If you found a shopping bag in a parking lot...

[Anonymous]

I've always returned things. Right before one Christmas I was leaving ToysRUs and find a brand new gaming console in the bottom of a shopping carriage. I returned it back to the store. I just hoped the person who left it, came back for it. They're so expensive and that could really ruin the holidays.

I seem to find lots of wallets too and have always been able to track down their owners.

But one time I did find a $50 bill on the sidewalk. I kept that. How was I going to find who lost that?

[Anonymous]

I would have brought it inside the store.

(Cash on the ground I would keep - there's no way to know whose it was. )

People do suck - I'm sorry, OP. I know what it's like to have limited opportunities to treat yourself, and for it to disappear really sucks.

My daughter lost her blanket in a department store ("HER blanket", as in can't sleep or go anywhere without it). I realized it within minutes but it was nowhere to be found. It never showed up in lost or found either. Things don't just disappear - people take them or or too lazy to show simple kindness. It's the worst.

[Anonymous]

Go back and re-buy what you bought if possible. Then at least you won't feel the loss (except for the money).

[Anonymous]

What area? I would expect this in certain areas and not others. Lesson learned; move on.

[Anonymous]

If I were not in a hurry, I would turn it in. Otherwise, I'd just ignore it or move it to a nearby place where the person who left it would likely see it.

[Anonymous]

You had me until you wanted me to feel bad for you for being a SAHM. Get a job and you won't have this problem and you might have somewhere to go that's worthy of new clothes.

[Anonymous]

Once upon a time I drove off with a case of Propel on my roof. I drove around the parking lot and 5 minutes later, someone was putting it into their trunk. They actually said, "finders keepers" since they said I couldn't prove it was mine.

Dafuq?

I just chalked it up to another "people suck" lesson. Sorry OP

[Anonymous]

I was unloading my basket one day and saw a box of canisters under a basket. After I unloaded I attempted to bring the box inside the store but they wouldn't let me without a receipt.

Waited in the parking lot for a few minutes in case someone came back for them but they didn't so I gave them to my DIL. I felt bad about it but just the week before my box of ice pops were taken after I drove away forgetting them and recently my ponytail bands were left in the bag at the counter. Somebody got my stuff.

Doesn't excuse what I did but I wanted to do the right thing. Oh well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You had me until you wanted me to feel bad for you for being a SAHM. Get a job and you won't have this problem and you might have somewhere to go that's worthy of new clothes.

Just stop. Really. SAHM is a valuable contribution, and who better to look nice for than your husband and family? -WOHM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You had me until you wanted me to feel bad for you for being a SAHM. Get a job and you won't have this problem and you might have somewhere to go that's worthy of new clothes.

Just stop. Really. SAHM is a valuable contribution, and who better to look nice for than your husband and family? -WOHM

Not to mention not everyone in DC is a high earner. It might behoove some people to know that the cost of daycare or a nanny is more than the mom's salary. Sure you can argue about the long term benefit of working while losing money or breaking even, not just considering mom's income, etc. but most people simply can't afford to live that way.

[Anonymous]

I would take it in to the store.

More than once I've left my wallet in a grocery cart while transferring bags to the car and each time (2 or 3 times in 10 years) it's been turned into the customer service desk. Probably by the grocery store workers, but maybe by other customers.

[Anonymous]

I'd turn it in. But if I was in a hurry, I may just move it to the side, out of the road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would take it in to the store.

More than once I've left my wallet in a grocery cart while transferring bags to the car and each time (2 or 3 times in 10 years) it's been turned into the customer service desk. Probably by the grocery store workers, but maybe by other customers.

Oh, also I once found a $100 bill in the grocery store. I brought it to customer service and the man who had dropped it was there asking if anyone had found it. He was so grateful and I was so glad that I had found it as opposed to someone who would not have turned it in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You had me until you wanted me to feel bad for you for being a SAHM. Get a job and you won't have this problem and you might have somewhere to go that's worthy of new clothes.

STFU, ugly twat

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you keep it or turn it into the store? I unknowingly dropped a bag with a few tops in it ($40 worth) when folding my stroller and drove off. I realized my mistake 2 minutes down the road. I turned around fully expecting it to either still be there or someone to have turned it into the store since I was parked right in front. Sadly it was gone and no one turned anything in. I really couldn't believe it. Are most people really that awful? I'm a SAHM without a lot of discretionary money so it was something nice to do for myself and it totally freaking ruined my day. 2 days ago and still upset.

No, most people aren't that awful. All it takes is one, though.

This. Sorry, OP. When stuff likes this happens, I try to make myself feel better by thinking that whoever found it must be really desperate and need it more than me.