How to cope with losing $20 dollars?
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First let me say I am sorry for your loss. Money is a fickle creature, you can keep it and treat it well, but the first chance it gets it will gladly go out and have fun without you.
The best thing you can do may sound inhumane, keep it penned up. Money actually likes banks and if you deliver your money into a savings account it will gladly stay there for you. Heck your money will even gain interest and reproduce ;o) Knowing this may help prevent money from running away in the future but it does not help you in the short term.
In the short term I would suggest earning another $20 put in an extra hour at work. Gun for lots of best answers. Answer some surveys and get a fresh new $20 to play with.
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Losing money...it happens. It could be worse, you could have lost an arm in Iraq.
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It was frustrating the next couple days. I continued to check bushes and neighbors yards.
You will soon forget about it. Today, every penny counts and $20 is a big deal. But remember you have your health and your family and you will earn more money. As long as everyone is safe, money is replaceable.
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"Hey, I have enough time to sit around and think about how much of a bummer it is to lose $5/$10$20, but there might have been someone out there that hasn't eaten a decent meal or taken their kids out for ice cream in a month."
THAT'S who found MY lost money, and that's what I always tell myself. No matter how bad I have it, there's always somebody that needs the money more than I do. Have fun with the situation and "make up" what somebody's doing with your money right now
...donating it to charity
...treating themselves to a movie out after being yelled at by their boss
...buying cupcakes for their daughter
...putting it towards their electricity bill, which was about to get cut off, until you came along ;-)
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Have you ever found any money that was not yours to begin with and do you remember how really good that made you feel? Remember the excitement and feeling of mad money good fortune that came in the moments right after you found those duckets? Remember spending the cash you scored just for being in the right place at the right time?
If you have then know in you losing $20.00 you have given that same feeling to someone else who will undoubtedly find your lost double sawbuck and get the same exhilaration we all get when we encounter the elusive but always game changing "Found Money"
Found Money is the absolute best kind of money and you by losing that twenty have provided someone else with the super awesome experience of Found Money and it has only cost you 20 bucks to give someone else a great turn in their day.. with a little imagination you may have saved or drastically changed a life or lives for the better, remember attitude is everything and you have just swung deeply in the positive direction the attitude of a fellow human being whom you will likely never meet.
Cherish that feeling. :)
personal opinion
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Preface all such evaluative thoughts with the short phrase "I'm telling myself: ....."
So for example, "I'm telling myself: 'I should be more careful.' " "I'm telling myself: 'I am such a klutz for not putting the money away properly in my wallet.' " "I'm telling myself: 'Someone else is having more fun than me.' " etc.
By doing this exercise, you can create a little distance between you and the evaluative thought because, in a way, you are converting it to an observation. Become the detached observer. Part of your mind can detach into two parts, one part just simple observing. The other part can be stuck in the mess, but slowly, try to dissipate the energy circulating in that portion of your mind and move your thoughts to the more peaceful detached nonjudgemental observational part of your mind.
You can even create a table of evaluative thoughts, and then with each thought, write down the feelings and the unmet needs.
I am guessing one of your feelings is fear. The unmet need is for financial safety.
I am guessing another feeling might be anger directed at yourself. The unmet need might be for self acceptance, self forgiveness.
I am guessing another feeling is one of disappointment. Here, the unmet need might be for fun.
And perhaps you may get to the point of feeling sad and wanting to mourn the loss, accepting that your loss means your needs may not be fully met in the moment.
Once you have figured out what your needs are, then you can brainstorm on other strategies to get those needs met. I've included a needs wheel to help you get in touch with what your needs are.
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M$Then shd Take a photo of the any 20$ currency (it shd be taken in both )
and edit the photo for changing the serial no & replace it will the lost serial no
then print it to a paper ( shd be both side in single sheet )
& frame it into your in the remember of lose 20$ bill
this how i coped wen i lost my $20
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hope this helps
- the person who loses everything
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It is not the twenty dollars that you have to worry about. It is that you are clearly losing your mind if you do not remember what happened to that bill.
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I think I wouldn't have cared that much about losing it. If I hadn't spent a lot of money this week. But I think It only ruined the first two days, I don't feel that bad now.
Just busting your chops a bit. You will get over a twenty when a roll of hundreds falls out than you can be upset. Work an extra hour next week and it will be the Boss who is out the twenty. lol
I just had a conversation with someone on the topic of money.:
It's all relative--it depends on how many zeroes there are and what you're talking about.
I used to be a merchandise buyer for a family owned furniture store. In ten days in Hong Kong and China, the owner and I racked up about $50,000 in purchases. A lot of money? No, because that was four truckloads of merchandise and the retail price we would sell it at would be significantly higher.
Adding a $20 item would have been insignificant at that point.
Houses near me went up--the sales banner said "Conveniently priced at $1.6M and up (that's USD$1,600,000--not 1.6 Mahalo dollars, or USD $1.20.) A lot of money? Not if you look at other homes nearby that sold for $6M and up. A new construction down the street was priced at $1.2M, but sold at $995,000 or so. Was the $200,000 a loss? No, because the seller didn't have it in the first place.
Would they have liked to have had that $200,000 that essentially fell out of their pocket (though not exactly--they never had it)? Is someone else spending it? No doubt on both, but things move forward nonetheless.
A $20 sprinkler head would be a cost associated with installing the sprinkler system, and one more or less wouldn't have made a difference overall.
Someone buys their kid at college a new car for $19,995. It's involved in a crash and it's totaled. The kid is at fault--DWI--so the insurance company will not pay out. The parent has just lost about $20,000.
Think of these examples and be happy you didn't have more zeroes.
If you've never lost $20 before, you will again, I'm sure. Wea ll misplace things.
By the way, if you want to track every piece of paper currency you usse, visit http://wheresgeorge.com
You'll know exactly where your cash lands.
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I have visited that site! I added a dollar to the tracker I should look it up.
It will e-mail you if it's entered by someone else--but the next person who gets the bill has to know to enter it into the system. .
Look here:
http://www.stamp-connection.com/collection/wheres_george_rubber_stamps.html
But then again, they discourage THAT method. Here's what they say on the matter:
#8 Is it legal to write on or mark currency?
Where's George? does not encourage the defacement of U.S. Currency. The law defines 'illegal' defacement as defacement that renders bills unfit to be re-issued. For the legal details from the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
#9 What happened to the official Where's George? Rubber stamps?
We no longer sell any Where's George? rubber stamps. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
#10 So, where can I get a rubber stamp?
We really can't help you there. Sorry. But any local office supply store may make one for you. There are also many online custom stamp makers on the Internet.
Source: http://www.wheresgeorge.com/faq.php
So why did they stop selling them? Says Wikipedia:
In April 2000, it was investigated by the United States Secret Service, which informed the webmaster that the selling of "Where's George?" rubber stamps on the web site is considered "advertising" on United States currency, which is illegal under 18 U.S.C. § 475.(9) The website's administrators immediately ceased selling the rubber stamps and no further action against the site was taken. At least one spokesperson for the US Secret Service has pointed out in print that marking US bills, even if not defacement, is still illegal for other reasons under 18 U.S.C. § 475; however, the general view is that using Where's George? rubber stamps on currency is not illegal per se. One Secret Service spokesman in Seattle, Washington, told The Seattle Times in 2004: "Quite frankly, we wouldn't spend too much looking into this."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_George%3F
Try to believe that it is going to come back to you soon. Keep looking while you are out. You never know what is coming to you!!!
My belief
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Think positive bear in mind that it is only money, a material thing. Although very important for someone who really needs it, when it happens we just have to deal with it because in reality it is lost and there is nothing else we can do about it ( I am sure you exerted your effort to try and find it or recalled that it actually fell out from your pocket somewhere ). Just think that everything happens for a reason and your lost $20 went and helped someone who really needs it more than you. Cheer up.
-A money quote-
"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy." ~George Horace Lorimer
"Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things." ~Glorie Abelhas
http://www.quotegarden.com/money.html
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I'm glad we could help, loosing a $20 can be a painful thing . . . but we have to carry on, it is what the $20 would want.
The more I read these answers the better I feel about my lose. :D