Raging - What's the most cash you lost?

Al Capwned

So I was out last night, and i lost €100 out my pocket - only raging.:mad:
Stupidly didn't put in in my wallet, and think i pulled it out looking for change....


What's the most cash any of you guys have lost?

Statistician

Maybe someone really needy found your €100 and were able to buy their kids a nice meal.

(I'd rather lose €100 in this manner than be force to hand it over to unsecured bondholders by the 'government' via some contrived tax)

TheZohanS

Probably about the same...might not have lost it though, woke up with an empty wallet and a savage hangover. Are you sure you weren't pick-pocketed?

Al Capwned

as sure as i can be, yeah

fúcking steaming over it

44leto

A 10,000 euro bankers draft, but thankfully someone handed it in and I got it back.

TouchingVirus

What's the most money you have lost in a day?

admiralofthefleet

over 9000

marketty

Could be worse, could have paid the household charge

dark crystal

About €250, which was my entire weeks wages at the time.

Luckily, I left it in an honest taxi drivers cab, who found some ID in my purse and dropped it back to me.

token101

marketty wrote: »

Could be worse, could have paid the household charge

He's probably just paid someone elses though so everythings grand.

Gronkosaurus

It's not losing money, but we splashed out on an oil painting by a local artist for our landing; a beautiful picture of Arranmore which cost us almost two thousand (weve never spent that much on art before, it was a complete one time only purchase)! Other half was carrying it in from the car in such an awkward position that she tripped and dropped it, fell over it and put her knee straight through the canvas. Have had it restored since but its very obvious that there was a tare in it so its now hidden away in the spare bedroom.

dmc17

Gronkosaurus wrote: »

she tripped and dropped it, fell over it and put her knee straight through the canvas.

If you want something done right.........:rolleyes:

Gronkosaurus

dmc17 wrote: »

If you want something done right.........:rolleyes:

The painting we ended up hanging where we had intended the oil paint for is actually a print that cost less than E100

Where To

Does it count as lost if you know where it went?

dxhound2005

where do i go from here wrote: »

Does it count as lost if you know where it went?

Only if you cant find it.

Grilled Cheesus

alproctor wrote: »

So I was out last night, and i lost €100 out my pocket - only raging.:mad:
Stupidly didn't put in in my wallet, and think i pulled it out looking for change....


What's the most cash any of you guys have lost?

I've woken up many a time after a night out and thought I'd lost €100 or more...
It's always unfortunate that I can never remember the night before to track it down

boobar

Not really the same thing...

but I lost €200 on a horse once, had never before of since bet that kind of money.

Kept the losing betting slip in my wallet for 6 months, whenever anyone gave me a tip for a sure thing, all I had to do was look at that slip.

recylingbin

about three fiddy

Al Capwned

recylingbin wrote: »

about three fiddy

took longer than i thought

WoollyRedHat

200 euro or around about that.

saywhatyousee

I got pickpocketed in Amsterdam just after taking a 100 out of the ATM:mad::mad::mad:

DEFTLEFTHAND

Actual physical cash was 200 quid I left in a jacket on a CIE bus. It never surfaced at the lost and found. I was more upset about the jacket as it was worth nearly more. It was an old style Soviet Army design complete with the Red Star and all, made me feel like a commi..:D

ringadingding

Who had post number 2 in the ' When will the bailout be dragged into this sweepstake'?

dxhound2005

ringadingding wrote: »

Who had post number 2 in the ' When will the bailout be dragged into this sweepstake'?

Me and I'm not giving the money to any ****er, it's my money and I'm keeping it for myself.

wonton

found a jacket with 200 euro in it a while ago near a supermarket, told the customer service I brought it home(said I found it when the shop was closed) and gave them my number for if anyone came in asking for it, no one claimed it so fair game I think on my part, there was no identification or anything so not much else I could do.

wilkie2006

Gronkosaurus wrote: »

It's not losing money, but we splashed out on an oil painting by a local artist for our landing; a beautiful picture of Arranmore which cost us almost two thousand (weve never spent that much on art before, it was a complete one time only purchase)! Other half was carrying it in from the car in such an awkward position that she tripped and dropped it, fell over it and put her knee straight through the canvas. Have had it restored since but its very obvious that there was a tare in it so its now hidden away in the spare bedroom.

I hope you divorced her.

Dublin Chick

Gronkosaurus wrote: »

Other half was carrying it in from the car in such an awkward position that she tripped and dropped it, fell over it and put her knee straight through the canvas.

And they say chivalry is dead.....

windy bee

Maybe the guy was carrying something heavier like a baby in a car seat! Much more valuable

Dublin Chick

windy bee wrote: »

Maybe the guy was carrying something heavier like a baby in a car seat! Much more valuable

And maybe he wasn't...

M cebee

alproctor wrote: »

So I was out last night, and i lost €100 out my pocket - only raging.:mad:
Stupidly didn't put in in my wallet, and think i pulled it out looking for change....


What's the most cash any of you guys have lost?

bad luck anyhow

i've heard it said that wallets are a bad idea as you tend to lose more if everything is stored together

ejmaztec

Dublin Chick wrote: »

And maybe he wasn't...

He should have been carrying a video camera, it would have looked great on Youtube.:D

Big Nasty

Cash? Dunno really!

Am in negative equity to the tune of €160k though!

Dublin Chick

Seachmall

Lost about €400 once.

I lost it in a 50-100 yard straight line in an enclosed area, with no more than 20 passer-bys, and had noticed no more than 5 minutes after it was lost.

Still no idea how that's possible.

dj jarvis

ooohhhhhh ......... i would have to say around 400,000 euro

the day i signed for my house , bought it for little over 1/4 mill , plus interest it will stand me half a mill , now worth under 100,000

so that would make 400,000 euro loss - not bad for one day

also walked away from a atm , leaving 200 euro , when i went back it was gone , cursed my stupidity and forgot about it

7 years later got a letter off the AIB bank telling me they had it all along and were only FORCED to return it by the regulator after a audit

the machine issued the cash but becasue i did not take it , it took it back but still debited my account and then said nothing , dirty feckers them banks

mind you i got it back with interest - one up for the little guy

kfallon

Lost €40 one day, not sure if I left it at the ATM or it fell out of my pocket :rolleyes:

As for losing money from betting, I'd rather not say The horse in question was only beaten the width of a gee hair, oh the sickening feeling before, during and def after the race

Seachmall

dj jarvis wrote: »

the machine issued the cash but becasue i did not take it , it took it back but still debited my account and then said nothing , dirty feckers them banks

Many moons ago, before they debited you for failing to take the cash, it was possible to withdraw £300 which would push out 3 notes. The clever thief could then grip the middle note and wait for the machine to pull the other two back. Of course the silly machine assumed you had not collected any cash didn't debit you when in fact you had made off with £100.

I'm not sure if their machines were specifically designed to prevent the above fraud but it's an interesting piece of trivia.

conorhal

I dropped my wallet getting onto a bus on the quays. I reckon that in trying to slip it back into my into my inside pocket, I missed the pocket and the wallet must have just fallen through my coat onto the ground.

I realized just after sitting down that my wallet was gone and I performed a panicked search of the seating area before asking the bus driver to pull over so that I could run back to the stop just down the road. Nobody standing there seemed much interested in my plight or saw my wallet, so either one of them had it, or a person behind me getting on the bus must have scooped it up
I'd just taken out 400 euro to pay my rent.... livid! Not to mention that my bank and credit cards etc were all in there too.
I pretty much hated all humanity for about a whole month after that.

About a month later and for the second time in my entire life, I did exactly the same thing getting out of a taxi (thankfully there was only about twenty quid in it that time.) I only realised the next morning, and just before I was about to go through the laborious nightmare of replacing all my cards I got a call from sombody that had found it in the street and tracked me down via a work number in my wallet.
My faith in humanity was restored, I gave the guy a couple of bottles of nice wine as a thank you when we met up to hand me back my wallet and never again did somthing so dumb as fail to perform the 'pat test' to check that wallet was actually in my pocket .

maximoose

Never really carry much cash... which is a good thing given the amount of times I lose my wallet.

My most annoying thing to happen to me money related was - I was duped out of £250 trying to get Arsenal tix for the OH's bday present by a dodgy ad on Craigslist, purely my own fault for not being cautious in my desperate search for tickets

Stiffler2

That's funny. I found 100 euro on the same night.