Hi fellow seniors, did you or have you ever lost your purse/wallet?

Question

Eldest Son lost his wallet earlier on today, it contained a few pounds, debit card and wage slip.

He and his wife hunted high and low, left no stone unturned, cancelled the details on the card only to find it two hours later in the..... washing machine.

It was a mangled mess as were his jeans and socks.

Oh the relief far outweighed the anxiety or embarrassment of having cancelled the card and ironing the very washed out money, (putting a new slant on freshly laundered notes.)

So have you ever lost and found or possibly been unlucky enough to lose and never found your personal funds?

Answer 1

I have found wallets belonging to other people five times in the past several years. Which I guess is sort of amazing. (Three of them in phone booths. That's a popular place to leave a wallet. Or it used to be. For the past couple of years the phone booths around here have been disappearing.)



But more amazing to me is that I always go to the trouble of finding the owner and returning the wallet, and nobody ever thanks me. Once I spent an entire afternoon tracking down the owner of one of the phone-booth wallets, who lived in another state. I finally got a phone number for them and called them up long-distance, which cost me several dollars, and asked how I should return their property. "Just mail it to us," the woman said breezily. Which cost me another five bucks.



But the funniest time was when I found a wallet while walking in the woods, and when I got back to town I called the owner and explained what happened. She was very angry and suspicious and said she was coming right over to my house to get her property and that I shouldn't go anywhere. She made it sound like I was a thief but that she had caught me re-handed. A few minutes later a pickup truck pulled up out front and the woman I'd talked to on the phone got out and banged on my door while her man kept the motor running. I smiled and gave her the wallet and she grabbed it and gave me a dirty look and stomped back to the truck and they drove off in a cloud of dust.



That's the human race for you.

Answer 2

I must be lucky as it happened to me twice. Once I left my wallet in the child seat of the grocery shopping cart. I did not realize until I got home what happened. Needless to say I rushed back out and sped all the way to the grocery store's parking lot where I got my wallet back. Had a customer pick up the cart to use inside they would have found it. The other time I dropped my wallet while getting in the car and drove off. After realizing I lost my wallet, I retraced my steps and lo and behold my wallet was on the ground at the spot where I parked earlier.

Answer 3

I came home from the supermarket one day, and put a couple of things in the refrigerator, including my wallet, which I didn't intend to do. About 4 hours later, I realized that didn't have my wallet on my person, I panicked, ransacked the house, got on the phone and called the 2 credit companies and had my accounts frozen, and notified the police dept. Later that night, I went to get a beer and say my wallet in the refrigerator.



All that for nothing, but at least I found it, and no one had my drivers license.

Answer 4

Yes, mine dropped out of a too-full purse several years ago. Now, I never take a purse into a store....keep it in the trunk of my car. Also never carry anything into a store except my car keys, and whatever one debit card/cash I am going to use in the store.



Cancelling a credit card is a snap....but the hassle comes from having to get a new driver's license...and dealing with the bank over all the checks that someone will write when they take the information off your checks and order new ones from one of a thousand firms that now print checks.



You call and give the banks the numbers of the checks that were stolen. Crooks KNOW you will do this....so they order NEW checks with all your information....with numbers starting higher than the ones you reported stolen. RESULT: All that info about those bad checks....for which you are probably untimately not responsible....still goes to Telecheck and forever after, you have problems writing checks in stores. You can't ever get it straightened out....either.



Plus most states will not give you a new driver's license NUMBER when you report yours lost or stolen...they just issue a new one with the same number. That means anyone who alters the picture on your license could easily give your license number during a traffic stop.



It is another thing you can bet you will have endless woes getting straightened out....plus the risk you run of the true problems of identity theft that can cost you thousands of dollars to straighten out.



Not worth it to even carry them around on your person!



PS. Consider this if you are a person who still wags a purse into a store .....if someone steals your purse, not only do they have EVERYTHING in your purse....they also have your keys....and YOUR ADDRESS!!! And the keys to your car sitting in your driveway once you get home that night.



So, locksmith time for your house, your CAR.... major expense!!

Answer 5

About 30 years ago I sat my purse on top of the car while loading a child and drove off. I realized it a few miles down the road while looking for something, and remember what I had done. I turned around and backtracked and it was still lying in the street where it had slid off. I was very lucky. My ex-husband lost his wallet on the beach and the person who picked it up was kind enough to drop it off at the local police station. Minus $50. That was a small price with everything still in it.

Answer 6

Many years ago I left my bag on a bus and after phoning the bus company,with no luck,I assumed that it was gone for good,then a girl I knew only slightly came to the door with my bag and everything intact.She had been on the bus ,noticed after I,d got off that the bag was there ,.realised she knew where I lived and walked a couple of miles to return it.She wouldn,t take any reward no matter how much I tried and I was so grateful to get back money and personal belongings.

Many years later I was sitting on a bench outside the local church waiting to go in for a carol service my daughter was taking part in when I foolishly left my bag on the bench.We had only been in the church for a few minutes when I realised I hadn,t got it So my husband went out to look ,with no success.After the service we went to the police station where it had been handed in by someone who found it in a hedge,minus £30 in notes and several £1 coins.So,you win some you lose some!

Answer 7

Yes, I had someone steal my wallet right out of my purse. I had just opened my purse and put the merchandise on the counter and that fast they had stolen my wallet. The next day I got a call from a small store nearby and they had found my wallet in their garbage. The money was gone but everything else was still in it. I was very, very lucky and I am very, very careful now.

Answer 8

Yes & it's the reason why I no longer carry a purse or a bag or a wallet. If it doesn't fit in a pocket - I don't need it. It has uncomplicated my life. The only time I had a problem was when I had a medical emergency in the underground rail station & the ambulance took me to a hospital & put me in a gown. When I woke up, everything that was in my pockets was gone! My clothing was in a bag - my shoes & belongs were gone...never to be seen again!

Answer 9

Yes I did when I was much younger. It was a real pain to have to replace all of the cards and ID I had, and

the money as well. I guess it bothered me terribly afterward, as for years, I have had a dream where I am

frantic, due to losing my wallet and find myself stranded. They all play out differently, but the panic is always

there. I don't know why I'm having these dreams so late in life. And I'm always relieved to wake up and find

where I am, and not have to worry any longer.

Answer 10

I lost my wallet in the mountains one year. It had a 100 dollar bill in it, so I was pretty sad. 6 months later a deer hunter stranger found it and delivered it to my door. The money was still there. There are some great people in this world.

Answer 11

I lost my wallet in the street and a lady found it and returned it to me. I do not know how she traced me. I dropped a ten pound note on the london underground at Euston and a gentleman tapped me on the shoulder and gave it back to me.

I have also lost my cards cancelled them and found them again.

Yes I did fell very stupid each time

Answer 12

Yes, unfortunately, I've been the victim of bag theft three times in the last ten years, losing everything contained in the bag each time, including the things you mention, plus phone, my best camera, items of jewellery, and last time, an album of over 50 irreplaceable family photos I was taking to show somebody Believe me, that was far more painful than anything else and I still stress over it, especially when I need the photographs

Answer 13

Yes, Lily, just last month.

Overall, it put me about $100 in the hole.

the cash ($60) was kept, also my ATM card (going to try to use it like a credit card I suppose...). They put the wallet with driver's license and other little papers in the mailbox, it was delivered back to me.

BUT! Not before I canceled my ATM card ($10 to replace) and ordered a copy of the driver's license ($25 - for the same copy!).

Scabs, I wanna' slap 'em.

My own fault, didn't keep a grip on the wallet, nobody's fault but my negligence...

Answer 14

Twice in 15 yrs...first time, left my entire purse [an expensive Coach bag] on the subway [had fallen asleep and when we arrived at my station I just got up and walked off with purse on the floor]

Got back all my money and ID in the mail, but not the purse]



2nd time, left wallet on counter at Service Desk in Grocers...returned, and got everything back!

Answer 15

Yes several years ago I lost my wallet in a convenient store. It turned up in another state minus the money and valuables. The high way patrol of that state mailed it back to me.

Answer 16

Only once. Had a so-called "friend" take my purse at a bar. I had to get all my I.D. reissued. Long before I had credit cards, thank God! Still it was a real problem getting my Social Insurance and Medical Insurance and Birth Certificate cards re-issued!



I betcha your son was relieved!

Answer 17

my husband lost his wallet the other day before christmas. i beseeched him before calling to cancel his cards. i entreated him to look where it might be. his agitation was great. after cancelling the second card, we looked where it had been kicked under the bed.

first question always is, where is the last place you saw it? we searched the laundry.

a guy at church says he wishes his wife would lose the credit cards.

Answer 18

as i walked in from shoping one day, i had a phone call from the shoping centre, asking me if i'm missing anything, mystified, i said no. it turned out after i put the shoping in the car,i had left my handbag in the trolly, and a very nice young man returned it to the office, apart from cards , drivers licence ,mobile phone ,and other personal things, there was also over $200 in it, all untouchd, how lucky was i ??

Answer 19

never had that happen to me but it did happen to my late husband. I found his wallet in the bathroom and he had gone off to work, I had to take three kids with me and bring it to him

Answer 20

yes..and someone found it and returned the wallet...that's why i tell my mother with dementia..remove the photos or make copies...some of the items in her wallet are irreplaceable