An old roommate of mine was sifting through and tossing out some old birthday cards once when a crisply entombed twenty dollar bill slid out of a faded card from Grandma. Her eyebrows perked up, her mouth formed a perfect O, and she raised her hand up top for a high five, which I promptly delivered.
Finding a bill zipped up in last year’s ski jacket, laying wet and crumpled in the washing machine, or folded in the pocket of your booze-smelling blazer is such a great high. There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but this sure comes close.
Finding your own money is a lot like discovering an entirely new currency, one that cannot be used to pay down debts or obligations, but only has value when purchasing stuff you probably don’t need and wouldn’t have bought otherwise, like an old-school beanie cap, novelty ten-pound Toblerone bar, or high-octane gasoline. It is disposable income in the truest sense of the phrase.
For the pessimists out there, you may be saying “Barumph! That money has been all chewed up by time and inflation, slowly losing value and unaccumulating interest while prices ramp right on up, making my life less and less affordable. That found money could have purchased more before I lost it than it can today, so why should I celebrate my own stupidity?”
But Pessy, come on, we’re talking about found money here — money that hasn’t been budgeted for, accounted for, remembered for, promised for, or owed for, anything at all, since you lost it! Surely the few sacrificed cents of interest in the bank are a small price to pay for holding that folded up bill, right up to the sky, in your tightly clenched fist, with no claims to satisfy. Sure, it may smell a bit like mothballs, Tide, or Grandma’s skin cream, but that money still works. And it works well.
So let’s call found money what it really is then.
AWESOME!
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Finding money is always cause for a celebration….even if its a nickel. That’s why I don’t mind doing laundry. Hubby usually leaves a quarter or a dollar in his pocket… and if it gets washed, its mine. :-)
My mom uses the same system :)
Why, 3-4 wks. ago I found $5 and thought Awesome! On the walk-about with my dog, I saw a neighbor boy who helped us move. It was wednesday. I remember wednesdays at my jhs being sloppy-joes day; THE BEST! I asked what wednesday was at his school cafeteria. He said, “Pizza”, with a half smile. I saw how he loved pizza the day we moved and fed the crew. I know the family is struggling. So, I told him of how I’d found $5.00 and asked if I could buy him lunch. He immediately said, “I could walk your dog after school or move some furniture, or wash your car! I said I only wanted for him to have a wonderful lunch and day. He accepted which doubled the awesome and his half smile became whole! It was a triple AWESOME way to start the day=D
Aye, it be like finding buried treasure. I usually end up finding the odd gum wrapper in my coat pocket, but every so often I find a penny or a quarter or something. Then I’m actually thankful for my forgetfulness.
Last winter, I looked everywhere for my gloves and couldn’t find them. When spring rolled around I was packing up winter clothes and found my gloves in my old coat pocket! I used my new coat all through winter and it never occured to me to check my old one.
Awesome thing #-0001: Waking up with a song in your head, then listening to that song in real life!
O Sole MIO!!! Agree! =D
When I first read this entry in the book, I laughed because I just had found $20 in an old grade 8 graduation card from grandma. Now I’ve just graduated highschool! I wonder if the same thing will happen to me in a few years…
Ha ha ha! “Pessy” I’m going to start using that word.
Especially when you find it when you are dead broke!
So awesome!
I think I must be too organised with my money. I always remember to put it in my wallet. :/
But I did find an old shopping list once, several years ago, which I realised was from the first Mother’s Day I cooked for my family all by myself. :D Still kind of awesome!
It is super awesome, unless you are in London and find a $20, then it is postponed joy.
In 8th grade our teacher gave us an assignment to write our future selves a letter. She said that she would mail them exactly a year from then so that we would get them our freshman year. Being the smart kid I am i slipped a $20 in that envelope knowing I would forget and be completely ecstatic about getting an extra bit of cash. Sure enough the next year when we got our letters I pulled that 20 out with a sly grin, while everyone crowded over to bask in my awesomeness.
Well played, That one kid. Well played.
也有很多次这样的经历，发现的那一刻感觉真的是太好了。后来会把钱故意留在衣服口袋。后来才发现真的很少去摸自己的口袋
It also counts if you find it while cleaning. I’ve found stashes in my room that I’d completely forgotten about.
Finding money in your pocket is a really incredible situation… mainly in weekends or hollydays.
I remember once when I found some money in a pants that I hadn’t use for almost one year. It was a saturday night. All the money I found was spent at the same night with my friends. It wasn’t too much but enough to make one of the best nights I had with them.
From now on all the time we are toguether they try to find money in my pokets, but that situation never happened again.
Honestly, of all the 1000 awesome things, I think this one makes my top 10. Judge me if you will, but finding money is thebomb.com.
Finding out about a really awesome app, then discovering that, once again, it’s not available for Android users.
Not awesome.
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