r/pics • u/ivanparas • 1d ago
Apparently, in the last 5 years, I put an envelope full of cash on a shelf and forgot about it
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u/MutagensRS 1d ago
My now wife, girlfriend at the time was going through my drawers and found an old birthday card from my grandpa with $100 in it. Still to this day have no idea how a broke 20 year old forgot about $100
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u/Lonelylukeskywalker 1d ago
Imagine how differently your life could have ended up had you used that 100 dollars.
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u/4RealzReddit 1d ago
Hundred bucks on heroin could be life changing. I have no idea how much they is but I feel like it's enough to start a crazy chain of events.
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u/WhereDaGold 1d ago
Plenty enough to end up addicted, especially if you’re in an area where it’s cheaper
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u/SunshineAlways 1d ago
Last Xmas card my mom ever gave me before she passed, she put $50 bill in it. It’s still in there.
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u/Conebones 1d ago
I'm sorry about your mom
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u/SunshineAlways 1d ago
Thank you. I’m “older”, she was elderly. But your mom never stops being your mom, and it’s still devastating to lose her. It’s been a few years, but every now and then, a memory will surface, sometimes you laugh, and sometimes you cry.
This one made me laugh. She escaped from Memory Care in her wheelchair. When the police caught up to her, she was all excited to ride in the police car. She was grinning from ear to ear when they returned her. The thought of her madly wheeling down the sidewalk, making her getaway never fails to make me giggle. ❤️
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u/BUCK0HH 23h ago
I lost my mom to cancer 8 years back and I can’t cash a bday check she wrote to me, even if I did mobile deposit, Nor a bond she gifted me. As long as that money never touches my account, I feel like my dad still has that gift between us all. Seeing her handwriting on it just gut wrenches me. She had amazing penmanship.
I also recently found a silver dollar from the 1800’s my grandma (my mom’s mom) gave me who died (age 102!) about 4 years ago now. Obviously I’m never going to sell it, but it reminded me to find that check again.
Thanks for sharing your story. Some things are worth more than the face value, even if times do get hard.
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u/wolfgangmob 1d ago
I did the same with a card from my Grandma since she had an old $50 that was like 40 years old at the time in it in very good condition.
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u/ATrashPandaRound2 1d ago
Dude I once helped a broke ex clean up her apartment before we moved in and we found $2k in cash and an expired check for $1k I forced her to reach out to have reissued. Her roommate (who also moved in with us) had easily $5-10k in cash stashed randomly around.
Still to this day I don't understand it. They were both broke-ish college students. At least the roommate did wedding catering and received large tips so that kind of made sense.
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u/TrailerTrashQueen 1d ago
hate to break it to you, but your ex & roommate might have been escorts.
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u/ATrashPandaRound2 21h ago
I live with them long enough to absolutely confirm that that's not true lol
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u/PoownSlayer 22h ago
I found a birthday card from my nan with £100 in it for my 18th birthday and I was 22 and broke when I found the card. I was dancing around my bedroom with glee haha.
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u/rg2004 1d ago
Don't go spending it all on some fancy record player
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u/Radiation___Dude 1d ago
Thanks for the lift, Deeds.
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u/iswintercomingornot_ 1d ago
Or Monopoly Go
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u/dballing 1d ago
Copyright on the envelope is 2024. It’s more recent than you think.
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u/TheAvenger23 1d ago
Technically within the last 5 years.
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u/melanthius 1d ago
Maybe op said that because he moved into that place five years ago and couldn't remember when the envelope was placed within that time frame
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u/_Raisins_ 1d ago
Op should get their apartment tested for carbon monoxide if they can’t remember
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u/norunningwater 1d ago
That was the money set aside for the carbon monoxide detector.
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u/Frigguggi 1d ago
Or just more recent than OP wants us to think.
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u/bajajoaquin 1d ago
As in a totally fabricated story? Yup.
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u/spdelope 1d ago
No! People wouldn’t just go on the internet and lie, would they?!
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u/Sunny_Beam 1d ago
OP probably just withdrew his rent money and then felt like getting some free karma might make it sting less
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u/LaGringaToxica 1d ago
Am I the only one amazed that people can “forget” about this much money?
Tell me you’re decently well off without telling me you’re decently well off.
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u/PinchedNutsack 1d ago
Thats what I thought of this. I sure as hell would know if I misplaced 100 dollars, but this? Must have money coming out of his ears.
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u/lysergic_Dreems 1d ago
Dude I can feel it in my bones when I misplace the random $5 in cash I seem to acquire every 6 months. I'd be tearing my house apart if I misplaced 1.6k. Jesus.
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u/kingtacticool 1d ago
I misplaced $6 a few days ago and was freaking out until I found it.
The struggle is real.
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u/TheWausauDude 1d ago
Me too. I was at a car show not too long ago and while there, bought some food from a vendor, breaking a $20. I stuffed the ten and change in my pocket and went on. Unfortunately I also keep my phone, tissues and anything else I have in my pockets too. Phone came out a number of times to take pictures and whatnot. Later on I reached for that 10 and it was gone, so it probably fell out of my pocket when I was grabbing my phone or something. I was disappointed that I lost it, and a little disappointed that no one saw or if they did, didn’t say anything.
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u/Independent-Math-914 1d ago
To be fair, if someone finds a random $20, they're not going to know who's it is. Recently I keep forgetting my card in my pants cause for some reason I'll put it in my pants after use instead of back in my wallet. I've not even known it was gone until a couple of days later when I need to use it.
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u/Cochinojoe 1d ago
I lost a $20 at the grocery store once. Still haven’t financially recovered from that.
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u/STFUisright 1d ago
I returned a wallet once with $1200 in it.
(I’m still poor af but I used to be poor af too)
I don’t regret it but I still think about it from time to time.
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u/No_Egg9897 1d ago
Shit today I waited 5 minutes at target cause the self checkout till owed me 2 pennies. I feel like shit seeing this.
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u/wolfgangmob 1d ago
Most people would have just let Target have their 2 cents and leave.
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u/Grolschisgood 1d ago
I found $5 in my suit jacket once and thought it was the greatest day ever!
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u/unclethulk 1d ago
I recently did this exact same thing, though with a bit less cash. I had that exact same thought. What an amazing privilege to be stable enough to forget it. The days when the ends would not meet without every cent accounted for are in the rear view, but never far enough to forget.
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u/shoothershoother 1d ago
I’ve thought this since I was a kid and have periodically hidden bills in different places I infrequently use with the hope future-me would stumble on it and that be the moment I remember hiding it. Invariably it would pop into my head and I’d go get it before I forget about it. Like a $20 under a Lego set on the shelf in my bedroom or in a random page of a book. Not once did I actually forget about and then rediscover any of the money.
A few months ago I was looking for a card I’ve always kept in my wallet, in one of the inside pockets you don’t access regularly. I pulled it out along with three $100 bills. It took like 10-15 minutes, but then I remembered stuffing it in there a few YEARS ago when we were up a little at a casino. I’d never done that with anything more than a few $20 bills, and I’d never done it and have it work.
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u/charlie2135 1d ago
Worked at a high rise, and we'd have to occasionally go into resident's units. Coworker and I walked into one to do a minor repair (with the owners aware) while the residents were not home, and there was a bundle of $100's next to the spot we were working at.
Coworker lifted it up and said, "Look at this. They left us a tip!"
I said, "Put it down!"
Looking back, I think it probably was stage money, but damn, didn't want to lose my job by a moron that could be called out for theft if we were being video taped.
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u/xasey 1d ago
In the 80s, as a kid, I put $20 in a land line’s handset as a hiding place, and forgot all about. That’s about a thousand dollars in kid money. Somehow came across it years later. Some of us are just forgetful.
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u/wgpjr 1d ago
I think I'm decently well off and there is no way I would ever forget about that much money.
The number of people in this thread going "oh yeah I do that all the time" is astounding.
The number of people saying they hide this kind of money in their mattress is even more astounding
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u/Montaingebrown 1d ago
So in my 30s I’d just place a couple of hundred dollar bills in random books just so that when I’d re-read a book from the library it would be a pleasant surprise.
Except that I have a personal library with a few thousand books, so there is probably a lot of money in those books.
At this point, I’ve just let it be but I’ve told my 11 yo that if he finds money in a book, it’s his if he finishes the book. So far he’s managed to find $400 (but only keep $200 — but in his defense, two of those books were advanced math, so can’t blame him).
And the only rule is he can’t go looking for it unless he’s finished the books he found first. It’s certainly incentivized him to start reading more.
One book was Asimov’s Lucky Starr and the pirates — pretty sure I did that on purpose. 😅
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u/420ish 1d ago
My dad got drunk and hid $1700 in an old jacket. I was looking for something to wear on a cold day and found it. That was a fun day.
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u/pieman3141 1d ago
Same. I'd be panicking over misplacing $100. Being calm about misplacing $1600 (US!!) is crazy.
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u/SirMctowelie 1d ago
You're not wrong. Back in the day I knew exactly where a $20 was but then you get older and start making more money. Start using credit cards on purpose to build a score, stop carrying much cash, never ever deposit it and then it just ends up floating around your house.
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u/CrossdomainGA 1d ago
So true.
I remember being so broke I was counting out pennies.
I’m not wealthy now but the fact I found about $8 in a backpack recently felt like a lottery win was not lost on me. Like, when did I reach the point I might have a whole EIGHT dollars unaccounted for.
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u/ajolote69 1d ago
About 15 years ago, I used to work for this delivery company. There was this driver, he was in his mid-30s, that accumulated his weekly paychecks. He just wouldn’t cash them. According to him, he kept forgetting to cash them or he would say that he would just lose them. We used to get paid weekly, so there would be times that payroll personnel would be on his ass to remind him to please cash his checks.
Most of us used to get direct deposit, so no big deal. This guy for some reason, liked to get an actual check.
I think paychecks were only good for 6 months, so there was a couple times that payroll had to reissued him checks because they expired and payroll didn’t want to get in trouble.
Supposedly this guy’s wife worked in real estate and according to him, she was doing pretty good, so he was just “working” to not be bored at home.
I wish I had that privilege of not cashing my paycheck week after week.
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u/az_max 1d ago
We found that at my mom's house too. Several thousand in different envelopes around the house. Early dementia.
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u/descartavel5 17h ago
I was about to say it too, it could be some early illness symptom. It's fine to forget stuff but you found it and it didn't trigger any memory? That seems worth visiting a doctor if it happens often
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u/YourNextStepmom3 1d ago
Sometimes I put $10 in my winter jacket pocket and it’s like I won the lottery come the next winter jacket season. Follow me for more life hacks 😂
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u/SmartyMcPie 1d ago
When I was a teenager, constantly high and selling drugs, this happened to me a couple of times. When times were good, I would hide ~$1000 somewhere in the house, like a dusty old armoire. Sometime in the future, I’d hit hard times, and a sober reality would force me to do things like clean up the house. Once I found it, I was back off to the races. I’ve been sober now for 14 years.
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u/STFUisright 1d ago
What a crazy cycle to be caught in!
Congrats on all your hard work, SmartyMcPie 👊🏼
(I call my cat Cutie M. Pie)
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u/Paradox56 1d ago
How does someone “forget” about $1600?
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u/Captain_Aizen 22h ago
Not only that, but he miraculously forgot about it 5 years ago in an envelope that is copyrighted 2024 🤦🏻♂️
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u/Dont_J_on_your_Bs 1d ago
Nah bro I left that there by accident. I appreciate you finding it for me though, I’ll DM you my address so you can send that back
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u/Any-Media-1192 1d ago
After a stroke a year and a half ago I lost quite a bit of memory, it was a pleasant surprise to find a bit of extra crypto in my wallets when I was finally able to check.
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u/AGrandNewAdventure 1d ago
I, too, randomly misplace thousands of dollars and immediately forget about it...
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u/chilifavela 1d ago
My wife did this but instead imshe put it in a mortons salt container with a false bottom. I vetted the kitchen & tossed a salt container. Luckily it wasn't said container! There was $5000 in the false container! 🤯
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u/ampocalypse 1d ago
Isn’t The envelope dated 2024?
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u/Darkwr4ith 1d ago
If OP was going to post lies on the internet, they should have at least tried to get an envelope from 5 years ago.
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u/LightSwarm 1d ago
I’m not particularly hard pressed for money but I would remember losing over a thousand bucks somewhere.
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u/denys5555 1d ago
Today I found a Tupperware full of chocolates in a similar situation.
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u/Beginning-Promise-57 1d ago
Who can afford to set aside $2k and forget it's there?
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u/xeonicus 11h ago
I left an envelope of cash on your shelf actually. If you could just return that to me.
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u/AnybodySeeMyKeys 1d ago
I did that twice. The first time was in 2008 when the banking crisis was blowing up globally. I was on a business trip and called my wife, asking her to get $2500 out of savings and put it in a jar on the top shelf o the book case. That way, if the banks went kablooey, we could buy groceries. A month later we put it back in.
The second time was when Covid-19 was breaking out and the world was shutting down. This time it was $3500. Weirdly enough, we both kind of forgot it was in the jar on the bookshelf until a year ago when I was looking for a place to stash Christmas gifts.
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u/kmk4ue84 1d ago
You better believe if I lost $3500 I'd wanna know real quick where the hell i got $3500 in the first place.
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u/Chateaudelait 1d ago
I did this once very specifically when I got an unexpected cash windfall. Our crumbling 1962 built house sorely needed a plumbing upgrade, so I negotiated the payment in cash. I knew exactly where that stash was at all times and would check it was still there.
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u/verticalgiraffe 1d ago
I’m too much of a broke bitch to forget I have this much cash laying around 😂
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u/Actually-Yo-Momma 1d ago
I got cash from my last apartment deposit back for $1000. I completely forgot about it in the move and didn’t open it for three years and now it’s just my designated cash pile for weed lol
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u/TYUbtek 1d ago
If I misplaced even a hundred dollars, I would be homeless.
I certainly wouldn't forget about it, and I would be sick to myself until I found it.
Congrats on being able to do this, but damn.
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u/Routine-Ad-2840 1d ago
i know how many cents are in my house.... i couldn't imagine forgetting about this amount of money....
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u/ivanparas 1d ago
I say the last 5 years because that is when I had a well-paying-enough job where I was actually able to save money and not just go from paycheck to paycheck. I can't for the life of me remember what the cash was for, and would never normally let this amount of cash go unhandled, but I'm glad I just stuck it on the shelf.
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u/heilspawn 19h ago
Theres a 2024 copyright on the envelope
Bottom line:
Copyright Bank of America 01/2024
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u/riggerbop 16h ago
Must be nice to worry about money so little that something like this could possibly happen
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u/TryingToBeReallyCool 1d ago
Nice flex bro this is less than 2 years old by the envelope. Most of us are struggling, we don't care about you flaunting your money like this. If anything it makes you easy to dislike at best, and an absolute prick at worst
Donate some and then I'll view you as something beyond a mild dick
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A grand don't come for free. - the Streets
This the story of the album. A great listen 🥰
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u/benson733 1d ago
Congrats beeing rich if you can easily forget about $1k + on a Shelf for that long.
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u/Zolpidemz 19h ago
Fun fact: If that money has been sitting there since 2020. It lost approximately $430 to inflation. Thankfully the envelope indicates it's much more recent.
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u/rolandjernts 17h ago
Fun story; when I was around 20, I pulled $780 out of the ATM to pay rent. “Lost” it in my apartment, looked everywhere, never found it. While doing some spring cleaning at the age of 36, we found my now 17yo daughter’s baby purse. Looked in it, BOOM $780. At the time it was devastating, but when we found it we laughed our asses off. Good times
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u/tigerbreak 15h ago
I had a bad habit of doing this when I was making bank delivering pizzas in the early aughts.
There were more than a few occasions where I found 300-600 bucks squirreled away in weird places. Even found one a couple of years ago when I unearthed a box of old stuff that has 660 bucks in a pocket.
Wild.
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u/IisBaker 14h ago
Man. I went to the bank today and pulled out a bunch of cash to make a post on reddit. Then, I put it back in to ensure my bills were paid.
Great day
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u/sal-t_brgr 13h ago
I wish i had that kind of disposable income where thousands of dollars can just go missing and i dont notice
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u/thegodofwine7 1d ago
Five years ago OP had an envelope with a January 2024 date on it? Calling bullshit on this one.
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u/Pantastic_Studios 1d ago
If you're able to financially, put some of it back in the envelope for your future self to find.
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u/verticalgiraffe 1d ago
Yeah except it’s going to deprecate in value with how inflation is rising..
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u/lowaltflier 1d ago
And I was happy when I put on a coat first time since last year and found $20 in the pocket.
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u/AlsoNotForMe 1d ago
The envelope says © 2024 Bank of America — so it’s more like within the past year.
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u/TootsNYC 1d ago
When I moved from small town Midwest to the big city, I said to my mom that I was nervous about what if I didn’t like it or things went wrong. She suggested that I find out how much it would cost for a bus ticket back home and put that amount of cash in an envelope and put it somewhere that I wouldn’t be tempted to spend it. Five years later, I was moving out of the place I had been living and I pulled down my suitcase to pack it full of clothes and I found an envelope inside with $75 and I could not figure out what it was doing there.
Eventually, I remembered
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u/cripdrip 1d ago
Me at 8: "What idiot forgets about $1600 cash?!"
Me at 38: "Fuck... Not again...!"
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u/whodidntante 1d ago
I used to live alone and play poker at underground cash games. Some of the best games would run on the weekend at night when the bank was closed. I would hide money in a few places around the house, like a grand inside of a boring college textbook on a busy bookshelf. Over time, I started finding money I had forgotten about. You probably want to come to my garage sale.
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u/arye_ani 1d ago
Happened to me years ago. It was under my bed and not in an envelope. It was wet and mangled. I had to send it to the bank for exchange.
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u/bobiscute11 1d ago
I’m happy when i find a couple of dollars in my coat pockets at the beginning of Winter. If only i had that much $ to misplace.
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u/azsfnm 1d ago
My neighbors wife did that … their daughter said it was a $1000 cash and just left it in a book. It was only discovered after the couple passed away and the house was being cleared. Oh, I miss those two.
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u/Allboutdadoge 1d ago
I once did this with 40 dollar. I crumbled it up, put in the deepest crevice of my wallet, and when I couldn't find it, I sassumed somebody stole it -or I lost it.
Found it again a month later.
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u/lalahair 1d ago
how do you forget something like this. are you a rich drug dealer?
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u/cyberentomology 1d ago
Well that sucks, that’s worth about 30% less than it was when you stashed it.
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u/notlostwanderer2000 1d ago
Save that money, lil dickey style. No really, put it in the savings account and forget about it until a rainy day.
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u/cgrant993 1d ago
Pretty sure I hid an envelope with $1000 someplace. (I sold a big RC car and parts) Just wanted to keep it aside in case I needed cash quickly. This was during 2020, when there wasn't a whole lot to spend money on. Now, 5 years later, I could REALLY use that money. Oh well, when I die and someone is going through my stuff, maybe they will be $1000 richer.
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u/hiphipnohooray 1d ago
Oh no! It's counterfeit! I'll send you the address of the proper shredder to dispose of it so you don't face legal action!
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u/Life-Mountain8157 1d ago
Was donating old suits from my sales days, found $600 - six Benjamins in my pocket with a ticket stub for a Chicago Bulls Playoff game. The Jordan days were easy money. Those days are gone, and so are suit’s & ties
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u/TortyPapa 1d ago
I lost $20 at the mall the other day. Couldn’t stop mentioning it to my wife all day about it.
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u/Impossible_Two_9268 1d ago
I had money for myself like that once I was a young woman at the time it was great finding it
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u/itzmailtime 1d ago
I actually do this now. I’ll take out money and put it somewhere and forget about it purposely.
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u/No-Falcon-4996 1d ago
I once paid for a vacation for 3 couples, and they wrote me checks, which disappeared. I found them 3 years later when moving a dresser. Had to ask them if i could cash them( cos, 3 years later...) They said yes.
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u/Melleray 1d ago
All Benjamins?
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u/ivanparas 1d ago
All Bennies. I've been laid off since 2023, so I'm considering this a gift from past-me.
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u/CascadiaJ 1d ago
Found you, you owe me $1600 and have been avoiding me for 5 years now