and what would u do?

[RosieWolf]

Considering today's economy.. what would u do if u found $182,000 in 1920's-era money in a house u were remodeling??

[URL]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081109/ap_on_re_us/house_hidden_money[/URL]

:think

[Idnew]

Wow wonder why the man that put it there never told anybody about it. I think I'd be tearing out some more walls. :lol A late Aunt told me her husband buried some in a jar by a tree in their yard, but she had forgotten about it until after he died. Problem was the tree grew over it. I guess it's still there under the oak tree which is now about 100 years old.

[DustyBottoms]

Interesting conundrum... I gotta admit that it would cross my mind.:mua

But .. I have that little man's voice in my head that would object strongly. I hate him sometimes.:lol

My son found $50,000.00 in an old couples house in the city where he is a senior building inspector. It was also in the walls. The old couple had been reported to the city for living in unsanitary conditions and so the city tagged them for an inspection. They were very poor so my son arranged a free charity clean-up of their home. He even got the local Home Depot to donate a new washer and dryer for them. He found black mold behind the toilet and replaced the spot that was bad. In fact it was so bad that he could just push his hand through the wall there. As he did so, he found some money. Looking further he found lots of it. He collected it all and it added up to a little more than 50k.

Well, now he was in a pickle. After arranging a volunteer charitable clean-up and getting Home Depot to donate the appliances he didn't want the bad press for the city. He ended up going to the bank with the old couple and depositing it in a savings account for them.

It turns out that the old woman (who then had Alzheimer desease) had been folding money and slipping it in the medicine cabinet where you dispose of old razor blades. She aparently forgot about it after getting the desease.

BUT - To answer the question. I'd give it back in order to live with and feel good about myself. (damn that little man)

[Idnew]

WOW Dusty neat story so if she forgot about it then how did he find out that is what she did? Just hate cliff hangers.

[DustyBottoms]

[QUOTE=Idnew;102758]WOW Dusty neat story so if she forgot about it then how did he find out that is what she did? Just hate cliff hangers.[/QUOTE]

He found it when he broke out the moldy sheet rock behind the toilet. The medicine cabinet was directly above the toilet mounted in the wall. The money just piled up between the wall studs... As for her remembering, she didn't. Her husband just assumed that is what she did.

[Idnew]

[QUOTE]As for her remembering, she didn't. Her husband just assumed that is what she did.[/QUOTE] That's what I was wondering. Well I think that was very nice of him to open an account for them and not making an issue of it so they might lose it.

[modmidget]

I had a similar experience back in 1970 or 71. My wife worked for the County Public Guardian who was taking care of an old man who had no family or income. He got sick so a nurse from the County Hospital went to his shack to get him and take him to the hospital. The old man had a paper bag with some money in it but the nurse wouldn't let him take it to the hospital. The old man lived in a 2 room shack that didn't have a bathroom (there was an outhouse) and was heated by an old pot belly stove. Over the years the old man had piled garbage and newspaper so deep you could hardly see the stove (he never used it) and you couldn't tell when you walked onto the bed. The garbage was piled higher than the bed and covered it. The old man died at the hospital and I was asked to go find the bag of money in the shack (there was no door knob or locks on the door) so I had to take a claw hammer to remove the nails that held the door closed. When I finally got in I didn't see the bag so I started kicking around in the garbage and newspapers. All of a sudden I saw a bag and tried to pick it up. The bag tore open and money popped out. I spent the entire day going through the garbage and found more than $14,000.00 in cash. In addition I found a savings account passbook with more than $12,000.00 in it. I could have easily gotten away with the cash but I turned it all over to the Public Guardian who in turn turned it over to the State of California. Turns out the old man had no family in the USA because they all lived behind the Iron Curtain in the Checz. republic (can't spell the correct name). I shoulda kept the money because the State got ALL of it. Since all of the family lived behind the Iron Curtain our government couldn't send the money to them. They never got a dime of it.

My wife and I were newly weds at that time and I was making about $500.00 a month. We sure coulda used that money. In today's dollars it was probably kind of like finding $150,000.00 or more

[MJ_junkie86]

i think i would keep it, or at least keep some of it.
at the end of the day, either you are going to have it or the government will. and personally i need it more than they do.

[DustyBottoms]

Another one...




[url]http://www.wkrn.com/global/story.asp?s=9493746[/url]

[QUOTE]MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - What would you do if you found a purse with thousands of dollars inside? Would you keep it or give it back?

It was never a question for one Murfreesboro woman.

Billy Watts, a grandmother of 12, said she tries to lead by example.

She found the purse with nearly $100,000 in it in a Cracker Barrel bathroom last week and gave it back.

"I thought, 'I've never seen so much in my life. Just so much of it'," she told News 2. "If you don't do the right thing, you're going to be judged by it, and as old as I am, I have to account for everything."

Watts said the money was in the purse, hanging on the hook of a restroom stall door.

"It was a tapestry, real pretty bag. How anybody walked off and forgot it, I don't know," she said.

Watts said she searched the bag for a name or address, but I couldn't find one. That is when she spotted the money.

"I thought, ‘If I turn it in up here, the wrong person might get a hold of it, and it might not go to the rightful owner'," she explained, so she took it home.

She counted the money with her husband, which was $97,000 in all, and then called Cracker Barrel to leave her information.

"I said, ‘I won't tell you what I found in the bathroom, but give them my number if someone calls'," she recalled.

15 minutes later, Watts said a woman called her apartment. She identified the bag and a picture inside.

Watts said she met her at the Cracker Barrel parking lot and said she was offered a reward, but didn't take it.

"She came up and hugged me. She offered me $1,000, but told me she needed every penny she could so I thought, it's not my money. If she needs it that badly, it knew she didn't really want to give it, so I didn't take it," said Watts.

She said while she could've used the money, the thought of keeping it only crossed her mind for a moment. [/QUOTE]

[MJ_junkie86]

lol she had $97,000 in her bag which she left somewhere yet needed every penny she could of it?! what?!

the old woman should have taken something as a reward, she could easily have kept the whole lot, the the woman whose bag it was shouldnt say, here have $1,000 even tho i badly need it and im going to make you feel guilty even you even think about taking what im offering you!!!!

[RosieWolf]

i just wonder about folks who carry around that kind of cash and have NO ID in the purse?? the money could have been stolen or drug money.. that's why no id, they wouldn't want the cops finding it and tracing it back to them.. and in that case, i'd keep the money! if u are carrying around 100grand in cash with no id in the purse/sack wutever.. then u don't really want it back. that's my opinion. grin.

[MJ_junkie86]

[QUOTE=RosieWolf;102831]i just wonder about folks who carry around that kind of cash and have NO ID in the purse?? the money could have been stolen or drug money.. that's why no id, they wouldn't want the cops finding it and tracing it back to them.. and in that case, i'd keep the money! if u are carrying around 100grand in cash with no id in the purse/sack wutever.. then u don't really want it back. that's my opinion. grin.[/QUOTE]

lol yeah good point!!

MJ