Picking up money

[Panic Button]

What is the smallest coin (or note for the rich ones) that you will bend down for and pick up?

Why?

In my case it varies depending on how creaky my back is at the time.

[nellypope]

Any, I have been so poor in the past, Had to live in a car for a week, had no money for food so had to steal (don't do it at home kids) milk from doorstep, I tell you now if you haven't eaten a thing (and I mean NOTHING) for 4 days, a pint of milk tastes like a michelin star meal. So any coin.

I did once find �20....nice

[Metz]

I pick a penny up ,just for good luck :o)

[nellypope]

I once watched this 'magazine' type programme where thy interview this guy, who lived solely on what he picked up off the street, and it was an AMAZING amount of money considering! He would go out early in the morning, like a job.

Can't say it worked for me ;-)

[Whickerman]

20Cent.

Although even then if i'm in a hurry...

[Panic Button]

I won't normally bother for coppers

Inflation has pushed my threshold up to about 10p now, but the way my back is today even a �1 coin would have lost its appeal

[wizard69]

my stepson picked a tenner up in Tesco's today and my sister (a while later) picked up a fiver in the same shop.
what are the chances of that happening?

[cazzz1975]

my family was very poor when I was a child, I would pick up any denomination of money I could find on the ground. (2p went further back then!)

nowadays I would probably pick up any coins on the ground, as long as they didnt belong to anyone (a woman left some cash in the ATM and I chased after her to give her the money, rather than pocket it) as I know how it feels to have nothing

[Panic Button]

wizard that's my �15 that I lost in Tesco!

[wizard69]

you could have left me a fiver Panic...lol

[ELVIS68]

It depends if anyone is looking, but you know how the saying goes..ten pennies make 10p..ten 10ps make a pound, and so on

[pussnboots]

I was once walking through the village were I live and there was a �10 note just lying on the footpath.. As I approached the said tenner, there was a young lad who spotted this tenner at the same time as I did. He came running to pick up this tenner but I was quicker than him and I put my foot on it, picked it up and walked away with a smile. Never happened before and never happened since. I might add that the �10 note didn't change my life, I still hope for a miliion on the lottery.

[Panic Button]

That poor little lad is mentally scarred for life!

[sleepy1]

i dont bend over for change . would only bend over for a 50 pound note

[Cheesefreek]

I will pick up a penny - always short of money, and it all builds up. Many years since I found much more!. Must be where I live!

[leelapops]

Always pick up a penny, although if there's lots of people about, maybe 10p >...

If I found �20 or more, it would go to the police, if I found a purse or wallet, then same, and if I saw someone drop money, I would chase them no matter how much it was. It's horrible to have nothing, and horrible to have been stolen from, so I am always honest.

I used to work in a shop, and old people would ask me to take money straight from their purses-that made me feel very uncomfortable.

[mycats]

I pick all coins up lol

We have a special "found money jar" that it all goes in. We open it at new year, last year we had �42 !!

[Scarlett]

My sister and I were approaching the pub and saw a tenner on the ground.... and then a twenty.... and then another tenner!!!! We whooped! At the time we were 16 and 18, and had no money. We went into the pub and asked the barman if anyone had mentioned losing money and he said no. we waited half an hour, then bought drinks! It was actually quite sad, cos looking back it clearly had come straight out of the cash point, and into someone's back pocket, and had fallen out maybe when they took their wallet out. �40! That was a LOT to us in those days. Still is I guess!

[yinyang]

I pick up anything I see and give it to my girls to put in their piggy banks. Ends up costing me because whatever i find I have to match so they've each got something to put in.
Was in town earlier this year on my way to meet husband and kids, saw a penny and automatically picked it up to give them. As I started to walk away I felt something hit my shoulder.Turned round and a Big Issue seller was throwing coins at me and shouted' there you go, take all the ****ing money you want!'
Felt like gathering them all up and thanking him for his kind donation but I just scuttled away like the coward I am.

[Segilla]

I put all my 1p, 2p and 5p coins in a whisky botle sleeve for charity. It takes about 2 years to fill = about �25.
So I pick up everything.

One Saturday pm opposite the Post Office I picked up three folded notes totalling �50.
I took them to tthe Police Station, (they thought I was a nutter, I think) and three months later colleced the unclaimed money.