Here's a new way to make money......
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (168256)
Boise, Idaho
February 29, 2012 10:31am CST
My grandson found a gold ring while walking with his mother. His mother took it to the pawn shop. She got $85 for it! Pure 14K gold. So I think it pays to keep our eyes to the ground. And the pumps and bruise we might get from waling into trees and such really makes it all worth while when you find stuff like this. Huh? Have you made some unexpected money somewhere recently?
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
29 Feb 12
Well that was a very lucky find for him! $85.00 isn't bad to gain for that either. The only thing I can think of is when I get extra hours at work,or when I came back to earning online a few months ago and noticed my paypal had a payment from triond I wasn't expecting. It wasn't much but a nice surprise either way.
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@artauxeo (287)
• Philippines
1 Mar 12
this happened to me twice; i was waiting for my payroll, and i'm expecting my weekly salary show up on my bank account. i was surprised that the money i am expecting double it's amount. maybe someone in the accounting department made a mistake.
i didn't report that incident, but they never told me anything about accidentally doubling my salary.
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@Kasiviswanathan2k (288)
• India
1 Mar 12
Lucky day for her. In any time i am not done this before future i got chance then it's my lucky day. But i has some bad days i miss my chain in the crowd that's lucky for another one like her. It's worth $300.
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@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Mar 12
Well, if you just lost it perhaps someone took it to the authorities. You should call and ask them.
@Kasiviswanathan2k (288)
• India
2 Mar 12
I Already done that no one give the chain to the authority's, Most of them are Selfish in our world, i think it's got the hand of one Selfish guy.
@OpinionatedLady (5965)
• United States
1 Mar 12
My father in law is a janitor at a high school. He keeps a lost and found and the kids all know that at the end of a grading period he will toss what is still there. He takes anything of value down to the pawn shop each time and has actually been able to take very nice vacations from the stuff sold there! You would be surprised the items, Ipods, jewelry, money even a couple lap tops.
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@OpinionatedLady (5965)
• United States
1 Mar 12
Yes but I think how pissed I would be at my kids..lol
@Metatronik (6199)
• Pasay, Philippines
1 Mar 12
How I wish I am lucky enough to do that as well. But then of course as much as possible if I found one and as long as I know who is the owner of course I would return it. But then if I know the owner is not looking anymore and it is already impossible that he can turn then that is the time that I am going to take it.
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@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Mar 12
I think it is understand that ofcourse you would be sure no one around still wanted it. And we were lucky to have found such an item. Looked like had been down in the dirt for years. Nice find, huh?
@abcuser123 (78)
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1 Mar 12
I wish life have more pleasant surprises...couldnt get enough of them Lol...I think opportunities favours the prepared mind, can tell where your grandson found the gold ring; will be inclined to scour such places for likely possibilibilites of treasures Lmao.I think mylot is my unexpected source of money, stumbled over it a few years ago when surfing the net to make money online lol. But it is good site, one that pays quite good...
@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
2 Mar 12
They say life is what you make it. I think if we had alot of pleasant surprises we wouldn't appreciate them like we should. I can't remember how I lucked onto Mylot. It was about four years ago. Mylot is great!
@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Mar 12
Something like that I would take to the company incase the person comes back for it.
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@lynboobsy11 (11343)
• Philippines
1 Mar 12
Yes in the middle of a school parade. Many students are there and we are about to cross the street, I was with my friend we are in a hurry because the parade is heading from us. When suddenly I felt that I have something that I stepped on. I saw that there is 300 pesos in the ground that I have stepped on. I hurry picked it up and I was looking around to see if someone is looking for the money. My friend told me keep it you never know who it might belong. I pity him/her for the lost of his money.
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@lynboobsy11 (11343)
• Philippines
16 Jul 12
Yhea it is but sometimes I got pity to those who lost it, they might needed money more than me. thanks for the BR.
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@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
2 Mar 12
Wow! What a find. My daughter used to find money all the time. It is sort of exciting isn't it?
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@shadjee1 (602)
• Philippines
1 Mar 12
How lucky is your grandson. However, I also feel bad for the owner especially if it has some sentimental value. Anyway, Like I've said, Your grandson is lucky to find a 14k ring. Probably the biggest item I found laying on the ground was a 100 pesos ( equivalent to $2) or just a fake ring. Hahaha.
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@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Mar 12
I have alot of experience with finding stuff. My daughter found a$20 bill just outside our door. She asked all over if anyone had lost any money. Nope! We thought it was the lady next door's but she wouldn't take it. She has also found money in parking lots at the Fiddler's contest and such. Always have been lucky finding stuff. This ring was inbedded down in the earth and looked as if it had been there for a long, long time. If it was just laying out we would have taken it to the authoriities.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
2 Mar 12
We normally find something like that and turn it into the police. If no one claims it, then we get to keep it. Our pawn shops make us sign a statement saying that the item is in fact ours. Hopefully that ring was not part of a robbery where someone dropped afterward and they trace it back to you guys. Hopefully, too, someone hasn't reported it missing and the police go to the pawn shop to look for it.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
2 Mar 12
My wedding ring is gold. So is my husbands. It doesn't take long for a ring to get covered with dirt outdoors. I would like to think that if a ring that wass $84 at a pawn shop, it must be worth a lot because the pawn shop will sell it for more than that, that someone would try the police first.
So what's the statue of limitations on theft, robbery, etc in your area? 3 years, 5 years? So how many years do you think it was left there? I'm former corrections, I can think of people doing time for less. Plus in my area, the pawn shops are checked by the cops quite often. We had a string of 21 robberies in my area. This is a bad year for theft, esp. gold and copper.
I'm also a teacher and I don't think that teaches the kid anything, but finders keepers, loosers, weapers. If it was my wring, I would want someone to try to get it back to me. Not pawn it.
But it does depend. I flushed a ring down a TOILET when a no good multiple-timing bum had given me it as an engagement ring. That ring I never wanted to see again.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
2 Mar 12
Yes, you explained in other responses that is was covered by dirt. So when the police ask you how he found it, it was covered by dirt. So how did he see it? Was he digging for it or was it partially exposed. You'd better get your story straight. But it depends on the pawn shop. In our area, they require you give your address and ID before they take anything. They don't want to take the heat from the police for anything that may have been reappropriated.
@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
2 Mar 12
If it was just laying around we usually do that too. But I have explained that several times in other responses. There you go with that imagination of yours. lol
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
1 Mar 12
not really recently but i used to find money out walking years ago all the time. i dont walk a lot any more but i bet i still would be the one find it. usually people with me would miss it. i did get some LOTS of extra credits for something on listia a few weeks ago. that was unexpected.
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
2 Mar 12
Gosh no...no unexpected money for me...lol. I was watching a news story one time about a family that went out and hunted lost change. They were making quite a bit extra per month from doing that. I can't remember the numbers but it was pretty substantial.
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@offkey (313)
• United States
1 Mar 12
You seem to becoming defensive that people are saying that you did the wrong thing by making money off of lost the jewelry, I say that because of your comment above saying that you already explained why you didn't turn it in. I still think it was wrong of them to not turn it in, it being covered just says that it was probably walked over or covered up because of the weather.
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@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
2 Mar 12
Just get tired of explaining. It was down under the earth and had obviously been there a while.
@DoctorDidi (7018)
• India
9 Mar 12
No, I am not lucky enough to make any such unexpected money any time in my life.
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@yanzalong (18987)
• Indonesia
1 Mar 12
I wish I could find a big amount to pay my debt off. I wish someone in a chopper would drop a bag of money into my back yard. Who knows.
@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Mar 12
I would love that. Or find some these treasures they talk about on Unsolved Mysteries sometimes.
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
29 Feb 12
reading this, maybe I should start walking with my eyes fixed to the ground, but won't it go against the rule on how to maintain a good posture?. Nope no luck so far but still hoping I could pick up something like that " finders keepers"
@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Feb 12
your eyes have a posture rule?! Yes, finders keepers when it ground down under other stuff and obviously have been there awhile.
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@luoyefeng521 (3)
• China
1 Mar 12
oh,that is very luck to your grandson.maybe god bless the children,when i was young about eight years old,,the similar thing happen to me , but i do not know how to deal with it.200 yuan is a big deal of money to me at that moment,but i waste is in a week.until now i have not meet this phenomenon.
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