Ask it for singing lessons.

ive only ever found £10 and that was over 10 years ago , i wish i found more
i kept it but its up to the person. like others have said donating it to charity is a good idea , lone money you didnt see dropped is impossible to return to the owner after all.

Put it in my pocket.

if it was a tenner I'd hand it in to lost property, if it was a grand you wouldn't see me for dust

If I SAW someone drop money there's no way in the world that I'd keep it.
I'd tell them, and give it back to them, but a long time ago now, I got up to get off a Jubilee Line train at West Ham, and noticed something that possibly could have been a kid's sweet wrapper on the floor.
On a whim, I picked it up as the door slid open, got off and took a good look, only to find that it was a £50 note!
I often thought after that, that some poor s.o.b. must have been seriously gutted at losing it, but I don't think that it would have been a good idea to hand it to the station staff and say, "Someone has dropped this, give it to them if they ask if it's been handed in."

How would the person who lost the tenner identify the item?

I do feel a bit guilty, because if youve found money that means somebodies lost it.

But, thats not your fault. Its their carelessness.....

that's what the man in the lost property office would say to me, ok then, I'll keep it

If it was just a single note then I'd just keep it for lunch money at those few places that still don't take contactless payments. If we were talking about a Shallow Grave amount of cash then I'd hand it in to the police. No one needs the sort of trouble that amount of cash is going to bring them.

Ha ha ha haaaa!!!!! That made me laugh. Brilliant.

When I found £20 at the train station I handed it into the staff. I think I'd probably leave it if it was in the street without anyone obvious to give it to.

I found £20 outside work on the street a couple of weeks back, I handed it into our office. Boss claimed it, wasn't his at all.

Why waste it on some Charity's Top Management Executive Package?

Give it straight to a Beggar and they can waste it on Burgers and Special Brew

I'd buy burgers and special brew.

If I saw someone drop it I'd go after them and give it back.

If there was no-one nearby I'd keep it because it would likely get blown away or ruined in the rain if I just left it there.

I bet they thought it was their lucky day, you need to be more ruthless, you found it so are entitled to it, it's just one of those small victories that we don't get very often

if the cash was accompanied by a dead Keith Allen then I'd probably hand it in, though I'd expect Lily Allen to handsomely reward me, perhaps she'd retire from singing ?

Back in 1994, when I came to live near Leominster, I often used to visit the out-of-town supermarket, which has since been taken over by another group.

There is a foyer to the supermarket. It always has been the practice for charities to take it in turns to collect in the foyer, to get customers on the way out.

So on the way out back in 1994, I stopped, pulled some coins out of the back pocket of my jeans, and put them in the tin. Unknown to me, some notes came out at the same time, and fell on the floor behind me. Another shopper went past, picked up the notes, and carried on out.

The man holding the collection bucket told me what had happened. He did nothing to say anything to the person who picked up the notes, or to tell me.

So now, I never give to charities collecting in this way. I do give money to charities in other ways, and to help people less fortunate than myself ( or should I say, including fellow forum contributors, OURselves.

Regarding the subject of this thread, as this is leading up to Christmas, I would give the £10 to a children's charity; indeed there is a major appeal on in Hereford at the moment to buy toys for children who have been taken into care and otherwise would have nothing at Christmas.

I urge others to think along these lines at Christmas, and to seek out a cause where there is genuine hardship, where a small donation would make a big difference to that one day for someone.

Thank you.

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Buy a couple of bottles of wine and put it in the foodbank collection in the supermarket.

I'm not so broke that I need someone else's £20. If I won a million on the lottery no one would be getting any of it.

The last time I did that the charity was Kids Company - it's rather put me off.

I am not saying you need it, I see it as insurance in case one day you mislay a £20 yourself

Colour me cynical, but I'd bet the station staff were overjoyed, and colour me double cynical if you expect me to believe that you'd leave a £20 note on the floor if you couldn't see who had obviously dropped it.


Neither am I, but I'm also not so trusting that I'd think it would get back to whoever dropped it if I handed it in.

LMSO I love a pragmatist.