Finding Things We Had Lost

Recently, when I put on a pair of pants I hadn’t worn in a while, I reached into the right pocket and found a dollar.

It is always fun to find money in an article of clothing or somewhere else in the home that we forgot about. In fact, the personal finance expert Susie Orman has an exercise where she recommends people go through their entire house to find lost money and the amount that it typically adds up to, according to her book, was pretty impressive.

It made me wonder if there aren’t other areas of my life where there are things that are lost, particularly friends, and it inspired me to go back through my contacts list and address books to see who I haven’t been in touch with in a while, but would like to.

It’s exciting and fun to find money, but it is ultimately more valuable to me to find those lost friends, too.