FW: Weekly $$$$$$$$ Report for 01 Feb

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Beach [mailto:kimmybeach@mac.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 10:46 AM
To: Griffin Cork; Kevin Cork; larry home; Mom Sig; Karen Cork; Jennamay; shmare Maryann
Subject: Weekly $$$$$$$$ Report for 01 Feb

The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!

Volume 1, Number 4

IN THIS ISSUE:

1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!

2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!

3] General News!

4] Last week's total!

5] Money reported this week!

6] Grand total to date!

1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!

- Sandy: young moms won't leave their kids in the car to take the cart back (and rightly so!). watch for carseats and strollers next time you buy milk!

- Karen: if you take money that has clearly just missed the tip jar on a coffee shop counter, put the equivalent amount of money into the tip jar and take the stray coins.

2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!

Q: if it looks like a Canadian coin, but it isn't a Canadian coin, can it count as a Canadian coin?

A: YES! pretend you thought it was a nickel and wrap it when you wrap the nickels. what are they going to do at the bank? fire you???

Q: does bottle and can money count?

A: not if the bottle (or can) originates from inside your house (like the phone call of a serial killer with no imagination). per popular vote, money resulting from the return of bottles and cans left lying about that have NOT ORIGINATED in any of our houses and have not been purchased by anyone in the family can be added to the fund.

3] - as a family, we've decided to allocate alternating months to either a] Xmas Dinner or b] Charity.

    - as a family, we've determined that non-family-purchased empty containers are now fair game. please report on the money once the containers are returned and the money is in your hands. OR put the amount of money you WILL receive from the return of said bottles or cans into your collection box, but return the bottles and cans by the end of this year.

    - Kevin has set up a blog at http://findingmosermoney.blogspot.com/2009/02/collecting-and-saving-posts.html. visit often, put yourself on the "Follow" list, and if you're blog-savvy, contribute!!

4] we started the week with $37.06 (25 Jan)

5] + Kim's dime on the floor in front of the post office counter (25 Jan)

+ Sandy's $1.00 from... well, you've probably figured it out by now.. (25 Jan)

+ Sandy's 50 cents from... do i have to tell you? (26 Jan)

+ Kim's 1 cent from the Coop floor (practically had to go down on my hands and knees to get it (26 Jan)

+ Karen's 1 cent (every one counts!!!!!!!!) from the Dangerousway (27 Jan)

+ Karen's 2 cents from the OTHER Dangerousway (27 Jan)

+ Sig's 5 cents: a 10-something coin from the Cayman Islands which (i am informed) is worth 15 cents Canadian. for the purposes of wrapping it up for the bank, they're pretending they thought it was a nickel and so a nickel it is! are you thoroughly confused yet? (27 Jan)

+ Kim's 25 cents from a Dangerousway cart (27 Jan)

+ Kim's 51 cents from an alien spaceshi.... oh, i mean a Dangerousway cart, the floor in front of the Dangerousway carts, and a penny from in front of the café (28 Jan)

+ Kim's $1.00 on a second trip to the Dangerousway. forgot to buy juice! man, people are silly and lazy when two snowflakes fall! (28 Jan)

+ Stu's 1 cent (every one counts!!!!!!!) from the ticket spitter in his parking lot (28 Jan)

+ Karen's 13 cents from the Tim's drive-thru (29 Jan). never go through a drive-thru without opening your door and looking down at the ground!!

+ Kim's $1.25 (once again with that number!) from Dangerousway carts, all within about 5 minutes. right time, right place. (29 Jan)

+ Kim's 10 cents from under a change spitter at the Dangerousway (29 Jan)

+ Karen's 4 cents from: Penny at mall food court, Penny at safeway number 1, 2 pennies at 7 eleven (29 Jan)

+ Karen's 2 cents from Safeway #2 (29 Jan)

+ Karen's 2 more pennies!!! One at a and w and one in eb games!

+ Karen's 25 CENTS from a grocery cart (Karen's on a roll !!!!!!!!!! that's 46 cents in one day! jackpot!!) (29 Jan)

+ Larry's 1 cent planted by a co-worker outside his office!!!!! (29 Jan)

+ Sig's 1 cent in the town of Tofield (as mom says, "no town is safe!")

+ Sandy's $1.75 (!!!!!!!!!!) from... well... i think she's got a new job, being Unpaid Buggy Boy at the Dangerousway(s). she arranged the quarters in the shape of a cross and called it "the grave marker of any Buggy Boy who gets in my way". (29 Jan)

+ Karen's 25 cents from the Starbuck's counter. in her words, "which I am sure was supposed to be in the tip cup next to it so I put my own quarter in the cup and took the other". YAY! (30 Jan)

+ Karen's 1 cent at the Tim's (30 Jan)

+ Alan's 25 cents at the grocery store. Alan: "can i take your cart back for you?" guy: "uhhh..." Alan: "great!" (30 Jan)

+ Kim's 75 cents in under 2 minutes from lazy Dangerousway shoppers in the slush. Kim says a little slush never hurt anyone! but sure, lazy people! i'll return your carts for you! fools...MWA HA HAAAAAA! (30 Jan)

+ Larry and Stacey's 20 cents from, as Stacey says, "I go regularly with our kindergarten stuff so I've added the 20 cents to our found money box from the can where recycling depot money goes and will return said 20 cents to depot money can (Ella's school fund) once the recyclables are taken in." i have no idea what any of that means, but it's in the fun!!! (30 Jan)

+ Sandy's 50 cents from 2 abandoned carts (30 Jan)

+ Karen's 2 cents at the Starbuck's before the play. YAY! (30 Jan) 

+ Kim's 58 cents found in the following pattern: 3 pennies in different spots under the carts inside the Dangerousway, 50 cents from 2 carts, and a nickel on the counter on the edge of the Take-a-Penny dish, BUT clearly not scooped up by previous customer as nobody puts nickels in the Penny tray, so i took it. but i bought a $5 foodbank pack to assuage my guilt. (31 Jan)

+ Larry and Stacey's $1.70 (!!) from an ages-old Gap card initially purchased with AirMiles back in The Day. what the heck!? i think it counts (31 Jan)

+ Karen and Kevin's 11 cents from under the mat at the Canmore Mac's (31 Jan)

+ Karen's penny from under the knee of a needy child at the Christian thrift store. she's going to hell. (31 Jan)

6] AND OUR GRAND TOTAL IS NOW ....

$48.48 !!!!!!!!!!!!

love

Treasurer of Hell and the old man.