Comments on: The Mysterious Adventures a 26-Year-Old Wallet

By: Hiptobeme

Hiptobeme — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:05:17 +0000

Maybe the seventy year old was the theif and was on his or her death bed. Creepy.

By: How I Spent My $6.05

How I Spent My $6.05 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:02:58 +0000

[...] wrote a few days back about how my wallet from 1983 was anonymously mailed to my father’s house. It was a time capsule of my 15 year old self, [...]

By: lorene

lorene — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:31:59 +0000

Give it away to a truly needy person.

By: Kris-ND

Kris-ND — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:23:03 +0000

Oh, I like that idea! That would be a fun thing to see. Lip Gloss maybe? Trying to think about what I would have spent money on at 15, and the one thing that popped into my head was Jack in the Box tacos..lol

When I was 15/16, my friends and I would go to Jack in the Box down the street from the high school every day for lunch(Open campus). The Jack in the Box tacos were really cheap, so we could get a bunch and share for cheap.

I am interested to see what you will do with it, if you take the idea Iris gave you.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:19:13 +0000

Take your Dad to the thrift store with you, and have fun! Also, suggest to him that he might want to get his locks changed. You never know!!!

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:36:01 +0000

Yes, give the 15 year old within a treat. Wet ‘n Wild sounds just right.

One time my uncle’s wallet showed up years after he had died. Here it was in a box of unrelated stuff, at my Mom’s house. She was blank about how it might have gotten there. But we gave the wallet to my aunt, who was the only surviving member of that part of the family. She was moved to tears when she got the wallet with her big brother’s license, social security card and navy I D, etc. It was truly a time capsule from 1947 that made us all think about him, even his nieces who never got to meet him. For me, the wallet at last made him a real person.

By: namastemama

namastemama — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:16:51 +0000

This is my fav. Do some version of this suggestion. I thought you should frame the money with your ID so you always have this memory to look at and ponder on.

By: Becky

Becky — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:24 +0000

I think you should take your Dad out for coffee/ice cream or whatever would have been your favorite splurge when you were 15. The universe sent you a message by having it delivered to your Dad.

By: WilliamB

WilliamB — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:43:00 +0000

Absolutely not cheating. Money is fungible – why does it matter *which* $5 bill you use?

PS: the thieving person isn’t necessarily a boy.

By: Lorna

Lorna — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:43:05 +0000

Send it to Haiti…it might just make some teenage Haitian girl’s day!