Sweet wrappers, used bus cards and even a winning lottery ticket with a prize money of $40.

These are among the items stuffed into donation boxes across Singapore in the last few years.

'We sometimes find foreign money, Monopoly notes and old coins,' said a spokesman for the National Healthcare Group, which has boxes for the National University Hospital and Tan Tock Seng Hospital Patientcare Charity Fund.

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