Found some money lying on the floor today while shopping.

[Geosurface]

I've found a $100 twice within the last few years. One time was as I was walking to my car in a large grocery store parking lot, and I was parked quite a ways from the store itself. It was in a pool of rain water and it was quite windy out, it was among leaves and stuff. I think it probably blew there from somewhere else, but regardless, taking it inside to the store employees was not happening. I kept that shit.

The next time was much more recently. Gf and I were walking downtown, very busy area, and we spotted this one laying on the sidewalk. I guess we could've started shouting to the crowd around us "did anyone drop a $100!?!" but we opted to keep it.

You should've kept the one you found. You likely won't be getting it returned to you, and you will never know if the actual owner came back, or if one of the employees just called their friend and had them come in and claim they'd lost one. The actual person who lost the $100, when they realize it's gone, probably won't have the slightest idea where they dropped it (was it this shop? was it that other shop? was it at the gas station? what day did it even go missing?), and it probably won't even occur to them that anyone turned it in anywhere. People assume that you lose a $100, whoever finds it is keeping it. As you should have done.

But, obviously it was very kind of you and very considerate of you to do what you did, and I hope that you are rewarded later with it's return.

Btw, if I sound mercenary I'm really not. I've run down an entire city block to catch up to an old man who dropped a $5.

 

[Captante]

Would you mind sharing the name and address of the store you were shopping at?

Damnit .... beat me to it! :awe:

 

[gorcorps]

America is getting Polymer notes?
We had that in 1992! (Australia)

Perhaps in the year 2040 America will upgrade to the Metric system?

Pretty sure the OP is in Canada

 

[Williz]

I'd have pocketed it, people should be more careful with their money!

 

[Turbonium]

If I'm trying super hard, $100 is about 10 days of food for me at most. But three weeks? You're spending less than 5 bucks a day on food. Are you super thin?

As for the money, I would have kept it, only because it's super hard to trace down the owner in any way, and I wouldn't trust the envelope process to work.

 

[sdifox]

America is getting Polymer notes?
We had that in 1992! (Australia)

Perhaps in the year 2040 America will upgrade to the Metric system?

Canada...Op is a hoser

 

[SearchMaster]

I recently found a $20 lying under a chair at a casino. Took it to security to turn it in and they were extremely confused as to what to do. Not sure what ever happened to it but they took it and made sure the cameras caught it.

Well to be fair, if you complain about losing $20 at a casino you're doing it wrong.

 

[JM Aggie08]

This is exactly why I never carry cash.

 

[Rakehellion]

#mino

 

[angminas]

Btw, if I sound mercenary I'm really not. I've run down an entire city block to catch up to an old man who dropped a $5.

This attempt at defending yourself actually makes you sound worse.

 

[KB]

If they are shopping in the expensive european aisle, then they are probably rich and won't even notice they lost $100 bucks.

 

[SaurusX]

I found $16 last week in the middle of an aisle at Target. I just kept it.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I found $16 last week in the middle of an aisle at Target. I just kept it.

Thats okay, hackers found all your PIN numbers etc and kept it.

 

[gotsmack]

If I'm trying super hard, $100 is about 10 days of food for me at most. But three weeks? You're spending less than 5 bucks a day on food. Are you super thin?

If you're not eating organic, $100 for 3 weeks is easily doable for 1 person.

Here is what I eat on a workday:
8 oz fage yogurt
1/2 scoop of Brown Rice protein
1 hand full of nuts (walnut or pecan)
1 hand full of raisins

4 hard boiled eggs

1 banana, orange, or kiwi
8 oz coconut water
1 scoop of whey protein
3 hand fulls of "Power Greens" mixed salad from Costco

1/4 cup of grain (quinoa, farrow, or brown rice)
1/2 bag of broccoli from Trader Joes

I'm at about $7 a day and I'm eating healthy (and cutting).

If I just wanted to stay under the $5 mark I'd just buy whole chicken, eggs, cheap vegetables, and whatever grain was cheap.

 

[JACKIE]

If you're not eating organic, $100 for 3 weeks is easily doable for 1 person.

Here is what I eat on a workday:
8 oz fage yogurt
1/2 scoop of Brown Rice protein
1 hand full of nuts (walnut or pecan)
1 hand full of raisins

4 hard boiled eggs

1 banana, orange, or kiwi
8 oz coconut water
1 scoop of whey protein
3 hand fulls of "Power Greens" mixed salad from Costco

1/4 cup of grain (quinoa, farrow, or brown rice)
1/2 bag of broccoli from Trader Joes

I'm at about $7 a day and I'm eating healthy (and cutting).

If I just wanted to stay under the $5 mark I'd just buy whole chicken, eggs, cheap vegetables, and whatever grain was cheap.

It's safe to say if that was my $7 option, I believe I'd just choose the $0 option.

 

[madoka]

I saw a penny lodged underneath the shelves and I just left it there. MINO.

 

[Imported]

They're weird as fuck, right?

They are. I thought they were fake at first.

 

[Geosurface]

This attempt at defending yourself actually makes you sound worse.

Yea, how's that?

 

[monkeydelmagico]

That was a good deed. It's nice to imagine a needy person came back to find their hard earned moneys.

 

[Herr Kutz]

I read the title as "found someone lying on the floor today while shopping".

 

[MrDudeMan]

America is getting Polymer notes?
We had that in 1992! (Australia)

Perhaps in the year 2040 America will upgrade to the Metric system?

I really hope not. The metric system is inferior for every day life. Celcius is less precise than Fahrenheit and the range doesn't map to anything sensible. 0C isn't that cold and 100C is death. 0F and 100F were picked specifically because they represent the most common temperature extremes most humans experience. Also, cooking with the metric system is absolutely retarded compared to using quantities that actually make sense with recipes. Please pass me 4.93 mL of salt, or you can just give me one teaspoon.

As an engineer, I fully embrace the metric system for work. For home, it's not better.

 

[cavemanmoron]

America is getting Polymer notes?
We had that in 1992! (Australia)

Perhaps in the year 2040 America will upgrade to the Metric system?

Hmm, let me think, 26 more years, Maybe.

Somehow 32f seems warmer than Zero.

 

[Midwayman]

I once found a wallet in a movie theatre. It was packed with cash. Several hundred bucks at least. Turned it into the desk. Always wondered if the cash ever made it back to the owner.

 

[gotsmack]

It's safe to say if that was my $7 option, I believe I'd just choose the $0 option.

I like the the meals and I'm going to be cut by the time summer rolls around. I grouped them in how I eat them. The coconut water one is a smoothie I put in the blender and you don't taste the power greens. The yogurt one is kind of thick, but the raisins really break things up.

If I wasn't cutting, I'd cut out the powder and eat 1/4 - 1/2 a chicken a day prepared in different ways, but mostly prepared in calorie dense French style. Also, I'd be eating a lot of bread.

 

[alkemyst]

Hopefully, you get that money and hopefully whoever lost can afford that loss.

I got my financee's kids the $100 and $50 bills for come Christmas money, they don't want to spend them

They do look neat, almost like future money you'd see in old sci fi movies.

I lost a wallet once when my pocket got caught on something and tore. I can't remember the exact amount in it but it was over $100 (this was back in the 90's). My wallet showed up at a service desk and I was called, but the cash was missing.

My wallet may as well have been lost as I still had to cancel and renew everything. The only thing salvageable was my ID. That was when I was young and carried all my cards around not knowing better. Now I have at most two cards when I travel and only one day to day.

That said I can't wait until we go to a 'credit' system where your currency is on a card or other device. It'd be a very complicated system to setup and control, but would be worth it in the long run. I received some movie passes and the way it works is you have to pay the difference in CASH only. I got to the theatre and found this out. I didn't have the cash on me nor did I want to step out of line to go to the atm. I have to use them by the end of the month as well. Hope something decent comes out by then.