Found money - do you keep it or return it?

[LibertyWeeps]

Woman Stunned After Finding a Wad of Cash Stuffed Inside Her $1 Goodwill Purchase​

Woman Stunned After Finding a Wad of Cash Stuffed Inside Her $1 Goodwill Purchase (Exclusive)

Sophia St John tells PEOPLE she paid less than a dollar for a small box at Goodwill bins — only to realize it was packed with cash once she opened it

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What do you think she should have done?

My opinion............

Once you have fully purchased something, it is yours. If the item were SO VERY important, it would have never been discarded.

I used to work retail, and the stupidity of people is beyond staggering! During my rounds of straightening up or restocking.....I'd find wads of cash just sitting there on the shelf in full view. I found envelopes sitting on shelves, full of cash....and was even vaccuming one night and came across a wad of something that the vaccum couldn't pick up. I bent down to grab it, and it was a wadded up ball of dollar bills.

What I find, I keep.

Apparently money is NOT important to these people who just throw it on the ground like garbage or leave it lying around on store shelves.....THEY don't need it, obviously.......but I certainly do!!!

 

[JoeB131]

Okay, let's look at it from another point of view.

Nana has just kicked the bucket after a long struggle with cancer. The family gives all of her furniture to Goodwill. They may not think to check all the drawers and compartments because they are already grief-stricken.

Seems to me that the right thing to do would be to contact the family and say, "Hey, I just found $1000.00 bucks in the hope chest of Nana's you donated last week."

 

[1srelluc]

If it's Goodwill then she paid for it. It's hers.

IMHO Goodwill is the most money grubbing "charity" out there.

LOL.....There was a Chinese restaurant next to one in town.....As I walked by I noticed some Vietnam era camo fatigue jackets in the coat rack close to the window.

I went in and bought them all. Come to find out they were Navy Seal experimental jackets with a flotation bladder inside and mag pockets on the backs.

Like this one:

Original U.S. Vietnam War Navy SEAL Grenadier Experimental Float Coat Jacket

Original Item: Only One Available. This is a ultra rare Vietnam War Era United States Navy Experimental Floating Jacket as issued to SEAL teams. It comes complete with internal inflatable bladder with C02 actuator with ripcord still intact, and manual inflation tube. This near unissued example...

www.ima-usa.com

I sold them on eBay at the time for about $400.00 a pop to a guy in Germany.....I never even thought about giving Goodwill a cut.

 

[hadit]

Woman Stunned After Finding a Wad of Cash Stuffed Inside Her $1 Goodwill Purchase​

Woman Stunned After Finding a Wad of Cash Stuffed Inside Her $1 Goodwill Purchase (Exclusive)

Sophia St John tells PEOPLE she paid less than a dollar for a small box at Goodwill bins — only to realize it was packed with cash once she opened it

www.aol.com

What do you think she should have done?

My opinion............

Once you have fully purchased something, it is yours. If the item were SO VERY important, it would have never been discarded.

I used to work retail, and the stupidity of people is beyond staggering! During my rounds of straightening up or restocking.....I'd find wads of cash just sitting there on the shelf in full view. I found envelopes sitting on shelves, full of cash....and was even vaccuming one night and came across a wad of something that the vaccum couldn't pick up. I bent down to grab it, and it was a wadded up ball of dollar bills.

What I find, I keep.

Apparently money is NOT important to these people who just throw it on the ground like garbage or leave it lying around on store shelves.....THEY don't need it, obviously.......but I certainly do!!!

I think it would depend on how much it is and the circumstances surrounding it. $20 found in a corner somewhere the ownership of which is impossible to determine is one thing while half a million in a duffle bag stuck in a trash can gets taken to the police. If no one claims it, it's yours, unless it's tied to a crime, in which case you probably don't want anything to do with it anyway because somebody's going to be looking for it.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

Okay, let's look at it from another point of view.

Nana has just kicked the bucket after a long struggle with cancer. The family gives all of her furniture to Goodwill. They may not think to check all the drawers and compartments because they are already grief-stricken.

Seems to me that the right thing to do would be to contact the family and say, "Hey, I just found $1000.00 bucks in the hope chest of Nana's you donated last week."

Problem with that is, you don't know WHO will get the money.

Theres a problem of WHO actually donated what. They don't keep track of that.
And lots of donated items are sent to different locations, even other state locations.

And whose to say grandma wasn't hiding her money from her greedy relatives??

 

[1srelluc]

And whose to say grandma wasn't hiding her money from her greedy relatives??

Yep, there was a reason it was hid.

Perhaps grandma was smiling down from heaven because her sorry kids did not find it.

 

[luiza]

What I find, I keep.
Apparently money is NOT important to these people who just throw it on the ground like garbage or leave it lying around on store shelves.....THEY don't need it, obviously.......but I certainly do!!

I found a twenty pence and a one penny coin in the Change slot of my supermarket self service machine a couple of days ago .
Great Joy ..
Pennies make pounds -- it's the overall attitude that counts , not the amount you find .

 

[Hafar1014]

Woman Stunned After Finding a Wad of Cash Stuffed Inside Her $1 Goodwill Purchase​

Woman Stunned After Finding a Wad of Cash Stuffed Inside Her $1 Goodwill Purchase (Exclusive)

Sophia St John tells PEOPLE she paid less than a dollar for a small box at Goodwill bins — only to realize it was packed with cash once she opened it

www.aol.com

What do you think she should have done?

My opinion............

Once you have fully purchased something, it is yours. If the item were SO VERY important, it would have never been discarded.

I used to work retail, and the stupidity of people is beyond staggering! During my rounds of straightening up or restocking.....I'd find wads of cash just sitting there on the shelf in full view. I found envelopes sitting on shelves, full of cash....and was even vaccuming one night and came across a wad of something that the vaccum couldn't pick up. I bent down to grab it, and it was a wadded up ball of dollar bills.

What I find, I keep.

Apparently money is NOT important to these people who just throw it on the ground like garbage or leave it lying around on store shelves.....THEY don't need it, obviously.......but I certainly do!!!

If I found a lot of money I would only return it if a poor person lost it

 

[LibertyWeeps]

If it's Goodwill then she paid for it. It's hers.

IMHO Goodwill is the most money grubbing "charity" out there.

LOL.....There was a Chinese restaurant next to one in town.....As I walked by I noticed some Vietnam era camo fatigue jackets in the coat rack close to the window.

I went in and bought them all. Come to find out they were Navy Seal experimental jackets with a flotation bladder inside and mag pockets on the backs.

Like this one:

Original U.S. Vietnam War Navy SEAL Grenadier Experimental Float Coat Jacket

Original Item: Only One Available. This is a ultra rare Vietnam War Era United States Navy Experimental Floating Jacket as issued to SEAL teams. It comes complete with internal inflatable bladder with C02 actuator with ripcord still intact, and manual inflation tube. This near unissued example...

www.ima-usa.com

I sold them on eBay at the time for about $400.00 a pop to a guy in Germany.....I never even thought about giving Goodwill a cut.

Thats the problem people have.................GoodWill is NOT a charity.

GoodWill takes disgarded goods and resells them for profit.

GoodWill DONATES money to some charities and usually hires people who have criminal records for jobs, so they can get back into the workforce.........but they are not a charity. They are not listed on the government record for charities.

GoodWill is a BUSINESS, not a CHARITY.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

If I found a lot of money I would only return it if a poor person lost it

How would you know if they were poor?

Poor people usually don't DONATE or throw out stuff, they are the ones BUYING donations.

 

[rightwinger]

At Goodwill, you just drop things off without giving your name.
Hard to find the original owner

 

[Hafar1014]

How would you know if they were poor?

Poor people usually don't DONATE or throw out stuff, they are the ones BUYING donations.

I dont its an excuse to keep it

 

[hadit]

Okay, let's look at it from another point of view.

Nana has just kicked the bucket after a long struggle with cancer. The family gives all of her furniture to Goodwill. They may not think to check all the drawers and compartments because they are already grief-stricken.

Seems to me that the right thing to do would be to contact the family and say, "Hey, I just found $1000.00 bucks in the hope chest of Nana's you donated last week."

That could work if you have records of who made the donation. If you're a customer who bought the furniture, you would have a hard time even locating the donor.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Woman Stunned After Finding a Wad of Cash Stuffed Inside Her $1 Goodwill Purchase​

Woman Stunned After Finding a Wad of Cash Stuffed Inside Her $1 Goodwill Purchase (Exclusive)

Sophia St John tells PEOPLE she paid less than a dollar for a small box at Goodwill bins — only to realize it was packed with cash once she opened it

www.aol.com

What do you think she should have done?

My opinion............

Once you have fully purchased something, it is yours. If the item were SO VERY important, it would have never been discarded.

I used to work retail, and the stupidity of people is beyond staggering! During my rounds of straightening up or restocking.....I'd find wads of cash just sitting there on the shelf in full view. I found envelopes sitting on shelves, full of cash....and was even vaccuming one night and came across a wad of something that the vaccum couldn't pick up. I bent down to grab it, and it was a wadded up ball of dollar bills.

What I find, I keep.

Apparently money is NOT important to these people who just throw it on the ground like garbage or leave it lying around on store shelves.....THEY don't need it, obviously.......but I certainly do!!!

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My faith tells me that stealing is a sin. I do my best to return it. If I can't return it, I give it to the local food bank, or some such thing.

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[LibertyWeeps]

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My faith tells me that stealing is a sin. I do my best to return it. If I can't return it, I give it to the local food bank, or some such thing.

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It isn't stealing.

It was donated.

It was legally purchased.

It is yours to do with as you please.

Donating the money to a shelter......human or animal........is a good idea.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

It isn't stealing.

It was donated.

It was legally purchased.

It is yours to do with as you please.

Donating the money to a shelter......human or animal........is a good idea.

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If I didn't earn it, it doesn't belong to me.

It's easy to have such a perspective when I am financially okay. If I were poor, might I feel differently?

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[JoeB131]

Problem with that is, you don't know WHO will get the money.

Theres a problem of WHO actually donated what. They don't keep track of that.
And lots of donated items are sent to different locations, even other state locations.

And whose to say grandma wasn't hiding her money from her greedy relatives??

Seems like a lot of rationalization to keep someone else's money.