Find a penny........

I remember finding a £5 note too, in a snowy wood where we had gone to buy a Christmas tree. It paid for the tree. Shows how long ago it was!
As a kid, I used to stay with my aunt, uncle and my 3 boy cousins (because I was the closest thing my Aunt had to a daughter). One time I went for a walk with my Uncle but instead of walking in the surrounding countryside he walked along the main road, searching the roadside for screws and nuts and bolts - anything that might have fallen off a car! This was at a time when most people could service their own cars and Uncle reckoned that these bits might come on useful for his car sometime.

Uncle sounds like  my dad. We kids were always on the lookout for bits and bobs, screws, nails and suchlike to bring home for dad in his various workshop. P could never really understand why he kept empty jam jars full of rusty nails etc.  I once found a purse with about £80 in but no ID and reported it to the police who told me to keep it for a couple of months and if I heard nothing it was mine.  It was found outside a pawn shop/cash converters and I always felt so sorry for the person who lost it. No one ever claimed it.