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Project Ebenezer - Christmas For Free
Picking Up Lost Coins

Do you stop to pick up dropped coins?

Is there a lower value limit below which you won't stoop to pick it up?

If it's just a penny or two, do you drop your change on the ground to save the bother of pocketing it?

These are the things I need to know.

How And Where To Find Lost Money

I've even surprised myself at the number of dropped coins I'm finding - I do walk quite a bit though - about a mile in either direction to/from the train station each weekday and an hour long walk in Portsmouth city centre most lunchtimes.

Prime locations for found money tend to be:

-Essentially, anywhere that anyone might find themselves with small change in hand, and be preoccupied with eating something, or doing something.


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On the previous pages, I collected lost money to fund an experiment in luck - this can't be described as a massive success - I continued until near the end of 2009 - buying a further six or seven lottery tickets, however the results of playing the lottery are approximately the same as for not playing. There's got to be a better use for all these pennies I keep finding...

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Project Horseshoe is over - here comes Project Ebenezer.

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Starting on 01 December 2009, I carried on collecting every dropped coin I saw, but this time, I'm saving them up in a jar.

I'm planning to keep this up for a whole year - so at the start of December 2010 - hoping to have accumulated enough found money to be able to do something useful...

...I'm hoping to fund all of next year's Christmas dinner with money I picked up for free.

I'll post the running total here at the end of each month.


December 2009

At the end of the first month, I've managed to find £2.53 in loose change (that's it in the jar above) - a fantastic start!

January 2010

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I found £2.38 in January - bringing the total to £4.91.

The fund so far is composed of an assortment of denominations from 1p to 50p - a total of 113 coins - that's an average of about two coins found per day.


February 2010

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A phenomenal month's find!

£5.06 in February - more than December and January combined - the total is now £9.97.

In the three months so far, there has not been a single working day where I have returned home without having found at least a penny.


Projection

It's still likely that the Christmas meal fund will be somewhere in the region of £30 - but that will happen even if monthly finds are as modest at they were in January. If they carry on like they did in February, it could be as much as £60. The projected average is probably skewed unrealistically high at the moment.

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A better month for me too - £1.02 which brings me to £1.27 (projects to £7.62). New theory: it's not so much how much I walk but how much others walk or take their hands out of their pockets, dropping the odd coin that counts. Once the snow had gone the pickings went up, then nothing as the frost descended...

Posted by Fennel Crumblecheese on Feb 28 2010 at 18:27
25p which projects to a whopping £3 lol. 3 bottles of sh you know who or a cheap bottle of plonk. Feb started better with a 20p coin, but am wondering... are Dundee folk cannier with their money? Or do I walk less than you? (Don't drive) Or do I walk in less money-dropping areas? (Maybe - very rarely brave town). Will update in March but thinking Talisker unlikely

Posted by Fennel Crumblecheese on Feb 3 2010 at 09:06
Since I only stumbled on your site New Years my jar will be for Hogmanay so naturally shall be called the HogMoney jar. Still under snow so still no coins found. At this rate I won't even be able to buy a can of Irn Bru :-(

Posted by Fennel Crumblecheese on Jan 4 2010 at 11:47
I have my 2010 jar at the ready. I'll let you know how I get on.

Posted by Dundee Doll on Jan 2 2010 at 11:10