If you found a plastic envelope with coupons in it at the grocery store would you keep it or turn it in to?

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Grocery coupons. I only ask because I did take them. My husband and I got in a huge fight and the only way to end it was for me to go back to the store and hand them in to customer service. I added a whole bunch that I didn't need. I doubt anyone will come back for them.

Answer 1

Dear Elizabeth,

If I found such an envelope I would turn it in to customer service.

I know that I would hope someone would do the same thing for me if I lost something.

Yesterday I had a really exciting experience. I was doing my daily walk with my daughter and 11 month old grandson. We were walking in the street so we could walk side-by-side and visit. I saw lots of leaves in the street and then I saw a WAD of money that looked rather grungy!

I looked at it in shock for a moment and waited to see if my daughter saw it but she didn't. I picked up the money and just held it. I saw a man come to the door of the house we were in front of so I asked him if he had lost any money. He said no and came out to see what I was talking about. It was a pile of everything from $1s to $50s. I was planning to take the money to the police station but there was a torn deposit slip and my daughter managed to read a restaurant name on it. The amount said $1412. The man recognized the restaurant and being owned by his next door neighbors and said he'd give me an envelope to put the money in the front door. I didn't want to do that so I said I'd take the money home and I gave the man my address. Before we walked away the restaurant owner drove up.

I asked the owner if he had lost any money and he looked at me in shock when I gave him the wad of money. He asked what he could do for me and I said "nothing". So he said then he'd give my grandson some money and he stuck a $50 in his jacket.

A short while after we got home from our walk the other owner of the restaurant came to the door with an envelope of money and an adorable stuffed animal in a gift bag. She said it was a miracle. The money had been missing for 5 days. She hugged me and my daughter and was near to tears when she left.

There was another $150 in the envelope. My daughter insisted the money belongs to me since I was the one who saw it. So I'll take her to lunch tomorrow and put an extra donation in the offering plate at church on Sunday.

Edit - Elizabeth, don't beat yourself up about the coupons. And it isn't worth getting into an argument. Life is too short for that. If it makes you feel any better, I cut out a lot of coupons but I don't use a whole lot of them any more. I went from shopping for a family of 4 to just me so a lot of the coupons I clip are out of habit. Sometimes I will hand a coupon to somebody I see with the product in the checkout line.

Answer 2

First of all, finders keepers, losers weepers. You found them, they're yours to keep. And by the time you turned the coupons into customer service, more than likely, whoever lost the envelope containing the coupons was long gone and was finished with their shopping. It's not like it would've mattered after they were at home and had finished unpacking the groceries. And coupons are free so no-one lost any money. The only things that were lost was the 5 minutes of their life it took to cut all of them out, and all that time and effort you wasted driving back up to the store to turn them in, the awkwardness of turning in coupons, and the emotional abuse that was left on you from your husband. You're husband had no right to throw such a hissy fit over such a tiny problem. (What a baby.)

I would have kept the coupons, no harm done there.

- El Zufelto

Answer 3

thanks for that solid tip. My husband continually looks to work out what's in the discounted bin in the beef counter section. this is continually on the top. If meat is a tad too darkish, many imagine it is spoiled, yet a meat cutter will inform you this isn't so. That beef a at the same time as, and turns into extra delicate. And so this is completely alright to purchase darkened steak. i does no longer do it with beef for sure. in basic terms in the beef line. My mom might want to verify the hot sales, and then use coupons in course of this stuff.Saving some pennies extra. the position we stay, we do no longer have the doubling or tripling coupon determination, as we did in Phoenix. And the 'Grocery Outlet' received't settle for coupons in any respect. They ensure their expenditures are low sufficient. I had an aunt who might want to shop in difficulty-free words the present weeks' sales, and then plan her foodstuff round those issues. She managed to shop an finished pantry, in using her coupons on sales, and kept them after paying for more advantageous than she necessary instantly away. She iced up extras, and kept an more advantageous refrigerator in the basement for more advantageous produce.She ate alot of sparkling vegitables. both raw or cooked.

Answer 4

I can understand the hestation if it were a bag filled with cash, but we are talking about coupons here. Heck even when I clip them I forget to use them once I am at the store. It is pure undiluted greedyness that would stop someone from turning them in without a second thought.

Just want to add that I loved your heart warming story Joyfilled

Answer 5

eh, it wasn't a wallet, if it were a wallet with money in it and credit cards and stuff I'd say you shoulda turned it in, but I know if it were me, I wouldn't go all the way back to the store asking customer service if anyone had turned in a coupon envelope

Answer 6

Turn a wallet in...YES, but a envelope with some coupons and no name, I'd keep them. If you did turn them in, it's doubtful that they'd ever be returned to the rightful owner anyway.

Answer 7

I would first see if there was a name on the plastic envelope and return it. However, I would check with customer service with the video tapes of who had the plastic envelope. However, I believe in Karma too. If there is no way of find out whose envelope it is at least you tried and then I would keep it.

Answer 8

I'd leave it exactly where I found them, so the person who lost it could retrace their steps and find them. By the time they got to the cash register (but probably before), they would have realized that they didn't have their coupon envelope, and could have tried to look for it.

Answer 9

Turn it in and ask them to put your name on it so that if it isn't picked up in the next couple of days you can have it. Clipping coupons takes a lot of time, somebody wanted to use them.

Answer 10

I would turn it in to the manager of the store. Someone could really need those coupons, and has taken the effort to collect them and keep them together. Turning them in will help keep your conscience clean, and you could really help the person out who lost them.