I’d like to thank you all for the messages of encouragement I have received on Twitter since I joined the network. I have also received a lot of messages from people saying how much money they are finding. I find it fascinating just how much cash is laying around out there as we sit watching GM, Chrysler and the State of California going bankrupt. Not for one minute am I suggesting their ills could be cured by making their employees go on a sidewalk cash hunt, plus that is the kind of competition I don’t need! It is intriguing though knowing all this free cash exists, but is it too widespread and too small of a denomination to help anyone in these hard times?

When I have more time I will try to do some Sidewalker math and calculate how much cash I believe is on the sidewalk at any given moment in America, unless there is a reader out there who would like to do my dirty work for me and suggest a total with accompanying methodology?

In other news, things are rolling along quite nicely at Castle Sidewalker and between the four of us we have amassed $1.12 so far this month, far exceeding my hoped-for 2 cents per day average for June ’09; and we still have 15 days to go. Our latest finds can be seen on my Cash Trail map in the side bar to the right. It looks like Hoboken, N.J. is the town that just keeps on giving!

-Luke Sidewalker
-Current balance $11.27

Mrs. Sidewalker has been doing most of the finding lately. It seems every time she goes somewhere and parks the car she gets out and finds some money. Her successes include a dime and three quarters in the last two days. I have chipped in with six cents myself. The locations of the finds can be found on my cashtrail to the right.

I read a story that in the U.K. there are a lot of counterfeit one pound coins in circulation. Don’t the criminals know it is a lot cheaper and legal to just find the real coins on the floor. The story can be found here.

In other news today it looks like the time has expired on Chrysler’s parking meter as they will file for some form of bankruptcy once the unions, creditors and government are done bickering over the last couple of billion dollars.

I will be publishing my month end report later today, so keep an eye out for that to follow my progress.

-Luke Sidewlaker
-Current balance $8.72