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Alegria · Kate Spade

Finders Keepers...

sfclinevandy · Coach

I would totally turn them in. Because I'm usually the girl who leaves behinds her glasses or keys or small shopping bags and it would suck to have my stuff taken.

The only thing I found and kept was a random fake id in college. And I knew it was fake because I knew the girl in the photo and she wasn't 24 or from California. Plus I didn't like her so it was her loss!

pollyjean23 · Marc Jacobs

I would turn it in and make sure I give it to someone in the office if it is a department store--or a manager on the floor.

I wouldn't keep them; they could be prescription and that wouldn't do the finder any good. Wouldn't care about the brand.

I think Karma would come around to bite on this one.

Just imagine how panicky you feel when you lose something important or expensive. "My mom just bought those for me, and now I have lost them! She's gonna kill me" ick.

This is an old newspiece, but I love it - About lost & found in Tokyo

-- Edited by pollyjean23 on Tuesday 26th of May 2009 05:03:00 PM

Boots · Gucci

I'd turn them in. I firmly believe that what goes around, comes around. If I want there to be somebody honest enough out there to turn in something that I might have left in a dressing room, then I have to be that person for somebody else. The price of the item isn't a factor.

Kelly · Hermes

When I see something, I usually just leave it where it is and hope that the person thinks to come back to the fitting room (or wherever) to look for it. If I don't leave it there (like if it's something more expensive, or it's a busy location) I give to the people at the counter. If they don't leave them in the lost and found, that's not my fault or, honestly, my problem.

tri_sarah_tops · Marc Jacobs

I'd turn them in. A couple of months ago I left my Oliver Peoples sunglasses in a fitting room at jcrew. I realized as soon as I got to my car, which wasn't even 10 minutes later. I went back in and they were gone - not in the fitting room I'd used and not with an associate. I loved them, can't afford to replace them, and it sucks that someone kept them :(

XtinaStyles · Marc Jacobs

Hum .....................

I'm going to be honest and say if they were really cute I'd prolly swipe em!

If I witness someone losing something, I'll run after them and let them know (usually happens with money).

blink · Coach

I turn things in. I don't believe in the finders keepers thing. I cringed recently when my kids went to the neighborhood park with their grandma and returned with a toy car they had found left in the sandbox that didn't belong to them. It's little, but it just doesn's feel right!!

There was one time that I didn't turn something in, when a customer left a Saks shopping bag with an orange blouse inside at the little chocolate shop I was working at...with the receipt. My friend and I held on to it for over 24 hours and the owner didn't call or return. So she and I took it to Saks for a store credit and ended up buying a housewarming gift for another friend.

But I felt really guilty!

HeatherLynn · Gucci

I would turn it in. I am always losing or leaving something behind. I am always so thankful when I return and find it so I would definitely return the favor. I don't think I could wear them if I took them because I would feel bad knowing someone else paid for them and probably missed them!

Hermes

you know, that's a tough call. I hate to say it, but honestly, I might pocket the item if I really like it. many times when you turn things in, the store associate you turned the item in to will pocket it if it's worth a lot of money. sunglasses - I'd probably turn them in, unless they were Chanel. fine jewelry, on the other hand, I would probably let the store know I found a piece of jewelry and leave my contact info if someone comes forward and can identify it.

this is coming from a person who lost a 5 carat diamond bracelet while out one night. I was careless, and I lost it. it was my own fault. would have been nice to get the bracelet back, but I don't blame the person who found it for keeping it...

on the other hand, I dropped some jewelry that was in my purse at a bar once, called to see if anyone found anything, and someone had turned it in. I was really thrilled to get it.

this may not be the answer that people would want to hear, but that's honestly how I would react...

gingembre1 · Kate Spade

I would turn it in to the store clerk. I would think about keeping them, but only in a "Wouldn't it be nice to have glasses like these" kind of way. I would never even have thought about the fact that the store employee might keep them.

Anyway, for me the only right thing to do would be to turn them in - if someone else is dishonest and takes them, then it's on their "karma."

gossipgirl · Dooney & Bourke

I'd return them. If I was worried about the clerks pocketing them, I'd call the store, tell them what I found and give them my number in case someon called to identify the item - that way the rightful owner would get them back, and if not, you'd get them guilt-free.

Suasoria · Chanel

Great topic!!

Once I was at a party and I was chatting with a woman who owned a boutique in L.A. She complimented my sunglasses. I said they were old and I'd been wanting new ones. She told me to come by her store any time, because she had a box of sunglasses customers had left behind. She and her employees just took the ones they liked because nobody ever came back for them.

At another party when I went to retrieve my belongings at the end of the night, I found a pretty shawl that was clearly left behind. I gave it to the host and he said "Keep it. If anyone asks me if I found it, I'll call you." He didn't.

I do hope karma applies, because we all lose and find things. I've lost scarves, gloves, hats, sunglasses, jewelry, coats...and gained scarves, sunglasses, hats, jewelry, but no gloves or coats yet!

Whether I would take that hypothetical pair of sunglasses -- it depends. If I found them in a fitting room, I'd probably return them to the clerk. At a bus stop, I'd probably keep them if I liked them and could use them. Sunglasses are always 'easy come, easy go' in my world.

stardust · Kenneth Cole

Gossipgirl- that approach never occurred to me but it's a good idea- because then you can be sure the clerk you leave them with won't just keep them.
Honestly I would automatically return them to a store manager or clerk no matter what it was. There's something really upsetting when you lose or forget something and I for one tend to beat myself up for it and the few times I have gone back and somebody has kept something safe for me it's such a relief - I guess I always like to think of the rightful owner getting to experience that relief and not being stressed or upset. Not really a karma thing - just kind of wanting to reduce the stress and also I guess to remind myself and the other person that people do care - even about strangers.

small fry · Chanel

well I most likley would turn it in. I lost a pair of prescription sunglasses and still kick myself in the behind.

But than again it depends on what it was and the mood Iam in ashamed

(thats bad huh)

FashionPrincess · Hermes

Hmmm, what's funny is I'd turn them in without even thinking twice, like I truly never contemplated keeping something or that the store clerks would keep something... I guess that's their conscience to worry about not mine :) And I agree, if it's someplace like a bus stop or somewhere there isn't someone to turn it into, I might keep it then but I'd probably ask around if anyone lost anything first. And I pray that if I were ever to misplace my Chanel sunglasses, someone would do the same for me :)

Aurora · Marc Jacobs

I don't know what I would do. I know years ago, there was a time I was waiting in line at the post office and a person in front of me dropped a $10 bill and I just waited to see if they noticed they dropped it or not and when they left I pocketed it. I felt guilty after about it. I should have said something. Another time I was that person who left my sunglasses in my spa locker and was so happy when the desk called me 15 minutes later to report that they were turned in. In the future I might do the call me if someone reports it missing thing. That way I don't feel too guilty if I like the item.

dangergirl · Kate Spade

I would turn them in to the store. Whatever they decide to do with them, at least you've done the right thing.