oh cool....$20.00....or something like that....

United States
March 1, 2010 10:31am CST
Have you ever been lucky enough to put on a old pair of jeans...or a coat and put your hands in the pocket to find money in there?? My mom has been lucky to find $20.00 a lot, however I probably have found like $3.00 or a handful of change.....but for the most case I am good about emptying my pockets before I put something away for the season. Spring is around the corner and I will be putting away the winter clothes then pulling out the summer clothes so this got me thinking....have you ever found something in a pocket of old clothes when you pulled it out of storage?? What was it you found....and if you came across extra money would you just go out and spend it...or would you save it??
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13 responses
• India
1 Mar 10
i have not found it in my dress pockets but i will find it sometimes in my college bag . i used to have the pocket money i save in my college bag and would take them when i need it . one day i was cleaning the bag and i found two 50 rupees notes (indian currency) and i was very happy . i was planning to go with my friends on that day and i just spent this money too . but it will be very happy to get those kinds of money as if we got it for free and its a good feeling .
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• United States
11 Mar 10
that is great you had the money to go out that day with...I would have spent it too. thanks for the response and have a great night.
@Gunbazca (44)
• Indonesia
1 Mar 10
It happens to me sometimes. I tend to forget the contents of my back pocket... and for the question on whether i'd use or save the money... usually i'd use it. It's like a godsend to find money in your pocket when you're broke.
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• United States
11 Mar 10
yep, for the change I have found on occasion I have spent it too...it wasnt like it was going to save me alot...LOL thanks for the response and have a great night!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
1 Mar 10
Many times. I will put a note in a jacket or pair of trousers and then perhaps weeks later I am going through the pockets and suddenly I am up to £20 (about $30) better off. Unfortunately it doesn't happen every day! I tend to spend it as it saves me going to the bank.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
28 Mar 10
Thank you for the BR. I looked in my pockets tonight and found.... nothing! Next time maybe.
• United States
11 Mar 10
oh I wish that would happen to me....I have to be less responsible with emptying my my pockets.... thanks for the response and have a great night!
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
1 Mar 10
hi bookreadermom08 I havent found any money like that for ages but one time years back our old pickup had tohave some new parts. Our neighbor was a mechanic who said he would put them in free so just go buy the parts. Well we were totally disappointed when we got to the parts store to find that the money we had pooled wou ld not begin to pay for the parts, we needed 250 dollars which we did not have. Well we went out to get in the pick up and I stumbled over something. I bent down and picked up what seemed to be a wad of dirty green paper. to my astonishment it was a wad of money, I counted it out two hundred and fifty dollars. It looked like it had been there a few d ays, wrinkled an d soiled. we asked the clerk in the parts store if anyone had come in there asking if they had found any money. He said no, and we told him about the money. He said its too bad now as that looks to have been there several days. it will just pay for your parts. so we got the part s and our neighbor did an e xcellent job of putting them in, voila we had our pickup back.
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• United States
11 Mar 10
oh wow, you couldnt have had a better opportunity to find the money...however it got there!! that is a great story to remember!! thanks for sharing that and have a great night!!
@cyrus123 (6363)
• United States
2 Mar 10
I know you were very happy when you found this money. I can just imagine your shock! Kathy.
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@bucklord (349)
• United States
1 Mar 10
I've never been that lucky. The most I've ever come across is some loose change totaling less than a dollar. Maybe I need to start looking in my wife's jeans.
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• United States
11 Mar 10
LOL....that might work!! thanks for the response and have a great night!!
• Singapore
2 Mar 10
sometimes i also find some ,but not try to spend it right away ,spend it smart ,
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@lingli_78 (12822)
• Australia
2 Mar 10
it rarely happened to me as i am pretty good in emptying and checking my pockets everytime before i do my laundry... if it does happen, i usually save the money for rainy days and i will be very very happy because it is like some sort of lucky money for me... take care and have a nice day...
@Chad525 (349)
• Canada
2 Mar 10
I couldn't find my car keys for about a month and I looked absolutely everywhere for them, but just couldn't figure out where the heck I put them.... Until I put on an old jacket and low and behold, my car keys were in the pocket!
• United States
28 Mar 10
I know this girl who supposedly hid her money in her clothes so that she'll be pleasantly surprised when she finds her money again. I wouldn't be able to leave with knowing that money is hidden away but I've found a few dollars in my jean pocket once and it was a nice surprise. I think I just spent it. Part of the nice surprise is the extra spending power.
@cyrus123 (6363)
• United States
2 Mar 10
Oh, yes! This has happened to me plenty of times, lol! I don't think I've ever found as much as $20.00 in a pocket but I might have found $1.00, $3.00, $5.00, or some change. I have also found things like gum or mints I might have forgotten about. I have even washed money a time or two. I know I was out picking up trash next to the road a few years ago and I found $5.00. There are some kids in my neighborhood who like to ride their four wheelers in front of my house a lot and I think one of them must have lost it. If I knew who might have lost it, I would have called them and asked them. If I had found as much as $20.00, knowing me and how I like to eat out occasionally, I would have gone out to eat on it. Kathy.
@doryvien (2284)
• United States
2 Mar 10
Hi bookreadermom, I'm not very lucky with clothes pockets, probably the most I found were loose coins. If I do find a considerable amount in those pockets, I'd probably leap for joy and spend it at once to celebrate, maybe I'll buy pizza and ice cream, they're my kids' favorite.
@solared (1207)
• United States
1 Mar 10
Yeah because I wear the same pants a few time before I wash it, or a jacket, and I find money all the time.
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• Mexico
1 Mar 10
Hello bookreadermom08! I've never found more than 5 dollars in my jeans or in a purse that I storage! I hope to find a big one someday like your mom did! But a couple of months ago quite the opposite happened to me. We were in another city visiting family and we took our dirty clothers to a laundry washer place where they wash it for you. I had 50 dollars in my jeans I wore the day before and my husband put those jeans in the bag of dirty clothes and I didn't knew. So when I was looking up for my jeans he told me he put it there for me, and I wanted to cry. We went to the place and there was nothing on the jeans and I'm a hundred percent sure the money was there and the lady took it! What could I do? Nothing! But to cry! It was almost all we had that week! I still remember it and feel very sad! Best regards, Libna!