When I was very young
My brother and I found an old lady's purse, which contained forty English pounds, and we didn’t hand it in.

We didn't tell our parents, knowing full well we'd be made to return it if we did... And deducing that any large purchases would arouse suspicion, we blew the fucking lot on sweets.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 8:46, 9 replies)

When I was young, I saw forty pounds on the floor but I panicked and ran away! That would have bought a lot of rhubarb and custards :-(
( awayfromthenumbers, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 11:31, closed)

£40 buys a hell of a lot of sweets
And it bought a hell of a lot more fifteen years ago.

Why the cocking hell did you run away!
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 11:39, closed)

I thought it might be a trap and Jeremy Beadle would be around the corner pulling it on a bit of string...
( awayfromthenumbers, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 16:11, closed)

same here
me and my sister found a purse with £73 in it. we went to southport for the day and blew it all on rides, junk food and penny arcades.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 21:03, closed)

My brother and I found a purse with about 250 quid in it, in 1974. Scarborough. Turned it in to the police.

Thought nothing of it. Turned out it was holiday money for a single mother and her two kids. We got a fiver each for being honest and upright schoolkids (I was maybe 13.)

One thing has bugged me all these years. Scarborough? Who holidays in Scarborough? FFS.

Length? We were there about a year before moving down to between Leighton Buzzard and Bletchley.
(Large Hardon Collider Bah Bloody Humbug, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 23:35, closed)

That would have been about 10 weeks wages in 1974....
I could have thought of better things to spend it on than Scarborough. Like anything else really.
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 23:42, closed)

Like getting the hell out of Scarborough? I was only a kid, else I'd have been gone. What a dump.
(Large Hardon Collider Bah Bloody Humbug, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 7:52, closed)

if it was in the summer of 1974
you could have spent it on a gift for me, as i was born that october
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 28 Aug 2010, 0:45, closed)

so was I,
the 7th infact.
(Kip, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 17:07, closed)