into a cash machine and it spat out £60 at me. I dithered for ages; then handed it in to the British Transport Police office at the attached Tube.

I'm still glad I did it now.

Hand it in.

snobear, we would actually do it. we wouldn't say it unless we mean it. don't judge us by your own standards. i am an honest person.

I would hand it in as well - well done for doing it berri

LittleSilver I can only assume you are loaded. I would be cartwheeling down the street if that happened to me (with £60 in one hand)!