I'd keep it and use at least part of it to benefit someone else.

Please post on NextDoor. That’s the right thing to do. But you must post the link here so we can read the comments.

Anonymous wrote:I would look around to see if I saw anyone to ask if it was theirs and otherwise I would leave it there because the majority % of people in this world probably need $30 more than me!

I once was walking to the metro after work on a crowded sidewalk full of other people dressed in business casual. We all glanced at a $20 bill on the sidewalk and kept going. I think we all had the same feeling: someone who needed $20 should be the one to pick it up.

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Anonymous wrote:During the Blizzard of '99 I found $160 in the snow on the ground below an ATM on S. Washington Street in Old Town. I kept it but I always felt bad like it was some old woman's monthly allowance.

And it could have been part of a drug dealer’s stash

Anyone finding more than a dollar or something is finding drug money.

The ones saying they find more than $20, definitely a drug dealer dropped it.

During COVID I found $50 and the friends I was with suggested I treat everyone in our small bubble to ice cream. I decided I wanted to pay it forward but wasn’t sure how. I held onto it for a few weeks and then gave it to the grocery store clerk who brought my bags out to the car. She broke down in tears and said she was going to do something nice for her kid.

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Anonymous wrote:During the Blizzard of '99 I found $160 in the snow on the ground below an ATM on S. Washington Street in Old Town. I kept it but I always felt bad like it was some old woman's monthly allowance.

And it could have been part of a drug dealer’s stash

Oddly enough, about 20 years earlier, I was a teen in Old Town. The current Walgreens right at King and Washington used to be a two story McDonalds. I was with a group of friends and one of them found $4000 in a brown paper lunch bag in the mens bathroom.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I found cash on the street with no identifying information, I would keep it. I don’t know what my threshold would be to turn it into the Police, but I’m pretty sure anything under $100, maybe even under $200. I think I found $60 once.

However, I’ve had my fair share of found wallets and purses. They have had credit cards, cash and identified information and I’ve gone out of my way to find contact information and drive it to the rightful owner.

When you turn in found cash to a store or customer service it often times gets pocketed on their end.

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I have found passports and wallets before. I dropped those off at the police station instead of trying to do detective work. [b]You shouldn't be holding on to those documents for longer than necessary. [/b]

For the few phones I have found, it was outside supermarkets. I turned those in to lost and found at the customer service desk. There's a good chance people can Find My those devices anyway.[/quote]

It’s not DCUM if you can’t find something wrong with a good deed.
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You don't want to be found with someone else's passport or government-issued id on your person. Return to police or drop in a mailbox immediately. You don't need to hand deliver it to the owner. [/quote]

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