Anyone else pick up 'street money?'

[The Big D]

I take a vigorous long walk most days...4-5 miles usually. I vary my route but it typically takes me on city streets and through downtown.

I have always picked up any money and items of 'value' I find so have decided to keep a tally of what I find in 2016. Ten (10) days into the new year I have 'earned' a grand total of $1.73...American. Have picked up money every day thus far...the most being $.83 last Tuesday. Also found various screws, nuts, and bolts and a brand new package of two (2) toothbrushes.

Best year ever was 2005 when I collected $362.46. Was living in a much more affluent area at the time and my collection included two (2) $20.00 bills.

Will update this post periodically and will definitely note the final total for 2016.

Be safe.

PS:

Have never understood why some people are too lazy to pick up money that's just laying there in plain sight.

 

[arjay]

The only money I remember finding was a $10 bill when I was about 8 ('62) thought I was rich until mom insisted I ask the neighbors if they had lost it,"but don't tell them how much."The first one I asked was a wily old coot and he wanted to know how much I found.I asked him how much he lost.He laughed and I didn't ask anyone else.I was rich!

 

[Muss Muggins]

College buddy of mine picks up street money while running. He keeps a yearly tally, and uses it to buy something at the end of each year. He's right there with you . . .

 

[Bill Bates]

The wife and I have a jar we call the road kill jar for the change we find, often run over and beat up.

 

[tompehret]

While standing in front of a vacant house waiting to be let in by a realtor (I'm a home inspector) I found a $50 dollar bill in the street gutter. Looked like it had been washed and dried. Spent the next 30 minutes walking around the block looking for more, but found none.
That $50 came at a good time and was put to good use.

 

[Salty RI]

Back in the 70's I was out rabbit hunting and I spotted something green in the leaves, I picked it up, it was a 100.00 bill.

 

[bullmack]

My wife will pick it up off the floor at the store check outs and at stop lights is known to put her Harley on the kick stand and pickup coins!

 

[hoc9sw]

I've picked up a lot of coins over the years. And one $20 bill. Can't say it was ever much more than that.

But you can't do that in certain Middle Eastern countries, as I was quickly warned while there. Picking up something "lost" under the strict laws constitutes theft, and off you go in chains with people pointing at you.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I do pick up money.
As a teenager, I did find that Twenty.
Used it to buy my first gun. A Sears single barrel 20 gauge, it's in my closet.
But my real special talent is picking up tools on the road.
Over the years, I have picked up a bunch.
Lately, I don't see as many.
Maybe that because the front wheel drive cars are more sealed at the bottom.
Or, I could be slowing down a little.
It's probably because less folks even try to work in their cars.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Long ago, on a bicycle trip from Greece to Spain, during a long slow uphill climb in a remote area of the Pyrenees mountains, my husband dismounts and picks up a snap-top change purse from the road. It had a wad of French Francs in it that converted to almost USD $500. We splurged on lunch that afternoon.

 

[kaaskop49]

When tokens were used on NYC subways and buses, I don't think I even found 5 on the street over a period of decades. When the NYC Transit Authority changed over to MetroCards, I found many laying on the ground. Some folks would toss a daily card on the ground after using it for the ride home. I could then use it for MY ride home on that day.

My best "haul" was a monthly MetroCard I found on the 3rd of the month: 4 full weeks of rides! Paris, Amsterdam, Vegas, Beijing... I hit them all that month!

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

 

[bagga]

mrs. bagga found a $20 a couple of days ago. i found a $20 on the floor of a porta potty a few years ago. there was some festivities going on there so i headed over to the food and refreshment stand and spent some of it right away. the guy took the $20 and gave me change back. i figured the faster i got rid of the $20 the better off i would be.

 

[vt_shooter]

At my former job some of the guys would toss an occasional coin into the urinals, I guess to see if anyone would take it out. As far as I know, no one did. The cleaning guys must have thought we were nuts.

 

[DeathGrip]

I pick up money when I see it but I keep an eye out for wheel weights too. Usually my floor board has a pretty good collection of weights.

Lots of tools but mostly junk. I did find a Snap-on adjustable wrench. That wrench is tight and smooth, real nice. I would have never bought one. It sits on the shelf where I can get to it easily.

 

[The Big D]

Yep, that, too

Found a hammer in December and an industrial size crowbar last summer.

Be safe.

...
But my real special talent is picking up tools on the road.
Over the years, I have picked up a bunch.
Lately, I don't see as many.
Maybe that because the front wheel drive cars are more sealed at the bottom.
Or, I could be slowing down a little.
It's probably because less folks even try to work in their cars.

 

[the ringo kid]

The only money I remember finding was a $10 bill when I was about 8 ('62) thought I was rich until mom insisted I ask the neighbors if they had lost it,"but don't tell them how much."The first one I asked was a wily old coot and he wanted to know how much I found.I asked him how much he lost.He laughed and I didn't ask anyone else.I was rich!

Same thing happened to me a couple years ago when I was walking to dairy queen to have lunch. I was in between two two story apt buildings. I happened to be looking down, frowned because it looked like a litterbug had littered. As I neared the litter, it looked more like cash. I picked it up and was $17.00. A ten, five and two ones.

I went to have lunch, told the manager what I found but didn't say in what denominations. Well, next day or so, I was back for another lunch. The manager told me she told two sets of two people who came in, what I found. Both couples claimed it was theirs. One said it had been two fives and seven ones, the other said three fives and two ones. Wrong, so I kept the money.

In my neighborhood, everyone you tell about missing money, will claim it.

 

[Stevens]

A few years ago I found a wad of 6 - $20s a bit later a 5 + 2 ones. Also have found a Swiss army knife, a buck pocket knife and LOTS of loose change, usually pennies but larger coins from time to time. Once on the shoulder of the road three metal boxes of welding rods that must have fallen out of a truck, I gave them to a welder friend of mine.
I have lost many more knives than I have found though.
Thereis usually loose change under drive up windows of fast food places never picked any of that up I figure the employees there deserve it
Steve W

 

[the ringo kid]

While standing in front of a vacant house waiting to be let in by a realtor (I'm a home inspector) I found a $50 dollar bill in the street gutter. Looked like it had been washed and dried. Spent the next 30 minutes walking around the block looking for more, but found none.
That $50 came at a good time and was put to good use.

If washed and dried? they were probably trying to wash the cocaine residue off it that they just snorted. Happens a lot.

 

[bushmaster1313]

The wife and I have a jar we call the road kill jar for the change we find, often run over and beat up.

Some have freezers full of road kill:cool

 

[the ringo kid]

A few years ago I found a wad of 6 - $20s a bit later a 5 + 2 ones. Also have found a Swiss army knife, a buck pocket knife and LOTS of loose change, usually pennies but larger coins from time to time. Once on the shoulder of the road three metal boxes of welding rods that must have fallen out of a truck, I gave them to a welder friend of mine.
I have lost many more knives than I have found though.
Thereis usually loose change under drive up windows of fast food places never picked any of that up I figure the employees there deserve it
Steve W

About two weeks ago, I was on my way to the gym, looked down and found a folding knife with blade extended and stuck hilt deep into the mud. It was a cheap knife, so after making sure no blood staines were on the blade, I gave it to one of the workers at the gym.