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I went to an auction sale. The nephews & nieces were in charge of getting all the stuff sold & they had spent many hours going through the house & farm buildings to get everything ready for sale day. One of the nephews saw me with 2 old suitcases after I had bought them for $5. He advised me to "go through them good, because they were sick of sorting & going through things even though they found money tucked here & there in the house". I opened them when I got home & found old sewing patterns, newspaper clippings & then I found numerous envelopes that I decided had contained social security checks at one time. Each envelope had a few dollars in them & when I counted it all, it was almost $375. I never told them what I discovered - I feel they relenquished all rights when they set the suitcases out for sale.
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Tom&Patty
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When my grandma died in the 90's my father and siblings were left to clean up. she was a European immigrant born in 1901 and was not rich. A good cook she kept a well stocked kitchen. When my father dumped out a bag of dried navy beans a sock full of money dropped out. Not a lot, but it drew a thought of how frugal her life had been.
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Veronica
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When my best friend's mother died, her father gave her the large basket her mother had used as a magazine rack. My friend removed the liner to wash it and found $18,000 in cash in it. She gave it back to her dad.
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PSU72
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Do the right thing and return the money.
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fchammer1
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Character: What you display when you do the right thing -- even when no one is watching.
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joanne0012
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This is a favorite topic over on the eBay sellers' discussion boards: "What I found in the dumpster at somebody's yard sale." Not literally cash, but stuff that people sell cheap or just throw away because they haven't looked into its value.
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pupcamper
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Under normal circumstances I would agree the money should be returned. However, in this case they knew there was a possibility there was money in the suitcase, so they should have looked through them if they wanted to retain possession of any of the contents. It really has nothing to do with the OP's character.
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Crowe
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I'm with fchammer1. Whether or not they knew there might be money in the suitcases isn't relevant. Make the offer to give it back. Chances are they won't take it.
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chuckster11
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Under the situation you describe (without the nieces and nephew's personalities and family stuff involved), I personally would return the money but you know the family dynamics and that may make a difference.
I have this thing about "found" money--be it a dollar bill on the ground or cash in an envelope--I always worry about the "karma" involved in not doing the right thing so I try to find the owner. Course that hasn't really been tested--if I find a suitcase full of cash that might test my "karma" thing.
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When my grandmother died in 1988 she had an entire room full of old smelly and moldy Time Life and National Geographic magazines. My Aunts, Uncle and parents threw about 1/2 of them into a fire when my dad dropped some of those magazines and a couple of $20's fell out. They decided to go through the remainder of the magazines and ended up with 1000s of dollars. I wonder how much they had already burned? Grandma was a young woman during the depression and didn't trust banks, so kept lots of money stashed away in her house.
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