Happy New Year!!

Hi, all and Happy 2009!!

Just a quick post to wish all a Happy New Year and wish the best for everyone this year!

I also need to reset our "found money" counter. Last year we found $44.46 US, $4.20 CAD, $0.10 EUR and $0.10 KYD. A much better year than the previous when we only found $9.11 total -- but we didn't start until March of 2007 for that project. I also never separated the US dollars from Canadian. Most of our found money that we found was in coin form, however we did find 1-$5 bill and 1-$1 bill. I also found 1/2 of a $1 bill, but I didn't count it since what do you do with a dollar ripped in half??

This year I am resetting our counter, but since we found $0.11 at Denny's yesterday, we start above $0.00 already!! Woo hoo!! We shall see if we can beat last year's record. We have yet to beat Hawksbill's record of $50, but no fair since he found a $50 bill on the floor of a bar!! OK--so it counts...but this year, we will beat that record-I know we will!!

As a reminder of our "found money" rules: 1) You cannot keep money that you physically see someone drop--you have to give it back (my kids don't like that rule). 2) Money found in your own car, your own house, or in your own couch cushions does not count. 3) Money found someone else's house, car, etc. also doesn't count because you know it belongs to whoever owns that house, car, etc. Finally, 4) you are not required to pick up money that you find in gross places (public bathrooms, in puddles of gross mud or oil, money that generally looks disgusting for some reason or another.) At the end of the year, you can do whatever you want with your found money--invest it, spend it, donate it to your favorite charity...it is all up to you.

Have a wonderful New Year everyone!!!