Found 2024

Every year the Kirkland family keeps a jar of ‘found’ coins - and once per year I do the accounting.

This year: Sheesh, really seems like the decline of a cash-based society is rearing its head here. We spent the summer in Germany and Scandinavia, where we walked 20,000 steps a day in major cities. Ten years ago, that would have been a goldmine for found change. But not in northern Europe? In fact, the only cash I saw in Norway at all was rattling around a junk drawer in an airBNB.

On the other hand; maybe we were looking UP at the cities around us.

But - still not a bad haul for the year. Only $8.35 total in USD and €0.65 in EUR, but 160 individual coins (plus this 10,000 peso bill). Not bad. As usual, one day this will be a part of the Erika Kirkland Museum of Found Objects.