What would you do if you found some cash?
 

So I walked up to some cash laying on the ground today in my apartment building. It's more than a couple bucks and less than $100, but still a significant amount. I think I know what I'm going to do with it, but I was just curious to see how other people would realistically handle the situation.

You're walking along and find some cash. You're reasonably sure you know the general population that it came from (like an apartment complex or workplace). What do you do?

At least make an attempt to find the owner
Donate it
Finders keepers
Leave it and let someone else deal with it

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Tough call and I think it would depend on my mood that day. If it were a wallet with identification I would give it back, no doubt about it. If it were just cash it would probably go into my pocket and I'd consider it my lucky day. I would be much more likely to attempt and find the owner at work than I would be at my apartment building since I'm much closer with those people (I don't know anyone in my apt building any more than an occasional "hi" in passing).

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I live at IL at the moment. Therefor I would just take it and not think twice :)

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I've ran into the wallet thing like 4-5 times at work. I've seen a 50 dollar bill in the gas station store and returned it to the store just because 50 is alot to lose for somebody and i know what it's like to lose money. If I find $xx amount outside......it's my lucky day no doubt about it.

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Nothing I would say hasn't been said already, so I won't comment. ;)

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Back in the day at boy scouts me and my troop found like $350 in a bank envelope...being in the boy scouts, we returned it to the front desk lol.

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One time I was leaving applebees and just as I was walking out the door some lady who worked there (who wasnt our waitress) came running out the door after us. I turn around and she goes "you forgot your money on the table" and she fans out at least 5 or 6 hundred dollar bills. After i sat frozen for what seemed like 30 seconds but was only like 2 seconds i said nope its not mine. I think I made the right decision.

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was at treasure island a couple weeks back, me and the girlfriend spent all the money we came in with and were about to leave. as we were walkin to the front door we happend to spot a 100 dollar bill on the ground. i follow a strict policy at the casino as finders keepers. granted if it had been a wallet or something i would have tried to find the owner. we ended up blowing it but still lol.

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Just cash its finders keepers, How could you tell who's it is?

~John

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And I'd bet my life that the employee you gave it to slipped it into his pocket the second you left.

Me, it depends on the mood, but ultimately getting it back to the person who dropped it is almost impossible, anyone can come up with a convincing story as to how they lost it, and if you give it to the wrong person, you gave up a perfectly good amount of money you could have spent on yourself. In my current mood, I'd hang onto it for a few days and if nobody mentioned it, then I'd officially pocket it.

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I'd keep it but if you wanted to try and find the person who dropped it post it up.

If they can tell you how much was lost then it's most likely the rightfull owner.

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just cash on the ground keep it.

I use to find cash all the time on the planes at work most of it non US keeped it all just keep your mouth shut about it. There was a crew that found 5k in euro's and split it up at work. It was in the seat pocket in first class.

me and my buddy found what we think was drug money in a car he just bought. we picked it up in the getto of St. Paul we were stripping it to clean the inside out. found 2500.00 in 100's we split it and the car was only 800.00 to start with

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Seeing it was an apt building and the owner is probably not easily identifiable, I would keep it.

Wallet is always a try to contact the owner in my book.

Guess if I found a couple hundred on the ground and knew who dropped it/it belonged to I would give it back. Would be nice to have a little extra cash but it always feels better to do the right thing. Not like the money would have any sign change on my life anyhow.

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Also depends on my mood. I might keep it. More out of personal laziness and general distrust of others than greed. Otherwise I would leave it where it sat.

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Post up a small sign near the front door that says, 'I found something, if you lost something and can properly identify it, you can have it back'

Otherwise, I usually spend money I find on something frivolous, or even on friends/family...seems like the only right thing to do :D

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Id probably give it back to my community by supporting a girls college fund. IE strip club. :D

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I would do like Scheides said if it wasn't in a wallet. If nobody claimed it within a week I would then claim the money as my own. If it was a wallet with identification, I would for sure give it back to whoever owned it.

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I would probably hold onto the money, but report it to the apartment management in case someone files a report that they lost the money. I probably wouldn't say how much to anyone and if someone does claim they lost the money, I'd ask them to tell me how much as proof it's really there's, and if it was give it back. I've had money lost and/or stolen before, and it sucks to be on that end of the stick.

But if no one claimed it after a couple weeks, I'd probably end up just putting it in the bank.

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Use it to get the dsm running.

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If it was less than $100, outdoors, and no clue who it belongs to then I'd keep it.