If you found £10

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in the market, at the end of the day when there was rubbish everywhere, when it wasn't next to any stall, would you keep it?
I did and dd was horrified. Said I should take it to the police (she's 9).
I explained why I didn't and she seemed okay with it. Normally I am honest, honest, honest, but there just seemed no point in handing it in. Would you have done?

given it to charity!

i would have spent it pretty quick

I would like to say that I would also give it to charity as this would be the best thing to do of course......

but....

I would have kept it if I was by myself but if I was with an impressionable young dd I would probably either hand it in to the police or give it to charity.

I would have kept it too.

To be fair, I'd keep it. It sounds selfish, but we strugg;e for money as it is and it would make my day if I found 10 quid on the floor

agree - I would have made sure dd didn't see or that I had done the right thing!

dd2 found a pound on her school feild after a recent fete there. The fete was to raise school funds. She had thought she could spend it at the shop but I made her give ti to teh school for their funds , explaining that the person who lost it had obviously intended that it would go to the school and that therefore this was the most honest thing to do.

Depends how skint I was. Obviously, if there was a chance of returning it to owner, would do so. However, I also believe that things can turn up when you really need them in a nice, helpful kind of way. But if I did find one and keep it, I would make my next charity donation larger to sort of acknowledge it.

Agree with cat that if it was in a purse etc, then I would hand it in.

I lost 20 quid a couple of weeks ago in town, and although that was half my weeks money out of the window, I didn;t bother going to look for it as I knew I'd never see it again. I was fecking gutted about it though

Tricky one. My dd has been bought up to be law-abiding, not to steal etc. But just a loose tenner, somehow seems less "owned" than £10 in a purse I agree. In that case I would definitely hand it in (as if I lost it I could say "I lost a purple purse with £10 in" rather than "I lost £10" IYSWIM.
Good idea about charity, that wouldn't have occurred to me

after seeing photos at a museum showing children working in the mines and me having to do a quick rundown of the industrial revolution for 5 year olds, dd is obsessed with "the poor children", so anything she outgrows goes to "the poor children". I wouldn't have a hope in hell of doing anything with that money other than giving it to "the poor children" so they don't have to go out to work.

Real little social revolutionary, when she grows up she is going to send all the parents to prison who make their children go out to work. I try not to have too many in-depth cause and effect discussions on poverty-socialism and so on but I don't think she is ever going to forget that visit to the museum. They had a little tunnel you could crawl into to see what it was like moving a coal shuttle along on all fours.

kept it