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Recycled the cans

April 5th, 2006 at 05:02 am

I needed to pick DD3 up from a youth function tonight and decided that it would be a good time to trade in some of my cans....They have those machine thingys here that gobble up the cans one by one...and I had never used one (DH has always been the one to trade them in, but he hasn't wanted to bother for a while)

8:40 at night....and someone else pulls up to trade in cans as I get started. (huh?) I thought Id have the machine all to myself at this hour... as I figured this out....

Oh well, I get the cans going, its not so bad, kinda easy actually...and part way through the machine stops taking my cans and spits out a receipt...(I guess there is a can limit)...so I take the receipt and start again...get all the cans traded in, take the receipts into the store...and the clerk had to get a supervisor override because I had more than $10 (I had $11.50)

Oh well, now I know...I think I will just take a couple bags at a time till I get them all traded in...so...the $11.50 is going to my $20 challenge....which means I have OFFICIALLY gone over the first $100 mark...(cheer and applause here)$105.63 to be exact!!! oh yeah!(doin the victory dance)

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3 Responses to “Recycled the cans”

  1. Ima saver Says:
    April 5th, 2006 at 01:45 pm 1144244719
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    Good for you , Ray!! (I never heard of a machine that takes cans, we just throw them away, wish I could send them to you.)

  2. contrary1 Says:
    April 5th, 2006 at 02:35 pm 1144247704
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    I can't recycle mine for $$ either, they moved our local recycler out and now the drive to the next city would not be worth it. It used to be the way some of my kids made a little money. And, we had many Sat afternoons of No Money Fun, as we hunted for cans in parks, etc.

    Congrats on going over the 100 mark too!!

  3. katwoman Says:
    April 6th, 2006 at 11:19 pm 1144365574
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    I used to love recycling cans. Easy money till aluminum became so cheap. Good for you, though!

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