Treasure Hunting

I heard on the news last week that the state government had listed about 25,000 names of people who have claim to different types of property like lost paychecks, deposits, money forgotten in savings accounts, etc; which up to this point have gone unclaimed. A few days later I read an article in the paper about the same thing. The article mentioned that each year there is over $100 million of unclaimed property which the state invests or uses to pay for other government programs if not claimed, but the state is not responsible for contacting all of these people so they resort to just listing these names in the newspaper or online every so often. 25,000 people from October 2007 up until now alone!! Why not me? So on Sunday I decided to check and unfortunately I had no unclaimed property, but as I checked for other people that I knew I found that my Uncle and my cousin had some. Although Becca wasn't quite as amused as I was, I found it kind of exciting, almost like a modern day treasure hunt where you just didn't know what kind of treasure (unclaimed property) was going to pop up when you input a name. I passed the info along to my dad and told him to tell my Uncle. Hopefully I will get some sort of finder's fee for my discoveries.