Found 8 Cents and a Man Who Finds Lots of Money and Donated It to Help Cats

Today I found four coins:

• a penny and a nickel under a bench at an outdoor shopping mall
• a penny in the street while I was parked at a red light
• a penny on the floor of the grocery store

I was thrilled to find these coins, but listen to this! A man in Florida, Rick Snyder, has been finding money for 10 years and recently donated it all to help cats. What a guy! 

He found more than $21,000 in this time and he's my hero! I love finding money and I love cats! Read about Rick's story here.

What would you do with the money if you found about $5.60 a day (about what Rick finds each day) in spare change and bills?

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  3 pennies, 1 nickel
Year:   pennies:  ?, 2011, 2013; nickel:  2001
U.S. Mint:  ?, D, D, D
Condition:  range from tarnished to shiny and one is badly scratched up
Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $31.50

Found 8 Cents Today

This morning I walked around the block and found a penny on the sidewalk! Then later I walked to Sprouts to take advantage of their 25% bulk sale. On the way I found a penny in a Starbucks drive through then found a nickel on the floor of the store. I found a penny in a parking lot on the way home. Yay!

I posed the three pennies and nickel next to this prim bookmark I made earlier today. It's for sale in my Etsy shop. 

Hope you had a great weekend.

This Found Money Facts:
Denomination:  3 pennies, 1 nickel
Year:  pennies:  1989, 2000, 2005; nickel:  2007
U.S. Mint:  all D
Condition:  pennies are tarnished, nickel is shiny
Total Found Money to Date in 2013:  $30.60

New Tire and Eight Pennies

Saturday I went to Discount Tire for an air check. One tire was low on tread and needed to be replaced, so today I headed up to Discount Tire for a new tire. Instead of sitting there waiting the hour and 15 minutes, I took a walk along the busy street, and you guessed it! I found some money:

• 3 pennies at Sonic
• 1 penny in the drive through of KFC
• 1 penny on the sidewalk
• 1 penny in the street
• 2 more pennies at Sonic

On my way, I walked through Sonic's parking lot and found 3 pennies then on the way back, I did the same thing and found 2 more pennies, which just proves that public areas are like streams. They're never the same but are always changing.

They sprayed my tires with something like this. They all look bright and shiny like a new penny! Well, like black tires actually. 

In the photo, see that black thing with the red light flashing? I have no idea what it is but the flasher part still works. Cool. Glad I picked it up.

Have you got new tires or found any money lately?
This Found Money Facts:
Denomination:  8 pennies
Year:  pennies:  ?, 1976, 1977, 1995, 2001, 2004, 2011, 2013
U.S. Mint:  one ?, one with none, all the rest D
Condition:  range from shiny to tarnished and some are dirty and gouged
Total Found Money to Date in 2013:  $27.91

Volunteered at the Arizona Beer Festival and Found 8 Cents

Today I volunteered at the Great Arizona Beer Festival, and I am pooped!

I helped at the entrance putting arm bands on sober people for several hours, then I poured beer at the Fate Brewery tent for the rest of the time. I was standing the whole time (from about 12:45 to 6 p.m.), and I'm sure not used to that!

It was a lot of fun. I lead such a sheltered life that this was the first time I'd seen pretzel necklaces! 

People called me "Peggy" since we had to wear these lovely name tags. So, when I was pouring beer (to non-sober people), I started making up names for some of them. I didn't get any right but most people were good sports about it and said I could call them Stan or Steve or Doug or whatever name I thought they looked like. Only two people told me their real names (Andy and Howard). 

So, after all the standing, then we had to stand around for over a half an hour to wait for the shuttle to take us back to the massive parking lot where we volunteers parked our cars. Once I finally got off the shuttle I staggered to my car. That was from exhaustion, not drink. We weren't allowed to drink.

On the way to my car I spotted these coins in a parking space. Yay! Eight cents! I'm sure if I'd scoped it out more, I'd have found more money but I was too tired to roam around the parking lot.

This Found Money FACTS:  
Denomination: 3 pennies, 1 nickel
Year: pennies:  1985, 1992, 2009, nickel:  2006
U.S. Mint:  D, D, D, D
Condition:  range from shiny to tarnished
Total found money to date in 2013:  $2.26

Found 8 Cents Today at Fresh and Easy

Today I ran to Fresh and Easy to see what deals they had in the markdown area. I got three perfectly ripe pears (usually they have to sit around 3 or more days to ripen and I can't wait and end up eating them before they're ripe enough but I had one for lunch and it was perfect!) and a big beefsteak tomato, and some frozen stuff that wasn't marked down.

As I was checking out, I looked in a couple of the change trays, and look what I found! Eight cents!

This Found Money Facts:
Denomination:  3 pennies, 1 nickel
Year:  1982, 2001, 2003, 1974

U.S. Mint:  D, D, D, none

Condition:  mostly tarnished and dirty

Total Found Money to Date for 2012:  $14.57