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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsUpdate on my treasure hunting, HOLY SHIT!
There is a "Greek Fest" down near Lake Michigan here in Sheboygan going on, this morning I went there with my metal detector.
Found 3 $20 bills, and lots of coins!
Ran the coins through one of those coin counting gadgets in a supermarket.
Total today:
$122!!!
Blue Owl
(49,938 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)Been there, done that.
Reminds me of 80s when some musician friends would scrounge after concerts. They always pocketed the most money and best drugs after Pink Floyd concerts.
The Figment
(494 posts)I have found some of the most amazing things at and after a Dead show...everything from all sorts of intoxicants,large amounts of cash and some of the best camping gear money could buy.
Kali
(54,990 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)Archae
(46,262 posts)True Dough
(17,099 posts)Because I lost three $20 bills in Sheboygan a couple of days ago. I'll give you my email address and you can e-transfer that money back to its rightful owner. Your good deed of the day!
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Dan
(3,524 posts)Did the $20 bills have Andrew Jackson on one side? If so, then theyre mine...
reACTIONary
(5,749 posts)safeinOhio
(32,532 posts)Tell no one what youve found.
Demovictory9
(32,324 posts)he turns in the guns
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)where you found it.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Keep the updates coming. You're convincing me it's a wise investment.
Actually, which metal detector did you spring for?
yaesu
(8,020 posts), with passes from the council, during the off months. We would find enough coins & medals in one day to fill a shoe box, most over 40 years old. Donated a bunch of the rarer items found to the council museum.
TlalocW
(15,359 posts)In the mornings before my classes, I would walk off campus to the nearest convenience store to get a newspaper, and I would always have my eyes on the ground because I passed a lot of frats and sororities, and I figured when THESE "Greeks" got sloshed, they would lose money, and I often found some good treasure. Often fives but every now and then a twenty, and for a college student, that's good money.
TlalocW
DFW
(54,058 posts)My daughter found some German lawyer in Washington DC when she was an undergrad, and he hired her at $25 an hour to translate documents, either from German to English or English to German (she is bi-lingual). He ended up using her between 10 and 20 hours a week, and offered her a permanent job when she graduated. She passed, and had to pay taxes on what she earned, but had some serious pocket money when she graduated, and didn't even use a metal detector!
TlalocW
(15,359 posts)But I never had time for a really steady job in college. However, along with "Greek" money, I did use sleight-of-hand to make money (bets) against the bigger assholes in my dorm... especially when they came back from the bars a little schnockered.
Oh, and playing chess every now and then.
TlalocW
DFW
(54,058 posts)In college, one of my two roomies and I used to play chess (not for money) and it nearly got me killed once (not by him). Long story. They had (with the best of intentions) invited me to a party where people of my pigmentation were apparently not welcome.
My wife, who is German, and I took great pains to purposely raise our daughters bilingually. It turned out to help one of them slightly when looking for a job, and with the other one, it turned out to be her key to some serious (now mid to high six-figures yearly) earnings. She got her first taste of how valuable a commodity it can be when combined with a decent degree. She graduated magna from what is considered to be a "second tier" law school in the States. She is plenty smart, but her English wasn't quite good enough to understand every word on the LSATs, and that is apparently the only thing law schools look at in the USA. The "top" ones told her to fuck off. After three years of law school, she knew every word in the law dictionary. She graduated at the end of the Cheneybush recession, and there was no work to be had in her field (international law) in DC, NYC or Boston, so she went to a job fair in Frankfurt to try her luck. She liked the Frankfurt arm of a British law firm, but they said they were only looking for someone with specific qualifications. They needed someone who was fluent in English and German, had EU working papers but a US bar exam. She said, "here I am." They started her at 85,000 and she never looked back. Head hunted at 29 by a New York firm for THEIR Frankfurt office, and became their youngest partner ever at age 31.
All that--inspired by a chance meeting with a German lawyer in Washington who was willing to pay $25 an hour for a skill that wasn't easy to come by. That was one sweet gig indeed.
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)DFW
(54,058 posts)Genes that weren't mine!
33taw
(2,420 posts)kooth
(217 posts)Awesome! This random (to me) good news made me happy!
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)People leave the counter with their hands full, and it's too much of a pain to chase after loose change. As a kid, it was a great way to make some money along with returning bottles for refund. It sure beat my allowance!
Nitram
(22,671 posts)Freethinker65
(9,935 posts)2naSalit
(86,072 posts)I found a $50 bill one Sunday morning right outside a bar, all wadded up in a snowbank. Even more once the snow melted.
unblock
(51,974 posts)some of the humor is very dry, british humor, but we like that stuff.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)And Toby Jones is a favorite as well.
Croney
(4,646 posts)That was always our goal, to find a diamond ring. One day we found a dime and a plastic toy ring. I told him we did it! We found a dime n' ring! He loved it.