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Pay attention and you might be $40 richer.
« on: December 27, 2012, 09:32:02 PM »
I know the subject sounds like a scam but let me explain.

I read the book One Pound per day by a Britain teacher and start paying attention when I am walking on the street, sit in a bus, come out from subway station, pass by ATM/payphone/vending machine.

Long story short, I picked up $41.60 over the last 6 months, coin by coin, cent by cent.

Although my story is not a confirmed income stream, but I think it is worth at least trying?

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« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2012, 10:01:32 PM »
I like this.  It's advocating for paying attention and being present instead of starring at a phone screen or blaring music in your ears.  Cool thought!

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« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2012, 10:48:47 PM »
might help keep my kids occupied on walks and waiting for the bus, too. :)

good idea to keep count of it all. I like it.

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« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2012, 12:40:59 AM »
I like this.  It's advocating for paying attention and being present instead of starring at a phone screen or blaring music in your ears.  Cool thought!

Protect your ear and earn some money at the same time. Cool!

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« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2012, 08:40:26 AM »
Good advice even if it doesn't earn you a cent. Why let the world pass you by when there is so much to see even on the same routes you walk/drive/ride every day. Plus you'll notice when things aren't right. Might even lead to other things. That special someone, hearing about your dream job, whatever.

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« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2012, 07:46:16 PM »
One more trick, you should have that intention but not paying too much attention. I realized whenever I pay my full attention, the coin and cent does not appear. It is when I just have the intention and just strolling around, they would came to me.

Besides money, I have picked up countless other stuff like brand new umbrella, bus fare card, cash card, key chain, etc..

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« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2012, 11:04:54 PM »
And the real joy to found money is that it is tax free.  A penny saved is more like a penny and a half earned -- even more after we go over the fiscal cliff!

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« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2012, 02:08:55 AM »
And the real joy to found money is that it is tax free.  A penny saved is more like a penny and a half earned -- even more after we go over the fiscal cliff!

What is fiscal cliff?

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« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2012, 05:22:14 AM »
And the real joy to found money is that it is tax free.  A penny saved is more like a penny and a half earned -- even more after we go over the fiscal cliff!

What is fiscal cliff?

Oh dear. Please look at any financial news item in any media anywhere in the world.

The "cliff" is the large expected fall in GDP. Basically last year the US Congress conspired to put in place a set of tax increases and spending cuts that would guarantee a recession on the assumption that they couldn't be that stupid and stubborn and would definitely strike a better deal before 1 Jan 2013. But they are that stupid and stubborn and here we are.

The evening news in Aus ran with the cliff as the second top story. They interviewed air traffic controllers who would be put on indefinite leave because the government can't pay them. The bloody stupid Tea Party thinks that all federal spending is bad and air traffic controllers are not worthy of Government spending. I suppose Paramedics, Fireman and Police Officers shouldn't be funded too.

I hate ranting but it shits me that some very wealthy people in the US are happy to fuck the world just because they can.




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Re: Pay attention and you might be $40 richer.
« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2012, 01:01:11 PM »
I know the subject sounds like a scam but let me explain.
I read the book One Pound per day by a Britain teacher and start paying attention when I am walking on the street, sit in a bus, come out from subway station, pass by ATM/payphone/vending machine.
Long story short, I picked up $41.60 over the last 6 months, coin by coin, cent by cent.
Although my story is not a confirmed income stream, but I think it is worth at least trying?
Nearly 30 years ago my spouse was stationed at a military base that conducted daily flight ops.

It was a small command with not a lot of staff, so they pulled together on many duties.  One of them was the daily FOD walkdown.  Each morning everyone in the command would line up at one end of the runway (at roughly arms length) and walk the length of the tarmac looking for debris that could cause "foreign object damage" to jet engine intakes.  Everybody scanned the ground as they walked, but it was also somewhat social-- time for planning the rest of the day or just chatting.  She did this roughly 400 times during the 18 months she was stationed there.

Today she can still spot an old coin on the road or the sidewalk at least 20 paces away.  She walks every evening, and most of them she brings home a coin or two.

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« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2012, 06:45:59 PM »
Plus, "And then I found five dollars" is a great ending to any story.  Any story.

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« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2012, 06:48:53 PM »
Plus, "And then I found five dollars" is a great ending to any story.  Any story.
Reminds me of the old joke "Who the heck gave you five dollars?!?"...

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Re: Pay attention and you might be $40 richer.
« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2012, 08:39:27 PM »
And the real joy to found money is that it is tax free.  A penny saved is more like a penny and a half earned -- even more after we go over the fiscal cliff!

What is fiscal cliff?

Oh dear. Please look at any financial news item in any media anywhere in the world.

The "cliff" is the large expected fall in GDP. Basically last year the US Congress conspired to put in place a set of tax increases and spending cuts that would guarantee a recession on the assumption that they couldn't be that stupid and stubborn and would definitely strike a better deal before 1 Jan 2013. But they are that stupid and stubborn and here we are.

The evening news in Aus ran with the cliff as the second top story. They interviewed air traffic controllers who would be put on indefinite leave because the government can't pay them. The bloody stupid Tea Party thinks that all federal spending is bad and air traffic controllers are not worthy of Government spending. I suppose Paramedics, Fireman and Police Officers shouldn't be funded too.

I hate ranting but it shits me that some very wealthy people in the US are happy to fuck the world just because they can.

Wow, a pretty harsh view of things here.  My understanding is that there is a reasonable concern about the US maintaining a 16.4 TRILLION dollar debt, one that increases -- from interest alone -- by more than a quarter million dollars a SECOND, and that something needs to be done about this problem before the country crashes.  I don't think anyone intends to single out air traffic controllers, or paramedics, firemen, or police.  I also don't see how any of this can be attributed to wealthy people wishing to "fuck the world."  It might be more accurate to complain about people wanting to live off of a government that can no longer afford to pay for it, but I won't go there.

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Re: Pay attention and you might be $40 richer.
« Reply #13 on: January 01, 2013, 02:18:06 AM »
Two years ago , my wife and I arrived home from grocery shopping.  We lived on the 2nd story of an apartment complex in Hampton, VA at the time.  It was snowing out.

We both walked inside, with groceries loaded up from the car.  I returned to the car to get another load of bags, magically, three $20's were laying on the snow on the sidewalk we had just walked on not 30 seconds prior.  They weren't ours, we didn't have ANY cash on us.  I picked them up, looked around, nobody was outside at all.  Nobody was talking or laughing or anything.  I put them in my pocket and proceeded with the groceries.  Went back inside with the fresh load, told my wife. 

Wow, right?  That bright green of money really stands out on the white snow.

I leashed our two dogs to take them out to pee, walked downstairs... same EXACT spot, another $20, sitting right on top of the snow.  Nobody present, anywhere.  I put it in my pocket, walked the dogs, went inside, told my wife. 

To this day we don't know what the hell happened.  Maybe a social experiment, maybe not.  No idea really.  But I had $80 more that day.

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« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2013, 02:32:42 AM »
To this day we don't know what the hell happened.  Maybe a social experiment, maybe not.  No idea really.  But I had $80 more that day.

It shows we are a bunch of frugal and lucky people. I will need to start pay attention to other place since I joined in the bicycle challenge and going to cycle more to and from work. This sure cut down my time in bus and subway station. I think my new money pickup place will be bicycle park and library sofa(I stopped buying book, dig out my library card and borrowed them instead).

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Re: Pay attention and you might be $40 richer.
« Reply #15 on: January 01, 2013, 09:30:47 AM »
I leashed our two dogs to take them out to pee, walked downstairs... same EXACT spot, another $20, sitting right on top of the snow.  Nobody present, anywhere.  I put it in my pocket, walked the dogs, went inside, told my wife. 
I'd be looking for the snare (like a Roadrunner-Wile E. Coyote cartoon) or the hidden camera...

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« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2013, 09:26:05 AM »
To this day we don't know what the hell happened.  Maybe a social experiment, maybe not.  No idea really.  But I had $80 more that day.

Maybe somebody on the 3rd story was throwing them out the window?

Anyway, I found a dollar on the floor at Home Depot the other day. Somebody had apparently stepped on it in muddy boots so I had to go wash it off in the sink, but hey, every little bit helps.

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« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2013, 07:29:14 AM »
Just found a crumpled $20 bill outside by my car (really).  I was looking down.  Now things are looking up!

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« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2013, 03:11:33 PM »
Haha, I was at the ATM, thinking about this post, and looked down, voila, there was twenty cents! Magic.

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« Reply #19 on: January 07, 2013, 02:37:41 AM »
Just found a crumpled $20 bill outside by my car (really).  I was looking down.  Now things are looking up!

You are one lucky lady, we all are!

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« Reply #20 on: January 07, 2013, 02:40:10 AM »
Haha, I was at the ATM, thinking about this post, and looked down, voila, there was twenty cents! Magic.

Haha. Congratulation on your good luck.

I also found 30 cents of coin this morning. Seems like more and more wealth are coming into our life, hahaha!!