Finding Missing Money

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Eric 
Filed Under Miscellaneous

I spy with my little eye...You know it’s a good when you stumble across money that you completely forgot about. The biggest case for me was once when I went to the bank, got $60, went home, and couldn’t find the money. It wasn’t in my pocket where I could have sworn I had put it. I retraced my steps to no avail. That money was lost. And $60 is a lot to lose! I was pretty upset at myself, and finally figured I had just dropped it at some point and some lucky person got my 3 $20s.

I’d say it was a year later, in the summertime again, when I put those shorts back on. I felt something weird in my pocket and lo and behold, the cash had been there the whole time. It was just in the pocket *inside* the pocket. There is an extra very small pocket at the top of the larger pocket in some styles of pants. Anyhow, it was a huge deal when I found that money again. It was like I just found $60 (never mind how long I had beat myself up over losing it - those memories were long gone).

So that’s the feeling we had recently when we found that Melissa was owed some money from a job she had back in high school. Let’s just say that was more than a few years back for her. Earlier that day at work a buddy had IM’d me a link to Missing Money and I just started searching.

I found Melissa’s right away. When I searched on her maiden name, I came up with a *ton* of hits. So I narrowed it down to her hometown. A little more searching, and I found something that looked for sure to be her. There were 2 things that fit. One was for over a $100 and another was for under $100. I went through the process to claim the money, and that brought me to the state’s website where I had to do the search again.

Finally, we got our filled out forms and will be completing them and getting the rest of the required information. In the end, Melissa was owed $119.15 from two different companies. That money will go right into our new house fund when it arrives.

I’m pretty sure I found money that some friends had, and I’ve sent the information on to them. Hopefully I’ll be hearing back from some happy friends!

If you just want to check your state and not all states, you can find the state websites at the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators website. If you find something through Missing Money, you’ll wind up there anyhow.

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