Most Valuable Thing You've Ever Found

[AustinTXCat]

$100 bill, PX parking lot near military bank in Giessen, Germany, 1988.
$40 (2 - $20 bills) about 6:30 am one morning near a bar while walking to the bus stop last year.
$20 bill in a ditch down the street from our house last year.
$20 bill near the Virginia-Tennessee state line on Bristol Rd, Shawanee, TN about 3 years ago. Next day, I found a $5 bill in the same area. Both times while hiking to the beer store. Somebody probably had their window rolled down and the $ blew out.

How about y'all?

 

[WildcatFan1982]

One time I went to Kroger and used the self checkout lane. I was supposed to get three $1 bills as change but I got three $5s instead. I bought something else to see if it would do it again, but it didn't

 

[BigBlueDave]

When I lost my roommate due to him getting married, I needed to scale back and decided to drop cable.

I called and was talked into keeping the local channels(basic2-13) for $8/month.

The tech came out and only disabled HBO. I received everything they offered except the movie channels from 1996 until they went digital in 2011.

After all of those years, the price never went over $10/mo.

It was a good run.

 

[UKGrad93]

$100 bill at the mall near Christmas 2014
A working iPod around 2006. Couldn’t unlock it though.
Some $5s, $10s, & $20s.

 

[GYERater]

Recently found a pair of diamond earrings in a hotel room. Also in the past few weeks found a pair of Gators sunglasses and a pair of Oakley Holbrooks. The Oakleys must have a prescription on them because I can't see out of them very well but they look cool and were free so I am going to keep them.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

This place and all you wonderful people.

And a couple of pennies.

 

[Willy4UK]

Recently found a pair of diamond earrings in a hotel room. Also in the past few weeks found a pair of Gators sunglasses and a pair of Oakley Holbrooks. The Oakleys must have a prescription on them because I can't see out of them very well but they look cool and were free so I am going to keep them.

Hahaha

 

[Willy4UK]

About $40 in a change purse at Commonwealth Stadium

 

[Hankshaker]

Love.

And the cure for AIDS.

 

[80 Proof]

$350 on the floor of a bar

 

[Kooky Kats]

3 rails of coke above a whore’s ass crack... was just sitting there for the taking.

 

[BernieSadori]

$100 at a golf course. Thought it was fake. I even hit it with my driver. It stuck to my club and that's when I noticed it was real.

Went to McDonalds later to break it in case it was a fake.

 

[UKGrad93]

I found a wallet under the bed of my hotel room in Bermuda. It had a little over $300 of Trinidad currency in it. Thought I was rich. Turns out it was only worth about $37 US.

 

[santamaria78]

 

[Kaizer Sosay]

One time when I was about 8 years old I was walking down an old dirt road and I found a wallet on the side of the road. It had $50 in it and no ID of any kind. I asked my pa what I should do and he said if nobody claimed it in a week then I could keep the money.

Well, a week went by and nobody claimed the wallet so I was good to go to keep the $50. Oh Boy! What a treat that was! Fifty whole dollars to an 8 year old! Might as well have been a million dollars.

But then a couple of days later my pa's coworker showed him a newspaper "lost and found" ad where someone had lost a wallet on the side of the very same dirt road and it had...you guessed it...it had $50 in it.

What to do? I mean pa said that if nobody claimed it in a week that the money was mine. Right? That's what he said...Right? Wrong! My mean ol' pa guilted me into giving the money back to the owner of that wallet. Rightful owner? I say no! Finders keepers and the one week rule should have ruled the day!

 

[UKGrad93]

Your pa was a clever man KS. I'm guessing he placed that ad himself an got one of his buddies to act as the guy that lost his wallet. All just to teach you a lesson: when you find something valuable, don't talk about it.

 

[Tskware]

Jesus

 

[CUJO_1970]

In 1980 when I was 10 years old I found a $5 bill on the side of the road in Fisherville, KY and thought I was rich.

Then I walked over to Lausman's grocery to spend it and Denny Crum (Denny lived out on Route Road) pulled up in a white Cadillac with a red leather interior and I realized there are different ways to measure wealth.

 

[Kaizer Sosay]

Recently found a pair of diamond earrings in a hotel room. Also in the past few weeks found a pair of Gators sunglasses and a pair of Oakley Holbrooks. The Oakleys must have a prescription on them because I can't see out of them very well but they look cool and were free so I am going to keep them.

 

[JohnKBA]

Found 6 box seats on the ground in the clubhouse parking lot at the Breeders Cup at Churchill several years back. I stuck around for about 20 minutes in the general vicinity in case anyone came back looking. Nobody did so I sold them to a scalper for $2k then went in. Didn’t want to risk sitting in them (they were better than my seats) in case someone came calling.

 

[rudd1]

-found a wallet in the bathroom of western sizzler on s. Broadway in Lexington when I was 10-12ish. Had 500 bucks in it...and a driver license We found the dude and gave it back. He was on vacation/road trip..and that was his only means of payment for stuff. Tried to give me $50 "reward"...dad wouldn't let him...eventually let him give me $20. $20 went a long way at the baseball card shop back then.

 

[DSmith21]

Once while I was hunting with my brother and his friend, we came across a plane crash site in the woods. We looked inside and found about $4 million in cash and decided to keep it. My brother and his friend convinced me to stash the cash at my place for a few months to make sure someone didn’t come after it. My brother’s friend got greedy and demanded money right away. My brother and I ended up having to kill his friend and a few others to keep our money secret. Later my brother begged me to kill him because he couldn’t live with all that had happened. Putting him down was very hard but necessary. In the end, I found out that the $4 million was actually ransom money from a kidnapping and the serial numbers had been recorded by the FBI so that the criminals could be caught as soon as it was spent. With the money being worthless, I ended up burning it all to hide the evidence while mourning the loss of my halfwit brother. Easy come easy go. It all seemed like such A Simple Plan.

 

[MrHotDice]

When I lived in Laughlin, Nevada I would go down on Saturday and bet the horses. Derby Day in the year 1999 I was in Harrahs Casino to watch the race from Churchill. Can’t remember who won but I remember their was 1000 people in a space for 100 and no seats. So I just stood at the betting counter talking to a friend. Who ran the book. After all the races were done everyone cleared out and I went to the back to look at the racing form and get off my feet. I happened to streach out my feet and hit something. It was a billfold which had fallen out of someone’s pocket. No one was around so I pick it up and opened it. It was empty of any ID, no pictures, no drivers license, looked as if it was brand new. I looked where you put the cash and inside was 50 crisp $100 dollar bills. I went to my friend in the book and told him I had found a billfold full of money. He said for me to keep it and not give it to security because they would just keep it. I told him if anyone asked if anyone had found a billfold to ask what amount of money was in it Two days went by, no one came around and I keep the $5000 dollars.

 

[starchief5]

Once while I was hunting with my brother and his friend, we came across a plane crash site in the woods. We looked inside and found about $4 million in cash and decided to keep it. My brother and his friend convinced me to stash the cash at my place for a few months to make sure someone didn’t come after it. My brother’s friend got greedy and demanded money right away. My brother and I ended up having to kill his friend and a few others to keep our money secret. Later my brother begged me to kill him because he couldn’t live with all that had happened. Putting him down was very hard but necessary. In the end, I found out that the $4 million was actually ransom money from a kidnapping and the serial numbers had been recorded by the FBI so that the criminals could be caught as soon as it was spent. With the money being worthless, I ended up burning it all to hide the evidence while mourning the loss of my halfwit brother. Easy come easy go. It all seemed like such A Simple Plan.

Wow. Somebody should turn that story into a movie.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

One time when I was about 8 years old I was walking down an old dirt road and I found a wallet on the side of the road. It had $50 in it and no ID of any kind. I asked my pa what I should do and he said if nobody claimed it in a week then I could keep the money.

Well, a week went by and nobody claimed the wallet so I was good to go to keep the $50. Oh Boy! What a treat that was! Fifty whole dollars to an 8 year old! Might as well have been a million dollars.

But then a couple of days later my pa's coworker showed him a newspaper "lost and found" ad where someone had lost a wallet on the side of the very same dirt road and it had...you guessed it...it had $50 in it.

What to do? I mean pa said that if nobody claimed it in a week that the money was mine. Right? That's what he said...Right? Wrong! My mean ol' pa guilted me into giving the money back to the owner of that wallet. Rightful owner? I say no! Finders keepers and the one week rule should have ruled the day!

It is ok. Opie grows up to become worth 140 million.

 

[TheKentuckyKid]

A perfect fluted clovis arrowhead.

 

[DSmith21]

Wow. Somebody should turn that story into a movie.

Bill Paxton would have been perfect for the lead. Too bad he is dead.

 

[starchief5]

Bill Paxton would have been perfect for the lead. Too bad he is dead.

Carrying that kind of baggage around with you for years would rot anyone's soul.

 

[santamaria78]

Jesus

 

[420grover]

A perfect fluted clovis arrowhead.

You didn't find it in Jesse Nolan's hands did ya?

 

[TheKentuckyKid]

You didn't find it in Jesse Nolan's hands did ya?

I blame the pills and the powder.

 

[WayneDougan]

Found 6 box seats on the ground in the clubhouse parking lot at the Breeders Cup at Churchill several years back. I stuck around for about 20 minutes in the general vicinity in case anyone came back looking. Nobody did so I sold them to a scalper for $2k then went in. Didn’t want to risk sitting in them (they were better than my seats) in case someone came calling.

I gotcha beat. Senior year in college an entire box in section 306 on Derby was wide open all day. My buddy's brother-in-law had the box right in front of us, so he let us know.

We had walk-around seats, but we were able to sneak through security and sat there all day long. Won big on the race too. By the time of the actual Derby race, some 19-year old showed up. He said it was his box; some tobacco company gave it to him if they could sponsor a party he and his fraternity threw. He said okay, but all his buddies wanted to go to infield. So he sat with us in his box for the two minute race, and that was it.

 

[CatGotMyTongue]

Body of Hoffa w a complete set of dental records

 

[UKUGA]

When I lost my roommate due to him getting married, I needed to scale back and decided to drop cable.

I called and was talked into keeping the local channels(basic2-13) for $8/month.

The tech came out and only disabled HBO. I received everything they offered except the movie channels from 1996 until they went digital in 2011.

After all of those years, the price never went over $10/mo.

It was a good run.

Interesting post.

On the same day I had cable installed in my first apartment in Dallas (falls of 2001), I found $85 in the parking lot.

It was kind of cool. I found a $20 with a distinct wrinkle to it. Then, a few feet later, found another $20 with the same wrinkle. Then, I thought, “maybe there was a wad.”

I walked about 20 cars - found two more $20s and a $5.

 

[Wall2Boogie]

I once found a flux compaciator. I now travel back in time every tuesdayb

 

[kywildcatsfannumber1]

Iraq currency & arrow heads. Best time and place to find arrow heads are on creek beds on old farm land after it rains, never know what will wash up. You stand better luck in remote places and zero luck in a creek bed off a road where people play or some place like a stream in the Smokies.

As a young Airman on base, found plenty of money lurking around the parking lots in the quarters waking up early in the morning while everyone else was passed out drunk from the night before partying.

 

[AustinTXCat]

$100 bill, PX parking lot near military bank in Giessen, Germany, 1988.
$40 (2 - $20 bills) about 6:30 am one morning near a bar while walking to the bus stop last year.
$20 bill in a ditch down the street from our house last year.
$20 bill near the Virginia-Tennessee state line on Bristol Rd, Shawanee, TN about 3 years ago. Next day, I found a $5 bill in the same area. Both times while hiking to the beer store. Somebody probably had their window rolled down and the $ blew out.

How about y'all?

Add:

$50 (2 - $20s, 1 - $10) this morning near the same bar, around the same time and on the same weekday as the $40 find above.

 

[Ryan Lemonds Diary]

I'm not sure if it was the most valuable but I found a Blackberry several years ago lying on the beach near the pier. It was a Verizon phone and I called them to locate the owner. They took my info and said they would have the owner to call and arrange returning the phone. This thing was getting text messages like crazy until the battery went dead. A couple of days later a guy calls me and was elated I found it and could return it to him. Turns out he worked for Homeland Security and it was his Gov issued phone. He sent me a Overnight label to return it along with a bunch of ink pens, sticky pad, etc for my time. haha

 

[kev69]

I found $57 in a UDF parking lot. That’s about it.

 

[ukalum01]

Masters practice round tickets... laying on the ground on the walk over from the parking lot.