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

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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

Pot, meet kettle.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on if the tops are my style/size (I suck, I know...but it's the truth).

Wow. Just wow. You are a horrible, horrible person.

Gosh, I know right! I hope we don't know each other

I hope not too! If you were my friend, and you told me you did this, I would never speak to you again.

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I found $1500 in a brown paper bag along side a ditch. I kept it. There were marijuana seeds in the bag too.

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Anonymous wrote:Man people suck -- I mean just look at the people here who are saying they'd take the tops if they were their size or their daughters' size or that they gave housewares they found to their DIL. WTF? And this is the same site where people brag continuously about their wealth -- how making 250k is NOTHING and they couldn't possibly live off that. And for those who will say -- well if I can't find the owner, there's nothing I could do so may as well take it. Well you could always just walk on by and leave the package where it is or move it to the nearest light pole or store entrance if it's in the way; you don't HAVE TO take it home with you.

Just think of the "values" they're teaching and modeling for their kids.

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I found a couple of 20's and a few ones in an obscure part of the zoo yesterday. Thought long and hard, but turned it in. Our grandchild was with us, so that made it easier. Though he kept saying, "keep it, keep it."

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Anonymous wrote:Something in my adult daughter's size I would have kept. Sorry, not sorry!

This is worse than the other PP. Would you tell DD it was essentially stolen goods or just pass of your theft as a gift.

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Anonymous wrote:I always turn stuff in. But not everyone does.

I found a $20 last week on the floor of Harris Teeter and nobody was around. I wasn't really sure what to do with that. I figured if I turned it in, they'd just keep it. I donated to charity instead. But actual items that could be described? Back to the customer service desk.

I like you PP. I found $40 folded up on the floor in Penn Station in NY. I stood around for a few minutes to see if someone came back.
Wasn't mine and I felt awful that it wouldn't find its rightful owner but I gave $20 each to 2 homeless people. I even told them I found it.

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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.

Last week, I found a purse in a shopping cart and I turned it into he customer service desk. I waited a bit, thinking the owner might return, but there was no way I would leave it, as some suggest. There are too many people like pp around.

+1

Absolutely. If the license in the wallet says the rightful owner lives within about an hour or so, I would totally return it to them. I have had my purse stolen before and it is a huge PITA to get a new license, credit cards, etc. Karma is real.

I once returned thousands of dollars in bonds by finding the owner in the phone book (this was about 25 years ago). The owner was so grateful - and shocked. I was a broke grad student at the time, but really, that was not the point. The owner was so happy, he gave me a reward that was 20% of the amount on the bonds. Really nice older gentlemen. I kept thinking it was probably his grandkids' tuition I found, potentially. I found it outside a Metro stop. He didn't know where the bonds had gone - scary!

Do good things. It comes back to you. Always.

Life is not a a-hole contest. Some people will never realize this, sadly.

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I was in a taxi in Vegas and found a $100 dollar bill on the floor...thought for a minute about giving to the driver then realized he would keep it and no way was it his because it was in the floor in the second row of a minivan taxi. Since there was no way to track down the previous customer, I kept it. And I don't feel bad or consider that I stole anything. It was basically going to me, the driver, or the next fare. May as well be me! Took my friends out for dinner that night.

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I would turn it in.

I once left a bag on the bottom of a cart at Target, got home and called the store and they had it waiting for me. I think staff had found it in the parking lot but can't quite recall.

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If you paid by credit card have them do a charge back.

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Anonymous wrote:I would have returned it if a store was right there.

One time I found a TJ maxx gift card in the parking lot and took it back to the store--the clerk looked at me like I was crazy.

I saw that clerk at TJ maxx that afternoon!!

PP here. Well, I found the TJ Maxx card in the TJ Maxx parking lot, and turned it back into the TJ Maxx clerk, so I assume she was the in the store . If she decided to use it herself, I was ok with that. She works at TJ Maxx, so probably needs it more than I do.

Since my DH and I make less than 150k per year, I find some people's attitudes on this thread to be really strange. I can understand keeping randomly lost or abandoned goods in a parking lot if you are struggling, but if you claim to be as rich as people on these forums? No wonder the DC metro is so crappy to live in. If I found random cash I might keep it, or give it to a homeless person or charity, but someone's shirts? Probably with the receipt from the store in the bag? Really? Even if it is not near the store, could always put them on the side of the sidewalk and leave them there for a little while.

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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.

I'd be too afraid of karma to take it. Would definitely either leave it where it was in the hopes that the person would return or take it into the store. Depends upon how busy the parking lot was.

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Anonymous wrote:I was in a taxi in Vegas and found a $100 dollar bill on the floor...thought for a minute about giving to the driver then realized he would keep it and no way was it his because it was in the floor in the second row of a minivan taxi. Since there was no way to track down the previous customer, I kept it. And I don't feel bad or consider that I stole anything. It was basically going to me, the driver, or the next fare. May as well be me! Took my friends out for dinner that night.

Yeah, definitely should be you and not the person nakinga living driving a cab.

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1. I wouldn't have noticed.
2. I would have noticed, but not bothered to look inside and would just have left it there.

Sorry this happened, OP.