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.

I suppose my dad counts as a 'boomer', but he can certainly not afford to lose money from his wallet. Not everyone over a certain age is flush, and your husband is a tit.

I was walking one morning and a woman pushing a buggy far ahead of me on a Sunday morning dropped her handbag - it fell off her buggy- it was an expensive brand, and I could see a thick fold of £20 notes inside {It wasn't fully zipped up}

Probably a couple of grand, easily. {this was about 15 years ago}
I ran up to her asking if she'd lost anything? {Hiding the bag from view}

She looked and gasped in horror- I handed her the bag back - and said ''everything is still in it'' - I didn't take a single £20 from that wadge of cash.

Wanker

Who has voted YABU OP - and why?! Fellow thieves?

Op I hope you never take him to your friends or family's homes and ask visitors to watch their handbags and wallets when they come round

I once found a wallet in an airport in Switzerland with a fortune in cash in it.
I handed it in but then thought I should have tried to contact the person directly as who knows if someone else might have taken the money!

I did once find £30 cash in the street, and another time 40 Euros. I kept those, as no way of finding out who they belonged to!

Nope I'd hate the karma that would come with that!

Just imagine if everyone was like your husband, what a great place the world would be.

We'd all be far better off for a start with insurance premiums lower, no need for locks, etc.

Sadly so many are like the OPs husband.

I’ve been the one to find an EMPTY (of money) wallet and retrace the owner to give back the documents etc.
I was given very cold thanks. They obviously thought I’d pocketed the cash.

However, it seems your husband is a dishonest prat who keeps pushing your moral buttons. Very unattractive.

Your DH is a thief and an ageist arsehole

I remember being desperate for money for food one Christmas (well many Christmases actually) and I found £80 in cash on the ground in Asda, so I handed it in because it might have belonged to someone else who was desperate and it was their Christmas money etc. Goodness certainly was its own reward that day as someone later claimed it and never even left a word of thanks. Anyway, you have to hand stuff in, that's how it goes.

Although if it had been a £10 note in the street I would have kept it. Probably get flamed for that!

@FindersKeepers1

Be ready for a messy divorce he will try yor take everything with those attributes.
He also likely to hide money.

Using 'boomer' that way would disgust me. Does/Did he have no-one he values in his life from that generation? Doubtful. Why is he insulting every individual in a whole generation in this way, let alone happy to steal from someone who may be struggling?

Sorry, but he sounds like a piece of crap.

Unfortunately he is far from alone.

I found someone's purse years ago in a multi story carpark. Took it to the police station and they called later to say the person who had lost it was really grateful and wanted to thank me.

She gave me a huge tub of chocolates and said that was all the money she had for Christmas and she never thought she would see it again. She was in tears.

Too many people don't give a shit about others and would happily ruin someone else's day or week or Christmas and see it as a win.

The only time I’d use cash in a found wallet would be to pay postage costs if unable to find them in person and there’s an address in the wallet, such as a driving licence.

I use to have a Saturday job in Woollies many moons ago. Someone included in their cash payment to us a gold sovereign (I presume instead of 1p or 5p). The senior floor manager took the sovereign and put some change in the till from his own pocket!

The amount of purses, wallets, credit cards, left change, left money in an atm that does get handed in is surprisingly high in our store. All lost property what ever it is we keep for a certain length of time and then dispose of correctly. None of the staff pockets the cash for themselves.

That’s shocking he said that hopefully no one steals from him when he is older… I once found a heavy purse in Sainsbury’s I didn’t even look in it just handed it straight to security as that’s the right thing to do.

No, I'd keep a tenner I found in the street too. I always think, if I dropped a tenner and only realised later, I wouldn't expect to get it back.

I once found £300 in a money clip in a hotel. I took the cash out other than £20 and wrote a note on the back of the receipt with my telephone number on to say we had the cash and would give it back if they text. I figured I wanted the finders fee rather than the hotel staff 🤣 I also used the receipt to identify the business that has bought the item, found out the shareholders name and messaged them on Facebook to let them know I had their money.

They never got in touch and so we had some extra holiday spends. We would absolutely have given it back to anyone who had claimed it.

A scummy thief STOLE my £165 Christmas shopping money for my kids in the ladies toilet in Lakeside shopping centre 2003. A thief is a thief!

God that’s awful.
Slightly different I had a Saturday job in a department store part of the young women’s clothing bit.
Five Saturday girls, before security tags.
For weeks before Christmas stuff was going missing every Saturday. Supervisor read us the riot act. If more stuff went missing, jobs would be gone.
By Christmas we were down to two of us. We got searched going in and out, we were all perplexed. Supervisor got angrier as well.
Anyway it was her all along!
Years later I was at a careers day with my friend and her teenage daughter and the supervisor was there.
She was working for the local council as… a careers advisor!
Let’s just say she didn’t seem keen to talk to me!

foolish to carry lots of cash

Your husband sounds like a scumbag

As someone who DOES work in Asda , I can say that the vast majority of wallets and money handed in are claimed back by grateful owners . I have also seen people in tears having dropped their money , people frantically ringing up to following day to see if it’s been handed in , when we haven’t been able to find it on the day they lost it . These are people from all walks of life . They may be fairly well off but probably work very hard for their money . How can anyone judge a wallet on the floor with money in , it should all be handed in .

I used to have a lovely expensive purse someone had treated me to. I certainly wouldn’t have bought it for myself . I was filling up my car one day, mind elsewhere as my mum had not long passed away , accidently left my purse on top of the car and drove away . A family in a car behind noticed it fly off into the gutter. It was a busy road but they pulled over , mum jumped out and retrieved it and they caught up with me and followed me home . They had a battered old car and didn’t look like they had two pennies to rub together and quite honestly when they came to my door and explained what had happened , I took the 50 quid cash out of my purse and gave it all to them, well deserved. They easily could have kept it . This was 10 years ago and I’ve never forgotten them