AIBU to regret handing in cash found in a wallet?

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Found a wallet with £200 cash in it on a train. DH made me hand the wallet and cash in at the train station. I’m so annoyed - yes it was the right thing to do but we’re struggling financially and there’s no way that cash is making its way back to the owner. I shouldn’t have told him and should have just kept it.

I’ve absolutely had lost property returned to me from trains and shops, including a purse with money in it, so I wouldn’t be so quick to try to justify that not handing it in would have been okay because it’s not going to get back to its owner anyway. Once somebody realises their wallet with £200 is gone they’ll be frantically phoning all the places they’ve been that day.

you will get good karma op

I mean, you’re all bollocking me, but I handed it in didn’t I?! I just wish I hadn’t.

I’m always fantasising about finding a large amount of money and I finally did.

That’s different as no wallet. I found a £20 blowing around the middle of a road, nobody in sight and it would’ve got lodged under a car wheel in the gutter. At the station, two army cadets were collecting so I put it in their bucket - felt right as I’d just moved away from Aldershot (home of the British Army).

But this wasn't a loose note on the floor this was a large amount of money in a wallet, on a train which makes it far easier for the person who lost it to be traced or know where to ask if it has been handed in

Why on earth are you assuming that the train station staff will steal it?

I work in a supermarket and we get full wallets back to the owner quite regularly. People are nicer than you think! Op ye need to have a talk on what will change your circumstances, that’s pure desperation and it’s sad you’re in this situation. We are in a bad state at the moment and are looking at cutting stuff and me getting a new job. You can’t go on like this (huge hugs)

Someone else's money!

Oh yes definitely if it was a wallet/purse etc. would have handed in to police.

I’m always fantasising about finding a large amount of money and I finally did

No OP, you found someone else's wallet which had THEIR money in it! Maybe you need to get out of fantasy land and focus on earning your own money.

It’s a shame that your husband had to make you hand it in,and you didn’t think it was the right thing to do.
It wasn’t your money.The wallet might have had some form of ID so station staff could contact the owner.You don’t know for a fact that the owner won’t get their £200 back.
Shame on you for wanting to keep it.

Why did you hand it in? Did it not have any ID in it?
I’ve found 2 wallets, and both time I found the wonder through the phone book but searching their surname and address, and I called them. Because yes, train station staff aren’t going to do much to return it.

Your HUSBAND made you hand it in. He frogmarched you to the train station ticket booth/enquiries desk. You would have kept it if he hadn't been there.

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Judging other people by her own morales, I guess.

Why would you think it wouldn’t get back to the owner?

My FIL once found a wallet in the bar at a holiday camp, it had a significant amount of money in it. He handed it in.

The following night a call was put out to ask the person who handed it in the meet the owner at the bar as he wanted to say thank you.

The owner was a Dad with young children who had the entire family’s holiday money in that wallet and he got it back because FIL handed it in.

You don’t know what will happen but you certainly will ruin someone’s day possibly even week if you didn’t hand it in.

The world is hard enough m, don’t add to others misery.

So you’d be ok if you lost something of value and the person who found it kept it because they too were skint?

Karma will return for you. You did the right thing handing it in.

You found a wallet with identifying information in, which will almost certainly find its way back to the owner. You didn't find a pile of cash. I found £70 in the street once, in London, in a surprisingly empty street near all the embassies. Nobody was visible walking ahead of me or I would have asked them, so I kept it, and feel no guilt. But a wallet? Absolutely not. If it can get back to the owner then it should.

Maybe the person who lost it is also struggling financially so will be really grateful to get it back.

I was once given too much change, chznge for a £20 when I handed over £10. I didn't immediately realise.

I felt bad so I bought raffle tickets, and won first prize. 😆

I once found over £1000 in an envelope on a shop floor. We advised the shop manager that we’d found it and gave them our contact details and a few days later an old man came to collect it (and confirmed the exact amount in the envelope, we didn’t share that with the manager). That money would have made a huge difference to us and we could easily have kept it but it wasn’t ours to keep and it felt really good to get it back to the person who had lost it.

Who is to say the owner wasn’t struggling financially. You dont know how they earned / acquired their money. You may be struggling financially but it wasn’t yours to keep. Handing it in was the right thing to do.
Thankfully there is CCTV on trains to catch thieves in their tracks. Don’t become that person.

I found a wallet at work in a shopping centre, looked inside and found a landline phone number, called them, they called the person's mobile and they came back to the cafe a couple of hours later and picked it up. I don't think people would necessarily keep phone numbers in wallets these days, that was over 20 years ago!

A dd lost her purse - she thought at Waterloo station at the height of the evening rush hour - assumed it had been nicked so cancelled cards, etc.

Next morning asked at lost property on the (very) off chance, and lo, some kind person had actually handed it in.
Such incidents do restore my faith in human nature,

YAiBU

how do you know it won’t make its way back to the owner? You have zero way of knowing that’s the case.

the fact that you are struggling financially has nothing to do with it.

Years ago I found a wallet stuffed with cash in the toilets in Asda. It wouldn’t have crossed my mind to keep even a penny of it. A few years after that I left my bag hanging in a trolley in the same Asda with my purse in it. The finder took it to the police and I also got it back fully intact. I’m sure you’d be the first to moan if this happened to you and you never got the money back. You did the right thing