What's the most money

[Puddy]

Back in the early 90's we were living with my mother-in-law in SW Detroit while I attended college. Parking on this street was very difficult as it was allowed only on one side. I often had to park in the back yard which you get to by driving through an alley. One night I get home late and drive to the back yard. As I exit the car I see this wallet laying near the entrance to our back yard. I open it and there is $301 in it. I looked at the license and other stuff and found a work card for the guy (he was hispanic like Chavez). It was behind our house because we lived next door to a duplex that housed a Mexican family or six and they threw parties every Sunday night while the rest of us were trying to sleep to get up the next day. I couldn't get his home number so I called his work and they helped me get in contact with the guy. I show up on his porch and he speaks very broken english. I hand him the wallet and he immediately looks for the cash. Of course it was all there so he was very grateful. He offered me fifty dollars but I turned it down. He said "I've never met anybody like you". I thought for sure that one moment was going to solve all of the issues between the gringos and the Mexicans but well...that didn't work out too well.

Edited September 1, 2010 by Puddy

[cre8tiff]

I found $40 when I was about ~10yo.

Dad made me put $20 into savings and the other $20 I spent on a sub-marine game. You layed out mines and looked thru a periscope.

DAMN... can't remember the game! But it was really cool!

 

Probably Sea Raider (first produced in the 50's), or Sea Devil (1969) or Sea Wolf (1976).

 

One of the first really cool game concepts.

 

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I found a $100.00 bill in a rest stop along the will Rogers turnpike back when my wife and I were first married, dirt poor, and travelling. The attendent looked at it when I tried to give it to him and said, I know exactly who dropped it, and they aren't going to come all the way back here for it. You just keep it.

 

Was sorely needed at the time, I tell you!

[cre8tiff]

When I was in the Navy I was in Thailand. In my hotel room I found 1000 Baht, ended up being like 25 bucks if I remember right.

 

Maybe that was just your guest for the night expressing his gratitude.

[Azazello1313]

20 something bucks at an amusement park when I was a kid. the find was promptly spent on funnel cakes, the video arcade, etc. think it probably lasted about half an hour.

[dmarc117]

i love finding money in an article of clothing i havent worn in a long time. no matter what the amount, i feel like i won the lottery.

[Thews40]

Back in the early 90's we were living with my mother-in-law in SW Detroit while I attended college. Parking on this street was very difficult as it was allowed only on one side. I often had to park in the back yard which you get to by driving through an alley. One night I get home late and drive to the back yard. As I exit the car I see this wallet laying near the entrance to our back yard. I open it and there is $301 in it. I looked at the license and other stuff and found a work card for the guy (he was hispanic like Chavez). It was behind our house because we lived next door to a duplex that housed a Mexican family or six and they threw parties every Sunday night while the rest of us were trying to sleep to get up the next day. I couldn't get his home number so I called his work and they helped me get in contact with the guy. I show up on his porch and he speaks very broken english. I hand him the wallet and he immediately looks for the cash. Of course it was all there so he was very grateful. He offered me fifty dollars but I turned it down. He said "I've never met anybody like you". I thought for sure that one moment was going to solve all of the issues between the gringos and the Mexicans but well...that didn't work out too well.

I worked in a restaurant when I was 16. I found a wallet in the bar with nothing in it but money… $200. I hid it and went about my Saturday morning duties as busboy. My boss comes to me later and said someone came in asking if I found a wallet… I told him I didn’t. I kept the money and bought a set of Cragars for my 70 GTO.

 

Skip ahead five years… A guy I knew wanted to buy a Ram Air III engine I had. He paid me $300 in cash and wrote a check for $400. I didn’t know about the whole check thing until the engine was loaded into his car. Winds up he cancels the check and I get burned $400. While I was pissed, I knew I deserved it. Since then, every time I’ve been ripped off I thought I had it coming. I was just 16 when I learned lesson #2843 in life, but when it comes back around, which it always does, I always know the score. I wish I could go back in time and fix it, but I never met my victim face-to-face and can’t.

[cre8tiff]

I worked in a restaurant when I was 16. I found a wallet in the bar with nothing in it but money… $200. I hid it and went about my Saturday morning duties as busboy. My boss comes to me later and said someone came in asking if I found a wallet… I told him I didn’t. I kept the money and bought a set of Cragars for my 70 GTO.

 

Skip ahead five years… A guy I knew wanted to buy a Ram Air III engine I had. He paid me $300 in cash and wrote a check for $400. I didn’t know about the whole check thing until the engine was loaded into his car. Winds up he cancels the check and I get burned $400. While I was pissed, I knew I deserved it. Since then, every time I’ve been ripped off I thought I had it coming. I was just 16 when I learned lesson #2843 in life, but when it comes back around, which it always does, I always know the score. I wish I could go back in time and fix it, but I never met my victim face-to-face and can’t.

 

Everyone has made mistakes in life. Karma nearly always makes us pay, one way or another. The key is to forgive yourself for being a kid.

[loaf]

pretty sure $20 is my tops

[darin3]

I found 90 bucks in a parking lot of a bar. I remember it was the night that Foreman knocked out Moorer. I had 80 bucks blow right up to me in the wind in the city once and I found 80 once on the floor of a casino

Don't forget that cash you "found" at the roulette table in Vegas that one year.

[whomper]

Don't forget that cash you "found" at the roulette table in Vegas that one year.

 

 

Dude . I remember looking at you and we were both speechless. I was down to my last 2-300 bucks and had 2 days to go. Put a 100 straight up with 200 left for the weekend. Yay Alcohol

[Seattle LawDawg]

$100 bill in a casino parking lot in vegas last week. I donated it to the house 10 minutes later.

[SheHateMe]

When I was 8 years old, while walking home from the park.. I found a metal cashbox. $4200 cash. Now this was 1976, and was a ton of money to my family, but my mom took me to the police station to turn it in. I was told if it wasn't claimed in 30 days, it was all mine. It turned out to be the cash made from the city softball concession stands. The mayor office did give me a $200 reward for being honest tho... Good karma at a young age, led to my biggest find latter in life.

 

In 1992 , I was 24 and in college. I had just moved into a new home. While cleaning out the crawl space beneath the stairs, I found a glass jar filled with coins. I took them to the previous owner of the home to let him know I found some coins. He told me that they were not his, and must belong to the original owner of that house. So, I was free to keep them. I took them to a coin shop in Phoenix, where I was pleased to find out that my little stash of coins were valued just over 6,000 dollars. Needless to say, I have very fond memories of that college dump. =)

[giggity]

Chutes Away

[ljbrun]

Around the time my 1st wife and I were to be married (1980) we were using my checking account to deposit wedding (money) gifts and write checks for deposits on furniture, new apartment etc.

 

We were going to open our new joint checking account once all the checks cleared etc. A couple of months after the wedding and moving into our apartment together there was still about $4500 in checks that we had written that hadn’t been cashed. One day I happened to find my bank statement from 2-3 months earlier which showed all those checks that I thought hadn’t been cashed yet.

 

So now the checks are accounted for, but I still have 4500 mystery dollars in my account. Examining my statements, I found that a wedding gift check for $500 that actually got posted as $5000! First thing I thought of was that card from the Monopoly game “Bank error in your favor…!” So, the first major disagreement of our young marriage ensues and of course she wins and we’re off to the bank to let them fix the error.

 

Between the 2 of us we made about $300 a week. We really could have used that money…

 

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SheHateMe's story reminded me of this one. Maybe a year or 2 before the above.

 

I had a friend who was a small town cop (Groton MA). One day some kid (around 14 years old I think) calls the police and says he found a box with some basketball souvenir stuff and maybe a couple hundred dollars. Turned out that somebody robbed the concessionaire working a Harlem Globetrotter game at Boston Garden. When the money was counted there was around $40k. I think the kid got a free pass to Globetrotter games for life.

 

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Found $40 on the floor at a Maine Turnpike rest-stop on the way back from a funeral in New Brunswick.