What's The Largest Amount Of Money You Ever Found?

[arwalden]

Back when I was a smoker... I found a $20.00 in the airport's smoking lounge in Miami. (I think it was Miami... I'm certain it was in Florida though.)

Anyway, it was just lying there on the floor, next to one of those floor-stand ash trays. The ones that stand about 2 and half feet high... filled with kitty litter and overflowing with butts.

It made my day!

-- Allen

[toddzilla]

1. not me, but a plumber i know..

found 16,000 dollars in an old house.. he split it with his brother..

why don't i have days like that??
:cry:

[LynneSin]

2. $100 at a crappy nightclub in Ocean City Maryland

My friends drug me out to Big Kahuna in Ocean City Maryland. I really hate this club (in fact hate isn't a harsh enough feeling). It's a bad nightclub with a crappy crowd of mostly just turned 21 year olds getting way too drunk. But we had our friend from NJ insisting on going there (first visit) and I played a good sport. I figured if I hated the place, I'd leave early and just go over to Pepper's Tavern which is a few blocks away.

Well, NJ girl was hooking up with some bodybuilding who could make Bush look like a smart man. His friends really weren't interested in me or my friend who owned the condo. So we walked around trying to find something to amuse ourselves with and I wanted to check out the band (they seemed somewhat decent).

While waiting to get drinks, I look down at the ground and see something green. When I pick it up it's $100 in twenties. I'm kinda cool about it. Ask the folks standing around us if they lost money and when none of them answered the amount I figured it was my reward for coming to the crappy bar. (Well, my friend and I agreed we'd split it and get shit-faced - the only thing we could do to amuse ourselves in that crappy bar).

We told our NJ friend and she blabbed it to her new bodybuilder friends. Suddenly these guys who couldn't have been bothered with us were our new friends. I told my friend who found the money with me we'll buy one round for NJ girl and all her new "Friends" then they're cut off.

I ended up taking about $25 of it home!

[Rowdyboy]

16. Walked into a convenience store at 2am years ago...

Bought cigarette, looked down and saw a $5. Picked it up and there were 2 $100 bills under it. The cashier had no idea where it came from and took my name and number in case anyone came in asking but they never did.

That $205 came in REALLY handy!

[roughsatori]

3. I find money all the time

but it is my own. I put it away and forget about it. Then much later find it. I once opened a book and found 300$ that I did not remember placing there. Another time I was moving and found 200$ under my silver-ware tray. My nice was visiting once and cut her finger, she found 175$ in my band-aid box. Of course when one is that way with money and has a brother who is a career criminal (as I do) one may never even notice being robbed.

I did buy a 40$ lithograph on the street once and it turned out to be an authentic signed Mondrian. That is sort of like finding a lot of money.

[bluestateguy]

4. 20$

But I have had dreams of finding much more. Unlike that famous episode of the Brady Bunch if there is no ID attached to the money I see no obligation to go to the police. Finders Keepers!

[dweller]

5. a chunk a change

that was more than i could imagine...no kidding.
this was many years ago. I had just taken off work at a rest. i was working, and had gone to my car to get a change of clothes for it was a ritual that workers would have an afterwork drink together, but not in work clothes (a.l.e. laws). So as i was walking across the parking lot, i saw what looked like a stack of small paper fluttering, lifting and sitting there, and approaching it realized it was bill$. Just sitting there...reached down and picked them up and folded them and put them in my pocket. Kept walking. Nothing around me but a few cars and cars moving in a line around the perimeter of the lot.
I saw a kid, 13-15 yrs old next and he said 'i just found a $100 bill!!'
i said 'what are you going to do with it?'
he said 'i dunno...'
i said 'keep walking' and we both did our separate directions.

This parking lot was a local hangout for kids to cruise at nite on weekends, it was a never ending line of cars creeping through, they would just line up and creep through on each others bumpers and circle endlessly, possibly drug deals going on, police were always in the mix , it was hell on the restaurant i worked for the patrons trying to get in and park to come in and eat. but i digress.

So i got my clothes from the car, went back inside to the emp. bathroom to change, and checked out the bill$.
There were 18 $100 dollar bills and a $20 in my hand.
i couldn't believe it.

I sat on that money for a month, watching the paper and waiting to see if anyone advertised the loss.
The next thing i knew, the kid (above) and a group of his friends were in for a dinner (this was a fairly nice rest. in the area). I decided to take a week off of work, and do some much needed repairs to my car and home.

and i always keep my eyes peeled now walking around, you never know...then again, i was today at the local recycling and they have a small shed where you can place anything of value that someone may want. I visit often. Today i picked up a jean jacket and 2 Sacajawea $1 coins fell out of the pocket. Maybe i'm just lucky?
:)
dp

[GalleryGod]

6. $580.00 in a Philly Phone booth!

It was 1971 and I was a college kid.

[jafap]

7. I found $100 bill in the break room at work

I would have felt better if it was a $5. With a five I would be happy that I found some money, but with a hundred my thought was that I wish I could find who lost it. I told my manager and my brother-in-law figuring that the loser might moan about it to their manager and it would come up in a meeting. It never did though. Actually another time someone gave me $100 and I felt undeserving, but that does not compare to my parents who not only gave me food, clothing and shelter for 22 years but also spent about $25,000 on my college education. In retrospect I would rather have the money than the BA.

[VermontDem2004]

8. Probaly a few cents

that is how lucky I am.

[ET Awful]

9. Found $286 (yup, exactly that amount) on the subway in Boston

Early in the morning, no one else on the train except an old guy on the other end of the car, and the cash was just sitting on the seat.

[arwalden]

10. Some Fellow In Boston Just Read Your Message...

... and will be contacting you via email shortly.


-- Allen

[ET Awful]

15. LOL . . . he's a little late

That was 4 years ago, and it's long since been spent on all those evil liberal things we do, you know, bought some drugs, paid for a few abortions, stuff like that :) :) :).

[WillParkinson]

11. 207.00

I was leaving work one day and the street I normally turn on was closed off for construction. I went down a different street and made my turn. I stopped at a light and waited. As I looked around I saw what appeared to be money on the ground. I parked my car (it was 6 in the morning and there was no traffic) and walked over to look. I thought at first it was a $10.00 bill but when I got closer I found it was a $100.00 bill. I grabbed it up and turned to go back to the car and found ANOTHER $100.00 bill. I parked the car on the side and walked around for a bit more and found the other $7.00

[Awsi Dooger]

12. I turned in a wallet with about $4700

Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas in maybe '96. It was about 6:45 AM on the first major Saturday of college football season. I went downstairs to use a pay phone, and it took me several minutes to notice the black wallet in front of the adjacent phone.

It was absolutely stuffed. My call lasted 15 minutes, and I kept expecting someone to race down the escalator and retrieve it. I didn't open the wallet until ascending the escalator myself. The bills were all hundreds, and my hands started to shake.

Still, I hesitated only slightly before turning in the wallet at the security desk, without leaving my name. Years earlier someone had done the same for me at Circus Circus, my case rent money inside.

Part of the rationale was extreme superstition. I had at least three dozen large college football bets that day, and was sure keeping the wallet would summon enough bad luck to cost me more than whatever amount it contained. Ha. What a farce. My biggest wager was Wisconsin -23 vs Eastern Michigan and Charlie Batch. I took back +28 for a partial middle. The score was a perfect 24-0 with less than a minute left, when gallant Eastern Michigan KICKED A FIELD GOAL to avert the shutout and lose 24-3. My second biggest bet (Texas A&M) went down in Aggie flames early in the evening.

A couple years later I told the story to a friend, who recognized it immediately. An elderly ex-military man had mentioned losing a wallet with $4700 early on a Saturday morning at a Caesar's Palace pay phone, only to be astonished that someone turned it in with cash intact. Unfortunately, the ex-GI had moved out of town and I never met him.

The Caesar's Palace sportsbook was the site of the largest amount of money I found and did keep, mid '80s when I was visiting Las Vegas virtually every weekend from LA. A discarded baseball wagering ticket from tiny Little Caesar's Casino was resting on the seat next to me, and said simply "Darling -120" for $600. Darling was with the Mets, and they had beaten the Phillies in extra innings. No pitching change before the game, no bizarre comeback after a large deficit. I was first in line at Little Caesar's sportsbook cashier the next day, collecting a nifty $1100.

[arwalden]

13. One Word...

Wow.

Great story.

Okay... that was three words. The "one word" subject line was in reference to "wow". The "great story" was just a little extra letting you know what I thought. Now we're up to 38 words. I'll stop now.

-- Allen

[sjr5740]

14. Used to always find $20's

when I lived in NYC. Found $20 on about 3 occasions and once found $100 in my 2 two years there.

Often on buses and at banks just sitting there. My theory is that new yorkers are always in such a rush to cram things in their pockets or take things out that they are not careful and bills get pulled out. I loved it though....

[SmileyBoy]

22. I constantly find pennies on the ground.

I always put them in my collection, which consists of close to 29,000 pennies now.

[underpants]

17. $500

On a run about two years ago. It was in an envelope and I thought it was a napkin as it had been run over so many times. I just opened it up and saw green and stuck it in my shorts.

1-$100 bill
8-$50's

[DemExpat]

18. $1000.00 on the street...

2 1000.00 guilder bills blowing across the street.....my daughter and I picked them up and took them to the police station near by.

They acted very surprised :crazy:.....and told me to take it home...if no one claimed it within a year it was ours.....

We bought some things for the house with it and took a little weekend family vacation.....:bounce:

DemEx

That's the only thing I've ever found or won....it was FUN!

[JVS]

19. Depends on what you mean by find

if you know what I mean ;)

Oh, who am I kidding, I'm no thug. I found $20 when I was 10 years old on the walk home from school. The bus patrol wanted to take it and find out if anyone had lost it in the neighborhood, but I bolted. When I was 16 I went to the basement, where my older brother often had parties and looked for change everywhere else in the house. I collected $106.43

[Braden]

20. $1200

I found a cashiers check made out to Cash for $1200 which is pretty much cash. It was made out to a local business which was two doors from where I was living in New Jersey. Being Sunday I slipped the check with a note under the door in one of my business envelopes, which had my return address on it.

The rightful owner never even acknowlegded my good deed. Since then I have wished that I had cashed the check, gone into his hardware store and bought $1200 worth of stuff!

[SmileyBoy]

21. One dollar on a couple of occasions.

Once when I was a little kid, I was playing out in the front yard when I noticed a dollar bill in the gutter. The other time was in downtown Fargo (before I came to school here) when I was attending an NDSU orientation earlier this year.

I feel pathetic compared to the rest of you.:-)

[Padraig18]

23. $181.23

I found it lying on the floor next to the checkout thingy at the supermarket, and turned it in to the office. 90 days later, the police department called me and told me that no one had claimed it, and I could keep it after giving them a receipt for it. :)

[Ronnie]

24. Once I found a

twenty-dollar bill in the pocket of a jacket I hadn't worn in a year. Actually, that's happened several times.

[Skittles]

25. $766 in a wallet in a puddle by the side of a road

I took it home, papered the wet money all over my dryer to heat and looked up the person in the phone book. He was an elderly gentlemen; his son answered the phone and said THANK GOD, because his dad was very upset - he'd cashed his social security check while doing some errands and promptly lost his wallet. They had searched the route but didn't find it. I refused a reward but his wife did bake me a very nice pie. :D

[ploppy]

27. What a nice story!

Thanks. :D

[Wickerman]

26. In college I was flat broke until payday monday

it was Friday afternnon, and I was moping around leaving class, looking down. I spotted a 20$ on the ground. Picking it up, it was a 20 with a five and 3 ones. That 28$ fed me, did my laundry (well, I did it - it paid for it), rented me a movie and bought me a couple of beers.