What would you do?

There have been a couple of recent articles in the Chicago Tribune about a family that found an envelope with $1,000 in it right before Christmas very close to a shopping mall.  It was a bank envelope, but there was no name on it and no way of knowing who the money belonged to.   They tried to find the owners by checking the stores in the area and local banks to see of anyone reported or remembered anything.  They then wrote to the newspaper in hope that the owners could be found.  They parents and kids are determined to find the owners and return the money.

I commend them.  If I found $1,000 and had no idea who it belonged to, I don't know what I'd do.  That is kinda the dream for someone like me who looks for money all of the time.  I did find a wallet once when I when I was running.  It was pretty early on a Sunday morning outside a restaurant close to my house.  Since I am not a scam artist and would be scared out of mind to ever use someone else's credit card, I found the guy on facebook, sent him a message, and my husband met up with him to return it.  So, there is a positive thing about the facebook and the help it can  provide in a situation like that.  I am still waiting for the good karma to pay me back on that one...

Well, this week I found $2.00 exactly.  It was pretty cold this week and it did snow.  The snow covers up precious money-finding space, so it was a little slow during the week.  In fact, the only change I found on Tuesday were 2 pennies encased in some sort of plastic thing.  I have yet to take them out because I can't quite figure it out.  I saw a full set of Disney Princess building blocks (sorry to the kid who lost that), a few pairs of shoes and a drunk young couple trying to find their car at about 6:15 on Friday morning - that was pretty hilarious.  The girl was walking and looked into an obviously open 24 hour diner (lights on and people eating) and said, "they're not even open anyway."  She then took about 5 more steps and said, "So where do you think we could have parked?"  Ahh, good times.

Until next week, have a good one!