£4000 found when ripping out kitchen

[ElizabethDarcy88]

Today after having old kitchen ripped out our fitter found hidden a box and inside was £4000 in cash. ...we have informed solicitor who managed the sale. (It was a probate house sale) what do you think will happen?

Really? In modern notes?

You found thousands in recent polymer currency that you could take to the bank?

Or did you find the old paper ones? The ones that cease to become legal tender in September.

handy timing if you did.

I guess that’s the difference between you and him then.

Maybe hidden away by a person with Dementia

So if you found a faberge crystal flower in the attic (just as an example) would you tell the previous owners ? Is the "right"thing to do always the same as what you are legally obliged to ? Where would any of you draw the line? Value wise ? I'm genuinely curious 🤔

I know of someone who found mucky magazines with features on Oral Sex On Ice, arrived addressed to the previous occupant's son.

It wasn’t a gift though.

This is honestly my dream🥲

‘I once found 700 wrapped up in notes on the street on the way home. On a quiet street, years ago. I shared it out with my sister.’ This too. Why can’t things like this happen to me??

The most I’ve found is £50 on the street and that was a good few years back. I did find £20 last year but that’s shite in comparison to these amounts

🤣🤣

I'm pretty sure the bank wouldn't swap 4k in old money to new without asking any questions. if you could find a bank that was open

If it was the old owners I'd imagine theyd have removed it or contacted you. They'll just say yes it's theirs even if it wasn't

Maybe OP comes from a culture where it is a sin to keep money you haven't worked for.

I wouldn't be able to keep found money. It would have to be donated to a charity.

You couldn't have spent it. Those notes are no longer legal tender.

This.fks sake.

I've actually had a slightly heated discussion with my DH over this! He'd ring the solicitor and I'm in the go halves with the fitter camp after possibly making a few lame enquires as to what would happen if we fessed up !

You did the right thing. As did your kitchen fitter.

I'd have done the same OP and I would be annoyed at my own honesty too 😅😅 I wouldn't dream of keeping it.

How the fuck would they even know 🙄

Okay this happened to us just a few months ago! £4600 we found in a box in a wall partition! The old person who lived here before us sold the house (still alive) and in the box was a note where they had been keeping track of money going in and out. Randomly these transactions stopped, years before selling the house, so I have no idea what happened or whether they actually maybe had a bit of dementia or something and completely forgot the money was there. How honest is your fitter though?! It was us who found ours and we haven’t told a soul for fear of him finding out we found it 🙈 I even have a story ready for if he was ever to arrive at the door and say he left something behind. I’d act confused and say ‘go and have a look’ then say so many workmen did the renovations that someone must have taken it and not told us 🤷🏼‍♀️ Finders keepers and all that. Although I do feel very guilty 😂

Great! I hope you get something out of it. Many years back when buying a house we 'inherited' size 13 purple satin fluffy mules under the floor boards + photos of the male seller in them and a huge carp frozen in a block of ice in the crappy ancient built in freezer.

@willwewontwe I'm not surprised you feel guilty! I can just about see the dilemma where it's a probate sale and wouldn't go to the actual owner of the cash, but you're admitting to keeping money that an old gentleman left in the house - possibly due to dementia!

I don’t know how you live with yourself keeping that old man’s savings.

Gosh @willwewontwe im not sure keeping an old mans savings is something to brag about. I guess we reap what we sow and all that….

@willwewontwe that is just an awful thing to do. I notice you do feel very guilty but not guilty enough to return money to a man who in your words maybe had a bit of dementia or something and completely forgot the money was there.

My Dad had dementia and the thought that someone would steal from him is just bloody despicable.

You'd really lie to the owner of the money who probably went without for years to save it? Even though he probably needs it more than ever with bills going up the way they are now? You're happy with the notion that he may be freezing because he can't pay his fuel bills? I really don't know how you live with yourselves.

You ARE guilty.

And despicable.