What’s the largest sum of money you’ve ever lost? Or found, for that matter? Has it been like a twenty here, a ten there or have you ever lost a fat wad of cash? If you found money, what did you do about it?
20+ years ago when I was an unemployed college grad and walked everyplace 'cause I couldn’t afford the 25 cents for the bus, I found a twenty dollar bill on the ground, in the snow. I figured (classic justification coming here) that if some one could AFFORD to CARRY a twenty without having their fingers wrapped around it, they could afford to loose it more than I.
most I’ve ever Lost? I assume you don’t mean the stupid loan of a couple hundred to the bum boyfriend 18 years ago? most, then would be a quarter. I’ve always been careful…
It would be most helpful, too, if those who LOST great sums would also post their commonly traveled routes… 
Does it count if I lost it at a Black Jack table?
nope, it doesn’t count. Not that it doesn’t suck too, but I’'m talking about plain old. “Oh man, where the heck is that $$?”
Once found $100,000 on bearer bonds in an envelope from the local Gas & Electric Co. Not knowing the nature of bearer bonds at the time, I returned them to G&E. No thanks, no reward, nothing. Next time I’m keeping them.
“Free Joey Coyle”
Hence the ‘cynical1’ handle?
I found about $45 in a wallet on the bottom of a river. The money looked like monopoly money because it had been discolored from the water leeching the color from the wallet in and the green of the bills out. I was 12 years old. that was a fat wad at the time.
As for money lost, it would be more of “money unaccounted for”. I had $500 in cash when I went out to a bar for a party with some friends one time. Somehow I spent the whole wad, but I have no idea how.
No matter how cynical I get it’s just not enough.
“Free Joey Coyle”
I don’t recall ever losing any money. I’m sure I’ve dropped a few coins along the way, but nothing significant enough that I noticed.
I don’t find much, either. I think the biggest find I ever had was when I was swimming in a lake as a teenager and two $1 bills floated by.
Well. I’m bipolar with periods of black outs. I once spent or lost or did something with over $3000 dollars. I think it counts as losing since I have no idea what happened to it. Although it is possible I spent large ammounts of it.
I once left $65 in a purse, but I didn’t remember I left it there, and assumed I lost it for good. A year later, I found it.
I lost $400 a few years ago. I only got paid $850 a month. The worst thing was that it was my rent money and I almost got evicted. It was in the form of a money order that someone stole out of my bag at work. Sometimes people really suck.
last year i lost 300 dollars, or at least i thought i did. but it turned out that my wallet was in the pocket of my pants in the washing machine. dont ask why i had 300 dolars in my pocket (please). so technically i didnt lose it, just misplaced it for a week, but it still scared me.
Well my lost and found stories actually cancel each other out. I found $75 at the bottom of a public pool, I lost $75 in a wallet I forgot in a shopping cart at Kmart.
In sixth grade I lost my math homework and, since I’d cleaned my room that day, decided to empty out my little garbage can. Inside was a $100 dollar bill. I didn’t tell anyone about it until after I spent the money. When I told my mom about it my oldest brother claimed it was his. I asked him, “Was it two fifties?” He was all, “Yeah! That money was MINE!”
::snicker:: So many years later I still bring it up and he still claims it was his.
I lose and find money all the time. I constantly leave money in my pockets, forget about it, wash the clothing, and find the money in the dryer. It’s always a great surprise and, even though I know the money is mine, it’s a great feeling to “find” it.
One day I went to Kings Island with just my season pass, rode rides all day, and was very hungry at the end end of the day.
On the way to the car I found $4.00. I got to eat on the ride home. I didn’t feel so hungry the rest of the night.
I left my wallet containing a little over $200 on the counter of a convenience store on a particularly hazy night. The bad part was that I didn’t realize it until after the store was closed!
I went back the next day and I got it back with a little over $100 dollars. Happy to get the wallet and it’s contents back, I didn’t even really mind the missing $100. The clerk probably took it, but at least he returned it and didn’t take ALL the money. It’s not like I could have proved anything anyway.
My mom cured me of this.
She made a rule: any money found in the washer/in pockets was HERS. No buts. I lost fifteen bucks this way once. Mother did gleeful little dance and giggled, and bought all sorts of icky vegetables with the money. After that, I never did left money in my pockets again. Oh, and I try to do my own laundry as much as possible now.
I recall throwing away one dollar by accident as a kid. No big deal, sure, but for me, it was my allowance, and it was a LOT of money for me.
My Wife and I found a purse in Toys R us parking lot.It had 420$,amex,Visa Gold card.I gotta say,some pretty dishonest thoughts crossed my mind.But…I opened up the wallet,saw pictures of kids…it was Christmas time,so we did “the right thing”.I called the woman and told her to come get it at our house.Her mother came to get it,she was very thankfull to have gotten it back.Would you believe a week later we got a call asking if we’d kept a credit card from it?! We should have just kept the money and dropped the purse in the trash!
I am so bad with money. I’m always putting
it away and forgetting it, then finding it
later.
I once took a different route to work for
no reason and found $100 bill in the street.
Some guy riding by me on a bike took my
purse off my body. Fortunately, my keys
and glasses fell out. Unfortunately, the
$32 didn’t.