Should we keep the money we found?

[Exboltqueen]

This morning at soft play Ds found four £1 at the bottom of a slide. He was really excited but I explained how it wasn't ours and it had fallen out of someone's pocket and we handed it in to the reception. Unaware of the £4, on the way home DH found £100 in rolled up notes. He stood there for a while and didn't see anyone looking for it. I feel like it's good karma and we should keep it. My husband thinks we should give it to the police. (We are low income so feels like a lot of money)
So
YABU - you should practice what you preach to your son, hand it in.
YANBU - enjoy the good karma and keep it

Not the point of the post but I amazed how many people on here have found money lying around. Some multiple times! I must be very unobservant!

I can see it must be tempting but you are doing the right thing. Apart from it being morally and legally the right thing to do, I do believe in Karma and rightly or wrongly the next time something went wrong I would connect it to me not handing the money in if I hadn't.

Assuming you check the 28 day policy and get a receipt when you hand it in to the police then chances are you will have it back soon, and you would have the money because you did the right thing rather than keeping something that wasn't yours.

Do update us as to whether you get it back op!

Bah !!!!! To many do Gooders on here !!!!!!!!!!

Last time I found any money I walked into a busy supermarket/ petrol station to pay for my fuel and there was a fiver on the floor just inside the entrance, a few people walked straight past in. I quickly put my foot on it and pretended to tie my shoelace and slyly picked it up 😀.

When opportunity knocks , you open the door ✊🏼

Bah !!!!! To many do Gooders on here

it's mn, logic, and reason here are detached from reality often.

@Chumleymouse

Yeah mine !! If a poor person is stupid enough to lose it , then another poor person ( me ) could do with the extra ……… too many bullshitters on here saying hand it in ……..

Perhaps most people posting are actually decent and honest? It seems you have a problem with that.

Gosh Chumleymouse, are you desperate for attention tonight?

Your right I do . When it comes to finding loose money on the ground and it’s got nobodys name on it , then it’s fair game……………🙂

@Bloodypunkrockers

Gosh Chumleymouse, are you desperate for attention tonight?

So desperate to tell us all how dishonest he is. Sad.

Another one doubting that people actually go to the police for lost money,

@Cherrysoup

I’m glad you aren’t keeping it, it’s theft by finding if you don’t make a good effort to return it to the owner plus morally wrong. What if that’s someone’s money for weekly shopping and they’re low income too?

‘Theft by finding’ isn’t a thing.

If you find money on the street etc, you are not legally obliged to hand it in. Morally it’s a different question.

@qualitygirl

Karma is a bitch *@Exboltqueen* and what goes around comes around. Etc etc

If I found 100 I would hand it in for sure! If I lost 100 I would love if it was handed in rather than taken.

I always hand in money I find and funnily enough whenever I lose money/things in public they are always handed in.

Karma is not a ‘bitch’. That is misogynistic and also offensive to Buddhists and Hindus.

@mountbattenbergcake

Another one doubting that people actually go to the police for lost money,

It hardly matters. Handing it to the police offers an opportunity for the owner to claim it. It's all you can do.

It hardly matters. Handing it to the police offers an opportunity for the owner to claim it. It's all you can do.

Well, no, you can also keep it.

‘according to the police - it is up to the individual what they do if they find any amount of cash – there is no requirement to hand over money you find, or even any other items. A spokeswoman for the Association of Chief Police Officers says: "There are no laws that I am aware of governing what you should do with a find – it is down to your conscience. However, if an item can be traced as it includes information about the owner, such as a mobile phone or handbag, then you might want to make sure to hand it in."

www.theguardian.com/money/blog/2013/nov/20/finders-keepers-legal-position

I would have kept both the £100 and £4.
A family member once found £30'000 in cash, she handed it in, I'd have kept that as well.

A long time ago, I found £150 quid all rolled up, and kept it. I still feel bad about it and regret it. I spent the money on clothes, but every time I wore them I felt guilty and regretted it, and ended up giving them away to charity. I wouldn't do it again - I know what is the right thing to do and know I'll feel bad if I don't do that.

Who keeps their money rolled up? I know the answer and I doubt it's a lovely family saving up hard earned rent money.

I am envious of you all living so close to an actual open police station!

I live in a relatively central part of London but would still have a 30+ min journey to get to a police station, and there is currently a message on the website saying that due to covid, they aren’t operating regular opening times at present so I don’t even know when I would be able to go!

When you think about the difference that money would make to your family then surely you can see the difficulty it’s absence might be causing another. Hand it in.

When I was about 8 I'd saved all my money from birthdays, Christmas and pocket money to buy a bumper guitar kit from argos for £80.
It was a guitar, amp and lead.
I'd been looking at it in the argos regularly all year, just waiting till I had enough money.
When I had enough my dad took me to argos, bad luck for me, it was out of stock. Got back to the car, the money was gone, why he let me look after it I'll never know.
I cried. We went to argos, the security for the shopping centre to check CCTV, walked from the car to argos and back about 4 times trying to retrace my steps. It was never handed in.
That was 22 years ago and it still guts me.
Yes, the money wasn't to feed hungry kids, or a pensioner's money to last 2 weeks, but it was my money, and someone must have found it and either thought they deserved it more or karma or quids in.
But at the end of the day, it wasn't their money.

It's always best to do the right thing. Less guilt that way, because you really never know the circumstances of the person who lost it.

I think karma exists op, just maybe not in the way of £4 to £100. I know you're going to hand it in /try and trace the owner, hopefully you'll get it back just in time for Christmas if no one claims it.

Years ago I was out shopping with my parents. I was 15 at the time. Luckily I spotted the small purse on the floor before my dad did. Picked it up, there was around £300 in there plus a Yale key, pic of a child and folded up tiny copy of a child's birth certificate. I wanted to hand it in. My dad badgered me the whole way to a police station saying we should keep it, we could go away for a weekend, I could have some of it. He was getting more and more angry I wouldn't hand it over. He then tried wheedling, let me see it, there might be ID etc. I get we were poor, horrifically so, but I couldn't keep it. I walked into the police station and just started signing it over, as a woman flew in with toddler in her arms just sobbing her heart out. She asked if anyone had handed a purse in as the policeman pointed at me. They asked for her to identify it, but as it had a picture of the child she had in her arms, and she could recite all the info on the birth certificate they handed it to her. She threw her arms around me. She was a single parent. She'd saved for over two years to take her little boy on his first break away and the money was for that. She offered me £20 and I said no, but her little boy more ice creams. All the time my dad stood there saying how amazing I was and he was so proud of me, he'd brought me up right (there's a reason I'm NC with the twat now).

Anyway, my karma is that the couple of times I've lost something it's always made it's way back. My exH lost a bracelet on NYE I'd given him at the start of our relationship, it had huge sentimental value. I posted on FB, within 3 days we had it back. Someone's dad found it (he didn't have FB) whilst walking the dog on NY day. He passed it to his sister, who gave it her daughter thinking her bloke might like it. The daughter saw my FB post and contacted me immediately. The relief of it coming back was awesome. We sent a huge bouquet of flowers as a thank you.

@JovialNickname

Take it take it. Anyone who has £100 rolled up and loses it isn't poor. Even if it's an old person they'll be rattling around in their massive house that you will never afford collecting their free winter fuel allowance. Statistically you are poorer than anyone that casually loses £100. Keep it and use it well!

So by your logic, if someone has more money than you, you're somehow entitled to some of it?

Your moral compass could do with a bit of a tune up...

@WishingWell5

Who keeps their money rolled up? I know the answer and I doubt it's a lovely family saving up hard earned rent money.

I've been given rolled up money when withdrawing a decent amount over the counter at the bank before.

@WishingWell5

Who keeps their money rolled up? I know the answer and I doubt it's a lovely family saving up hard earned rent money.

And to be fair, even if it's a drug dealers money, it's still not OP's

@NativityDreaming

It is theft to keep the money. There was a woman charged for keeping £20 she found in a store. She ended up pleading guilty and having to pay the money back, a surcharge, and court costs!

Bullshit

Hand it in as it may belong to someone who needed it.

I stand corrected. A woman really was charged with theft for keeping £20 she found. What a fucking waste of everyone's time and money. I'd be appalled even if I had been the person who lost that £20 tbh.