If you found a $100 bill on the street... what would you do with it?

[Thystle]

If you were walking down the street and found a $100 bill. No one around and obviously no one frantically looking for it.

A "keeper".

What would you do with it/spend it on right now?






I think I would do something fun with my kids.

[*bejeweled*]

I'd stash it away to pay for DD's riding or piano lessons. Fun thread

[klg47]

Would you really keep it?

[kay4]

if there were no one around to ask and I really thought it was genuinely 'lost' I would thank God and accept it as a gift

[fresh_veggie]

I'd use it to help pay up on my rent 600/month for a full-time student couple gets expensive, even with three jobs between us! Or groceries. Just stuff we needed.

[Thystle]

Originally Posted by klg47

Would you really keep it?

Well that is why I said no one around and no one frantically looking for money they dropped. When I find money I ALWAYS look around and even ask nearby people if there are any.



If you were on an empty sidewalk with no one around would you walk right over it and leave it there?

[lovebug]

well i would turn it in to the cops... here if no one calls for it (they have to know some info blah, blah and then the cops do a report blah blah blah) in a week you get it back but to me its not mine and i owe it to whoever to try to get it to its owner! i would hope someone would do that to me 100 bucks is a lots of money...

but for the fun of this thread (as in i have a free $100)... i would buy shoes a really really cute pair. or just something that the budget does not allow for everyday...

[Maluhia]

Donate it to MADD or the local Food Bank.

[MittensKittens]

Originally Posted by klg47

Would you really keep it?

It happened to me once, many years back. It was just a bill, no purse or anything that would identify its previous owner. I donated it to an environmental charity.

Not long after, my purse went missing, with bank cards, passport and money. I was devastated. You can imagine how delighted I was when someone called me, three days later, to say they had my wallet and asking how they could return it to me. I remember thinking something like, I am sure that if I had spent the money I found on myself instead of donating it, I would never have got my purse back either.

[mattemma04]

I would buy food items that I rarely get due to high price.

[GoBecGo]

If i found it i'd hand it in.

Once the police had returned it to me....i'd take DH an DD and me out to dinner with it at a really nice place.

[russsk]

I found $200 once when I was in college with a friend. We hung around for a while to see if anyone was looking for it, then we decided to buy Toys for Tots with it (it was around Christmas). Too bad someone in our dorm stole it later that day

[nola79]

I would put it in our cash fund

[sanguine_speed]

Well without touching the ethics question ('cause I gather that wasn't the point), if I 'found' $100, I would probably use it toward paying for some of the extras I'd like to have for the baby--a nice outfit, swaddle blankets, soft structured carrier.

[KristyDi]

If I had a free $100. I think I would spend about $20 or $30 on fabric to make lots of fun spring and summer clothes for DD. The rest I would keep as fun money for lunches out with friends or visiting Monkey Joe's w/ DD.


On the found in the street question, I like the idea of turning it in to the police, but how does that work? Do you take it to them or do you call them to come to you? I'm sure the cops around here would not like having to come out for something like that. It just seems so unimportant.

[Village Mama]

My dad found a hundred dollar bill one day and it was in a place where it wouldn't be easy to claim or find an owner. It was at Christmas when everyone was pretty poor. He bought a nice local turkey for us all and another for a local family in need, and the rest went to the food bank.

[Village Mama]

You can drop the money off at the police station. I left 20 dollars I found at the post office, with the post office staff. Nobody claimed it.... then they kept it for themselves.

[Hey Mama!]

Honestly, I'd keep it. Spend it towards bills if needed, if not do something fun with it. I'm sure this makes me a horrible person though

[Thystle]

Yes not an ethical debate. It's not a giant wad of rent money that someone obviously would have dropped.



I think for many people a single bill of $1-$100 is not an ethical dilemma. If I saw a wallet/purse/envelope/hundreds of dollars, I would (and have before) turned it in.


Heck I have found $5's and $20's and asked around if anyone dropped them. I have also had people say yeah it was theirs when it obviously was NOT.




I am just talking hypothetical... it sounded more "new" than saying if you just had $100 to spend on yourself.

[Thystle]

Oh and another question.


If you have ever dropped a $100 bill on the street.......... have you gone to the police station to look for it? I mean how would you even know where you dropped it? How would the police know that bill was yours?


Everyone I have known would look around their house/car... maybe back track a bit. And then be pissed they dropped it and give up.


I can't imagine going to the police station and saying, "Hey I lost a $100 bill, don't know the serial numbers, somewhere in this section of town along these miles... did anyone turn it in?".