Is honesty the best policy

Aw.. i come across this situation many times in my life... :) Most of the time I go to extra ordinary lengths to return the monies. At times, I wonder, if the amounts had been fairly large, would I have still been that honest?

Of course, honesty is always the best policy. he clerk would have come up short when she checked her receipts against the remaining unsold money orders.

Hi. missybear. You have done the right thing by returning the extra money. I know that you felt like you could use this money though. Yes, I do believe in Karma. It is great that you turned this money in. You just never know if this same situation could happen to you if you gave someone some extra money. I know that if they have found out that you did, you would want to make sure that they told you that they have some extra money. Life can being upon many unexpected changes, so it is great that you returned the money in to this woman.

I am a firm believer in honesty being the best policy. Where you are honest in your relationships, personal and business, everything else in life just seems to come together. It's important to be honest with other people and yourself to be enriched in your life.

Hi Missybear - If I'd be in your situation I would do the same thing you did. I believe in karma. I believe that our future, who and what we are now is the consequence of our actions in the past. I am a believer of the saying whatever you sow you will reap. I've been in a lot of situation where my honesty has been tested especially when it comes to money. However, I've always been honest. Maybe because of what my grandfather told me before. He said if I found $100.00 along the way and has the big possibility to find the owner but did not do so someday I will lost triple than that and the person who finds my money will keep it and not return it to me. I don't want that to happen. I was very close with my grandfather. I remember I was just in grade school that time. Then, I asked him, "What if I really can't find the owner?" He said, "Finders keepers in that situation applies." I miss him. He has been gone with the Angels for more than 10 years now.

hi, yes,i do believe on that motto "honesty is the best policy" because this is applicable in everywhere,and of course i am afraid in karma,we dont know how karma turn back us,sometimes worst and sometimes not.

I maybe believe in karma in another life but certainly not in this one. You would have been spitting chips if she had mistakenly charged you double. Would you have kept quiet then and let it go? No, honesty is the best policy. It's good to have a clear conscience.

hi missybear honesty is always the best policy and you know it as your conscience is telling you that as you type out this discussion. I do believe that what goes around comes around again and will bite you in the butt if you have gone against your conscience.yes in this your'honey is right and you have a very honest wonderful honey too.Sometimes honesty does backfire for one example I had added up my grocery purchases on my little computer and knew i was due back five dollars., I was at the head of a very long line I handed back the twenty dollar bill she had overpaid me. She said loudly "I am never wrong, that is your money, now please move on. I tried to show her her error but she just again said.," I never make a math error." so in this case I took the twenty which I also needed , picke dup my groceries and left.I can imagine at the end of her shift she was t twenty dollars short. lol lol

I think I would have given the money back as well. I know the other day, I went to lunch with my brother and they gave us a ticket that said "x2" on it and the lady just charged us once. I didn't like the sound of it and then my brother got mad at me because I blabbed and he had to pay for the second sandwich. I have always believed that honesty is the best policy, but he was of the opinion that the big corporations could afford to lost the $5.99. Oh well...

I do believe in Karma and I think you did the right thing. It might not come around right away..but it will. I know it would have been nice to have kept that money.

It is nice to hear such honest incidents. Even I had such instances. once I left my purse in a shop and the shopkeeper returned the purse to me without taking a single penny from it. He came to my house and returned it. I had some $ 100 dollars in my purse. My father gave that fellow some $ 20 dollars for his generosity. If you are honest it pays back to you.

There is no second opinion on this I feel. Because it is for our own peace that we should be honest. The elated feeling one gets after an act of honesty is displayed it is only the one who has showed it will know.

To be honest is good ut it is not the best policy i guess. The respect and your value about your own conscience should be first.

It is so sorry to read this , but anyway , I always believing the honest is necessary and basically !! in the meaning time, friendly reminder , self- protect is also same important as honest Good lucky !!

As I Zen practitioner, I know that karma is so. We each create ourselves. It we are dishonest, there is a conflict the mind - maybe only a slight one, but we are saying or doing one thing whilst knowing something completely opposite. Our karma then becomes a tension in the deeper mind. When this happens a lot, more and more tension builds up in the mind and we become totally attached and entangled in life's ups and downs. I have found money, that would have helped me a lot in the past, but always returned it. It is not up to me to judge whether or not the owner of the money can afford to be parted with it. I can only be aware of what it truth within my self and prefer to live in accordance with that truth. It doesn't matter whether something feels small or very big - I do not judge it on size, but on what I feel to be truth. I am not always right, but that is the way life it, so I don't try to be right, I live in a state of truth to the best of my ability. _Derek

i think you did the right thing to return the money. it shows your good character which is a very good trait to have. you don't have to feel guilty either about this situation. sometimes our consciences can kick in when we don't do what is right. the best to you. keep being honest; you can't go wrong...

I really don't believe in KARMA because nowadays money is an essential commodities that helps you run your life.In short, it is very important so why would i believe in KARMA.

Honesty is always the best policy. You did the right thing in returning it. Finding money with no way of proving it's ownership is the only way anyone should keep it.

I appreciate you for what you did and your husband is very good man who believe in honesty though in today's time its difficult to be honest through out the life but one should make sure when ever its possible be loyal. However I do not believe in karma because of my personal experiences. But what I believe in is what you sow you reap. So be good to others and other will be good to you.

Well, it aint just that she made that mistake or the matter of honesty on your part. It is also that while that extra money in your pocket will be charge to the poor lady, so she will be having consequences of that mistake. It all depends on you, are you willing to let it go?willing to know that when you are face to face with her, you will not remember and feel bad if you kept it?!