Rounding out the Fall with a Windfall

So. I just keep finding money. 

Just today I found a coin at the post office. I saw a little circle propped up against the wall in front of an empty counter while I was standing in line. 

The postal clerk at the counter next to the empty one called me forward and after I gave her my packages, I told her I saw a coin and I'd be right back. Then I went to get it.

A dime! 

With that dime my found money since last time I posted totals $10.34! Yay! Not bad for about 6 weeks of just spotting loose change around where I go. 

This brings my found money this year to $51.28. Yippee!

I had to order some things on Amazon the other day (you know, the exciting stuff like vacuum sweeper bags and dishwasher soap), and I just found out you can buy gift cards on Amazon. Who knew? Probably all of you guys. I'm usually late to the party, but that's okay. Nothing new there. 

With my pile of coins I found, there are five foreign coins! See them in the picture up there on the lower right side:  the large one is an Italian L100, Mexican $1 and 10 cent coins, a Russian 10 koneek coin, and a shiny Canadian penny. Love finding these cool coins. 

I also found a 1945 wheat penny. Woo hoo!

How about you? Have you found any money lately?

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  109 pennies, 17 nickels, 39 dimes, 18 quarters, and 5 foreign coins

Year:  too many to mess with

U.S. Mint:  same

Condition:  shiny to tarnished

Total Found Money in 2021 to Date:  $51.28

Found Money Blog: Found 15 Cents Today

Today I took a walk and found 14 cents. I had found a penny earlier when I dropped some mail at the post office. I love finding money!

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  5 pennies, 1 dime
Year:  pennies:  2004, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2015; dime:  2007
U.S. Mint:  all D, I think
Condition:  range from shiny to tarnished and a few are scratched and dinged
Total Found Money in 2015 to Date:  $23.34

Found Money Blog: 8 Pennies Today

Today I found 8 pennies, here, there, and everywhere. The best spot was at the post office on the counter where you can address your mail. It always amazes me that other people don't pick up money. There were at least seven or eight people in line in front of me and they all walked by it.

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  8 pennies
Year:  pennies:  1984, 1989, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2013
U.S. Mint:  most D, but 1 with no mint mark
Condition:  range from shiny to tarnished and a few are dented and scratched
Total Found Money in 2015 to Date:  $21.94

Found 16 Cents Today

This morning I went to the post office, the dollar store, and the library, oh, and the grocery store. I found 16 cents! 

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  6 pennies, 1 dime
Year:  too many to mess with
U.S. Mint:  ditto
Condition:  range from tarnished to shiny
Total Found Money in 2015 to Date:  $14.03

Found 2 Lonely Pennies Today

This morning I had to go to the post office and after I walked around the parking lot and found a penny. Then I went to the credit union and found a penny at a gas station next to it. Just 2 lonely pennies, but I'll take it!

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  2 pennies
Year:  pennies:  2005, 2011
U.S. Mint:  D, D
Condition:  tarnished
Total Found Money in 2015 to Date:  $11.93

Found 21 Cents Today and One Penny Is Curled

This morning I went to the post office and the dollar store. While walking to the post office I found 5 pennies and one of them is curled. See it? So weird. 

This deformed penny and another one were in the street so I guess they were getting a beating out there in the traffic or maybe someone took a pair of pliers to that one.

Later I found a dime in a parking lot then a penny in another parking lot. Later in the day I found the nickel in some rocks at a grocery store parking lot.

One of the other pennies is a wheat penny from 1941! Yay! I love to find older coins.
Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  6 pennies, 1 nickel, 1 dime
Year:  pennies:  1941, 1972, 1985 200?, 2000, 2003; nickel:  2005; dime:  1989
U.S. Mint:  mostly all D, one P, some with no mint mark
Condition:  tarnished, shiny, dinged up
Total Found Money in 2015 to Date:  $10.86

Found 44 Cents Plus a Partial Coin

Today I did something I should have done several years ago. I bought new tennis shoes! My old ones were at least 7, maybe 8, years old. Ugh. Terrible. They had blow outs on the sides and the tread was long gone. As I walked in to the store, I spotted a penny in the parking lot then a dime inside the store!

I found some shoes and wore them out of the store. I walked about four blocks to the post office to mail a letter and found more coins on my walk. 

Here's what and where:

• a penny and a dime on the floor of the dollar store
• a partial penny (it looks like someone snipped off about one-third of the coin!) in the street
• a dime and a penny on the floor at Walmart
• a penny in the street
• and another dime that I can't remember now where I found

But I was thrilled! I love finding those 2/3 or 3/4 coins. So strange! I don't count them in my found money total but they're just really interesting, I think.

Oh, and I spotted three more pennies but couldn't get them. A man was standing near one and I would have had to get in his space to retrieve it so I left it. The other two were right under the window of a drive through and I didn't want to get caught by the worker who was right there! 

I posed this found money next to some Valentine's I've received this year. How fun!

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  4 pennies (and another), 4 dimes
Year:  pennies:  1973, 1989, 2003, 2014 (other snipped coin is cut off); dimes:  1993, 1997, 2006, 2006
U.S. Mint:  mostly all D
Condition:  range from shiny to tarnished and a few dinged up
Total Found Money in 2015 to Date:  $10.03

Found Six Pennies Walking Back from the Post Office

Today I had to take three items I sold in my Etsy shop to the post office to mail. On my way back to my car, I found six pennies:

• two in the street
• two in a parking lot
• two in parking spaces

Are you all ready for Christmas? I plan to start baking tomorrow or Saturday and only need to get a few more gifts.

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  6 pennies
Year:  ?, ?, 1989, 1991, 2006, 2006
U.S. Mint:  ?, ?, all the rest D
Condition:  some dirty, some shiny, some tarnished, one is very dinged up and one is so tarnished it's unreadable and it's bent
Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $44.28

Found Four Random Pennies Today

Today I spent the day running around like a chicken with my head cut off, or maybe it just felt like it. While I was out and about, I found these coins:

• a penny at a gas station
• a penny in a parking lot walking to the library
• a penny at the post office
• a penny in some rocks on the way to the grocery store

Have you found any coins lately? Any bills?

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  4 pennies
Year:  pennies:  1990, 1992, 1998, 2014
U.S. Mint:  all D
Condition:  shiny to tarnished
Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $41.79

Found a Penny at the Dollar Store

Today after I went to the post office I walked to the Dollar Tree for a few things. On my way in the store, I spotted a penny on the threshold so I snatched it up! 


Have you ever had Utz potato chips? I am hooked! The Dollar Tree started selling them a few weeks ago and I just love them. They're so good! So, I got a bag and a few other things. Yummy!

They only sell the regular chips but this looks like a lovely variety available on Amazon! 

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  1 penny
Year:  pennies:  2002
U.S. Mint:  D
Condition:  tarnished
Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $41.75

Found 13 Coins Totaling 40 Cents

Today I ran some errands and found a boatload (well, a tiny toy boatload) of coins:

• a penny on the floor of the post office
• 2 pennies in the post office parking lot
• 2 pennies in the street (the gutter area, but still part of the street)
• a dime in a parking lot right next to a pile of banana peels (weird!)
• a penny on the floor of the dollar store
• a dime on the sidewalk right out side the dollar store
• a dime and 3 pennies on the floor of Walmart
• a penny in my parking lot

Woo hoo! How about you? Have you found any money lately?

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  10 pennies, 3 dimes
Year:  too many to mess with
U.S. Mint:  ditto
Condition:  range from tarnished to shiny
Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $40.77

I Have Two Nickels to Rub Together (plus some pennies)

This morning I ran to the post office and parked at a shopping center across the street. While I was walking over to the post office I saw a nickel in the street then on found another nickel on the sidewalk in front of the post office! I think nickels are the least common coin I find so this was something! 

Now I have two nickels to rub together. I'm rich! 

Then I went to the dollar store and found two pennies on the floor. I also bought about 13 items. I never think I need anything there but found all sorts of stuff today. Do you do that, too?

This afternoon I took a walk and found three pennies:  

• one as I was crossing the street so, yes, I found money in the street
• one at a gas station
• one in a fast food drive through

I posed these coins next to one of the saguaro cactus ornaments I made. They're available in my Etsy shop (just click the link up yonder). 

I saw hundreds of these cacti for real yesterday while driving. I stopped and took a few photos. Here's one.

I'm almost to $40 for this year! Hard to believe that just picking up mostly pennies, I've found this much! There is money out there to be found. Have you found any of it lately?

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  5 pennies, 2 nickels
Year:  pennies:  one is too dinged up to read, 1974, 1991, 2000, 2014; nickels:  both 2011
U.S. Mint:  all D, but one with no mark and the one I can't read
Condition:  pennies tarnished, nickels super shiny
Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $39.92

Found 12 Coins Today Totaling 21 Cents

This morning I ran to the post office then on my meandering walk back to my car, I found several pennies in parking lots. Then I went to the dollar store and found a penny on the floor. That made 5 pennies.

Then I went to Walmart and hit the jackpot! Well, a small jackpot. I found 6 pennies and a dime on the floor, all near checkout lanes. One penny was near a guy's foot who was waiting in line. I didn't want to appear too eager so I moseyed along and when I came back, it was still there. I think lots of people just don't look down.

So I found 21 cents in all:  11 pennies and 1 dime. Yippee! And later I found a penny in the street.

I posed the money next to a family of rocks I painted. 

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  11 pennies, 1 dime
Year:  pennies:  1960, 1963, 1983, 1993, 1996, 1999, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2008, 2009; dime:  1982
U.S. Mint:  all D
Condition:  pennies are tarnished, a few shiny, dime is shiny
Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $39.23

Found 39 Cents This Fine Saturday!

Today a friend and I went to a couple of thrift stores (half off day, don't ya know?) then to a few other stores. 

While out and about, I found 39 cents total today. Here's what and where:

• a quarter at the post office under the counter; just one edge was peeking out!

• two pennies at Michaels in front of a checkout lane

• a dime at the grocery store

Later I walked to another thrift store and here's what I found:

• a penny on the floor of a thrift store 
• another penny out front on the sidewalk as I was leaving

How about you? Have you found any money lately?

I found the fun little tin with canapé and hors d'oeuvre cutters in it. I'll be listing it for sale in my Etsy shop tonight or tomorrow. The shapes are really cute:  the four card suites, moons, leaves, triangles. Just think of the cocktail party you could have with these fun shapes!

Facts About This Found Money

Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $35.41
Denomination:  4 pennies, 1 dime, 1 quarter
Year:  pennies:  1964, 1987, 1993, 2003; dime:  1999; quarter:  1976
U.S. Mint:  none on the 1964, the rest D
Condition:  range from tarnished to shiny 

Found 23 Cents Today but Only Have 22 Cents

This morning I had to run to the post office. After I left there, I found a penny in the street then a dime in a parking spot. I was thrilled, and then I found another dime at the grocery store, but somewhere between there and home I lost the penny! Man! That is the first time in 5 years of my found money collecting for this blog that that's happened! Shoot.

But this evening I took a walk and found two pennies in the street, so today I actually found 23 cents but can only claim 22 cents for my blog.

Oh, and see the stick in the photo? I found that last night on a short walk. I wrote a little article about it here. Someone is modeling them... Check it out!

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  2 pennies, 2 dimes
Year:  pennies:  2002, 2006; dimes:  1993, 2014
U.S. Mint:  none, D, D, D
Condition:   pennies tarnished, dimes shiny
Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $29.58

Found a Dime at the Annex Post Office

Today I found a dime on the floor of the gift shop/annex that has a post office counter at the back. It was just sitting there in an aisle waiting for me!

Here are some coin wrappers for those dimes!

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  1 dime
Year:  1970
U.S. Mint:  D
Condition:  shiny
Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $28.36

Found a Penny Today in a Parking Lot, I Think

Today my grandson and I went to the post office and after leaving there he found a penny in a parking lot and a dime on the floor of the Dollar Tree. I found a penny somewhere. 

I just asked my grandson where I found my penny and he couldn't remember either. Even though it wasn't very memorable, I found it.

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  1 penny
Year:  2014
U.S. Mint:  D 
Condition:  tarnished but still a bit shiny
Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $27.97

Found Money Blog -- Found 24 Cents Today

While out and about today I found 24 cents. Here's what and where:

• a penny in a parking lot
• a dime in the same parking lot a little further down the line
• a dime in the street as I was walking on the sidewalk
• a penny on the floor at the post office
• a penny in a parking lot
• a penny in a water vending machine change tray

Yay! 

This evening I made a kitty pillow for my granddaughter and posed the coins nearby.

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  4 pennies, 2 dimes
Year:  pennies:  ?, 1977, 2002, 2004; dime:   1989, too scratched to read
U.S. Mint:  pennies:  ?, none, D, D; dimes: D, ??
Condition:  tarnished, scratched
Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $27.25

Found a Penny at the Grocery Store

Today I went to the post office, but I just spent money. Didn't find any.

Then I went to the dollar store. Same thing.

Then I went to the grocery store. I spent money and found a penny on the floor!
Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  1 penny
Year:  2006
U.S. Mint:  D
Condition:  tarnished with shine peeking through
Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $26.88

Found 4 Pennies on a Store Floor

Today I sold a pillowcase on Etsy so I ran to the post office. While I was close I stopped by the dollar store to return a few things. While I was there, I found four pennies on the floor in three different spots. Yay!

I just made my first calendar on Zazzle featuring different vintage linens. I think it turned out nice:

 

Custom Printed Calendar -- Vintage Linens by ScarlettOHairy
See more Dresser Calendars at zazzle.com

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  4 pennies
Year:  1978, 1988, 2013, 2014
U.S. Mint:  D, D, D, D,
Condition:  range from shiny to tarnished
Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $26.37