Would you keep the money?

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I genuinely just am interested in MN responses as to what you should or would do in this kind of situation!

If you found a £20 note on the floor in a supermarket, with no one nearby who it was obviously from, would you pick it up and keep it?

What about if you found it on the ground in the middle of a park, with again no one nearby who it was obviously from?

Just the note alone - it's not part of a wallet or purse!

(It's not really an AIBU is it- AIBU to wonder what you would do?)

If I saw someone drop the money then of course I would but if I found it in the carpark of a supermarket and no obvious owner then I would keep it. I certainly wouldn't hand it in to customer service unless the money was in a wallet with owner details. Infact I found a wallet with money and tracked down the owner who was so happy because it was his pension money. I've dropped £10 and £20 and never got them back and didn't expect to. Would never occur to me to go to customer service to see if someone handed it in. I bought a new pair of trainers from a sports shop recently and left them at the till in Sainsbury's, they were never handed into Customer Services.

I'd probably leave it where it is. If somebody is more desperate than me, they will surely take it.

Asked at customer services and they laughed their heads off at the notion of someone handing it in.

The next step would be to complain to their supervisor about their lack of customer service. Working on a CSD requires a certain level of intelligence. The level that ensures you know not to laugh at customers.

Oh, and clearly they were wrong anyway given so many OP's have actually handed money in to a desk.

I would hand it in to customer services.

I guess I'm unique then. In a supermarket, I wouldn't pick it up. I'd hope whoever lost it would retrace their steps and find it. I wouldn't want the job of handing it in. Realistically, I realise the next person to come along might pocket it, but it's not my responsibility to prevent that.

Not unique after all, I swear starzig's post wasn't there when I started typing!

I think for me it depends entirely on the situation. I once found a purse on the floor going through airport security full of travel money and regardless to the fact that there's obviously an awful lot of CCTV and I could have got in a lot of trouble, I could never have kept it knowing the effect it would have had on the person who had dropped it.

But a few weeks ago I saw £20 on the floor being blown around by the wind, I kept this.

@Firesuit that's exactly what my friend said, which I had never heard anyone say before, which inspired me to start the thread!

@Land0r that is a dismissable offence.

Supermarket - id hand it in.
Park - probably keep it.

This.

My son dropped a £10 note in Asda. I’d offered to hold it for him, but he knew best. Lucky for him someone had handed it in.

Finders keepers.

sweeneytoddsrazor I didn't really think about it at the time, but you're absolutely right. I found it within a few seconds of entering the supermarket, so handed it in before doing my shopping. It was only afterwards that I thought hang on, how will the person get their money back if it isn't actually at the desk when they ask?

If no clear owner I'd keep it

I dont believe the amount of people who say they would hand it in tbh, nothing ive ever lost has been handed in. I left shopping on the bus and had no money it was literally the last money I had went on food and I had alot on my mind put it down by my feet and forgot to pick it up, it was never handed in.

Supermarket would hand in. Park would probably keep it.

I would put it in the nearest charity box (which IS keeping it)

I have found £20 twice in the street with no sign of who dropped it. First one I gave to charity and second one I spent. After I picked up the second one I was on the train and a random lady said to me ‘I love your ring!’ The ring was my grans and it was the week before christmas so I like to think it was a gift from her.

Supermarket id hand it in, park I’d keep it.

This happened to me when DH found a twenty pound note in a wood.

DH asked the only other person around if he had lost any money. He checked his pockets and said he had lost a twenty pound note.

DH pulled the note out and asked him what the number on the note was. Then he laughed and gave it him.

We have always returned lost money and wallets.

One day somebody returned the favour to us. Kharma. Do unto others etc.

my dh found a 20 just waloking along the street the other day he kept it

noone will go to the police to ask for it backand how do theyh prove it anyway

and a police officer told me that-if its in a wallet hand it in if not and u didnt see who dropped it u can keep it

i mean anote not the wallet

I would hand it in at a supermarket. I work on the customer service desk in a supermarket and we routinely get notes given in and reunite them with their owners. We would never take the money for staff or keep it in a pocket though, I'd only do that if I wanted sacking! Any money uncollected after a week goes to one of our charities.

You should really hand it in. Theft by finding is a crime (well in Scotland anyway)