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just call me Miss Moneypenny

January 2nd, 2010 at 01:18 am

Friday
Saving log - $1 dividend check
Spending log - $3.88 coffee, bagel + $6 sandwich, decaf coffee
Found money - $1.26 (road, sidewalks, floor)

Thursday
Saving log - $4 tip box
Spending log - $1.75 coffee + $19 New Year's snacks
Found money - $0.49 (bus stop, parking meter, counter, Safeway floor by cashier, sidewalk corner)

Wednesday
Saving log - $0
Spending log - $11 lunch + $50 champagne (we celebrated DH's new job with a good bottle on New Year's)
Found money - $.15 (gym carpet, sidewalks)

From the high end of the last post, to the very lowly today...

It had been raining off and on yesterday and some today - sometimes it rained hard enough for long enough, giving Seattle that gray, dirty, bedraggled look. It wouldn't surprise me if suddenly an ad announced:

Text is A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies! and Link is http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/
A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies! A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!

Last night I found 3 dimes on a corner; at around noon, I found 86 pennies strewn for 2 blocks along 85th. I still have my distractor hypothesis - can it be that icky rain has been a factor? You lose your pocket money but you don't care about stopping to find it and pick it up because you just want to be out of the rain....

Anyway, current total is $17.22: 457 pennies, 14 nickels, 72 dimes, 15 quarters, $1 bill. Lot of pennies - you might tease me and call me Miss Moneypenny, but in picking them up means I'm alert and ready to pick up other coins. Feels like fishing ... you walk along, alert to the possibility, and when a coin appears, you are ready to strike.

Posted in Dirty money | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “just call me Miss Moneypenny”

  1. DeniseNTexas Says:
    January 2nd, 2010 at 10:11 am 1262427087
    1262427087

    I found two pennies yesterday but that's it. Where I work, if we find any money, even a penny, we have to turn it in, so that's what I do but other places - oh no, that penny is mine! Wink

  2. homebody Says:
    January 2nd, 2010 at 02:25 pm 1262442315
    1262442315

    I need to keep my eyes open more! My BIL works for the light rail, something to do with the permits. (I went back and read some of your entries since I was so busy in December, I missed a lot).

  3. scfr Says:
    January 2nd, 2010 at 07:05 pm 1262459158
    1262459158

    Holy cow! You are finding beaucoup bucks!

  4. wowitsawonderfullife Says:
    January 2nd, 2010 at 07:38 pm 1262461128
    1262461128

    Baselle you are a true money magnet. That's a lot of change. Regretfully it snowed here so the pickins' are slim these days.

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