My friend (and financial advisor) Jason Claborn introduced me to his grandfather's theory of money karma while he was visiting New York a couple months ago. Basically, the theory is that if you overlook and disregard small amounts of found money, the big amounts of money will never be present for you. Meaning that, if you pass by a penny or nickel you see on the ground without picking it up, you won't be given the opportunity for a larger amounts of money to come your way.
I've always been one to pick up a penny here and there, thinking that they're good luck for the day. Now that the money karma theory is in my head, I'm constantly presented with all sorts of money everywhere I look. Just this morning on my way back to Brooklyn from Manhattan, I found a quarter on the 1st Avenue subway platform, then got on the L train to find 3 more pennies, and yet another penny on the stairs leaving the subway at Lorimer. That's 29 cents of found money, all before noon! I know this may sound silly to some of you, but I've found $2.78 cents since Jason told me about this concept. I'm keeping it in all in a jar to keep the tally going. Thanks to an idea given to me by my sister in law, plan to have a found money party once the amount grows substantially, with all the alcohol bought using the money I've picked up. Once you're drinking your favorite adult beverage that I paid for with money that you probably stepped right over, maybe then you won't think I'm so crazy, huh?
By the way, Jason and his wife found over $350 last year, and a lot of that was in bills. In fact, once his wife Erin said out loud as they were walking down the street, "I wish I would find a $10 bill," and just then a $10 bill blew up against her ankle. Seriously.
I have yet to find a bill of any denomination since I've started applying the theory, but I'll be sure to post about it if I do.
