If you’re considering a cash advance, you might just want to clean out your garage or basement.

BJ and I drink a LOT of Coke, and we always save the aluminum cans for recycling.  There’s a can crusher right outside the kitchen door, and once we collect enough to fill a big trash bag with the crushed cans, we take them in and pick up a few bucks.

Today, though, we decided to include all the copper wire trimmings left over from wiring the cabin — and a section of copper pipe we’ve had in the garage since we bought the house.

I didn’t expect all that much.  I know we’ve had a bunch of people arrested for stealing the wires from power poles for sale — and one guy recently electrocuted himself when he tried to strip a substation.  But we only had a few short pieces after running some outlets and that single length of pipe.  Oh, and a bag full of cans.

When BJ came out of the scrap metal office smiling, I knew we had done OK, but neither of us had expected almost fifty dollars!  Once I can walk better, I’m going to see if I can dig up some more scrap from around here!