Money ( #AtoZChallenge )

I had a dream where I found a lot of money in my house.    Then I woke up.  All day I was trying to think where that money was and how it got there in the first place...

Money Places

            One clutter problem that I wouldn't mind having more of is the money that gets strewn about a house.  Most of you probably have a similar situation of change thrown in drawers or other places.  Since I don't typically accumulate much change in my pockets, I don't have too many places where money ends up.  Most of my loose change is in a drawer where I toss it or in my van by the driver's seat. 

            A friend in Tennessee was telling me how he throws all of his change in coffee cans that he keeps in the kitchen.   He uses cash for everything and consequently always ends up with change.  He told me that once a year he empties the cans to take the change to the bank.   His last visit reaped him over $300 he said.   Maybe that isn't that bad of a way to save money

            If I could say that I had too much money laying around then apparently I'd be far wealthier than I am now.  Maybe it would have been a good idea to clutter my life with more pocket change and stray dollar bills.  I keep hoping that someday I'll find that secret stash of cash that I had forgotten about.   I don't think I'm going to find it, but if I do find it then I'll be a pretty happy fellow.   That is until I've spent it all and then I guess I'll still be happy just as though I had never found that forgotten treasure.

           Have you ever found a cache of money that you or someone else had hidden and forgotten?   Where do you tend to throw your loose change?    What is the most amount of change that you've ever cashed in at a bank or coin machine?  

MIssing Money

         There's a few thousand dollars missing and even after having looked for several years I haven't been able to find it.  I'm pretty sure I stashed it away somewhere, but for the life of me I can't remember where I hid it.  Money had flowed more profusely back then and it really wasn't missed that much at the time.  Now I could really use it.

          Now and then I awaken from dreams in which I have found the money or I have lost the money. Depending on which dream I have dreamed, I rise with optimism looking in places where my secrets dwell unseen or I crawl out of bed with uncertain dread and dark forebodings.   At times that money taunts me in its game of hide and seek, but it mostly lies silently in wait until the day it jumps out to surprise me.

          Years ago my pockets bulged and cash was stashed in common corners and imaginative nooks.  Money came and went.  Now I sometimes scrounge for pennies on the floorboard of my car or prospect for coins under couch cushions.   Yet I know that somewhere in this house is a cache of cash that was tucked away in more plentiful times.

          Perhaps in a cupboard, or in a drawer, or in the pocket of an old coat in the back of a dark closet, that lost money will one day smile upon me and say, "I was lost, but now at last you've found me."  Then it will rest securely in my wallet until I lose it again.  But first I need to find my missing money.


          Have you lost track of something valuable but are convinced that it is somewhere nearby?   Do you keep careful track of your finances or do you spend your money frivolously?   Have you ever come upon money that you had hidden away but forgotten about?



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