Found £20 in street WWYD?

[thehouseofmirth]

Found a £20 note today on the pavement round the corner from my house. I think I should hand it in to the Police but am put off by the fact I know I'll have to wait an age in the police station. It was quite a posh road but it could have been dropped by a little old lady, cash-strapped student or someone's cleaner. Just found out I'm pregnant and don't want any bad karma. What shall I do?

I'd keep it. I've lost money loads of times so figure it all evens out in the end

When I was a 17 year old saturday girl in a posh department store I found a bus pass holder with (iirc) about £700 cash in (this was 15 years ago).

I handed it in via my manager who took it to security ho returned it to it's rightful owner. I was lauded by manager and security and told I'd surely get a nice reward from the lady. I sat back and waited...

Still waiting.

I've twice found money (£30 and £100) sticking out the cash machine. After checking for Jeremy Beadle I've given half to charity and kept half.

£20 I would definitely just keep.

I have returned a purse I found in a taxi with money in it. Had owner's address plus tickets for a do. Got a nice bunch of flowers for that.

I left my purse in my empty trolley at Sainburys the other day - some lovely person handed it in but they didn't have a name!!!

Well, I accidentally spent the actual note in the supermarket today but have decided to hand it in. The way things are with us at the moment £20 is quite a windfall but it isn't mine and I just worry that it belongs to someone who needs it even more than me. If I'm wrong and the owner hasn't missed it then I think I get it back if it's not claimed so then my virtue will be rewarded!

Absolutely HOM - you can feel very angelic today!

I'd have spent it. I don't think anyone who lost £20 would bother going to the police station. I'm cash strapped but I know I wouldn't bother because the vast majority of people who found £20 wouldn't hand it in - a sad indictment of our communities now days

keep it!

Its hardly a suitcase full of £50 notes is it!

And besides if I lost £20 I would think 'tough shit for me'

It would NEVER occour to me to go to the police station and ask if anyone had handed it in!

But if you really needed the money and you'd lost it (like the old guy) maybe you would go to the police station on the off chance? In the past I have pocketed cash I've found but traced down wallets etc. Now I will be handing it in.

spend it

Hmm, where is the cut-off point? I wouldn;t hand in a fiver or a tenner, but £20... I think I'd ring the police station and ask. They would probably laugh

I would do something if there was any way of tracing the owner - obv if it was a wallet, or I found it in a shop etc. If it was a roll of notes then there's a question to ask anyone who rings up to claim it. A single note - it wouldn't even occur to me to hand it to the police, and if I found it in the street I'm afraid I would keep it.

I guess I have lesser morals that many.
Oh dear .

Very naughty of us, but dh and I once found £45 in a London Park and spent it , I saw £5, then dh saw a £20 note and then i saw another.

I know we should have handed it in to the police and we did sort of look for a police officer to hand it to but.....

if a mn lost £45 approx 5 years ago, I'm sorry but thanks for allowing dh and I to buy some very nice wine.

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