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by Outaservice 15 Replies latest jw friends

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  Outaservice

  I hate a thief too Purps.

  But to all, what is the most money or valuable thing you ever found and was able to keep?

  Outaservice
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  megsmomma

  When I was 11, I was at a beach and digging through the sand and found $20.00! It was a THRILL! I bought all my friends ice cream...after asking if I had to give it to somebody.
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  juni

  $5.00 bill in a mall parking lot.
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  Outaservice

  I had an Uncle that found a $50.00 Bill in the Congregation Contribution Box!

  We made him give it back and he could no longer carry the 'mike'!

  Outaservice
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  mouthy

  When my son Alan was eleven--- it was his birthday---we were too poor to buy him anything. I had him at the hospital ( epilepsy) I had to phone my hubby- In the telephone box I found a purse with $11,95 cents in it that was all. It did have an old pay stub.... I guess I could have located the owner with that but..( O.K. I wasnt a JW.Or a believer) So I bought my son a cowboy suit he had always wanted with it....But Even though HE was thrilled!!!! I felt so guilty I hated it!!!! as soon as I could I diitched it. ( But my conscience never forgot it....So my answer is $11.95...( I did tell my Alan when he grew up....He laughed....
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  DaCheech

  In a NYC late night walk, I found a wallet (with my wife at my side) with well over $2,000 in it. In the late of night my wife forced me to walk to a police station to surrender it.

  I did want to keep it :-()
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  lonelysheep

  Wow, Cheech. You know there are tons of people here shopping....you must've made that person's day!

  I've never found anything worth money.
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  binadub

  When I moved to the city where I now live, it was a company transfer with a major electronics company. I was unable to find a place to rent or even buy that I could afford in the city. I still had an escrow in the city I was moving from, which had not yet sold. At the time rentals in this city were almost impossible to find believe it or not, much less low-cost properties. It was an strange but temporary situation for the city I moved to.

  I settled temporarily for a room-by-the-week in a cheap motel in the shady section of town while I continued to work at my new job, look for a home--rent or buy, and hope to sell my existing escrow in the other city.

  I was desparate. I had to find a place with a fenced yard because I had pets. I began to look for a place in nearby towns. Found one listed in another town about 30 miles away from where I worked, but the listing itself was for a property about 2 miles from where I worked. For some bizarre reason, the property owner with a balloon payment soon due had listed his property with a real estate that was out of the area, and I found it. The place was old, small, but perfect for my needs, and right in the heart of the downtown square on mainstreet. I bought it for less than $34,000 in 1990.

  The little town was beginning to grow as the "bedroom" community for middle-upper-class people, especially employed by the company I worked for. My previous escrow sold and after a couple years I acquired a larger place, but kept the little house in the center of the quaint little town where Clint Eastwood shot parts of the movie Bronco Billy. Then the town began to mushroom. Property values shot up. The area where my little property is became the central business district. I paid the property off about a year ago, and have been approached numerous times by interested investors to sell it. I don't wanna sell it.

  I can't think of anything in my life that I have "found," $$-wise, that compares to that. :-)

  ~Ros
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  delilah

  When I was around 11, my brother and I found a wallet, with over $200.00 in it. We took it to the police station and never heard a word about it again.

  Also, I was at an old country fair, and I found a $50.00 bill laying on the ground. I scooped it up, and kept it. I didn't tell anyone, but my mom did wonder where I got the cash to buy candy every weekend for awhile.

  Two years ago, we were at the mall, shopping, and my son spotted a wad of cash lying on the floor, behind a crowd of people. He ran and grabbed it up real quick, and there was about $150.00. The mall administrator took it, and at the end of the night, they called him and gave it to him, as no-one claimed it.
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  Phil

  I once found $60 in the snow of a service station while I was filling up. I have never found a wallet, however if I ever do I would personally deliver or send it to its rightful owner. I would never hand it over to a cop. THere are crooked cops like anyone else.