To find a lost wallet and keep the money inside

[FindersKeepers1]

Today I found a wallet on the floor in ASDA. A decent leather, heavy wallet with credit cards inside etc. I quickly handed it into a security guard who then handed it into customer services. Told DH and he asked if I kept the money inside? He was half joking but said that he would keep the cash as a “finders fee” and that it served the boomer right for dropping their wallet (it was a wallet of an older man)

Tried to talk to him, would he really keep the money he found and he would! Although he then accused me of starting a fight.

No I wouldn't I've lost purses a couple of times. Once I got it back and once I didn't. So know how it feels when I don't.

your husband is absolutely disgusting and morally corrupt.

Hope this helps x

Your stbex sounds a real scuzzy. Good decision to leave.

I just asked my husband the same question, he said no matter how skint we are he would always hand it in, and he would thing badly of someone who didn't, but he is the kind of man to park the car to help someone cross a road, and luckily our children have also grown up with great morals.
Op sorry to say that your husband doesn't come across as a nice person, doors he have any nice qualities?

No way! Somehow worse if it's an older person too... your DP is a bastard!

He has zero morals.
What a creep.

Filling his bag with supplies from work?! That is theft and an instant sacking offense where I work. I can imagine he is right tight wad too in all other ways, not attractive.

Not good I know. Worst thing is he makes out that I’m pathetic for doing the right thing. Believes that everyone is out for themselves and that if he doesn’t take something someone else will. Same goes for his attitude towards boomers that everything was handed to them on a plate and it serves them right if they have stuff taken off them now such as the winter fuel allowance (another issue I know) and served the man right if he had the money taken from his wallet cos he’s a Boomer.

He wanted to steal from an elderly person?! And his justification was that they are old….

Well you won’t be comfortable for long if his manager notices an unexplained increase in the stationery order and realises someone is thieving. Can you imagine the shame? If he’s lucky he’ll be allowed to resign. If not, do you think he’ll walk into another job? People talk and nothing stays secret forever. What if he gets too cocky and they get the police in? Will your DS still think his dad is right to keep things when his mates are laughing at him because his dad is doing community service on a roundabout somewhere? And bang goes renewing any insurance in his name. And all for what? A cheap thrill?

It’s stupid. And it’s pathetic. And contemptible that he’d steal from a pensioner. I know shoplifters who would draw the line there.

Doesn’t this make you lose all respect for him? Do you want this man as your husband?

I left my purse on the bus one time as a student, and unusually I had more than £10 in it - about £60. Someone handed it in at the bus depot and I got it back almost straight away all intact (realised as soon as I got off the bus). Also dropped my travelcard on the train once and someone handed that in.

I found a wallet at law school and handed that in, paying it forward. Also found a credit card on the crossing near school - handed it in at the school office as it likely belonged to a parent, then posted about it on the local FB group. I try and treat others' lost belongings as others have treated mine.

You're the one married to someone with shitty morals. What do you want anyone on here to do?

Well if the old boy is a boomer...what is your revolting husband? A thieving piece of shite? A whingeing snowflake?
Please leave him- he sounds absolutely amoral and a bastard.

Your DH is a thief
I would hand the wallet in without even looking inside if in a shop because I have morals and decency

Gross. That would be theft by finding.
I found a wallet once, and took it to the person's address (driving license was in there). Taking money out of it didn't even cross my mind.

Firstly, keeping someone else’s AirPods? Gross.

Secondly, no, I would never steal. I found a wallet once that contained £400 in Home Bargains car park . I went to hand it into the store but then decided against. I gave them information that I would take it to the local police station and hand it in there, which is what I did immediately. Keeping the money wouldn’t have crossed my mind.

Another time I accidentally left my wallet above a catalogue in Argos. When I went back it was gone. No one ever handed it in. It contained £150 (my birthday money, I’d turned 18) and my bank cards. I was devastated.

That is theft.
When I was a poor student , I found a wallet ( in a Boots store) with over £500
I informed a sales assistant at Boots. I left my mobile number but held onto the wallet.
A gentleman contacted me an hour later and I met up him and returned the wallet
I did not leave the wallet at the store because I had previously heard of people handing in wallets and staff keeping the money

I work in a supermarket and people hand purses,.wallets, handbags and mobile phones In several times a day everyday so definitely not the majority do you live in a dodgy area

@FindersKeepers1 Just out of interest what does he consider a boomer?

It's a nasty term thrown about and most of the time people cannot show me who these people are without asking them personally for their age.

I found a wallet in my garden once so I posted it onto Facebook. No credit cards or money was in it and it was soaking wet. It had photographs inside along with a couple of different store cards

The owner came to pick it up and basically made out like I had taken things from it! If I find one again I'll just bin it.

That is pretty disgusting but hopefully he’s joking…?! Funnyyyyy 😬

What a toerag. "Theft by finding" is a thing

So basically you are married to a thief,

Nobody is doing this. Staff working in shops have constant easy access to money. Nicking money out of a wallet isn't worth your job

Yes, it would definitely be stealing. £10 note on the floor no one looking desperately in their pockets? Free money! Inside someone wallet - stealing.