Money on floor - WWYD?

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You’re minding your own business completing the food shop in store when you notice £10 on the floor in an aisle? No other customers or staff in the aisle

what would you do? Would you be unreasonable in picking it up and pocketing it for yourself?

I'd worry that it belonged to someone who really needed it.

I would probably just pretend I hadn’t seen it. I wouldn’t keep it but would feel too awkward to pick it up and hand it in case anyone thought I was picking it up and keeping it.

Exactly! I've found money, I've lost money.... Swings and roundabouts. No matter how skint, I can't imagine many people going back to customer service to ask for a note. Further more, if they were so skint as pp fear they should be taking more care of their last £££ not having them loose in their pocket. If I saw someone drop it or looking for it I would hand it back, otherwise: finders keepers!

I'd hand it in, no question.

I once dropped £10 in a nightclub and someone handed it in to the DJ and I was sooooo grateful for that person's honesty.

I also once found £20 outside a shop, handed it in and received profuse thanks from a customer who came looking for it.

I once found a pack of smokes (back then when I was young and stupid) with a fiver in.

Guess what I did?

Younger me would probably have picked it up in glee but now I'd hand it in.

Once I was in a shop when i was a student and saw a pound coin on the floor. I sort of froze, deliberating whether to pick it up and then someone else saw it, put her foot on it and picked it up without a hesitation!

Some people have quick reaction and no contemplation so will do this. Xxx

Must be me but I always believed it was standard practice.

Can't believe they are having 20 x £10 a day handed in plus I think it shows a level of professionalism IMO.

no idea, depends, why do you want to know, it wasnt me!

i found about £80 in a cafe of a soft play area and i handed it in

What 10er ?

This happened to me in ASDA yesterday. I handed it in.

Why would that be standard practice? It's not your money, so would anyone need to contact you about it?

A probably wrong memory of mine from primary school is a sense that you never ever pick up dropped money. I don't remember the why for it.

I'd generally assume a dropped £10 was some kind of set up with cameras recording to see what people did with it, so I'd ignore it.

In a shop, no I wouldn't. I would in the street, though.

I always hand it in. I suppose if I was a bit short I’d keep it though it’s not likely to make it back to the owner.

When I've found money I always put it in a charity box

These days I agree with this. Hand it in.

Loose money, not in a wallet etc? (obviously anything with ID id trace the owner myself or hand in at the local police station- we’re a rare community that still has such a thing!)

In a shop/ cafe/ similar, I’d just leave any coins, notes I’d pick ip
and hand in. I wouldn’t expect it to get back to its rightful owner though!

In the street, I’d hover for a bit and then if nobody turned up, I’d keep it.

I’ve found money blowing round in the street a few times over the years. When I was a new single parent, on maternity leave and suddenly on the absolute bones of my arse, once or twice I remember finding a fiver or a tenner, and I kept it. Now I’m “okayish” financially if I do find money - as happened a few months ago when I found twenty quid in the road- I made a Red Cross donation of the same amount.

I found £300 in an ATM. Went into the store - staff not interested, said they couldn't trace whose it was (lazy bastards). Rang Head Office and fortunately got someone more sensible, who managed to track the correct person down. I went round to their house to return it and of course it was their spending money for a whole week away - they were just about to go on holiday.

(The sad postscript is that they had bought me a lovely bunch of flowers to say thank you, but I was just about to go away too, so I'm not sure what happened to that lovely thankyou gift in the end).

@weirdoboelady im surprised the ATM didn’t pull back in the cash if it wasn’t taken. The machine must really have broken

the store, unless an actual bank, would not have any access to the bank ATM, only the actual bank would be able to access the ATM and the account holder details. I certainly don’t want Tesco staff looking at my bank account and giving my home address to someone

the person who lost the money was lucky you were around to find it

I also once found a purse in the street containing £70 and a bank card. I phoned the lost/found number on the back of the card and asked for them to leave a note on the system for the owner that I would hand it into X police station on the Saturday (which was the earliest I could do so).

Edited to make a bit more sense.

Why would there be random money by a postbox?! If someone was sending cash, wouldn’t it be in an envelope with an address on it?

I would hand it in.

Indeed!

Although, It is theft by finding...

https://geppsolicitors.co.uk/finders-keepers/

This happened to me! Saw a £10 note in the supermarket around 9pm. I asked at customers services if anyone had said they’d dropped any money and they said no , asked the security guard who said no too so I gave it to the homeless man who’d asked for change outside. He was so thankful and said that’s how much he needed to spend the night in a hostel.
I always feel so bad for the person who lost it.