The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$ Report!!! for 26 April

The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!
Volume 4, Number 3


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's fear that the carts may dry up in good weather may be true. however, i remain convinced that timing is everything. on a very busy Saturday afternoon before the big game, the Buggy Boys are too busy bagging tortilla chips to be outside putting away carts!

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


3] General News!

*the newsletter was missing last week (you may have noticed) for various reasons, not the least of which was that it was a very slow week in the money-finding department. there was sweet little to report!

*the Charity Fund has surpassed the Xmas Dinner Fund! see below.


4] Last week's total!

* we started the week with (give or take) $205.52

5] Money reported this week!

+ Stacey and Ella's 30 cents (3 cans pilfered from various locales including the car repair shop)
+ Karen's 10 cents at Starbucks
+ Sandy's 10 cents from a FRUZZ bottle (whatever that is!)
+ Sandy and Sig's $3.05 a-like so: "proof positive, that students who use corbett hall are not in fact very environment friendly! The also like vodka...All these were in front on my car when I parked there today! total of these bottles. $1.05. then tonight we went out for a pizza, and found 2 quarters at safeways, 4!!! at London drug, and 5 juice bottles, for a further total of $2.00.
+ Karen and Kevin's 11 cents a-like so: "I have high hopes that vegas will provide so much money, but after our first day here, no such luck.
However, this morning at the calgary airport: 1 penny at Tim's, and a dime at starbucks"
+ Karen's 2 cents: "Found my first 2 Vegas coins. 2 pennies at starbucks". comforting to know that wherever we go, there are Starbucks...
+ Kevin's 1 cent from the Paris hotel buffet in Vegas
+ Karen's 1 cent from the casino floor at the Paris hotel
+ Karen's 10 cents a-like so: "A dime on the floor of the cab I am in now and damn rights I took it cuz he's making 'eh' jokes." damn rights, i sez too!
+ Karen's 1 cent from the airport kiosk. Vegas was not the goldmine we all imagined it would be...
+ Sandy's 60 cents from 6 juice boxes left at the University
+ Sandy and Sig's 40 cents a-like so: "just went out to montana's for supper,, spent $70.. way too overpriced.. picked up 4 beer cans on the way home. 40 cents.. sig says something is wrong with this picture.. I disagree"
+ Sandy's $1.60 a-like so: "things are looking slightly up. 4 safeway carts and 6 pop bottles."
+ Kim's 1 cent from the pub parking lot.

For a total this week of $6.42


Our grand total is now:

$211.94!!!!!!!!!

$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.

$106.23 is currently in the Charity Fund.

Bent money!!!

Found by Stacey on a dog walk! How does this happen!?? Perhaps it's the power of the mind. The discarded experiment of a guy who can't bend spoons but can bend money!

Unopened Booze Scavengers Backwards "R" Us!

Sandy and Sig are the finders of lost, unopened booze. (How does this happen, one wonders...) Sandy wonders whether a bottle of unopened vodka trumps 6 unopened beer in a hypotheitical game of No-$$ Xmas Scavenging Poker. I open it to the floor.

The haul Chez Johnson. While the hockey pucks and unopened beer don't count as money, the empty cans do, and who knows? Maybe someday Ella will be a famous NHL star, and if she signs those pucks, they'll be worth a mint on Ebay!!!

The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!
Volume 4, Number 2


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!

* hockey pucks, 7-Eleven bucks, full vodka bottles, and full cases of beer are not technically acceptable, but the beer cans and vodka bottles sure are! i'm not sure i want to taste "Lucky" beer anyway. it sounds... unlucky, somehow.

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

*if money is bent, is it still money? yes! let the teller worry about it. alternately, a sledgehammer could be taken to it prior to rolling.

3] General News!

*people in Jamaica drop money too, but they tend to stand on it so you can't get it! i saw a Canadian nickle under the foot of a Jamaican person at the airport but could not wait to get it. it was in that "no stopping!" zone.

* i apologize for the lateness of this newsletter. Easter and all that.


4] Last week's total!
* we started the week with (give or take) $193.03

5] Money reported this week! 

+ Kim's 2 cents (one in the liquor store and one in front of the Blockbusters)
+ Kim's LOONIE (!!!!!!!) from my first abandoned StoopidStore cart found 48 steps from a cart corral.
+ Larry, Stacey, and Ella's $1.32 a-like so: $1 (ten bottles/cans from an extended dog walk), 10 cents from a "pop" can found by ella, 1 cent at walmart by the coin turner toys, another 2 cans and another penny :)
+ Stacey's 10 cents from an abondoned bottle in the hallway
+ Kim's 1 cent on the ground outside the Matchbox theatre
+ Karen's 10 cents from the Husky station
+ Larry, Stacey, and Ella's $5.66 (!!!!!) a-like so: amy's nephew, 4 year old Daemon, found 11 cents at a restaurant for us - the fever of found money spreads! diet dr pepper bottle in parking lot at walmart, just laying in the middle of the road not even driven over - 10 cents. having breakfast with baba found a juice box in denny's parking lot - 10 cents. the three of us went for a slushy spring walk around our skating rink at school and through part of our forest and found...
a shiny new quarter (a tad muddy). 13 empties of a various drinks. 3 hockey pucks. a soggy 7-11 Big Buck. and a 6 pack of unopened 'Lucky' beer stashed away in the woods, now drained down the sink (sorry, buddy who forgot where they were)
1 spring walkabout = $3.55. ella, oma and opa's jaunt about sherwood park yesterday - a wonderfully warm day i might add - 2 carts and a dime = 60 cents. ella and i from the school's hallways - 2 water bottles - 20 cents, another dog walk along main boulveard - 10 very yucky bottles - $1
+ Stacey's 3 cents from Vi and Ella's kindergarten teacher
+ Sandy's 26 cents from one cart and a penny at the liquor store.
+ Maryann's 45 cents not picked up by (obviously weathy) students! a-like so: "5 CENTS where I was looking for the lost money that I had found and lost because I was so excited so it was found then lost but now found 25 cents while looking for th eother Dime or Nickle can't remember doesn't matter we're money ahead. 10 cents from the grade three classroom that was there for 2 days( I left it to see if someone would pick it up... obviously they are wealthier than that) so I picked it up today. 10 cents today when I was taking the car to have the tires checked, drove around back to the service dept door and there was a dime by th egarbage can not for long."
+ Ella's 60 cents (!!!!) from 2 carts and a pop can with Oma.
+ Karen's 2 cents from EB games
+ Karen's 26 cents from under the toonie massage chairs at the mall
+ Karen's 30 cents (3 bottles - 1 at the mall and 2 at the zoo). RED LETTER DAY FOR KAREN!
+ Stacey's 40 cents a-like so: "another untouched can in walmart parking lot, a dented dime, beer bottle and can found when walking the dog"
+ Sandy's 85 cents from ditch scavenging, including a full unopened bottle of vodka!!
+ Maryann's 10 cents found in front of Sig and Sandy's garage. since they never use the front door, it could be anyone's. the newsletter will let it go in the fund. this time.
+ Karen's 20 cents (one from Safeway and one at Shoppers).
+ Karen's 10 cents from one bottle at Ol' Faithful (the downtown parkade)
+ Kim's 11 cents from the college parking lot
+ Sandy's 60 cents from 2 carts and a squooshed water bottle



For a total this week and a half of $12.49


Our grand total is now (I think, though it must be counted up manually; there's a reason Kevin is the financial planner in the family and not me):

$205.52!!!!!!!!!

$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.

$99.81 is currently in the Charity Fund.

The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!
Volume 4, Number 1


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: if you think it's money but you're not sure, soak it in CLR overnight!

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

Sig: don't they ever clean that bank?
A: apparently not.

3] General News!

* money coming in after Tuesday 31 March will all be added to the Charity Fund till the end of the year. a big thank you to Stuey for coming up with the Free Xmas Dinner Fund idea. now that it's complete, we'll see what the total in the Dinner Fund will buy for Xmas day! see below for the Grand No-$$ Xmas Dinner Fund total!

4] Last week's total!
* we started the week with (give or take) $178.86

5] Money reported this week!

+ Stu's 12 cents from the ticket spitter (Ol' Faithful!) (23 March)
+ Karen's 10 cents from a plastic bottle in the Mill Woods parking lot (23 March)
+ Karen's 39 cents (!!!) from the Whyte Ave Tims. (23 March)
+ Kim's 25 cents from one cart while racing against time and the Buggy Boy to get it (24 March)


ALL MONIES APPEARING BELOW THIS LINE WILL BE ADDED TO THE CHARITY FUND. ALL MONEY COLLECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR GOES TO CHARITY. START THINKING ABOUT YOUR FAMILY'S PREFERRED CHARITY! WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CRAPLOAD OF CASH TO GIVE AWAY!!!!
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+ Sandy and Griffin's $2.60!! a-like so: "$2.25 found in safeway carts. 25 cents in a coin return in a pop machine!! thank you griffin for looking!! one water bottle (10 cents)" (01 April)
+ Sig and Sandy's $5.10!!!! "all safeway carts, but one wallmart loonie! and one beer can." (01 April)
+ Sig and Sandy's 35 cents a-like so: "one quarter at safeway (beautiful sunny day!) and a nickle under the same ATM machine at the bank where we found the money last time.. strangely, the nickle was there yesterday, but I couldnt get at it.. had to go back today, and there it still was!!
sig: "don't they ever clean?"" (01 April)
+ Karen's 1 cent at the Dangerousway (01 April)
+ Ella's 25 cents. her first cart find!!!! (01 April)
+ Karen's $1.35 in the arts centre vending machine! Good Lord!!!!!!! (01 April)
+ Karen's 1 cent at the Dalhousie 7-Eleven (02 April)
+ Griffin's 3 cents at Coffee and Scream (02 April)
+ Sig and Sandy's $1.60 (!!!!!!!) a-like so: "one LOONIE in a super store cart, 2 quarters at safeway, one bottle of water that the med students gave me, so I didnt buy it, so I can count the dime."
+ Sandy's $1.35 a-like so: "one LOONIE in a zellers cart!! and one thing that might be a quarter or might be a slug.. I have it soaking in CLR to find out. and one squished water bottle in the parking lot.."
+ Sandy's 20 cents from two drink containers (mom! every smelly old germ-riddled pop can counts!) (03 April)
+ Ella's 1 cent at Boston Pizza (!!!!!!!) here's her note to me: "I found a pene at bostin pezu. ella"
+ Kim's 35 cents from the floor of Stu's pub (04 April)
+ Kim's 10 cents from outside the health food store (05 April)



For a total this week and a half of $14.17


Our grand total is now (I think, though it must be counted up manually; there's a reason Kevin is the financial planner in the family and not me):

$193.03!!!!!!!!!

$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund. well done, money scroungers!

$87.32 is currently in the Charity Fund.

CLR cleans everything!

If you can't tell if it's a slug or a quarter, soak it in CLR overnight to reveal its true nature!!

Her first cart find!

I like the cookie in her teeth!