I'm always on the lookout for free stuff. You'd be surprised what I'd do for free stuff :-). One thing in particular I'm always keeping an eye out for is money.
I was inspired to start keeping a log of money that I've found or won. And it has to be money in a form that's widely-accepted and usable on a day-to-day basis. Scholarships and gift certificates don't count, but debit cards and checks do count. And of course any bills or change lying on the ground count. Also, job earnings are invalid, and speaking of which, I should get one ^^;; (Job gotten 16-Aug-07.). Oh, and allowances don't count either.
Basically, I'm including any money I've accumulated that I haven't had to work for. I count money I win from competitions because, by nature, I enjoy competition, and I don't consider that work. Of course, even if I had a job I absolutely loved and didn't consider work, I still wouldn't count that.
Edit - May 18, 2008: I'm now only considering money I find or work minimally for (e.g.: October 4 entry). I removed the money won from the Seton Hall Math Competition.
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| June 17 to June 22, 2007 | Boys' State | $0.81 | I competed with a fellow Federalist, Jeff Huang, to see who could find the most money during the six days of Boys' State. I won, 81 cents to his 36 cents. |
| June 24 to July 21, 2007 | Governor's School | $0.70 | I also found a comb on the 2nd day, which I used until the 2nd to last day, when I lost it. |
| July 22, 2007 | Morristown Memorial Hospital (MMH), outside couriers' office | $0.01 | - |
| August 31, 2007 | Pine Plaza, in and around Bagel Brunch | $0.62 | Today, the cross country team celebrated the end of a good two weeks of summer practices by running from the school to Bagel Brunch, buying and eating bagels and other foods, and running back. Several people did not want to keep their change, so they gave it to me. Brian Guo also found a Wolf Axwielder Yu-Gi-Oh! card, which I never had, that he gave to me. |
| September 2, 2007 | Staples in Morristown | $0.02 | Found in the Copy & Print Center by the managers' room. |
| September 4, 2007 | Staples in Morristown | $0.01 | Found outside in the parking lot while fetching shopping carts. |
| September 8, 2007 | Staples in Morristown | $0.01 | Found at the end of the table in the associates' break room. |
| September 16, 2007 | Staples in Morristown | $0.02 | One cent found on ground of manager's office; one cent found on ground by checkout. |
| September 24, 2007 | Driveway that leads to student parking lot | $0.50 | I just finished cross country practice and was heading back inside. I couldn't go in the back gym door because construction was being done on it. So I headed down the driveway to go around to the gym main entrance, and to my right, the glare revealed two shiny objects laying about one foot apart in the dust/sand/gravel generated by the construction. It turned out to be two quarters! That's the most I've found in one sum! |
| September 26, 2007 | Boys' locker room | $0.35 | I found a dime on the ground next to my locker before cross country practice and a quarter there after practice. Hehe, it's like I got paid a little as an incentive to work hard and then got paid in full after I accomplished the five-mile run. |
| September 28, 2007 | 100 wing, outside Room 107 | $0.05 | A nickel. |
| September 30, 2007 | Band locker room | $0.01 | We got home from the Pequannock competition at 11:45 PM, but it wasn't until after midnight that Greg LaLuna dropped a penny in the band locker room. People told him he dropped the penny, but he said, "That's all right. Whatever." So since he didn't want it, I took it :-). |
| October 2, 2007 | 200 wing | $0.25 | I left early today for a doctor's appointment, and after going to my locker, I found a quarter outside Mr. Kleinbaum's room. I thought of it as payment before running the XC race at Pingry. Today was the first time running Pingry's course under non-raining/freezing conditions. Needless to say, I beat my best course time, getting a 20:32, completely shattering last year's 22:04. |
| October 3, 2007 | WPHS Hallway | $0.25 | On my way to Spanish from lunch, I saw a pencil in the middle of the hallway and stooped to pick it up. When I had bent down, I noticed that about a foot from the pencil (which had a broken tip) was a quarter! |
| October 4, 2007 | Mr. Kleinbaum | $1.00 | I stopped by Mr. Kleinbaum's room on my way to the cafeteria from my locker and I told him I was playing a chess match against Andy Tien. He bet a dollar on Andy. Later on in the day, I came back with the result, which was my victory, and he paid me a dollar (a five, in exchange for four singles). The game: Tien (white) v. Hsu (black). 1)e4 e5. 2)Bc4 Nf6. 3)d3 c6. 4)c3 d5. 5)exd cxd. 6)Qa4+ Nc6. 7)Bb5 Bd7. 8)c4 d4. 9)Qd1 a6. 10)Ba4 Qa5+. 11)b4 Qxb4+. 12)Bd2 Qb2. 13)Na3 Qxa3. 14)Nf3 Qxd3. 15)Bb3 Bg4. 16)h3 Bh5. 17)g4 Nxg4. 18)hxg4 Bxg4. 19)Nxe5 Nxe5. 20)Ba4+ b5. 21)Bxb5 axb. 0-1. |
| October 6, 2007 | Staples in Morristown | $0.11 | I found a dime by checkout and a random penny lying in a center aisle of the store. It's a small payment for taking the SAT today :-). |
| October 7, 2007 | Staples in Morristown | $0.01 | Penny found on ground in manager's office. |
| October 10, 2007 | Gym lobby | $0.25 | Teddy Melchionda got a quarter change from the vending machine that he gave to me. |
| October 13, 2007 | Band Bus #3 | $0.01 | I found a penny while doing a final check to see that all the trash had been picked up. |
| October 15, 2007 | Varsity lacrosse field | $0.25 | Brian Thomas gave me a quarter that someone else gave him during gym (before we started our competitive handball game during which I gave up three goals). |
| October 20, 2007 | A day of band | $0.27 | Found a penny in the commons on the way back from a Whipbippa pizza dinner, found a quarter during bus #3 clean-up, and found a penny in the band hallway while waiting for my dad to finish his pit crew work. |
| October 24, 2007 | Room 105 | $0.25 | Went there during lunch to work on the FBLA database; when the bell rang, I was leaving when I noticed a quarter laying on the ground right in the doorway. |
| October 25, 2007 | Bus to school | $5.00 | I sat down, placed my umbrella on the seat across the aisle from me, and then noticed something on the ground. A bill! A dollar! WHOA, Mr. Lincoln!!! Needless to stay, this was an awesome way to start off my day and my whole day was awesome. |
| November 1, 2007 | Commons | $0.23 | During lunch, I saw a dime-penny combo on the floor next to a couch. Some bandies - Amanda Payne, Jeremy Seo, Elizabeth Gargon, Colleen Rochat - were around the spot and talking about the combo. Later, during eighth period, I found another dime-penny combo on the ground by the student-of-the-month display. Then I found a shiny penny under the table surrounded by couches in the commons. I also decided to revive my state quarters/specialty coins collection and added some new state quarters and a 2005 Lewis & Clark nickel to my collection. |
| November 2, 2007 | Library | $0.35 | At the end of eighth period, I found a quarter and a dime by the copier machine on my way out. The quarter was a Tennessee quarter, one I didn't have! Over $11 found now :-). |
| November 5, 2007 | Library | $0.05 | During lunch, I was in the library printing out some flute fingerings when Andy, sitting next to me, found a nickel under the table where he was sitting. He didn't want it, so he gave it to me to help me with my money found collection. |
| November 14, 2007 | Theater; Commons | $0.26 | During lunch, I was eating while sitting in a theater seat. I looked on the ground next to my seat to check on my stuff and I found a penny! After school, I was accounting at a commons table. I heard the sound of money clanging on the floor and my head instantly jerked in the sound's direction. The sound came from the corner with only a recycling bin. I looked behind the bin and found a quarter! |
| November 15, 2007 | Theater; hallway outside room 101 | $0.03 | During health class in the theater, I heard a coin drop and looked all over the ground until I found a penny under a chair. After school, I found two pennies outside room 101 as I walked toward the band room. |
| November 24, 2007 | Staples in Morristown | $0.01 | I found a penny on the customer service counter when I was covering for an associate who went on break. I had found a penny in Staples yesterday, but I couldn't find it when I got home. |
| November 26, 2007 | Morris County Mall | $0.01 | I found a penny in the hallway outside the Affinity Federal Credit Union. |
| November 27, 2007 | 100 wing | $0.25 | I found a quarter after school after going to see Mr. Wilson with a question about accounting. |
| November 30, 2007 | Staples in Morristown | $0.01 | Penny found on floor by checkout. |
| December 4, 2007 | 100 wing | $0.05 | I found a nickel outside room 107 after school. |
| December 6, 2007 | Library, commons, room 99 | $0.18 | I found a penny on a library table and two pennies beneath it during lunch. I found a dime in the entryway of room 99 during period 8. I found a nickel in the commons after school while walking with Andy. |
| December 10, 2007 | Commons | $0.03 | After lunch, I was walking to Spanish when I noticed three gleaming orbs on the ground. I retraced a few steps and picked up three pennies. |
| December 21, 2007 | Commons | $0.05 | After school, Alex gave me the five pennies in his wallet he didn't want to carry around any more. |
| December 23, 2007 | Courier Office at Morristown Memorial Hospital | $0.01 | I found a penny in the bottom of the mug which we use as a penholder. |
| January 2, 2008 | 100 wing | $0.05 | After Spanish, I heard the sound of a coin clanging on the ground. Walking into the hallway, I found a nickel. |
| January 12, 2008 | Staples of Morristown | $5.02 | I found two pennies by the cash register, and a woman tipped me a Lincoln. |
| January 23, 2008 | Commons | $0.25 | The quarter seemed huge after finding so many pennies. |
| January 24, 2008 | Bus | $0.25 | On the morning bus, I sat down and then thought about how I found five bucks on the floor, so I looked around and spotted a quarter on the floor. |
| January 26, 2008 | Staples of Morristown | $0.01 | Found by the cash register. Hmm...I wonder if I could be charged with embezzlement. |
| January 28, 2008 | Commons | $0.62 | A person dropped a whole bunch of change and didn't care to pick it up. |
| January 29, 2008 | 100 wing | $0.50 | I was chatting with Seņora Cianciosi as we walked down the 100 wing toward the office and noticed a glistening object. After I concluded my conversation with Seņora, I went back down the 100 wing and found a quarter. Looking to the other side of the hallway, I noticed another gleaming object - another quarter. |
| February 5, 2008 | 100 wing | $0.13 | It's amazing how much change I find in the hallways 8th period when I'm free. |
| February 8, 2008 | 100 wing | $0.25 | |
| February 10, 2008 | Staples | $0.01 | Found on the service desk behind the Staples brochures |
| February 15, 2008 | Staples | $0.02 | Two pennies found by checkout. |
| March 2, 2008 | Staples | $0.01 | Found by checkout. |
| March 3, 2008 | Room 303 | $0.01 | Found at RCC. |
| March 7, 2008 | Staples | $0.02 | Laying around checkout. |
| March 9, 2008 | Staples | $0.01 | Checkout area. |
| March 14, 2008 | Expo Exhibition Hall, Edison | $0.25 | While urinating, I noticed a quarter on top of the flush switch apparatus. Upon close observation, I noticed it was superglued to the urinal - glue encased it on all sides, under it, and over it. Well, I wasn't going to pry that off with my fingers. So I retrieved the scissors in my backpack, returned to the bathroom, and commenced chiseling. After twenty minutes or so of on-and-off chiseling (others had to pee, y'know?), the quarter finally popped off. Very satisfying. |
| March 15, 2008 | Staples | $0.01 | Checkout. |
| March 16, 2008 | Morristown Memorial Hospital | $0.01 | I found a penny in a lab specimen bin in the new Meade wing. |
| March 21, 2008 | Staples | $0.03 | Checkout. |
| April 3, 2008 | School | $0.26 | I found a shiny penny somewhere. Then, after Spanish, in the between-class bustle, I heard money clang on the floor multiple times. I traversed up and down the hallway and was able to find one quarter. |
| April 10-14, 2008 | Williamsburg Trip | $0.68 | Penny found on bus, 67 cents found in Busch Gardens, in the arcade |
| April 25, 2008 | Staples | $0.03 | Checkout. |
| April 30, 2008 | School vending machines | $0.15 | I was walking toward the commons when I heard coins drop in the change compartment of the vending machines behind me. I turned around and saw Emily DeCaro take the coins our of the compartment. I then watched her casually release the coins from her hand and walk away. The coins are now mine :-). |
| May 9, 2008 | Staples | $0.02 | - |
| May 18, 2008 | Staples | $0.02 | - |
| May 22, 2008 | WP theater | $0.01 | Found before an alcoholism assembly. |
| May 25, 2008 | Staples | $0.04 | - |
| May 28, 2008 | Commons | $0.10 | I believe this dime fell from the skies. I was packing up, ready to leave for the 4:15 bus, when I heard a coin clang on the ground. I looked in the direction of the sound, but no one was nearby. I walked toward the wall, where I heard the coin drop, and looking down, I saw a dime, which must have fallen from the wall posters or the ceiling or from thin air perhaps. |
| May 29, 2008 | 200 wing, Commons | $0.50 | Found two quarters after school. |
| May 30, 2008 | Spanish class | $0.05 | We had an assembly 6th period today, for which many seniors just reported directed to the theater for, without going to 6th period. I dropped by my Spanish class briefly and on my way out, I found a nickel by the garbage can. |
| June 1, 2008 | Staples | $0.01 | - |
| June 4, 2008 | Morning bus | $0.01 | I was thinking about the five bucks I found on the bus one time, so I looked around at the floor nearby and found a penny behind my seat. |
| June 10, 2008 | Commons | $0.02 | - |
| June 11, 2008 | Spanish | $0.15 | After the departure bell rang, Ken entered and gave me a nickel. Then Andy found two nickels on the floor. |
| June 13, 2008 | Library, after school | $0.25 | I was paying up my man, Andy, and he had a quarter, which he donated to my moneyfound collection (not that there exists any other collection besides this list). |
| June 16, 2008 | Cafeteria | $0.05 | Andy and I were chillin' after finals and playing tennis, eating our lunch in the cafeteria. I went to see if the computer lab was open, which it was not, but I found a nickel by the cafeteria door hinge in the process. |
| June 20, 2008 | Project Graduation | $10.10 | Found a dime in one of the game rooms (I think it was the room with the Wii and Guitar Hero.). Also caught $10 from the Money Vault. |
| June 23, 2008 | Staples | $0.02 | Was doing some Easy Tech training and noticed two pennies under my stool. |
| June 24, 2008 | Morristown Memorial Hospital | $0.01 | Penny found in the cafeteria. |
| June 25, 2008 | Office complex next to my house | $0.03 | Was taking a stroll with my grandma and noticed 3 shiny pennies on the parking lot. |
| June 26, 2008, to June 30, 2008 | Atlanta, Georgia | $1.13 | Found at various locations, including the Westin gift shop, the Westin hotel room I stayed in, the Marriott Marquis, the street, the airport, and the World of Coca-Cola. |
| August 12, 2008 | Staples | $0.01 | Found on my way out, wheeling a U-Boat back. |
| August 20, 2008 | Staples | $0.02 | Breakroom. |
| August 20, 2008 | Staples | $0.01 | Breakroom. |
| August 23, 2008 | Fortune Wheel Restaurant | $0.01 | I solved a Rubik's Cube using only my elbows and my cousin Patrick tipped me one penny. |
| September 7, 2008 | Common room | $0.10 | Found on the futon. |
| September 25, 2008 | CS Building | $0.04 | Found next to a computer in the Closed Zoo (a computer cluster). |
| October 7, 2008 | Bass Library | $0.01 | Found in individual study room. |
| October 10, 2008 | Various places, including my suite's common room | $0.28 | We had a massive party last night. |
| October 11, 2008 | After the party | $0.87 | Found while cleaning up the 200+ beers and soda cups and other miscellaneous garbage. Added California and Nevada to my quarter collection. 12 states to go. |
| October 12, 2008 | Somewhere, forget where | $0.01 | - |
| October 14, 2008 | Common room | $0.05 | Found under a make-shift beer pong table. |
| October 24, 2008 | Walgreens | $0.10 | Buying materials for my cube costume. |
| November 7, 2008 | Laundry room | $0.25 | I accidentally used a washer that had a broken door, and so when I took my clothes out, they were SOPPING wet, dripping everywhere, and I had to dry them like 5 times. (I now realize I shoulda first rewashed those clothes in a working washer, but hey, you live and learn.) |
| November 14, 2008 | Laundry room | $0.10 | Speaking of the laundry room, all my laundry is still in the dryers - I started the dryers and then went to sleep (on a nude mattress). |
| Past week or so, 12/1-8/08 | ELEC lab, Bass Library, my suite's bathroom | $0.08 | Heh, I've been lazy and haven't been recording regularly. |
| December 19, 2008 | Lair common room | $0.36 | I think I'm the only person left in the Lair (everyone else has already left for winter recess). So I cleaned the whole place and was rewarded a quarter, dime, and penny. |
| January 25-30, 2009 | Around campus | $0.11 | Dime found outside Linsley Chittenden when I couldn't get in and had to call David inside. While I waited, I looked down and found the coin. |
| January 31, 2009 | Commons | $0.01 | Found while waiting in line to get into the Freshman Screw |
| February 6, 2009 | Around campus | $0.37 | Penny found walking to Stiles, dime and nickel given to me by Kate Carter, found in clarinet section stuff backpack, forget where I found last penny |
| February 7, 2009 | Asian American Cultural Center | $0.01 | As I was leaving, I found six pennies on the ground right inside the entrance, but it turned out they were Stephanie's. I gave them back to her, but she told me to keep one. |
| February 10, 2009 | Farnam laundry room | $0.01 | Probably my last money found post for a while. |
| February 15, 2009 | San Francisco International Airport | $0.51 | There was sooo much change lying around at the security checkpoint. I saw a lot more, but I only picked up what was in my path. |
| February 25, 2009 | CS building, Lair bathroom | $0.18 | Found a penny under the vending machine when I dropped a dime and then got down to look for it. Took the stack of 17 pennies that had been sitting next to our sink for a while. |
| February 26, 2009 | FB21 | $0.10 | The night of 2/25-2/26, Kate and I decided to drop our proof-based linear algebra class. As I was on my way out, I found a dime in the doorway. |
| March 4, 2009 | Lair bathroom, common room | $0.02 | Penny found by the sink, penny found on floor of common room. |
| March 6, 2009 | JFK Airport | $1.50 | One consistently finds money while passing through the security checkpoint. A dollar found on the ground at Wachovia when I went there this morning to get money for the Yale Concert Band's trip to Mexico. |
| March 10, 2009 | Hotel Florencia room | $0.17 | I guess my roommate Sam Vesuna didn't want the 17 cents he left in a drawer. |
| March 25, 2009 | CS building | $0.03 | Found next to printer. |
| April 3, 2009 | Lawrance Hall doorway | $0.01 | My parents and grandmas came to visit, and while I was holding the door open, I noticed a crusted circular object on the ground. It was a penny. |
| April 11, 2009 | Lair common room | $0.01 | Found under futon when I was shifting furniture around and remodeling the room. |
| April 17, 2009 | Lair common room | $0.10 | Found under collapsable mesh chair. |
| April 24, 2009 | Post Office | $0.10 | No mail, but I found a dime! |
| April 24, 2009 | Lair common room | $0.62 | My reward for cleaning the room. |
| April 25, 2009 | Lair common room | $0.02 | Was cleaning room/fixing decorations. |
| April 25, 2009 | Band room | $0.01 | I find lots of writing utensils in the BRoom as well. |
| April 28, 2009 | Closed Zoo | $0.26 | The Zoos are also another common place that I find money. |
| April 30, 2009 | Laundry room | $0.01 | Laundry room is another good place to find loose change. |
| May 5, 2009 | Open Zoo | $0.02 | I kept one and gave one to David Zhang for good luck on our philosophy final. We zwned it. |
| May 6, 2009 | Lair common room | $0.63 | Bryan gave me some change he left on top of the TV, plus I found a penny on the floor. |
| May 6, 2009 | Old Campus | $0.01 | David Zhang found a penny while we were playing frisbee and gave it to me. |
| May 6, 2009 | Tom's change box | $0.50 | Tom let me look through his change box (I estimate at least $30 in there) and take any state quarters I needed. Found Alaska and Wyoming! |
| May 8, 2009 | AKW 100 | $0.07 | Ismail gave me seven pennies he had. |
| May 9, 2009 | Lair common room | $0.01 | Found while cleaning. |
| May 10, 2009 | Timothy Dwight, outside an entryway | $0.12 | Found when going to TD to see Maylene one final time before she left for Georgia. |
| May 11, 2009 | Lawrance Hall, entryway A | $0.01 | Found when exiting the Lair this morning. |
| May 13, 2009 | Lair common room | $0.01 | Found when taking down my hanging Rubik's Cube and buckyball and the beer cans and posters we had hanging around. |
| May 21, 2009 | Stevens Burchard Building Room 219 | $0.03 | Found on the ground when nosing around under a table trying to plug in a Ethernet cable. |
| May 25, 2009 | Apartment and next-door apartment | $8.42 | Holy shamolees, some people leave a lot of change lying around. I looked through all the drawers and practically crawled all around the floor digging up pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters from every corner of the rooms. |
| May 30, 2009 | Giant Laundromat | $0.01 | Did laundry in Hoboken for the first time today. |
| June 8, 2009 | Giant Laundromat | $0.10 | Found a dime when picking up my clothes from the dryer. |
| June 8, 2009 | Hoboken | $0.01 | Found a penny on the sidewalk outside my apartment. |
| June 16, 2009 | Hoboken | $0.01 | Found a penny outside the apartment next to mine. |
| June 26, 2009 | Bank of America, Hoboken | $0.02 | One found outside entrance door and one found inside by the ATMs. |
| July 10, 2009 | Hoboken | $0.01 | Found a penny on the ground as I was running from my apartment to the train station. |
| July 16, 2009 | Hoboken | $0.01 | Found a penny walking to the lab this afternoon. |
| July 18, 2009 | Honeybee Robotics building staircase | $0.01 | So Professor Yao took the Stevens REU group to see Honeybee Robotics in NYC. The office is located on the 7th floor of a building. When we left, I decided to take the stairs down and discovered there was no staircase door on the first floor. I went up floor-by-floor, trying the staircase entry door on each floor, but all of them were locked. I ended up having to call Thomas, who sent Dante up to rescue me from the stairwell. While waiting for Dante, I found a penny in the stairwell right by the fourth floor door. |
| July 22, 2009 | 8th Street, Hoboken | $0.01 | Walking back from the lab, found a penny on the street. |
| July 28, 2009 | Grand Central Terminal, NY | $0.01 | Running behind my brother to catch the NJ Transit train, I noticed someone dropped and kicked a penny. I was running down the stairs and the penny rolled and hit the bottom step, and stopped. I glanced down, contemplating whether to pick it up, then looked up and saw my brother still running, so I decided against it and kept moving. We missed the train, so I came back and picked it up. |
| July 29, 2009 | Grand Central Terminal, NY | $0.01 | Today, I wasn't running to catch the train home, and I spotted a stationary penny on the ground and stooped to pick it up. |
| August 5, 2009 | NY Penn Station | $0.01 | Missed the train but found a penny on a seat in the waiting area. |
| August 22, 2009 | Super Star East Buffet parking lot in Princeton | $0.01 | Found it on the wet ground when stepping out of the car. |
| August 30, 2009 | Yale campus | $0.12 | Found a dime and a penny in Ezra Stiles on the ramp up to the Dean's Office. Found another penny on the sidewalk on Broadway. |
| September 2, 2009 | Outside Trumbull gate, outside Denali | $0.05 | On my way back from the AASA general meeting, found four pennies outside Trumbull and another penny outside Denali. |
| September 4, 2009 | Next to Mory's, by the pole that always has tons of flyers stuck to it. | $0.01 | Walking back from the band BBQ in Silliman, I was thinking I would probably find some change near Mory's, and as I was thinking that, I looked around and spotted a penny! |
| September 4, 2009 | Prelude dance party | $0.16 | Found near the payment table. |
| September 5, 2009 | Outside Trumbull | $0.01 | Found walking back to Stiles from Bass Library. |
| September 6, 2009 | Outside Gourmet Heaven | $0.01 | Found walking back to Stiles from a sax apple pie get-together |
| September 7, 2009 | Stiles laundry room | $0.02 | Found after adding $20 for laundry to my ID card. |
| September 11, 2009 | Outside Mory's | $0.01 | Found next to the pole of flyers. |
| September 12, 2009 | Walmart/McDonald's in Hamden, CT | $0.03 | Found a penny in Walmart and two pennies on the countertop in McDonald's. |
| September 18, 2009 | Psychology studies in LC and Dunham Lab | $13.00 | Took two surveys, each for five dollars, one of which gave me additional dollars for each trivia question I answered correctly (I got 3/10 right. I was disappointed.). |
| September 19, 2009 | Water's Edge Resort, Westbrook, CT | $0.01 | Found a penny in our dining/conference room for the Asian American Leadership Retreat. |
| September 19, 2009 | Branford gameroom | $0.01 | Found a penny under the air hockey table when retrieving a ping pong ball. |
| September 23, 2009 | Commons | $0.01 | Found at the swipe-in counter. |
| October 4, 2009 | My dorm room | $0.33 | Ben Yu left this change on my desk when he and Dan Chen left (they were here this weekend for the Yale Debate Tournament). |
| October 6, 2009 | Stiles lobby lounge | $0.01 | Found when going outside in the middle of the night to fetch what appeared to be an unwanted desk chair. |
| October 24, 2009 | The Blockley Pourhouse, coach bus to/from Philly | $0.02 | Found a penny at dinner and a penny on the bus, both while searching on the floor for Rubik's Cube pieces that had popped out. Unfortunately, I did not find my white tiled center cap, but fortunately, that should be easily replaceable. |
| November 3, 2009 | Zoo | $0.02 | Found under the monitor of the computer named "Chameleon." |
| November 5, 2009 | Stiles dining hall | $0.01 | Found when going in there around 9pm to grab some food. |
| November 8, 2009 | Stiles | $0.01 | Found by the gate when leaving this morning. |
| November 15, 2009 | Princeton University, outside Wa-Wa | $0.01 | A man in front of me dropped a penny, seemingly intentionally, and then I picked it up. |
| November 18, 2009 | Stiles lobby | $1.00 | My reward for taking a 5-minute (more like 1-minute) psychology study. |
| November 21, 2009 | Downtown at the Taft | $1.53 | After Elixir had died down, I was chilling on the stairs and found a dollar, two quarters, and three pennies. |
| November 22, 2009 | Metro-North Railroad | $0.01 | I saw a penny on the floor as I was looking for a seat. After I sat down and put my stuff down, I went back and picked up the penny. |
| November 23, 2009 | NYC Subway | $0.02 | Found on the C train from Port Authority to 58th St Columbus Circle. |
| November 24, 2009 | Columbia University Broadway Sky Lounge | $0.01 | Noticed a penny under a table in a lounge in a Columbia dorm while being introduced to two of Crissy's friends. |
| December 1, 2009 | Zoo | $0.25 | Found a quarter under a table. |
| December 4, 2009 | Broadway, New Haven | $0.01 | Walking back to my room from the band post-concert reception, I noticed a penny on the ground. Before I reached it, a hobo asked me if I had some change to spare. I said I didn't, but I gave him the penny on the ground. |
| December 11, 2009 | Wachovia, Psych Survey | $5.56 | I cashed a check at the bank and received three cents more than the value of the check because the clerk did not have any more pnnies. Also found two pennies on a countertop in the bank while I was initialing the bills I got. On my way back to my room, I found a penny on the sidewalk. During this trek, I suddenly remembered there was a psych study happening in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, so I went there to take the study for $5. In one of the studies, we were given an extra dollar to buy one of two pens and could keep the remaining money. One pen was fifty cents and the other was a dollar. I chose the fifty-cent pen and earned an extra fifty cents. |
| December 17, 2009 | $6.00 | Got $5 from Arbitron asking me to keep a radio diary for a week and send it in for an extra $5. I also received another letter and another buck from Arbitron as a reminder to turn in my radio diary for an extra $5. Too bad when I checked my mail, the diary week had already passed. Hah, I don't even remember when I signed up for this survey. | |
| December 25, 2009 | JFK Airport security checkpoint | $0.01 | After going through the checkpoint with my brother and while waiting for parents to come through, I spotted a penny on the ground. |
| 12/28/09 | Walmart, Mountain View, CA | $0.26 | Found the coins on the ground by checkout. |
| 1/10/10 | Laundry room, Ezra Stiles | $0.01 | Found on the rim of a dryer door frame when I opened the door. |
| 1/11/10 | Becton Center (Engineering building) | $1.00 | Found a dollar on the ground in the hallway after exiting the Engineering & Applied Science Library. |
| 1/12/10 | Band Room (BRoom) | $0.05 | Nickel found on the floor by the big wooden table. |
| 1/12/10 | Psych Survey | $2.00 | Had to hold a heat pack for a minute and fill out a 3-question sheet about the heat pack before starting a packet of questions. I wonder if the heat pack and the related three questions were simply to get your mind ready for doing the actual survey. |
| 1/14/10 | Psych Survey | $2.00 | My goal this semester is to see how much money I can earn from psych surveys in a semester. |
| 1/14/10 | Ezra Stiles stairwell | $0.10 | Ken was visiting me and I was giving him a tour of Stiles when he spotted a dime. Thanks, Ken. |
| 1/21/10 | Ezra Stiles bathroom | $0.10 | Was taking a dump before dinner and saw a dime on the floor in the stall I was using. |
| 1/22/10 | Silliman dining hall | $0.01 | Found a penny on my chair. |
| 1/23/10 | Stiles laundry room | $0.25 | Found a quarter in a washer when removing a person's clothes from it. |
| 1/27/10 | Technology Troubleshooting Office (TTO) | $0.35 | Found a quarter and a dime at the table I was sitting at during my one-hour morning shift working in the office. |
| 1/30/10 | Ezra Stiles laundry room | $0.01 | Found a penny on a table. |
| 2/4/10 | Ezra Stiles computer cluster | $0.05 | Found on the ground when doing a Kilroy (computer/printer check) there. |
| 2/5/10 | School of Management Survey | $7.00 | I got to make a box and taste chocolate. |
| 2/5/10 | Ezra Stiles Fellows Lounge | $0.01 | Found in a drawer while I was snooping around. |
| 2/8/10 | Closed Zoo | $0.01 | Found next to a computer. Also found a mechanical pencil next to another computer. |
| 2/15/10 | Stiles Common Room | $0.01 | Found on the ground by the vending machines. |
| 2/20/10 | Open Zoo | $0.02 | Found on the table next to the door that leads to the overpass. |
| 2/22/10 | Psych study in Commons | $2.00 | Got 2 dollars on answering a survey that asked me to answer questions about a Michael who gauged how much time he had to get to class by the clock tower on campus. One day, he sees it showing 9:58 am and starts running to get to his 10 am class on time. The time is correct, but the clock had stopped running at 9:58 am the previous day. |
| 2/22/10 | Open Zoo | $0.65 | Found on top of a short bookshelf next to a container of cookies, one of which I had. |
| 3/2/10 | My room | $0.01 | My jeans snagged a bit of the desk where I was sitting and tore a strip of wood off the inner side of the desk. When I bent down to pick it up, I found a penny on the floor. |
| 3/4/10 | Self-Service Media Workstations Room, Bass Library | $0.01 | Found when I was in there to get paper to refill the printers. |
| 3/5/10 | Technology Troubleshooting Office (TTO) | $0.01 | Found during my Student Tech shift in the TTO. |
| 3/14/10 | Berkeley, CA | $0.02 | Found two pennies on the sidewalk walking from the Downtown Berkeley BART Station to my cousin's apartment. Woot, pi day! |
| 3/16/10 | Berkeley, CA | $0.01 | Found a penny on the AC Transit on my way home from LeapFrog. |
| 4/1/10 | Yale | $0.01 | Found a penny on my way back to Ezra Stiles from Durfee's (where I bought a bag of Chex Mix to eat during my long night ahead). |
| 4/11/10 | Yale | $0.01 | Found a penny outside Berkeley South Court gate (Cross Campus gate) when heading to the Women's Table for Clari-Low Brass vs. Flutes Ashley's Ice Cream Challenge (the two teams race to eat a frisbee, which is 7 scoops of ice cream and 9 toppings on top of a frisbee). |
| 4/15/10 | Ezra Stiles laundry room | $0.05 | Found a nickel while in the room moving my clothes from the washers to the dryers. |
| 4/18/10 | Outside Ezra Stiles | $0.01 | Found a penny when heading to Old Campus to chalk for AASA. |
| 4/21/10 | My room | $0.10 | Found a dime on the ground after my prefrosh left. |
| 4/25/10 | Hodson Hall, Johns Hopkins University | $0.01 | Found when Andy and I went there to study. |
| 4/27/10 | Open Zoo | $0.01 | Found under the table where Philip Shao was sitting. |
| 4/30/10 | Timothy Dwight College, Entryway G | $0.01 | Found when going upstairs from the basement to use the bathroom. |
| 5/1/10 | Zoo | $0.01 | Found under a table in the Open Zoo. |
| 5/5/10 | Connecticut Hall computer cluster | $0.25 | Found a Virginia quarter next to one of the printers. |
| 5/5/10 | School of Architecture Library | $0.01 | First time inside the School of Architecture (Rudolph Hall) building. Looking over a balcony, I saw a penny on a comfy chair in the lower level. I went down and picked it up. |
| 5/12/10 | David Zhang's room, Bingham | $0.03 | Today is move-out day, and cleaning up for David, I found a penny. While moving to Bingham, I also found two pennies right inside entryway C. |
| 5/14/10 | Jonathan Edwards room B12C | $0.01 | Found a penny here while I was snooping around. My ID card access to the residential colleges should have already been deactivated, but somehow, it still worked on the JE York Street gate by the Yale University Art Gallery. After entering the gate, the door immediately to my right was ajar, and this happened to be suite B12, so I went in and explored (even did some blogging and napped in an empty room inside). |
| 5/16/10 | Lake Compounce, Bingham | $0.12 | Found two pennies at Lake Compounce (amusement park) and a dime in Bingham on my way upstairs. |
| 5/23/10 | BRoom | $0.01 | Found a penny on the ground by the brown wooden table. |
| 5/25/10 | Bingham C61 | $0.05 | Found a nickel on the ground while packing. |
| 5/25/10 | Bingham courtyard | $0.01 | Found a penny while moving out. |
| 5/29/10 | SFO | $0.01 | Found a penny outside a handicap stall in a bathroom. |
| 6/6/10 | Serra Lounge | $0.10 | Found a dime on the table when Max and I went there this morning at 6 am to watch the French Open finals. |
| 6/24/10 | Foster City 99 Ranch parking lot | $0.01 | Found on the pavement behind my car after having bought groceries with my roommate. |
| 7/25/10 | Yosemite Westgate Lodge room and my car | $3.47 | Found 7 pennies left behind in a drawer in the lodge room, and found $3.40 left behind by the occupants of my car, including Rewon Child, Sherwin Yu, and Alex Yuning Liu. |
| 7/28/10 | Marine Parkway | $0.01 | I arrived at work around 9:30 AM. Starting around ten, I had a massive headache and felt queasy. At 11, I sent my manager (who was in a conference call) an email and went home. On my way biking home, I found a penny in the bike lane. After sleeping for 3 hours 40 minutes, I went back to work around 3:40 PM. |