Found 26 Cents at the Grocery Store

Today I spent the day with my grandkids.Wonderful! Then on the way home I stopped at a few stores to get some gifts and groceries. At at the grocery store I found a quarter in a change tray and a penny on the floor! Yay! 26 cents found!

Are you all ready for Christmas?

Facts About This Found Money
Denomination:  1 penny, 1 quarter
Year:  1996, 2000
U.S. Mint:  D, P
Condition:  both fairly shiny
Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $44.92

Found a Dime in the Parking Lot

This morning I called my sister and took a little walk outside while we chatted. I found a shiny dime in the parking lot!

UPDATE:  I walked to the store this evening and found 16 cents:  3 pennies in the street, 2 pennies on the floor of the store (and I watched the woman drop them, and her little brother or whoever he was who was with her, stooped to get one and she told him to "come on"... so that's how that happens!), a penny at a gas station, and four pennies and a nickel in a parking lot. 

So that makes 26 cents that I found today.

Facts About This Found Money

Denomination:  1 dime, 1 nickel and 11 pennies
Year:   1994 (too many to mess with; I'm tired)
U.S. Mint:  D
Condition:   shiny
Total Found Money in 2014 to Date:  $30.13

Found 26 Cents on a Walk Today

Today I took a fairly long walk and found some coins. Here's what I found:

• 2 dimes and 1 penny in the McDonald's drive through
• 1 penny in a parking lot
• 1 penny behind a dry cleaners
• 1 penny in the street
• 1 penny in a Mexican restaurant drive through
• 1 penny at a gas station

Have you spotted any money and picked it up lately? I hope so!

I posed my found money next to a label I'm supposed to use when I change the water filter in my Pur water pitcher. I never use the stickers though. Do you filter your drinking water? I love it! It saves a lot of money as opposed to buying bottled water. 

This Found Money Facts:
Denomination:  6 pennies, 2 dimes
Year:   pennies:  unreadable, 1979, 1989, 2000, 2001, 2013; dimes:  2005, 2006
U.S. Mint:  pennies:  unreadable, none, D, D, D, D; dimes:  D, D
Condition:  dimes are shiny, a penny's shine, most of the rest of the pennies are just tarnished and one is a mess
Total Found Money to Date in 2014:  $2.51

Found 26 Cents Today

Today I went to the postal annex in a gift store and found a penny as I was standing in line. Then as I was leaving the store, I spotted a quarter. Yippee!

I wrote about these transfers that were missing. But now they're found!

Have you found any money lately?
This Found Money Facts:
Denomination:  1 penny, 1 quarter
Year:  penny:  1976; quarter:  1998
U.S. Mint:  D, P
Condition:  in good shape
Total Found Money to Date in 2013:  $30.36

Found 26 Cents at the Grocery Store

Today I ran a few errands. First I went to the post office which had just a tiny little line. Ah, the difference a few days and one major holiday make. 

Then I drove over to the library but parked in the parking lot of Fry's, just a block away and walked to the library. I forgot the DVDs on the living room floor. They weren't quite close enough to the door when I left the house. Oh well. I'll return them next time I head out, but I know people are in line for Season 1 of Boardwalk Empire (it's very good!).

After picking up a book and movie at the library, I walked back to the grocery store. I just needed a few things but kept my eyes out for money on the floor because it seems like a prime spot to find money. I had to hit the produce section then cross to the other end of the store to get cat litter and when I went to check out, I saw a penny in one checkout lane then in the next lane, I saw the quarter! Both lanes were closed so I just scooted under the little gate thingie and picked up the coins. 

Keep your eyes out. Lots of shoppers out and about reaching into pockets for keys or whatever spilling money for you to find. Oh, and isn't the cat hanger adorable! This was a present from my sister. Thanks, MarySue!

This Found Money Facts:
Denomination:  1 penny, 1 quarter
Year:  2011, 2001

U.S. Mint:  D, D

Condition:   tarnished, shiny
Total Found Money To Date for 2012:  $15.48

Found 26 Cents Today!

Today I found 26 cents! First, I headed over and volunteered then went to the bar where they're holding bottle caps for me. As far as I knew, I hadn't found any money.

Then I went to the post office, the real post office because yesterday I went to the small annex post office in the gift store where I usually go. I needed to mail something internationally that I sold on Etsy but was informed that I could no longer hand write the customs form! The clerk said I had to go online to the USPS Web site, fill in the form online, print it out, and bring it back to the post office. Somehow I was also supposed to magically know how much the package weighed so I could type that information into the form too. Since I had the package with me, he weighed it, but come on!

I was livid! I don't have a postal scale, just a big girl scale that doesn't show ounces, so I gritted my teeth and got online, signed up for a USPS account, filled in the form, printed it, and went today to the regular post office instead of the annex to see what they'd ask for. Come to find out, the annex does require customs forms to be printed (not hand written), but you can still go to a post office and hand write a customs form. Wonder which genius dreamed up this new rule?

So, if you come across the need to mail something internationally, you've been warned. I like going to the annex post office because the lines are never very long, but in the future I'll go to a real post office if I have to ship internationally. 

Then I went home. Relieved to be in out of the heat. 

Then I remembered I needed to go to Sprouts for some fruits and vegetables. Wednesday is their double ad day meaning that last week's ad and the coming week's ad are honored, so I can always find lots of stuff on sale. I ventured back out and stocked up on produce. When I was walking up to the front of the store to pay, I spotted a penny on the floor.

Then I got home and washed the bottle caps. When I spread them out to dry on a towel, I found a quarter! So, I'm keeping it. They save the bottle caps for me a big glass jar, and I bet some inebreated gentleman tossed it in there, so woo hoo for me!

What about you? Found any money lately?

This Found Money Facts:
Denomination:  1 penny, 1 quarter

Year: 2003, 2001

U.S. Mint:  D, none
Condition:  okey doke
Total Found Money to Date for 2012:  $6.71

Rode My Bike and Found 26 Cents!

Today I rode my bike to the post office and on the way home, I spotted this penny in the street. Then I rode down a couple of alleys and found the quarter! It was buried in the dirt but I was walking my bike, spotted a funky metal piece so reached down to get it. That's when I saw the edge of the quarter. Yay!

This Found Money FACTS:
Denomination:  1 penny, 1 quarter
Year:  2001, 1996
U.S. Mint:  D, D

Condition:   scratched up and dingy
Total found money to date for 2012:  $3.46