Finders Keepers......

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My questions first---If you found money and found out later it was someone that you knew that lost it, would you not say anything? Would you return it? What if they mentioned that the money you found was theres, would you offer it back? Or is it Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers? What if you already spent it? And now onto what happened...We live in an apartment complex, not too big about 30 apartments and its 2 story so everyone basically knows everyone else. I go outside just about everyday and talk to our neighbors and stuff and we all pretty much get along well. I have an older couple that has a daughter about 13 and we have helped them out every once in a while, with food, money, phone usuage, rides (when the husband is at work the wife needs a ride to doctors, shopping, etc because she doesnt drive), babysitting, etc and I give their daughter a ride to school every morning (which is not the same school my kids go too so it is somewhat out of the way) and I dont ask anything in return. They borrowed money from us about a year ago and only owe us about $40 of it still....anyways on to the point of my story, the daughter was outside and foung $100.00 by this little trash can outside of their door so the mother split it between herself, the daughter and another older daughter they have that lives in the same comlex. Ok, youre thinking no big deal, so was I, I thought well good for you. Well when she told me about it I said I hope it wasnt mine because when she said she found it it was foled up into 4ths, and thats what caught my attention, I had one folded like that from another neighbor who had paid me for babysitting. So I figured maybe it was at home in the diaper bag where the rest of the money was...Nope, I had lost it. I mentioned that I had lost it and it was probably mine because I had a candy bar in my back pocket, where the money happened to have been and thru it out because it was melted and yucky and I guess somewhat stuck to it was the money. UGH! I told my husband what had happened and he was more upset with the fact that they didnt offer to pay back what they owed us still or at least part of.