Did you ever found anything valuable and did you return it?

Hi Slovenc, All the time and yes, I do everything I can to find the owner and return it. I work in a store next to a bar so if you can imagine, it is not uncommon to find dropped wads of cash, wallets, etc. I once found a wallet with hundreds of dollars in it. I looked inside and found the license. I work the night shift and did not trust the woman that was coming on in the morning so I took the wallet home with me. The next day I called the man and told him not to worry about his wallet and that I had it and he could meet me at the store to get it when I came in in the afternoon. I work out of town. He had not even noticed it missing yet!! I work hard for my money and I know how I'd feel if I lost even 20.00 so yes, if there is anyway that I can track the owner, I do. Often times my customers have had way too much and hand me a 50.00 bill thinking it is 20.00. I just could never take advantage of that. It's all about the Karma. If I accidently hand them back too much money (and I have) they return it to me.

If I found a jacket with 20,000 dollars , it's basically theft if I take it and if my face gets captured on video I'd get arrested... However if there's no chance of me getting caught , I still wouldn't take it because I wouldn't want someone else to steal from me. "Do unto others as they would do to you"

When I worked in Housing at the amusement park I used to take items I found in the shower rooms to the desk. It doesn't always work. One time I found an expensive electric shaver and handed in to the lady at the desk. She left it out and when the guy approached me to see if I'd seen it, I directed him to the desk. Apparently, someone else took it. One time many years ago I taught in this school system and we were closing down a school. I found an envelope of money that I guess had been collected for a trip or something. So I approached a coworker and said, "here, I found this." He placed it in his pocket and the people I worked with agreed with him that I gave him the money. So I've now wary of who I give found items to.

yeah but not that amount... just a bit lower that that amount.. . i also returned it... i cant take taking valuables that are not mine,,

actually yes i did but i couldnt return it cause it was just a 50 dollar bill i was sooo happy that day lol

you sure the waitress returned it? :P no lie if I found that much money Id pocket it... but thats just me. I did once find a cell phone outside a bank once laying on the sidewalk so I picked it up, hoped on my bike and drove to the police station and returned it, as for what happened to the phone after that. I do not know :O

The only thing of value that I've ever found...and in this case it was of sentimental value...was a ring. When my ex and I bought our house we took up some carpeting and I found a class ring from 1920-something. It was inscribed with 3 initials. I called my real estate agent and asked her to contact the sellers to see if this ring meant anything to them and it turned out that it did. It had belonged to the woman's mother, long deceased, and she had lost it years earlier. She had no idea how it got under the carpet but she was thrilled to finally have it back.

A few years ago i found a purse and i had a look in it to see if there were any ideas of who it belonged to all all there was were money and lots of it also a national insurance card.I took the purse with the contents to the police station and they found out who the owner was and i was given twenty pounds from the owner of the purse to say thank you.The police dropped a note and the money to me at my house.

yes i have done this. even i will not say that i have found any important or too costly things but when ever i find any think and i could get any way the address of the person whom the thing belongs to, i tried to get the person and give the particular thing back to the person.

My son once found a men's diamond ring in the dressing room of an amusement park. We asked park officials if anyone had reported it missing and checked the newspaper's lost and found section for weeks trying to find the rightful owners. No one ever came forward so he got to keep it. The scary part of it was that the park said we could turn it into them and if someone came forward they would give it to them; otherwise at the end of the season it is "disposed" of (meaning someone from the park would get it). We gave them our names and phone numbers and told them that if the owner came forward looking for it to have them give us a call and describe the piece, we would then make arrangements to meet them or ship it securely to them.

I found a cellphone few months ago in a restaurant and I never had second thoughts. I approached the restaurant manager and gave him the cellphone that I found. I don't know if it was returned to the owner though. I hope it was.

Hey Slovenc..When I was a little kid, I went to a shop to run some errands for my mom. An elderly lady was there buying something when a lot of money fell out of her purse and she didn't realize it even. She looked kinda poor and that money must have been her hard earned money and savings. I picked it up and gave it to her,she was so grateful that she offered me some money for being kind to her but i declined. Sadly people aren't all that honest. I've heard of people leaving their phones in public transport vehicles and when they realize it and call their number, the call is immediately disconnected and the next time, the phones' switched off and they never get it back! I know its tempting at times, but if you put yourself in that person's shoes, you would definitely want to get your stuff back if you lost it!! i make sure that I'm extra careful about my wallet and my phone whenever I go out.

Not me personally but my mum found a wallet with a load of cash in it and she took it to the police station and the copper took the credit cards and the wallet and give the cash back to my parents as a finders fee his reasoning being they where lucky to even get the credit cards back without having there id stolen. Also walking thru to3wn once found a load of notes fluttering down the street looked around no o ne running after it so grabbed it bloody quick no one would be able to return it to the rightful owner and no one was around so why not

well it is not good to take others thing. I have found many such things but i dont even touch it. you know if we take it then it would be our responsibilty to take that thing to its real owner. And if you can't find the owner just give it to a poor person. once my brother had found about 65 or 70 $ from somewhere, and he took it and used it. i repeatedly asked him to give it to a poor person but he did'nt and finally after one week our 500$ motorbike was lost.someone broke its lock and took it. Dont know how he did it. That lesson was enough for me that's why i ignore to take such things.

When I was young and as a small pupil in a primary school .I was seekong a good and useful pepople inside,want to be heroes,to make more to protect the family, defending, to the rescue like the big thing ,but quite a down to earth ,and not very very ambitious person.Ofen resulting in a composition of luck who thinks constantly picking silly and never took it.A small break baby. Honestly,I have never been picked up purse.

I will also give it back especially if it happens that so I find so much money.This inevitably means problems!I have found and I-phone which costs about 500 dollars and I gave it back because I know how hard my friend worked to buy one.I imagined how was the man who had lost it feeling so I gave it back.