re: What is the largest amount of money you have ever found?

When self-checkouts first started appearing I had a sales route at grocery stores; I was regularly netting $15/day at area stores from people forgetting their change. Lasted for a few weeks. It was certainly a little unethical, but I was a poor college senior making 4% commission...it was needed money.

Fast forward 12 years, I stop at a Walmart for a snack before I coach a little league game and get $40 cash back at a self checkout. I'm in a rush and forget the money. Realize it at the red light leaving the store and briefly consider running back in. Then I chalk it up to karma and drive away.

quote:

---

When I was around 9 years old, I found 50 dollars in the street. I bought football equipment with it and saved the rest.

---

These days that would get you a football and maybe a mouthpiece

Or maybe 1 cleat.

During college I was like everyone else and was broke as hell. One day I went to my ATM and my receipt said I had $263,000 in my account. I spent the day showing everyone how rich I was. The following day my balance was corrected and back to $14.00.

250k...... my grandfather was old school Great Depression mindset. After he passed we found it in the attic.

quote:

---

It's like drunk me knew future me would enjoy finding it next time I use that purse. Thanks, me.

---

I found two ones and a fiver in my work pants pocket this morning.

They’d been through the wash/dry cycle but the bills stayed in the pocket for the whole ride.

I found $120 outside of the old RFK at Mets vs Nats game circa 2005.

First year of marriage. Young and barely getting by with a newborn. I found $400 bucks in a parking lot one day and kept it. Felt guilty about keeping it but I knew if I turned it in the employees would probably pocket it anyway. $400 may as well have been $1000 to me at that time.

Fast forward about a week. My wife had just gone to cash my paycheck. Didn’t have a checking account and was living paycheck to paycheck. She gets out of her car at a gas station and leaves her purse in it with the doors unlocked. A guy on a bike swipes it and takes off. About $1500 and that’s all we had to our name. Had to borrow money from her parents to make it until the next payday.

Figured it was bad karma. Since then, I always turn any found money in to somebody. If they choose to keep it, so be it.

quote:

---

Or maybe 1 cleat.

---

I found a $100 bill once.