Comments on: How to Recover From a Lost Wallet

By: josh

josh — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:09:09 +0000

lost mine today with my entire rent money in it

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:32:13 +0000

I lost mine today

By: Ruth Pearson

Ruth Pearson — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:17:53 +0000

I also meant to add the ID Dept. of police say
never never carry your check book.

By: Ruth Pearson

Ruth Pearson — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:16:00 +0000

Copy both sides of your cards as the phone #”S
you need for reporting are there. Also notify
the police as well as the major credit bureaus.

By: Shock

Shock — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:43:37 +0000

What if you lose your wallet when your away from home, like on vacation?

By: Joy from Just Plain Joy

Joy from Just Plain Joy — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:25:59 +0000

I think losing your wallet would be devastating, but even worse would be losing a cell phone (if it wasn’t password protected).
Using some form of password protection on your phone is the best thing you can do to protect your personal information. A lost smartphone could mean compromising your friends’ personal information, your email accounts, calendar, passwords, and more!

By: Lacy

Lacy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:23:36 +0000

Instead of taking a picture of everything important in your wallet, here is another option. I have an excel spreadsheet that I created with important account names, numbers, phone numbers, login, and such. I print it and keep it in my safe, and check for updates often. Put CCards, DCards, banking, DL #, any membership cards, etc. It is all on one sheet, if anything happens, grab the sheet and go down the list.

By: Ijeva Bambridge

Ijeva Bambridge — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:54:03 +0000

I think this is a FANTASTIC IDEA!! I am going to go thru my wallet right now…thanks!!

By: Zenoiba

Zenoiba — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:16:56 +0000

There is no way to leave your SSN at home if you have a Medicare card or Military ID.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:07:47 +0000

5 years ago I had my wallet stolen. Here are my additional tips:

1. Put CC and Debit card customer service phone #’s in your cell phone. They are on the back of the card, which doesn’t do you any good after the cards are gone.

2. I had recently changed banks, and they gave me a small business card size paper with my account # on it and the bank name. I memorized the #, but forgot to throw the card away. Consequentially I had about 8k in stolen checks passed through my account. (This was the banks fault as I notified them of the theft and they advised leaving the account open, but flagging it for any activity which the tellers ignored)…..Now what I do is keep a small post-it with my account numbers but I use a code. My first language is english, but I also speak Spanish and took biblically greek in college. So I use greek letters to write out the number is spanish. That way if someone gets a hold of it, it’s just gibberish to them.

By: lostAnnfound

lostAnnfound — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:43:29 +0000

My husband didn’t want to give his name either, just wanted to drop off the wallet, but the guard at the gate “insisted” that he give his name and contact info. He decided it was a good idea to do so, especially since he was wearing his “City of ______ DPW” shirt (he was working) and was easily identifiable anyway.

By: Saving Money Today

Saving Money Today — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:21:15 +0000

Making copies of the credit cards and keeping them in a safe place is a good idea. Never thought of that.

And it amazes me that anyone actually carries their social security card around. If you can memorize a telephone number you can remember your SSN.

By: Frugal

Frugal — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:42:28 +0000

Similar case, found a wallet some time ago, tried to contact the owner in vain. Turned it over to the cops and declined the reward (told him to keep it as my charitable contribution). I like to keep low profile and do not wish to be named anywhere.

By: lostAnnfound

lostAnnfound — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:09:08 +0000

A couple years ago my husband found a wallet in a neighborhood near our house. It turned out to belong to a woman who was up from VA or MD (we’re in New England) at a local military base. She had credit cards, license, some cash & her military ID. Hubby turned it into checkpoint gate and got a call a few days later from the woman who could not thank him enough for turning it in. She was very concerned about losing her military ID more than anything else it seemed. She was so grateful she sent husband a nice gift basket from Harry & David as a thank you.

I could only hope that if I ever lost my wallet someone as honest as my husband would find it.

By: Shirley

Shirley — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:56:34 +0000

The same thing applies to thumb drives that are carried with you. Create a text file named
!Owner-Info.txt (The ! keeps it at the top if files are alphabetically arranged.)

If found, this flash drive belongs to:
My Name
My address
City, State zip
Phone number
Email address

Please let her know that you have found me so
that she can make arrangements for my return home.

Thank you ever so much for your honesty and integrity.