What would you do if you found a lost wallet

PARlance · 02-10-2017 09:03PM

Akrasia wrote: »

There's research to show that if you keep a picture of a baby in your wallet, if you lose it, it's more likely to be returned to you.

So even if you've got no kids, stick a stock photo of the kid from Look who's talking into your wallet as a free insurance policy.

Good idea on the stock photo, you could be in a bit of bother if your neighbour found your wallet with a picture of his kids in it.

iLikeWaffles · 02-10-2017 09:05PM

PARlance wrote: »

Good idea on the stock photo, you could be in a bit of bother if your neighbour found your wallet with a picture of his kids in it.

Why would you have that photo in your wallet in the first place?

salmocab · 02-10-2017 09:05PM

endacl wrote: »

No bank will do anything other then ask you to hand the card in to a branch.

I found a wallet a couple of years ago and rang the bank that the persons bank card was from and they contacted the owner and told them which garda station I handed it in to

OldMrBrennan83 · 02-10-2017 09:10PM

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snowflaker · 02-10-2017 09:14PM

I lost my wallet one day on the 195 bus to Heuston, only realised when I tried to board the train. After I managed to get on a train, I received a call from Pearse St Garda Station, someone had handed it in. I returned to Dub and collected my wallet. Sent the lovely lady flowers which she was thrilled to receive

_Dara_ · 02-10-2017 09:14PM

When I was a kid, I was at a fairground with some friends and acquaintances from my class. One of the acquaintances lost something like €20 at the fair. Later on, we found a wallet with a larger sum of money in it, like €60 or so. The one who lost €20 earlier took €20 from the wallet before handing it up. She honestly couldn’t see anything wrong with what she did! :eek:

weldoninhio · 02-10-2017 09:28PM

If I found one I think I'd pocket the cash and return the wallet. Unless I saw someone in distress looking like they'd lost something.

Also, if I lost my wallet I wouldn't even report it missing, I'd just call myself an idiot and go about replacing my cards.

Your Face · 02-10-2017 09:40PM

I found a debit card awhile back.
I went into the nearest bank to hand it in.
It turned out to be quite the chore.
If it happens again Im just going to snap the card and throw it the bin.

Tigger · 02-10-2017 09:45PM

found a wallett with 800 i it innsupervalue one day
handed it in but i asked a few days later who it belonged to and whether they got it back
Tiggers are very civic minded

nkav86 · 02-10-2017 09:46PM

Your Face wrote:

I found a debit card awhile back. I went into the nearest bank to hand it in. It turned out to be quite the chore. If it happens again Im just going to snap the card and throw it the bin.

Why was it a chore?

LordSutch · 02-10-2017 09:52PM

Aliyah Clever Pretzel wrote: »

What would you do if you found a lost wallet.

I did, this summer.

Handed it in the local police station, but was surprised when they asked me for my details, name address DOB etc, but apparently this is so that if the wallet is not claimed within one year I get to keep it and its contents!

Loon E. Tick · 02-10-2017 09:53PM

I forgot my purse on a bus in San Francisco one time. Got off the bus to get on another bus at a different stop. I heard someone racing up the street, turned around and a young girl had my purse in her hand. I didn't even realise it was gone and she had got off the other bus specially to run after me to give it to me. It had my passport in it too so I would have been rightly screwed. I was just about to offer her some money but she was gone in a flash. All I could do was silently wish her health and happiness in her life.

Deub · 02-10-2017 09:53PM

It happened twice. The first time I Ieft the wallet to the hotel reception as I found it in a carpark next to a car. I left a note on the windshield.

The second time I found a bag with a wallet in it. I called the owner who collected the same day.
In both cases I left the money in it.

I just hope if it happened to me, someone will do the same.

messy tessy · 02-10-2017 10:08PM

I found a wallet on a bus and handed it to the bus driver.

A few years ago I was behind someone in Tesco Merrion at the ATM, he took his card and left the money. Must have easily been a couple of hundred in 50 euro notes. I was a student at the time and remember thinking wow that is a proper wad of cash. I went after him and handed him the money and he didn't even say thanks! Should have kept it and lived Like a queen for the week.

Your Face · 02-10-2017 10:13PM

nkav86 wrote: »

Why was it a chore?

Because I found it chore-like.

iLikeWaffles · 02-10-2017 10:17PM

messy tessy wrote: »

I found a wallet on a bus and handed it to the bus driver.

A few years ago I was behind someone in Tesco Merrion at the ATM, he took his card and left the money. Must have easily been a couple of hundred in 50 euro notes. I was a student at the time and remember thinking wow that is a proper wad of cash. I went after him and handed him the money and he didn't even say thanks! Should have kept it and lived Like a queen for the week.

Sure you've to pay €3 to get your possessions back from Dublin bus. Usually takes about a week for it to end up in lost and found too.

Similar incident at an atm, funnily it was a Dublin bus driver. The dude left his card in it and took the slip. Must have been checking his balance. The screen was at the part where it says do you want to make further transactions yes/no? I could have said yes and withdrew the lot. Hit no and went after him, he didn't even say thanks or nothing just went "oh" very silly!

badabing106 · 02-10-2017 10:22PM

If someone finds a random 5,10, 20, 50 euro note when there is no one around. That money is yours. Don't kid yourself into believing that money will miraculously be reconciled with an owner if you give it in somewhere. Very wishful thinking. The person that lost the money, more likely than not, doesn't realize money is gone in first place. This isn't a Tom hanks movie

fussyonion · 02-10-2017 10:24PM

I found a purse in the local shopping centre last week and I popped into the newsagents beside me.

Myself and the shopkeeper looked inside and saw the owner's name and her photographic I.D as well as a bundle of notes.

She was an older woman and the shopkeeper said she recognised her from coming in every week and had just been to her to buy the Lotto.
I rooted around in the purse (a VERY weird feeling, nosing in someone else's purse) and found a list of phone numbers.

I rang the first number on the list and it turned out to be the daughter of the woman who lost the purse.

She said her Mum had dementia and had probably gone to meet her husband for coffee. She said he (her Dad) was at the early stages of dementia too, and she was worried sick about them.

I had a lump in my throat as I handed the purse over to the woman when I met her in the local cafe; her and her husband were over the moon to get the purse back.

It contained €300 and they were going shopping for their grandchildren's Christmas presents.

I felt really good about myself that day.

Loon E. Tick · 02-10-2017 10:25PM

iLikeWaffles wrote: »

Similar incident at an atm, funnily it was a Dublin bus driver. The dude left his card in it and took the slip. Must have been checking his balance. The screen was at the part where it says do you want to make further transactions yes/no? I could have said yes and withdrew the lot. Hit no and went after him, he didn't even say thanks or nothing just went "oh" very silly!

Something like that probably happens if somebody is very distracted. If he didn't say thanks it mightn't even have registered with him for a few minutes until after you gave it to him.

taylor3 · 02-10-2017 10:31PM

About a year ago I found a ladies purse on the ground in car park of Aldi. It was right at the back of a parked car. Picked it up walked over to the side of the shop had a look through it trying to get any I.d as to who owns it. With that my daughter noticed a woman looking a bit frazzled just where we found it. I walked over to her and asked her for her name. On hearing her name matched cards etc in purse I handed it back to her. She was only thrilled to have but back. She handed my young daughter 20quid. Good example to show my daughter too I thought.

aLou991 · 02-10-2017 10:47PM

I'd try and find the owner. Go through the purse for any sort of identifying information and had it back. I've been lucky enough to have my purse handed back before.

First was when I was quite young, about 14, dropped my purse in the car park of the local shopping centre and someone handed it in. It was my mum's purse and she'd passed the year before. I was so relieved to have it back and I still have it all these years later.

I was in Disneyland Paris in May and we'd all been evacuated from the train station. Had a phone case at the time and my cards were in it, my VHI and my driving licence must have flown out of it while we were all getting to the doors and a couple of days after I arrived home, I get a Facebook message off a man who worked in the train station and had found them... At this stage, I didn't even know they were missing! He posted them back to Ireland, wouldn't accept money for postage or anything like it. They arrived back to me so I sent him some Irish treats as a thank you. He was delighted.

I'm sure the temptation to keep wads of cash would be there but the guilt would kick in for me!!

02-10-2017 10:54PM

Found one passing through an airport last year. Security guided me to information desk, they announced name.
Guy came and picked it up within a minute.

iLikeWaffles · 02-10-2017 10:57PM

Loon E. Tick wrote: »

Something like that probably happens if somebody is very distracted. If he didn't say thanks it mightn't even have registered with him for a few minutes until after you gave it to him.

Possibly. Good karma either way!!

badabing106 wrote: »

If someone finds a random 5,10, 20, 50 euro note when there is no one around. That money is yours. Don't kid yourself into believing that money will miraculously be reconciled with an owner if you give it in somewhere. Very wishful thinking. The person that lost the money, more likely than not, doesn't realize money is gone in first place. This isn't a Tom hanks movie

Right.

But "What would you do if you found a lost wallet"

EPAndlee · 02-10-2017 11:01PM

I'd keep the money and burn the wallet, there I said it

Sarn · 02-10-2017 11:15PM

I'd do my best to get it back to the person. Failing that, give it to the nearest wallet inspector.

mcko · 02-10-2017 11:22PM

My son found a wallet with €100 in it, he brought it home ,there was a gym membership card and we contacted the gym who rang the owner, he rang us and arranged to collect the wallet, never gave the young fella feck all, he was only 13 so a fiver would have been more than enough, still we would do the same again.

Uosdwis R. Dewoh · 03-10-2017 01:19AM

badabing106 wrote: »

If someone finds a random 5,10, 20, 50 euro note when there is no one around. That money is yours. Don't kid yourself into believing that money will miraculously be reconciled with an owner if you give it in somewhere. Very wishful thinking. The person that lost the money, more likely than not, doesn't realize money is gone in first place. This isn't a Tom hanks movie

Why more likely than not? Anyone can drop anything. Whatever about a tenner or fiver, €50 is a lot of money in certain circumstances. Even €20 can be.

retro:electro · 03-10-2017 01:34AM

mcko wrote: »

My son found a wallet with €100 in it, he brought it home ,there was a gym membership card and we contacted the gym who rang the owner, he rang us and arranged to collect the wallet, never gave the young fella feck all, he was only 13 so a fiver would have been more than enough, still we would do the same again.

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.

Lady Danger · 03-10-2017 01:40AM

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.

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+

retro:electro · 03-10-2017 01:41AM

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+

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

In any event- the idea that you do the right thing because it's the right thing and not to expect any reward for it is a better lesson to instil.

What would you do if you found a lost wallet

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