To ask what you do with money you find?

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Just that really!

Found money on the street earlier. Not enough to bother the police with but felt odd picking it up and keeping it.

We donated it to a local food bank.

Also my daughter once handed in a brief case that had a significant amount in and was left at a bus stop on the seat. We opened it to see if their was a contact and it was stuffed with cash The owner left a 1 pound tip for her honesty 😁

If there's no hope of finding whoever dropped it, I just spend it in the nearest pub.

Less than £5 if in a store leave it with manager or put in charity box . More take to police .
About 20 years ago found £20 in sea at seaside resort. The local station was shut so I posted it with a note to them giving details of where and when found. After I think 6 months had it sent to me as no one claimed it and thanked me for my honesty.
I could never keep money that was not mine, knowing losing that however small could make a big difference to some people..

Interesting question.
Except for a coin here or there, I haven't found any money since I found a tenner at school, when I was about 11 yrs old. I turned it in at the administration office. Three days later, no one had claimed it so I got to keep it.

I once had a £300 lottery win, and I donated it to a missing-person's search fund. I didn't know the person nor family, but it was a terribly sad story (as they all (most) are).

I once found a purse with £500 in, at a festival I was working at. I contacted the bank on the person's debit card and they told me to just destroy the card, they refused to take my details to pass on to the owner. I intended to pass it to the police if it wasn't claimed by the end of the festival - a young woman came looking for it the next day, fully expecting the cash and cards to be long stolen. She was really emotional when I reunited her with her purse! She offered me a reward which I declined, I was just doing my job, but I often remember her relief when I find money in the street.

I did find a £20 note though in a puddle by the canal, which I kept because how on earth could that be reunited with its owner?

I always keep it.

We regularly find notes 10/20’s walking near us (beach). I don’t like picking it up but Dh says it will just get washed away and no one will enjoy it.

Cash? Keep it. Would give it to my daughter

I’ve found £20 on two different times

I kept it

Who are all these people finding paper money lying around? I have found the odd 5p but that’s about it!

I lost a weeks wages (roughly £250) in cash, I went back within 10 minutes and it had gone, I was self employed at the time and felt I had to bloody declare it. Never got it back. The police don't accept money anymore, at least that is what I got told, when I went to the police station.

Hope someone had a lovely time with shopping money

A single note in a public place I would keep.

I once found several hundred all rolled up in a bundle at a horse competition event I was at. I handed it in as clearly it was someone’s and could be identified by the amount/how it was folded. I found out later that it was claimed by someone who was distraught at having lost it. I was pleased I found it and it hadn’t been lost in the field!

Weirdly reminds me of my time at school where it was seen as uncool to pick up money off the floor if the value was less than 5p and in general, the coolest kids wouldn’t pick up £1, it was a sort of it social rule. Some of the kids did go and collect the money in secret, add it all up buy fags and sell them for £1/2 pounds per one. It was very clever 😂 I was just miffed I’d see all this money and couldn’t pick it up! Wonder if teachers did haha.

I’ve found money in the street, odd fivers and tenners, around a city on Sunday off I’ve gone shopping. I’ve kept what I’ve found gift from the universe. (The years of having to leave money at school)

I have found probably three notes in my 61 years. 10s, and two £10. I have kept them on the basis of "what comes round, goes round". DH found £20 and took it to the police station.

Have handed in two wallets and not so much as a thank you.

Anything found in the washing machine is mine!

I once found an envelope in a pub with about £200, it was in the run up to Christmas and me DH and I were skint.

Within about a minute I saw somebody near the bar frantically checking their pockets and looking around. Turned out this chap was about to book and pay for his stag do, he did offer to buy us a drink for finding his cash!

I was tempted though...

I would keep it and think, woohooo, good day! Of course I would look around to see if anyone had dropped it first/if it was in a cashpoint, I would call the person back etc but if I saw a random £20 note on th floor, I would keep it. If I found a bundle of money I would hand in into th police station.

If it was in a place like a shop, restaurant, bank, I'd hand it in. Otherwise I'd keep it. There is no amount I'd hand in to police. Sorry 🤷‍♀️

Definitely wouldn't hand it in to police no matter how much it was. What's the point of doing that? It's not like they can return it to whoever lost it! Obviously if it was a purse or wallet I would, but a note or a bundle of money, nah.

@DynamoKev

Where do you lot find all this unattended cash? I've never found any.

Toddler DS used to be a whizz at finding money. He was always picking up coins and notes. Once he got under a fence into a little patch of waste ground and came back with £20!

I found the equivalent of 30 pounds in a metro station in one of the largest cities in China.
Where should I hand it in?

@StrawberryJamSandwiches

I would keep it and think, woohooo, good day! Of course I would look around to see if anyone had dropped it first/if it was in a cashpoint, I would call the person back etc but if I saw a random £20 note on th floor, I would keep it. If I found a bundle of money I would hand in into th police station.

There was nobody nearby. It was just lying on the pavement.

It was £30 and I don’t need the money. Our food bank has had a massive increase in referrals so felt like a nice thing to do as no obvious way of reuniting the cash with an owner.

Keep and spend. I know someone who once was in a supermarket car park and there were notes just blowing around. They picked up around £500 and took it home! This was in the eighties so worth even more than now.

@PumpkinKlNG

No way would all these people take it to the police station? You would take £20 to the police station? Find that hard to believe 😂

Me too! There’s some right Pinocchio’s on here tonight 😂

It would be really interesting to have a Mumsnet thread where everyone declares how much cash they’ve found on the floor over a certain period of time, say 7 days. I reckon it could be loads! I’ve always wondered that but I’m a saddo.

Nextdoor would be my port pf call. Although I only find 1 or 2 pennies!