What would you do if you found a lost wallet

Lady Danger

anna080 wrote: »

Sorry I don't remember addressing my comment to you.

This is a discussion board. You seem nice!

retro:electro

Lady Danger wrote: »

This is a discussion board. You seem nice!

Thanks, I am.

janja

Totally try to find owner , you know yourself the panic , cancelling cards , valuable to said person but no own else , photos , loyalty cards etc

pickarooney

super_furry wrote: »

Found one before, looked up the owner on Facebook, sent a message and met up with them a couple of hours later.

I misread that as the owner OF Facebook.

radiata

When I was about 19 and in college I found a wallet on the bus with something like 150 quid. So I threw the wallet in the bin and drank all the money.
Then years later I found a handbag with over a grand in it. I handed it in and the owner sent me 20 quid and a thank you card as thanks.
I should have drank it all too

freshpopcorn

Once in Tesco I found a handbag left on a trolley at the end of the carpark just before Christmas. I could have easily kept it but I was was at the customer service desk waiting to hand it in and the owner landed in. She had a large amount of cash in it to pay for gifts. She gave me €20 or something.
Another time I was with friends and found €150 in an envelope in a shopping center and my friends wanted to split it three ways but I made them feel guilty and handed it into customer service. Lady didn't really care and basically thrown it to one side.
Another time I found a camera in a night club put it in my pocket to hand it in and I forgot went to the chipper and relised what I did and went back and gave it to security.
I've also found other bits and pieces over the years such as keys/coins/€10 notes etc. I generally keep coins and once I kept a €10 that I found in a nightclub once.(It might have even being mine). I also found €10 notes in the church but I would hand these in.

Hannibal_Smith

Lady Danger wrote: »

Because if not for the kid doing the decent thing he would have been down €100 plus he'd have to replace the cards and all that malark. Plus the kid was 13, and it would have been a nice gesture to reward good behaviour and be down €5 rather than €100+

It's up to the parent to teach the kid that doing the good thing is the reward. It's not right to hand a wallet back and expect payment like ransom. You do a good deed because you're a nice person.

spurious

Found one a few years ago. Dropped it in to the local branch of the person's bank. Got a lovely thank you note from the person a few weeks later.
Old school.

goz83

Contact bank and leave my name and number for the bank to pass onto the owner to contact me.

If I found cash in excess of €20, depending on the location, I would let reception/customer services know that I found a small sum of money (without disclosing amount) and if the person who lost it stopped by, they could contact me. I would leave name and number. Not disclosing the actual amount makes it less likely that some scrote will falsely claim it.

spurious

wakka12 wrote: »

Haha how does somebody just drop their handbag on the road and completely forget about it?? i dont understand :pac:

I drove past a suitcase at a bus stop the other day. I suppose people switch off.

Lady Danger

Hannibal_Smith wrote: »

It's up to the parent to teach the kid that doing the good thing is the reward. It's not right to hand a wallet back and expect payment like ransom. You do a good deed because you're a nice person.

I said it would be a nice gesture. And I stand by that. One good turn etc.

The parent said in their post they'd do the same thing again so that would suggest they're teaching good deeds. Where did they say it was an expectation? You're extrapolating meaning from things that haven't even been said.

everlast75

Didn't find a wallet, but last year or so I was leaving my office and as I walked out of the parking area, I spotted around 400e in 50e notes folded over but still together if that makes sense. I picked it up and looked around to see if this was some sort of prank. There was no sign of any wallet or anyone looking for the money.

At that point, I figured that whoever dropped it probably parked the car and walked out. The wind then kicked up a little and blew from right to left so I guessed that the people walked right and the wind blew the money back towards the car park.

I started to jog out and around and as I came around the corner, I saw a couple ahead. I went up to them and asked them if they dropped anything. He started to check his pockets and she asked him "where is the money you took out of the ATM?". He said he didn't have it. I asked how much was it and what denomination and he said €400 in €50's so I handed it over.

Got a rather short "thanks" and that was it. He was probably embarrassed but would have hoped for a few more words than just that...

Mint Sauce

Will be straight up honest here, if I find a note lying on an empty street, €50 or under, no one around, and I will pocket it, could have been absolutely anyones, could have blown from any direction.

People near by, outside a shop, near an ATM, even for fiver will ask them if they dropped it. A wallet/purse would probabaly just drop it into the nearest shop, think no more of it, and not expect a cent in reward in either case.

TBH, alot of people would probably just give a grunt or a shrug of the shoulders anyway as they claim it

_Dara_

anna080 wrote: »

I think it's weird to expect them to give you money for doing the decent thing. It might be all the money they have and can't afford to be giving even €5 of it away to absolute strangers.

Yeah, I returned a smartphone I found to its owner a few years back. No reward. A good few people were like “I can’t believe she didn’t give you a reward!”. I was bemused. Finding the owner was simply the right thing to do. I think children should be taught to not expect a reward for returning something to its rightful owner. A reward should be regarded as a bonus, not an expectation.

Ghekko

anna080 wrote: »

If I found someone's wallet I'd 100% hand it in. A random tenner or twenty somewhere- finders keepers! I was paying for parking in the hospital a few weeks ago and I found a €50. I had to hand it in I didn't have the heart to keep it. I just thought of some old dear scrambling in her bag for change for the machine and she dropped her money. Anything more than €20 I'd always hand in where I found it.

Who did you hand it in to? I wouldn't trust that it would ever get to the owner. I found money in a shopping centre car park. I went to customer service and left my details as I figured if I lost money I would go there to see if anyone handed it in. That was a few weeks ago and I haven't heard a word since. There's no way I'd have given it to the person on the desk as who knows if they'd keep it if the owner didn't come forward. I didn't tell them the amount either as I reckoned they could tell a friend who could in turn pretend they'd lost it. Ds found money once and I marched him to the local Garda station. They told us to hang onto it for a year and if nobody claimed it he could keep it. They didn't even want to bother doing the paper work to record it. So a year and a day later I gave it back to Ds after first checking with Garda station if anyone had come looking for it.

c68zapdsm5i1ru

Gerrup Outta Dat! wrote: »

If I lost my walet with cash in it and the person returned it in full, I'd give them the cash for their honesty. I very rarely carry cash anyway. I'd say 95 % of people would pocket the cash. Perhaps a poll OP?

95%? I doubt it. I think the vast majority of people are honest and would just hand the wallet in to the Garda station or track down the owner with everything left intact.

I think finding a purse with money and deciding that you're going to give the money to charity because there's no identification is wrong, quite frankly. That could be someone's last 50 euro until payday, and there's always a good chance they will contact the local Garda station to see if it's been handed in. Not handing it in because if it doesn't get claimed the Guards might (and I stress might) keep it instead of contacting the finder is a poor policy. It's definitely depriving the owner of any chance of getting it back and while 50 euro mightn't be a lot to you, it could be a hell of a lot to a pensioner or someone else on a very tight budget.

Uosdwis R. Dewoh

Mint Sauce wrote: »

TBH, alot of people would probably just give a grunt or a shrug of the shoulders anyway as they claim it

With respect, like another poster, this is just an assumption which it seems is being made in order to justify it.

Fair enough, people are being honest but there's no denying that it is taking something that doesn't belong to them. It's not unfair to point this out.

It is dreadfully rude of people not to be gracious (as in, not even saying thanks - I don't mean a reward) when their missing wallet is returned to them, but this isn't cause not to return a missing wallet to others after that.

lawred2

Lost my wallet once in Galway

Postie found it in one of those green post boxes... And contacted me.

It was empty of the cash I had in it but the cards were untouched. Obviously by the time the wallet was found I had cancelled all of them anyway so I'd pretty much moved on.

gmisk

I only ever lost my wallet once in the screen cinema...it didnt have a tonne of cash in it maybe 30 euro.
It did have photos etc along with usual cards.
They found it the next day when cleaning, the money was gone, they did give me two free cinema tickets...which I thought was incredibly sound of them.
If I found someones wallet I would definitely try and track them down and if no joy give to gardai, I tend to think/hope majority of people would do the same.

amtc

My purse was taken out of my bag in Monaco. Luckily my friend was with me and lent me money. I got my mother to cancel all my cards. About two weeks later it arrived back to my work address (My business card was in it) with a note saying where it was found...money gone but all else intact. I rang the number to say thanks and sent money to cover postage and a bit more.

These kind of things have karma in them!