Ever lost your purse?

When our youngest son was 6 he picked up a purse from the ground in the funfair at Skegness. We looked inside, there were just a few coppers, but also a bus ticket and a library ticket. We took it to the police station, and 3 weeks later a letter arrived for our son, with a £1 reward. He was thrilled, he`d never had so much money before. There was a note saying that she was on a day trip and couldn`t have got home without the bus ticket.
A different story when our daughter 3, then aged 10, found a wallet in the street in town, containing £120, quite a lot in 1977, took it to the police station, the person who lost it was already there, just took it off her, said "thanks" and walked away.

There not their.

I found a wallet on a seat at Crewe station and asked the woman sitting their if it was hers. No she said and didn't seem at all concerned. I handed it to the guard and she rushed it into the lost property office and was calling the owners name on the announcements before I even left the station. As it would have had his details in I assume it could probably be returned to him eventually, via his bank or whatever.

NanKate how do you use a chain with your purse? I keep a scarf on the top of my bag to make it harder to get to my purse, but I am interested in the chain idea.

'Lost' mine in Switzerland on the way to the airport with DH to visit younger DS in London. Nice policeman in Zurich airport let me use the phone to cancel all the cards, so we arrived in London with very little available money. DS loved being the one paying for everything for a change (of course we repaid him - with a little extra for being so great )

Nankate, thanks for the tip about a chain to keep your purse in your bag. It's a great idea and I shall definitely do that.
Then I will need another chain to fix my bag to my belt so I don't lose my bag!

I lost my purse years ago when I was out buying new school clothes for the children. A bit of a disaster because it had all the money I'd taken out for the clothes. I reported it to the police but didn't expect to see it again. Several weeks later I had a phone call from the police station "Don't you want your purse?"

Apparently a lovely man had found it in the street and handed it in still intact. Someone had listed it in the wrong place and it had only just been found again.

I did have my wallet stolen on the Metro in Rome, but there was hardly any cash in it and I got to spend half an hour with a very attractive Italian policeman

Back in 1986, we were holidaying in Watchet, Somerset. One day we drove into Minehead, had a good look around, and partook of refreshments whilst there. When we arrived back at our holiday flat, a good half hour drive, I discovered shortly afterwards that I didn`t have my purse, which contained not only our food money, but our spending money for the next 5 days. After a lot of thought, we remembered the name of a pub where we`d had a cold drink, sitting outside at a table next to a low wall adjacent to the footpath. Not expecting any joy, I rang the pub, and he said yes, someone had handed the purse in, still intact! We drove all the way back to Minehead, but the man in the pub wouldn`t accept a reward, he said it wasn`t him who`d found it.

I picked up a carrier bag in a street because it was blowing about. I was horrified to find a purse in it . I was with a friend and opening it there was only a library card a bus pass and a key, I got DH to phone the library and although they would not tell DH the address they kept phoning the number in their records. Eventually they got through. The lady was a pensioner. £70 was in her purse. She had got home because she kept a £10 separate but was distraught at losing her key. Her neighbour had a spare. The librarian knew DH and told the lady we had got it and would bring it back that evening if she was happy to give us her address. She was thrilled to have her purse back and her key. She said nothing had gone right for her since she had turned 80. She lived way out of Durham but every time we go past the turnoff to her home we mentally wave at Mildred.

I lost my purse in a shop once when my children were very young and the thing that upset me most was losing their birth photographs. I reported it to the police as it had been stolen in a town centre shop and some time later - a few months - a very nice PC came to the door.

He told me that they had caught a prolific purse thief who had confessed to numerous thefts - including from the shop I had been in and that he just took the cash out and then threw the purses in the canal. In a way that helped me to come to terms with it as no-one was in possession of my babies' photos.

It is the most awful feeling when you realise that your purse has gone plus all the things you keep in there.

I was robbed in M and S last year and they got my credit cards, driving licence, store cards, cash and the photos of my two grandsons. It took me a month or so to recover and now my purses are chained inside my bag.

Glad your purse was returned Mrsmopp

Glad your disaster turned out to have such a happy ending! It's such a pain in the butt to have to go through all those cancellations and wait for new cards to be sent <groan>