Another nice find last Sunday. In addition to everything else I have going on, I enjoy competing at team roping jackpots. I was at an OTRA competition and was walking my horse to the arena, and saw some folded bills on the ground. I picked them up, looked around to see if anyone might be looking for them (I would have returned them), then stuffed them in my pocket when I saw there was no one in the area. I was thinking that since it could be entry fee money, there could be several $20 in there, and maybe a $100. I kept my ears open to anyone talking about lost money so I could return it if I had a chance, but heard nothing. When the competition was over (unfortunately did not do any good competing), I unsaddled my horse and pulled out the folded bills. My dreams of several $20 and maybe a $100 or two disappeared when I saw that it was one $1 and 5 $5. That told me it was not entry fee money, as the entry fees were more than $26. Still, cannot find fault with $26. Keep your eyes to the ground.
In retrospect, I probably should have talked to the announcer and had them announce if anyone has lost money to come see me, and I can return it if they describe what denominations it consisted of. I was just too concerned about someone who did not lose it saying they did, and getting lucky with the denominations. And shortly after finding it I started concentrating on the competition and did not really think about it anymore.
gungatim - I feel the same way, I feel like I need to add to my found coins total. I guess we are both a little strange in that respect. I guess I kind of do it a little different than people who just hoard their found money and turn it in later. What I do is every time I find $1 worth, I put all the coins in with my other change to be rolled and taken to the bank, and replace it with a gold presidential dollar. That way whenever the time comes for me to do something with it, it will be a lot easier to count and roll the $1 coins than it will be to count and roll the hundreds (and maybe thousands) of small change.
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