If the money belonged to someone else, I would not try to pretend it belonged to me.

What he^ said. Years ago we found the takings of the Kyogle hardware shop outside the door, when he locked up he put it on the ground and forgot to pick it up. Took it to the cop shop.

cods wrote on Feb 17^th, 2017 at 4:03pm:



very good cods.

as a matter of 'whats best for your long standing happiness and contentment", you dont want a dollar you didnt earn.

why is that?

because when you get something you didnt earn, you have to rationalise (tell yourself a story) that you deserve it (and this story is always a lie).

and when you get something and its "easy"  and you then have to "lie" about it, you are definitely sewing the seeds for your own personal catastrophe.

whether it is a girl accepting free meals from guys or this example or someone who is taking time off work when he is being paid to do personal business or hoping to win the lottery or taking diet pills instead of hitting the gym or getting energy by taking speed instead of working on your fitness or watching porn instead of becoming an awesome guy....

every time you take the easy option you are diminished and then you have to lie to yourself that the behaviour was ok so you can rationalise it and you just build layer upon layer of lies and rationalisations until you literally cannot find your way out.

i have seen this with successful people too who get a pot of money via what is called a "passive income stream".

it is often their ruination.

because you have to hustle and work your ass off to be successful but successful is what you have become it is not a particular point in time. and if at ANY stage, you lose your momentum and just think you can coast and you start being a taker instead of a contributor, it is literally all over...you go down, you rationalise your laziness and you go into a tailspin.

and the sad part is that "laziness addiction" is so powerful that people will literally give up everything to maintain the laziness addiction.  people will burn careers, they will lose their health, they will become addicts to drugs and alcohol and become addicted to negative emotional states, they will burn the relationship with theior partners and kids just to stay in 'laziness addiction".

its why welfare is so destructive and why we must make people on welfare "mutually responsible".

Not because we cant pay the taxes to support them, but because to give people "free money" as in your example sprint damages THEM.  it is an act of love to with hold welfare from all except those who are very frail and from infants...all able bodieg people must find the joy in giving, not in taking

cods wrote on Feb 17^th, 2017 at 5:47pm:


Good one cods, get in and cut it off before anyone else can use it. Well done!

If it's drug money, I'm keeping it 
(I'll donate a big chunk to a rehab centre)

Gordon wrote on Feb 17^th, 2017 at 6:15pm:


Hand it in, if no-one claims it, it's yours.

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The hardware shop owner gave me a reward, I have returned wallets, money intact, and been rewarded.

When I was about 10 years old we had just gone into the local milk bar and bought a little white bag of assorted lollies for 5 cents, we had strawberries and cream, milk bottles, choo choo bars, redskins, cobbers, jelly beans, bananas, jaffas, snakes, minties, fruit tingles, caramellos, raspberries, frogs and when we were rich we would buy a whole wagon wheel for 2 cents on hot days sunny boys and glugs I think I covered just about everything.

We use to give that lady hell, she even use to say to us that we give her the pips LOL.

On that day when we walked out we spotted a $20 note in the mud, we got that $20 note we washed it we dry it and we looked after it like our lives depended on it, of course we didn’t tell the adults.

For about the next six months we drove that lady crazy, every single day after school we would get an assorted bag of lollies.........