Found Money Total and Flurries

[kybearfuzz]

I took the day off. It's not the snow I fear so much as the hideous traffic I'll encounter on the way home today. I have a lot of comp time that needs to be used before I lose it, so today sounded like a good day to do that.

Around this time last year, I started my Found Money project, collecting money that I found on the street, in the coin slots of vending machines, etc., just to see how much I could accumulate in the course of a year. I even included any foreign currency I found here (mostly Canadian) and abroad (Euros and Danish Kroners).

The grand total for 2009: $3.17, mostly pennies.

I'll likely continue to do it, though I don't think it'll make me rich.

Comments

Found Money

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I have a ceramic cow bank and was thinking that I should empty it someday soon, as it is getting very heavy. You may have triggered that activity!

I also have 13 cents on my dresser. It sits, separate from other change, because it is "found money" ... I found it on the ground, each coin individually, face up. Do you have that superstition?

HUGS!

Re: Found Money

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Well, in my view, it takes so little time to pick up the money and it will accumulate.

And I don't pay that much attention to how the money sits, it goes into a glass until I think to count it :)

[dendren.livejournal.com]

it's nice to hear of someone picking up found money. I've noticed over the last couple of years a handful of times when people literally threw their coin change away. I watched one kid walk out of a mcdonalds and throw the coins on the ground and another guy once walked over to the trash and threw his coins in. SO weird to me.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I don't get it either. To literally throw it away is crazy. Most of the time I think people hear a coin drop and think it's too much trouble to pick it up, especially if it's a penny.

I have a coffee canister I tend to throw loose change into. I cash it in on occasion. The last time I did it, there was over $70 in there.