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(3,764 posts) Mon Nov 1, 2021, 02:39 AM Nov 2021

Finding money: a windfall or theft? [View all]

https://amp.tennessean.com/amp/96983060

Is it unethical for someone to keep money they find in a purse at a thrift store?

Ms. Cheap responds to a reader who questioned shoppers keeping loot that belongs to someone else.

I got quite the response to my recent column on the 99-cent Goodwill outlet store — was it right for a shopper to keep money she found in a handbag in a bin at the store?

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So what would you do?

11 votes, 1 pass \| Time left: Unlimited
	Buy the purse and keep the money
	7 (64%)
	Donate it to charity
	2 (18%)
	Turn it in to the police
	0 (0%)
	Take the money and don't even buy the purse
	0 (0%)
	Depends on how much money
	2 (18%)
	1 DU member did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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Finding money: a windfall or theft? [View all] cannabis_flower Nov 2021 OP

More information is needed. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2021 #1

This was actually a friend of mine a few days ago cannabis_flower Nov 2021 #14

handbag for sale or one left behind by a careless shopper who left it accidentally nt msongs Nov 2021 #2

In this case. cannabis_flower Nov 2021 #15

I doubt the store would try to find out who.the donor was. Haggard Celine Nov 2021 #3

Same here cannabis_flower Nov 2021 #16

moral dilemmas... markie Nov 2021 #4

these 2 events occured within a few hours rampartc Nov 2021 #5

Don't lose any sleep over it. People with $100 bills generally aren't worried about grocery money. bucolic_frolic Nov 2021 #7

My mom found a $20 bill at a basketball game. When she tried to turn it in Tanuki Nov 2021 #11

Assuming the owner cannot be determined. AnnaLee Nov 2021 #6

Perhaps the donor left the money there on purpose. GoCubsGo Nov 2021 #8

depends on how much money janterry Nov 2021 #9

If it ain't yours, it ain't yours. marble falls Nov 2021 #10

If they buy the purse it becomes theirs. we can do it Nov 2021 #12

That's one way of looking at it. At any rate, if it's not yours, it's not yours. Maybe karma ... marble falls Nov 2021 #13

If you bought it cannabis_flower Nov 2021 #17

If you bought it with all three parties in the bargain knowing what it was: maybe ... marble falls Nov 2021 #18