Happy New Year, 2024 and So Long, 2023

Well, here we are. The end of another year. I think this will be the end of my found money blog. I think it's run its course, but I've enjoyed tracking my found money these past 14 years. 

Since my last (first) post of 2023, I found another $4.27. That makes 2023's whopping total $24.59. It still amazes me when I find money. It's great! 

Here are my stats:

My Found Money Journey

Found Money By Year 

2010: $10.68
2011: $4.91 
2012: $15.50 
2013: $32.52

2014: $46.61

2015: $100.35

2016: $39.64

2017: $54.58

2018: $68.05

2019: $63.36

2020: $64.57

2021: $57.52

2022: $29.40

2023: $24.59

If my math is right, that comes to $425.68. Not too bad for free found money! 

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  52 pennies, 4 nickels, 18 dimes, 7 quarters

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2023 to Date:  $24.59

End of Summer Found Money

Well, the end of summer is upon us. Living in the desert makes the summer a not-so-pleasant time. It's just too hot. And this year has been a banner year for rainfall here, which is a great, wonderful, sorely needed thing, BUT it also means everything is growing and there are bugs everywhere!

I am pasty white and mosquitos love me. I have no idea if being pasty white has anything to do with why skeeters love to bite me, but they are prolific this year and real biters. So, I'm looking forward to cooler weather and for the bugs to die.

I volunteer once a week and someone had one of these in the break room. It worked! Zap!

The heat and bugs haven't stopped me from being out some, though I'm not walking as much as I'd like. It's hard to do when it's 95+ out and the bugs attack. But here and there, I've found some coins.

In total, I've found $4.42 since I last posted. Yay!

How about you? Have you found any money lately? 

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  72 pennies, 8 nickels, 13 dimes, 8 quarters

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2020 to Date:  $40.94

Has Any Bunny Found Any Money Lately?

I have!

Happy Easter (and forgive me for my stupid pun). 

I'm just hanging out today watching Mindhunter on Netflix again. I loved it so much that I decided to watch it again. One reason I wanted to check it out again is because I'm reading the book A Serial Killer's Daughter by Kerri Rawson, the daughter of BTK (Dennis Rader). 

I wanted to rewatch the show to see how they portrayed this serial killer and how it compares to Kerri Rawson's story.  

So, back to found money. Since I last posted, I've found more paper money, which is always a happy event! I found these two dollars on the floor at the grocery store. People were just walking right by them so I scooped them up.

I also found a ton of coins and in total I found $9.09. That brings this year's found money total to a whopping $25.82! Love it!!

In the coins I found a 1948 nickel and several foreign coins. Yay! Love finding the oddball stuff. 

How about you? Have you found any money lately? 

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  104 pennies, 13 nickels, 24 dimes, 12 quarters, two $1 bills, several foreign coins

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2020 to Date:  $25.82

Money Money Money, Finding It Is Easy to Do

So, I've taken too long to post my latest found money. But I've been busy. Sort of. I've been staying home. Mostly. I've been bored. Sometimes. 

As you can see, I don't really have a good excuse.

Anyway, this pandemic is certainly strange, isn't it? I'm not going out as much as normal but when I do venture out to the post office or the grocery store (and occasionally to a dollar store or Walmart, ugh), I am still finding money. 

Since April when I last posted I've found $12.48 in coins! 

I've also found several foreign coins (from Vietnam, Iceland, Mexico, Canada, and Europe), and I found a flattened penny (like someone put it on a train track maybe; it's just flat, not the embossed kind from one of those flat penny machines), and I found a carwash token.

I still find it strange (and wonderful) to find a pile of coins in the tray of a coin machine. Okay, so a few of them are usually gnarly looking or stuck together, but many coins are useable, like the three quarters and two dimes plus a few pennies I found just this morning in a coin machine tray at the grocery store. I don't get it. Well, when I find them, I do get it. So that's good.

Have you been staying in? Going out? Working from home? Back at work? Whatever you're doing, I hope you're staying safe, wearing a mask when out and about, and keeping away from people. 

I've been reading more. I zipped through American Dirt a few weeks ago in record time. This novel about migrants coming north through Mexico was a real eye opener. Even though it received flack for it being written by a woman who is not Mexican (why should that matter?) and about characters that many critics didn't find to be typical (the characters were well fleshed out and believable), I loved it. 



Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  167 pennies, 9 nickels, 59 dimes, 17 quarters, 1 gold dollar coin, 1 flattened penny, a Euro coin, 4 Mexican coins, 1 Canadian dime and 1 nickel, 1 Icelandic krona, 1 Vietnam coin, 1 carwash token  

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2020 to Date:  $29.39

Ending the Year: How Much Money Did I Find in 2019?

As I lay in bed last night listening to fireworks going off (and too tired and uninterested to get up and watch them), I remembered I was supposed to write this found money blog post!

But, since it was after midnight so technically January 1, 2020, I blew it off, too.

So, I found a fair bit of money in the past few weeks, since my last post here. I found $2.64 so that brings my found money total for 2020 to a whopping $63.36.

Not too bad! It's more than I make in a year on some of my investments, so what the heck.

An online friend just published his first children's book, and the drawings and story are so cute. Take a look if you have a youngster in your life.

What about you? Have you found any money recently? Please let us know!

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  29 pennies, 4 nickels, 9 dimes, 5 quarters

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2019 to Date:  $63.36

It's Beginning to Look a Little Bit Like Christmas

Living in the desert means it really doesn't look much like Christmas. Ever. Oh well. A few pluses:

• Mister Tom and I can take a daily walk this time of year (as opposed to during the blistering summers). 

• The sky is blue, the air is warm, I can hang my sheets and clothes out to air dry (all year round).

But people still decorate for the holidays so it is sort of looking like Christmas, I guess.

What about where you live? Does look like December or does it look like an arid wasteland?

But seriously, while I've been out enjoying the lovely weather, I've been finding quite a bit of money. Since my last post (2 months ago, oops!), I've found one dollar bill and a bunch of coins.

I've found $8.51 in coins, in fact, which means I've found $9.51. Yay! I found 4 Sacagawea dollar coins, which was a fun find! I also found 7 random tokens. 

These were all in a change tray of coin machine, just left there by someone, which always amazes me. 

 

What about you? Have you found any money recently? Please let us know!

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  41 pennies, 5 nickels, 11 dimes, 11 quarters, 4 dollar coins, 1 dollar bill

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2019 to Date:  $60.72

A Pile of Coins Found by Little Ol' Me

I've been finding money as usual. The trick is looking for it! Just yesterday I parked my car in the middle of a large shopping center parking lot and walked to both ends. I found 3 pennies for my trouble. Not much but it all adds up!

Since I last posted I've found $6.04! All in loose change. No bills.

I'm sitting here this evening watching Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime on PBS. I just love it! Have you seen it?

Have you found any money this year? Please let us know!

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  89 pennies, 10 nickels, 24 dimes, 9 quarters

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2019 to Date:  $14.29

2019 Found Money Update

Well, well. Did you think I fell off the end of the Earth? Nope, but I'm still traveling around and just not in a good routine. That's my only excuse for not posting again this year. I mean, just one post so far. How pathetic is that?

Let's get to it then.

Since the end of January I've found quite a bit of money. $5.72, to be precise. You can see the breakdown below under Facts About This Found Money.

I've been doing a vehicle transport job and have found some money while working. I find most of this found money at fast food places (in the drive-through lane or inside on the floor) that we stop at on the return trip. The job is interesting but is coming to an end since I'll be moving on this next week, but finding money won't stop. No way, no how! I just love finding money and the best part is I can do it anywhere!

So, have you found any money his year? Please share and let us know!

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  102 pennies, 18 nickels, 20 dimes, 8 quarters, a Mexican $2 coin

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2019 to Date:  $8.25

January 2019 Found Money

How is 2019 treating you? Good, I hope.

I've decided to do things a little differently this year with my found money blog. I plan to post just once a month since it seems like the days and weeks and months fly by so quickly. If I can, of course, I'll post more often but this sounds like a doable goal.

So far in 2019 (can you seriously believe it's 2019? I can't!) I've found $2.53 plus a Mexican 50 cent coin. Nothing too earth shattering but better than a kick in the butt. 

Here are some Mexican coins available to buy on Amazon in case you want some for yourself. 

Just today I found a dime in a drive through of a Walgreens. I always look when I'm near this sort of drive through lane but I think this is the first time I've actually found any money at one of them. Yee haw!

What about you? Have you found any money so far this year? Please share and let us know!

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  53 pennies, 2 nickels, 9 dimes, 4 quarters, a Mexican 50 cent (peso?) coin

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2019 to Date:  $2.53

Finding money most every day

I'm not sure what happened but I've had some trouble with my blog. I thought it was hacked and I wasn't able to post here but after doing a little research tonight, I am in!

Since I last posted (nearly a month ago!) I've found me some coin! $4.85 to be exact! And in all of those coins I found two wheat pennies. One is a 1929 coin and the other a 1950. I love finding the old ones!

I wanted to tell you about this fun item I recently picked up. This solar light takes no batteries (nor prisoners!) and lasts up to 12 hours all on a solar battery. So fun! I think this is great for when the power goes out (provided you have sun to charge it, of course) or any time you want light without using electricity.

Have you found any money lately? Please share and let us know!

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  40 pennies (2 of them are wheat pennies!), 5 nickels, 14 dimes, 11 quarters

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2018 to Date:  $46.99

Found the Motherlode at a Coin Machine Today

This afternoon I stopped at Walmart for a few things and decided to check out the parking lot first for money before heading inside. It's been so hot (surprise surprise) but a storm was coming in, which cooled things down. It was actually fairly pleasant outside about 5:00 pm. I found 31 cents. Score!

Then I went inside and checked out the coin machine. I spotted a penny on the floor in front of the machine then found a pile of coins in the tray! 65 cents plus 3 foreign coins and a button, to be exact! Okay so many not the motherlode but score!

And before today I had found $2.70 since my last post. Score!

That's $3.66 plus the British penny, the Mexican 10 cent coin, and the Mexican $1 coin. Yay!

The money on the left is the money I found before today. The money front and center is what I found in the Walmart parking lot today, and on the right is the motherlode from inside the store in and around the coin machine.

Have you found any money lately? Please share and let us know!

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  56 pennies, 8 nickels, 12 dimes, 6 quarters (including a 1943 nickel) and 3 foreign coins:  1 British penny, 1 Mexican 10 cent coin, 1 Mexican $1 coin)

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2018 to Date:  $42.14

Finding Coins Around Town

Well, it's that time again. It's been a few weeks since I posted and have found $2.15 in coins. 

Not sure why this photo is displayed sideways but you get the picture. 

Just yesterday I found 2 quarters (50 cents!) in a newspaper vending machine change tray. It's so random where the money just waiting to be found hangs out.

Where have you found money lately? Do you roll your change in those coin roll wrappers? I think I might need to get some since my found money jar is too heavy to carry to a change machine!

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  35 pennies, 3 nickels, 12 dimes, 2 quarters

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2018 to Date:  $34.62

Found 94 Cents Two Days in a Row (Plus quite a bit more money!)

The past two days I found 94 cents each day. What are the odds? Today I found 2 quarters in a newspaper vending machine coin tray and some more coins in a drive through and on the floor of a store.

I also found quite a bit more money since I last posted. In fact, I found $3.88 total this time. I just love finding money!

I also found a batting token (No Cash Value on the back), but it's cool anyway!

How about you? Have you found any money lately?

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  43 pennies, 6 nickels, 9 dimes, 9 quarters, a batting token

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2018 to Date:  $24.52

Finding Money... 36 cents just today!

Today I worked a booth at the business expo then I ran some errands. I did look on the ground and floor at the expo but didn't find anything. 

But later at the dollar store I found three dimes! Then later I found a nickel in a drive through lane. The penny? Don't remember but I think in the parking lot. 

In all since I last posted, I've found $1.54! Yay!

Here's what I found:

24 pennies

3 nickels

9 dimes

1 quarter,

a Peter Piper Pizza token

a 2012 1 piso coin from Republika ng Philipinas

I looked up the foreign coin and it's worth $0.019 (less than 2 cents). Here's the info from the Numista website.

But I still like to find foreign money!

Have you found any coins or paper bills lately? I'm itching to find more paper money!

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  24 pennies, 3 nickels, 9 dimes, 1 quarter, a Peter Piper Pizza token, and a 2012 1 piso Phillipines coin 

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2018 to Date:  $18.25

Finding Coins Here, There, and Everywhere!

It's been several weeks since I last posted. I've been finding money, as the title says here, there, and everywhere!

I've found $1.75 since my last post. I also found two Canadian nickels! I thought that was odd, finding two of them and at different times and places. 

There isn't much exciting to report about this found money. I found it in the normal places:  on the floor of stores, in parking lots, in drive through lanes, in change trays of vending machines and coin machines, etc.

My kitty turned 2 yesterday! Here he is with his new Kitty Kong. I filled it with treats and then later with catnip. He likes it!

Have you found any money lately?

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  40 pennies, 3 nickels, 7 dimes, 2 quarters, 2 Canadian nickels

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2018 to Date:  $16.71

February Coming to a Close with $1.15 in Found Money

I know, I know, there are a few more days left of February but I poured the money I've found on to my desk earlier today to count it. I found 25 cents today while I was out running errands and it made my little ceramic bowl I keep the money in till I write another post look downright full.

So, in the week or so since I last posted I found a quarter, 5 dimes, a nickel, and 35 pennies for a total of $1.15.

I can't recall any of it being especially exciting this time other than yesterday I found 10 pennies all in one parking space in a parking lot. I always wonder why? Did someone dump them their? Did they empty an ashtray with the coins in it? Did they know? Did they not know?

I'll never know but they're mine now!

Have you found any money lately?

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  35 pennies, 1 nickel, 5 dimes, 1 quarters

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2018 to Date:  $11.50

Finding Money Here, There, and Most Everywhere

So, this past week has been a busy one. I didn't get out and about much, at least not in places where I could find money, I guess. But when I did I found $1.48! Not bad!

And guess what? I found another dollar bill! It was in an aisle at the grocery store so I snapped it up. This makes two so far in 2018 so woo hoo to that!

This makes my found money total so far this year at an even $6.00. I couldn't do that again if I tried!

We finally got some snow here. This is our first snowfall this winter (including the fall of 2017, since we barely even got any rain). We really need the moisture so I'm thrilled with it. But it's supposed to warm up to the 40s today and the 50s tomorrow so it'll soon be gone.

I could really use one of these:
  

But instead I used one of these:


What about you? How's the weather where you are? Are you finding some money?

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  8 pennies, 1 nickel, 1 dime, 1 quarter, 1 dollar bill

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2018 to Date:  $6.00