For regular mall-goers...

[Fidget]

How cool reading everyone's tales of found items.  I haven't found anything interesting in a while - probably should get out a bit more often. 

[lovesclutter]

My name is Terri and I'm a magpie!

Welcome Terri

Well it all started.... Can't even remember. I do have luck with the cash. Like the other poster I lost a $50 bill one time, but I have found more. I found $40 under a booth vacuuming up one night a pizza hut. I found $300 in the middle of the highway, right on the yellow line (around 1975 or so, that was a lot of money), turned the car around and stopped in the middle of the street and picked it up. I found $80 walking up a long drive to a church rummage sale. Well, sad to say, but I kept it. That is why I wasn't so upset at losing the $50. Our area had just been severely flooded and figured someone needed it worse than me (though we were living paycheck to paycheck)

I found a mini mouse watch one of the good ones in the restroom off of I80 I think in Kansas, Had that for years. Gave it to a bf's daughter. I found a dresser a day after my nephew living with me recently told me he needed one. Thank goodness I finally have a truck.

With being out of work since December, I need every penny, lol, but don't go anywhere, no use burning gas to go to the mall. I am not 'comfortable' walking alone in my neighborhood lately, but may have to as all of you have inspired me.

Oh yes, one of my diving friends found a bunch of thrown out stuff next to her house, she like furniture, I like shiny things so she brought me a little baggy full of jewelry, mostly broken, but some of it was 10K gold and sterling. The best item was an 18K gold filigree amethyst ring, which has the hallmarks inside. I'm wearing it now. What a find.

I don't need help. I'm not in denial. 

[beefishie]

I found a huge diamond looking stone and had it set. i love it! finding things and then using them in my crafts is a way that I remember vacations and the like. It is so much cooler than buying a souvineer.

[lovesclutter]

Yes, and would make any collage gifts of remembrance special to the recipient. I have used many of the little do-dads I find in my gifts.

[Molly.Connelly]

this thread is great.
I need to become more of a Magpie. you see lots of stuff on the ground at the retail store I work at. I brought my cat home a toy car and a toy lizard that I found on the floor at work hahaha

[groperesponsibly]

I absolutely love finding things!  One of these days i'm going to buy a metal detector and go playing!!!  I LOVE love love having my own personal scavenger hunt.  Like at parks!  Oh I love parks, they're one of the best spots!

[katilady]

i need to cultivate this magpie skill! what's the secret? to keep looking at the ground?

[jcorn]

Yes, just keep your eyes focused slightly ahead of your feet, and you too may find many shiny things!!

I blame my dad for my magpie syndrome.  He was the one who showed me what an agate was, and from then on, I keep looking to see if I could find them too!  We lived on a mile-long gravel road, and I would walk back and forth daily looking at the road trying to find bits of agate.  I remember filling coffee cans with the little broken ones.

My favorite find is the diamond ring I wear!!  My boyfriend found it way underneath the murphy bed in his studio apartment after having lived there several years.  The diamond is very small, but is surrounded by a floral filigree design that is very cool!

[NavyBlue4Eight]

I know the thread has gone dead, but I just found it and wanted to add.  I too have lost money (ouch).  I once lost a favorite scarf that I bought on vacation at a restaurant - I went back the next night and they claimed it wasn't there when they cleared the table 
However, I have found a lot if nifty things over the years.  Most recently:  my DH and I put a small patio in our yard this summer.  While digging, we found a bunch of intact glass bottles - one of them brown.  You don't see the brown ones often anymore.  I haven't decided what to do with them yet, but the brown one is sitting in my kitchen window where it can catch the sunlight during the day.

[thegreengriffin]

i found a broken glass chess board outside my apartment.  It was great frosted checkered glass.  I took big pieces, but i haven't figured out what to do with them yet...