Found money - do you keep it or return it?

[Invisibleflash]

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!!!

Well, I'm not rich enuf for all that goodwill. I'm a finders-keepers sort. I need more beans and bullets, and every damn thing is going up in price. So first you get rich...then you get holy. (But not in Trumps's case.)

 

[Muhammed]

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!!!

There's no way in hell I would give it to GoodWill. I would ask them who the previous owner was.

When I was poor I would have kept any money I found. Today I would try to give it back.

 

[Muhammed]

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My mother-in-law, a very devout Catholic, dropped into a McDonald's for a snack. While she was waiting in the line, she glanced down and saw a folded bill at her feet, bent to pick it up, unfolded it and saw a $1K. She was a very naïve elderly lady and had no way of knowing that a folded $1K bill on the floor in that specific neighborhood was about 99% likely to be drug money.

She just handed it to the counter person, trusting that he would give it to the manager, who would work really hard at finding its owner.

Oh, well.

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Those are rare and collectable. IIRC, $1000 bills were only made for a limited time and meant to be used for bank to bank transactions.

They are worth a lot more than $1000 today.

It was likely stolen from somebody's collection.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

Thats the problem with GoodWill............

There's no way in hell I would give it to GoodWill. I would ask them who the previous owner was.

When I was poor I would have kept any money I found. Today I would try to give it back.

Well, thats the problem.

People who donate to GoodWill are anonymous. Usually, GW only gives reciepts to people donating large or expensive items...like dining room, living room, or bedroom furniture....so they can write it off of their taxes. But anything under $600.00 does not qualify for a GW reciept, unless it is specifically asked for......which is rare.

Most people just drive up to the donation center, dump out what they got, and leave.
So there really is no way to know who or where the item came from.

GoodWill distributes between cities and states as well. So what is donated in your city, might be shipped off to a store in a neighboring state that needs such items. So there is no way of knowing.

If you feel guilty, then I would suggest doing what was mentioned earlier............donate the money to a worthy cause that will make you feel you've done some good with it. Or buy homeless people food, water, and toiletries. Just because you found a wad of cash doesn't mean you HAVE to keep it. You can do with it as you please.

 

[Muhammed]

Thats the problem with GoodWill............

Well, thats the problem.

People who donate to GoodWill are anonymous. Usually, GW only gives reciepts to people donating large or expensive items...like dining room, living room, or bedroom furniture....so they can write it off of their taxes. But anything under $600.00 does not qualify for a GW reciept, unless it is specifically asked for......which is rare.

Most people just drive up to the donation center, dump out what they got, and leave.
So there really is no way to know who or where the item came from.

GoodWill distributes between cities and states as well. So what is donated in your city, might be shipped off to a store in a neighboring state that needs such items. So there is no way of knowing.

If you feel guilty, then I would suggest doing what was mentioned earlier............donate the money to a worthy cause that will make you feel you've done some good with it. Or buy homeless people food, water, and toiletries. Just because you found a wad of cash doesn't mean you HAVE to keep it. You can do with it as you please.

If you feel guilty that about keeping it, take the money to the nearest dive bar and buy everybody a round. That way, you're drowning away your guilty feelings and helping others at the same time.



Or alternatively, you could take that money to the nearest house of prostitution and they can punish you for being a bad boy.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Those are rare and collectable. IIRC, $1000 bills were only made for a limited time and meant to be used for bank to bank transactions.

They are worth a lot more than $1000 today.

It was likely stolen from somebody's collection.

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This was like 40 years ago. I think they were more common then.

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[Muhammed]

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This was like 40 years ago. I think they were more common then.

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They were collectors items back then too. They stopped making them in 1934.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

They were collectors items back then too. They stopped making them in 1934.

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Thanks. I didn't know that.

I guess my devout Catholic mother-in-law lied to us, huh?

Actually, they stopped printing the bill in 1946 and removed them from circulation in 1969.




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[skye]

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

That's true, otherwise I would have returned it.

If the owner can be identified I return it.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

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.

What Type of Charity Is Goodwill for Taxes: 501(c)(3)

Goodwill is a 501(c)(3) public charity, making donations tax-deductible if you itemize. Learn how to value items, what records to keep, and how to file correctly.

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I've deducted donations to them for years from my taxes. I take pictures of everything, due to IRS audits every so often.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Older people, especially from the Depression era, hide money all the time, then forget where they hid it. I would find hundreds of dollars hidden in books at my mother's house all the time; she would go 'oh, I'd forgotten about that!' She never trusted banks.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

What Type of Charity Is Goodwill for Taxes: 501(c)(3)

Goodwill is a 501(c)(3) public charity, making donations tax-deductible if you itemize. Learn how to value items, what records to keep, and how to file correctly.

legalclarity.org

I've deducted donations to them for years from my taxes. I take pictures of everything, due to IRS audits every so often.

Interesting.

I couldn't find them on the national charity register when I looked for them.

Thanks for this. Now we know.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

Older people, especially from the Depression era, hide money all the time, then forget where they hid it. I would find hundreds of dollars hidden in books at my mother's house all the time; she would go 'oh, I'd forgotten about that!' She never trusted banks.

Yeah, my granny got screwed by a corrupt bank owner........as did thousands of other retirees.
And the bank wasn't secured by the government either, so everybody lost everything.

My granny hid money in her old purse she kept in the back of her closet.

 

[JoeB131]

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My mother-in-law, a very devout Catholic, dropped into a McDonald's for a snack. While she was waiting in the line, she glanced down and saw a folded bill at her feet, bent to pick it up, unfolded it and saw a $1K. She was a very naïve elderly lady and had no way of knowing that a folded $1K bill on the floor in that specific neighborhood was about 99% likely to be drug money.

She just handed it to the counter person, trusting that he would give it to the manager, who would work really hard at finding its owner.

Oh, well.

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They don't make 1K bills. The highest denomination is $100.00. (The last $1000.00 bills were removed from circulation in 1969)

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Every time that I have found money, there was never a way for me to know who it belonged to because it was just lying there on the ground.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[ChristisKing]

I'm sowee I took da money I'm soweeeeee!!!! Bwahahha


Anyways, if I found money and there was no way to return I would keep it.