Do you pick up money that is left on the ground?

In my country it is said to be good luck if you find money on the ground, even if it's a 10 cent coin. so I definitely would pick it up!

It adds a little skip in my walk even if it is only a penny :P

I don't worry about where the money has been. I wont pick it up if it is lying in goo or something but after all the money in your pocket was handled by hundreds of people before you,who knows what adventures it has had.

My husband will not pick it up. He is from a much more affluent background in his childhood and thinks it is a trivial amount. I don't care, I still pick it up. If he says have you got 5 pence because he is just that little bit short to pay for something,I say 'here you go,it is the 5p i picked up on Tuesday' :)

I would go to the police with a lot of money too. Not just a coin though . I once found £5 in a dustbin on m way to school I did keep that as there was noone to ask . My husband found a roll of money with a rubber band around it once. The police found the owner who had stuffed it into his sock for safe keeping on his way home an hadn't noticed it fall out. It was his wages from work.

I'm sorry guys, I don't trust the police with that amount of cash. There are a lot of good cops but there are some bad ones too. If I found that huge amount of money I would probably give it out to charity if I couldn't find the owner.

Oh yes I have heard that saying but with 'pin' instead of 'penny'. I do pick up pennies. When I was a school girl,my mother would give me bus fare for the week. It was the 1970's and a bus ticket to school was 2 pence. I never got pocket money so I would walk to school and keep the pennies. It was the only way I ever had spending money until I was old enough for a paper round . So something as small as a penny doesn't seem so insignificant to me even now.

i agree on you on that andrew..i will just pick something who's worth picking up..but if that amount is too big and for instance that the owner is still there near me, i would definitely return it to the owner BUT if the owner is no longer there, well, lucky me. and i like the quote that you share with us.

Yes I see, if it is a lot then you would look about for the owner. So would I. Mostly I see one coin lying there and it is abandoned so I will bend down and pocket it. Not inside a shop of course or in a house but out in the street.

wow very lucky and unlucky for those who dropped it too. I have found paper money only 3 times. Once in a dustbin on my way to school, once outside of school which I handed in as it was dinner money day and once with my daughter we found 2 £5 notes just laying in the street without a soul around. My daughter found it really but I was there too.

That reminds me of when I was a child,we lived in the council flats and there were quite a lot of children to interact with. One day one of the boys was bent over looking in the storm drain at the side of the road and gradually a small crowd of children joined him. Me too. He was trying to fish out a pound note that had washed down into the drain. These drains are maybe 4 feet below the grating before they change direction to go off into the sewers but the note was just too far to get to. We had to give it up in the end.

That's good I'm sure whoever lost it was really glad to get it back again. I know I would have been.

I used to be devastated if I lost money. It was almost painful. Well maybe not if it was a penny but I would still look for it. Once we came out of a shop and I realized my 2 £10 notes were gone but I had only spent enough to have paid with one of them. It was a very anxious while and in the end we rang the shop to see if I had handed the two in by mistake. I had, they checked the till and kept my note until I could go back for it. It was an enormous relief as money was very tight back then. It's rare that I will find large amounts on the ground,usually it is small change.

wow I cant imagine seeing such a large amount of money just lying there. I will pick up even 1 penny,I'm not fussy :)

I wouldn't think to keep it if I could discover who it belonged to, don't think many people would .

It just shows you how different our cultures are. In this country a child will drop 5 pennies and shrug because they don't want to look uncool picking up such a small amount. Not me,I would pick it up when they are gone. I like how you would check for ownership.

How strange. Someone must have been in a hurry not to want to pick it all up again. Once I saw a 50 pence piece (half a pound) on the pavement and tried to pick it up,there were some giggles and I looked up to the pub(bar) beside the pavement and noticed a few people watching me try ,through the open doorway. The money was glued to the ground. It was there about a week then one day it was gone. I think someone went back with a pocket knife and prized it up.

I do the same. sometimes you are a penny or two short when you want to buy something and it makes a lot of difference then. Children often will not bend to pick up their dropped coins because they think their friends will laugh at them.

Yup its all pennies. I would tell someone too if I saw them drop it. It has to be nobodies money for me to pick it up.

lol...money is money. I'd do if if I were the richest person in the world...it's good luck.

:) I have stooped to pick coins up in the crowded street before and nearly caused a human pile up. I remember to look behind me now before stopping. At Christmas time in our town,it is almost elbow to elbow in the pedestrian zone and that is the time you are most likely to see money dropped too.

I have never heard of making a wish on found money. Sometimes people will throw money in water for wishes.