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Posted: 1/12/2005 1:22:13 AM EDT

I pick up change off the ground every day, normally a few cents a day sometimes 50cents or rarely a dollar coin.

I find atleast 1 cent every day on lunch, sometimes more.

Am I the only one who even looks or are people just to lazy to pick it up.

I found a $20 in a store once.

Posted: 1/12/2005 1:22:50 AM EDT

[#1]

<-------me too

Posted: 1/12/2005 1:23:25 AM EDT

[#2]

I don't bother with coin. (I will pick up bills)

Posted: 1/12/2005 1:26:21 AM EDT

[#3]

i do.

it adds up quick.

Posted: 1/12/2005 1:27:03 AM EDT

[#4]

My eight year old has really good luck, and finds money all the time. She last found a ten dollar bill outside.

Posted: 1/12/2005 1:27:35 AM EDT

[#5]

I do. I had a foreman some years ago that saw me picking up about 15 cents worth of nickles and pennies off the floor. Him: "Oh, you're the dumbass who's been picking up that change" Me: "I guess I know who the dumbass is who's throwing money away"

Posted: 1/12/2005 1:32:01 AM EDT

[#6]

All the time

cha ching

Posted: 1/12/2005 1:35:05 AM EDT

[#7]

<--- All the time.

Over the course of two weeks I usually end up with enough quarters to do a couple loads of laundry, plus a handfull of other coins. Don't find too many bills, but I pick them up too

Posted: 1/12/2005 1:38:35 AM EDT

[#8]

Only when the coin is heads-up.

Posted: 1/12/2005 1:39:41 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Only when the coin is heads-up.

money is money. heads or tails.

is there s superstition about being a penny richer?

Posted: 1/12/2005 1:59:23 AM EDT

[#10]

Im all for free money

Posted: 1/12/2005 2:05:29 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Only when the coin is heads-up.

I never even look.

Posted: 1/12/2005 2:08:24 AM EDT

[#12]

yUp since I was a kid..and a penny was worth a whole lot more then

Posted: 1/12/2005 2:11:00 AM EDT

[#13]

My wife and I both do it.

Posted: 1/12/2005 2:13:54 AM EDT

[#14]

I don't spot money on the ground too often but when I do it has to be at least a quarter.

I don't bend over for less.

Although, all my pocket change goes into a jar at the end of the day [except pennies].

Posted: 1/12/2005 2:17:32 AM EDT

[#15]

I pick up change all the time and throw it into my change mug.

I also pick up 9mm rounds all the time but thats a different story.

Posted: 1/12/2005 2:34:32 AM EDT

[#16]

If they made a half-penny coin, I'd still pick up every one I could find.
I found a Ten Dollar Bill a couple of weeks ago and very nearly did the Snoopy Dance of Joy.

-Hobbit

Posted: 1/12/2005 2:35:19 AM EDT

[#17]

I found another penny on break, thats 3 cent today.

Posted: 1/12/2005 2:42:00 AM EDT

[#18]

To me it is not the value but the principle of the thing.

Posted: 1/12/2005 2:55:53 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
To me it is not the value but the principle of the thing.

Well stated...!

Posted: 1/12/2005 3:08:56 AM EDT

[#20]

There is always some change in the Wal mart parking lot and in drive through windows.

Posted: 1/12/2005 3:12:28 AM EDT

[#21]

I have a gallon coin container. I've never gotten it past half-full, but even then it was damned near enough to buy a new handgun, and over enough for a pump shotgun or CMP Garand. Oh, damn.. Garand, THAT'S what I should have gotten!

Posted: 1/12/2005 3:14:15 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
I have a gallon coin container. I've never gotten it past half-full, but even then it was damned near enough to buy a new handgun, and over enough for a pump shotgun or CMP Garand. Oh, damn.. Garand, THAT'S what I should have gotten!

I know someone who is doing that with one of those big plastic coke bottles, when its full they are going to piss it away on their car.

Posted: 1/12/2005 3:17:55 AM EDT

[#23]

I grin when I pick up any coin I find knowing the government won't be taxing me on that income.

Posted: 1/12/2005 3:19:00 AM EDT

[#24]

Even picking up pennies I could make more picking up money than working at my job. Think how quickly you can pick up a coin. 1 second or less. If you were picking up coins for a living you could pick up multiple each time you bent over. At that point it is probably a half second or less. Thats $1.20 per minute. So yeah, I pick up all I can.

Posted: 1/12/2005 3:52:18 AM EDT

[#25]

I always pick up any form of U.S. currency, even pennies. I figure it's lucky. How can it not be? You're at least ahead by one cent. How bad is that?

Posted: 1/12/2005 3:53:19 AM EDT

[#26]

I've found well over $1,000 of cash over the years. I once recovered $380 in 20s that was blowing down a busy street. Cars were driving through it as it blew around, and I was running out to pick up bills whenever traffic dropped off. No one reported the loss to the police (Note: I simply reported to the police that I found some cash and a general location, and that if someone reported a loss, to call me and supply details. NEVER hand stuff over to the police, unless it isn't legal for you to possess it!), so after 7 days, I called it good.

I've picked up many $10s and $20s in random places. I've also recovered wallets, purses, and ID that I've been able to return to their owners.

It's amazing what you can find if you just pay attention.

-Troy

Posted: 1/12/2005 4:01:20 AM EDT

[#27]

I pick up change all the time. I also check the coin return thingy on vending machines and newspaper boxes. I've found lots of money people have left there.

Posted: 1/12/2005 4:56:12 AM EDT

[#28]

My grandfather would always find money and other valuables on the ground...He would always tell me to look at the ground when walking. I hardly remember to. Will pick it up if I see it.

Posted: 1/12/2005 5:11:43 AM EDT

[#29]

Warren Buffet (2nd richest American, behind Bill Gates) was observed picking up a penny as he was getting off an elevator. After the doors closed, one of those remaining in the elevator told the other, "there is the beginning of another billion dollars."

Posted: 1/12/2005 5:14:01 AM EDT

[#30]

I'll pick up a quarter and maybe a dime. That's about it.

Posted: 1/12/2005 5:22:05 AM EDT

[#31]

Heck no... If I see it, it is mine, unless it is a penny on tails.

Posted: 1/12/2005 5:25:18 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Heck no... If I see it, it is mine, unless it is a penny on tails.

what is this" if its on tails" thing?

i have never heard this before.

Posted: 1/12/2005 5:41:47 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Heck no... If I see it, it is mine, unless it is a penny on tails.

what is this" if its on tails" thing?

i have never heard this before.

Coins

There is a superstition about coins. That superstition is that if you pick up a coin on heads, it is lucky but if you pick a coin on tails it is unlucky. Many bad things have happened to people who pick up a coin on tails. People have lost their jobs because they picked up a penny on tails. They have also failed their SATs and broken their arms three times in a row.

When people have found a coin that was lucky they have achieved wonderful goals like getting onto the swim team and winning "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" on tax free week.

If you think you can handle all the bad things that will happen to you, pick up a coin on tails and find out for yourself. Of course, if youíre feeling lucky, pick up a penny on heads and get the good things too.

Posted: 1/12/2005 5:44:02 AM EDT

[#34]

I just turned in enough change to pay for an Aimpoint. So yes, I pick up as much change as I can find.

Posted: 1/12/2005 5:51:33 AM EDT

[#35]

Always!

I was really surprised when I went to NYC some years ago to find coins and even some $5 bills on the street, in plain sight.

It also bothered the Hell out of me that they didn't accept 1c coins as part of payment... Why are they using them???

Posted: 1/12/2005 5:54:49 AM EDT

[#36]

sometimes I'll take my bicycle out early on sunday morn and pick up lose change around town to the amount of 2-4$ or so. I always pick up every pennie I see (superstitious). I have found, in the past, about lots of singles maybe five 5$ bills, a coupla 10's, three twenties and half a hundred dollar bill (never did determine if it was real or not, finally misplaced it). So, yes, I'm a BIG change picker-upper..... oh yea, I have also found lots of other useful item that the drunks have accidently kicked out of their cars such as, cell phones, sunglasses tools and other bits of odds and ends that may or may not come in useful sometime.

Posted: 1/12/2005 6:00:39 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
...it has to be at least a quarter.

I don't bend over for less.

You cheap slut.

Better watch out for TRG when he has a pocket full of change.

Posted: 1/12/2005 7:23:22 AM EDT

[#38]

I pick up change all the time. Most of the time, its small money like pennies and nickles, but I love picking up the change at the toll booth. I just open my door, make like I'm picking up my toll and grab 3-4 quarters at a time. Nowadays, I actually make a toll (instead of paying one) going through the toll booth. And most people tooling around in their huge SUVs can't reach that far

Posted: 1/12/2005 7:27:12 AM EDT

[#39]

I lost a $20 bill in Nation's once. It fell out of my pocket when I was going to pay and I never noticed.

I want it back! Give it back, Troy!

Posted: 1/12/2005 7:28:58 AM EDT

[#40]

I pick up all I see. It makes me look like I make more money per year.

Posted: 1/12/2005 7:31:08 AM EDT

[#41]

Money is money. I'm not going to be choosy and just leave change lying on the floor. I need my caffeine fix.

Posted: 1/12/2005 7:31:42 AM EDT

[#42]

Anything of the paper variety I turn into to the nearest store, it is up to their conscience what they do with it then, change, I definately bend over for, it is one les dime tha tI have to work for.

Posted: 1/12/2005 8:38:30 AM EDT

[#43]

Back in my high school days my friends and I would go to house parties on the weekend. One night we ended up at a punk-rock party. There was a punk band and people moshing, and a bunch of skinheads at the party. The skins would throw a couple pennies on the floor - it was called a Jew trap. Anyone who would pick up pennies was considered to be a Jew and would get their ass beat by a bunch of drunk skinheads. So be careful where you pick up money.

Posted: 1/12/2005 8:42:58 AM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
I lost a $20 bill in Nation's once. It fell out of my pocket when I was going to pay and I never noticed.

I want it back! Give it back, Troy!

You gonna treat me to a Nation's burger? Damn you, now I'm hungry.

-Troy

Posted: 1/12/2005 8:46:05 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
Back in my high school days my friends and I would go to house parties on the weekend. One night we ended up at a punk-rock party. There was a punk band and people moshing, and a bunch of skinheads at the party. The skins would throw a couple pennies on the floor - it was called a Jew trap. Anyone who would pick up pennies was considered to be a Jew and would get their ass beat by a bunch of drunk skinheads. So be careful where you pick up money.

I've seen quarters on the bottom of urinals back when urinals had water in them...they're never there when I came back and piss again later.

Supergluing a dime or quarter to the floor in a public area like a mall is a cheap thrill to watch to. Shades of Candid Camera.

I found an ATM card sticking out of a ATM machine last year and the machine was squawking "Please remove your card...please remove your card..." But the machine was at work and I was able to instant message owner and return the card to her.

Posted: 1/12/2005 8:53:38 AM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
Anything of the paper variety I turn into to the nearest store, it is up to their conscience what they do with it then, change, I definately bend over for, it is one les dime tha tI have to work for.

In appropriate circumstances, I always make an effort to return the money to its owner. A few times I've seen people obviously scanning around or checking their pockets, and am happy to give them their money. And if I find it in a store, hotel, etc., I always inform the staff that I've found either "money" or "jewelry" and give them my phone/room number. I seem to find random jewelry pretty often too, especially in "touristy" areas.

But I don't feel bad about keeping the stuff I find if I can't return it to its owner. I'm not going to turn it in to someone else, so that THEY can keep it on the 90% chance that the owner won't be back for it.

My mom has a gold/diamond tennis bracelet that I found just outside a hotel one time when I was about 14. We were there for a week, and I found it the first day, and we checked in with the front desk twice a day to see if anyone had asked for it, and no one ever did. That was about 20 years ago, and it was appraised for $5,000-7,000 then. I traded her the bracelet for a couple of LPs I'd been wanting...

-Troy

Posted: 1/12/2005 8:54:15 AM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I lost a $20 bill in Nation's once. It fell out of my pocket when I was going to pay and I never noticed.

I want it back! Give it back, Troy!

You gonna treat me to a Nation's burger? Damn you, now I'm hungry.

-Troy

Sure, but no chili fries. I'm not made out of money, ya know.