OK, so it’s not enough money to order replacement windows for the house or anything, but it was still a productive trip to the recycling center this morning, and the return is a lot more predictable than I would see from online trading.
BJ and I drink a LOT of Coke from 12-ounce cans, and we rinse them out before chucking them into a separate trash bag. When it’s full, we tie it off, shove it into the garage, and start over. Today, we loaded all of those bags into the truck and took them to the scrap yard.
We got thirty bucks! Those little suckers are selling for sixty cents a pound now, and we had managed to accumulate fifty pounds of aluminum cans. I don’t even want to think about how many gallons of pop that correlates with, though.
On the way home, we stopped at the post office to pick up the mail, and lo and behold, I had a package (parcel?) from my good friend Stinkypaw up in Montreal. She came up with this idea about “sharing the love” through mailing each other a few sweets from our respective regions, so I’m sitting here munching on some really tasty Canadian maple cookies (biscuits?). Merci beaucoup, mon ami! Gee, maybe I should go grab a Coke to wash them down!
Happy you like those cookies (biscuits in French)! Wait ’til you try the Coffee Crisp… yummy! Thank you for “playing” along, it’s fun to trade like this!
As for the cans, you guys don’t have recycling? Here we do, we get 0.05/can and 0.10.bottle (plastic). It adds up pretty fast, but maybe your way pays more.
Nope, we don’t get paid here for returning bottles or cans. I remember going out as a kid and digging through the bushes for those old 16-ounce bottles the companies would wash and reuse (two cents apiece then — quite a tidy sum!), but not anymore.