Free groceries?!?

[Industrial Toys]

I have seen pledge forms like that at the bank, or lucky draw forms in various busineses, with information for all to see. You could leaf through it and get the phone numbers for some of the towns women folk. I'm surprised that women don't find this a possible threat.

 

[Oaktree]

My Dad who is a millionaire (Not that that means much today) goes around his neighborhood picking beer botles out of peoples garbage.

I'm no millionaire, but I do go for what I call "can walks", picking up cans on the side of the road. We don't have a deposit law here, but all our neighboring states do so there are plenty of nickel back cans/bottles. I take the deposit ones across the river and cash them in, the others get crushed and taken to the metal recycler once a year. I've been known to fish cans out of the trash barrels at gas stations, etc.
The money goes in a kitty that we use for vacations, eating out, etc.

Back in the 80s when I first started doing this I noticed that over 50% of the cans on the roadside were Budweiser or other Anheiser-Busch brands. Bought some AB stock based on that observation. It did quite well for me.

 

[newbury]

Back in the late '60's for a few years I had a spring ritual in northern Vermont. First good weather weekend after ice-out, usually about early May if I remember correctly, my buddy and I would go on about a 10 mile bike ride "loop" picking up bottles and cans that had a deposit. We would each carry a grain sack and usually fill them up, mostly with discarded beer bottles. Good afternoons were had.

 

[Industrial Toys]

A can I pickd up last summer had apparently been used by a chewer. Emptied it's contents in the back of my Gator. I hate touching other peoples garbage!

 

[jmc]

Sorry, OP but since we're off topic...

I live on a former Indiana state highway that now serves as a glorified county road. Back when, it was part of the Dixie Highway system which were major N-S highways before the interstate system. My grandparents probably took it to Florida every winter from Ft Wayne.

Neighbor decides he wants to pick up the litter along it- about a century's worth, after rust. Old bottles and the vintage beer cans that predated pull tabs - the ones you needed a beer can opener to poke triangular holes. He bagged them and I helped him carry the bags to his car.

Woke up in the middle of that night, still half asleep, but could feel something lightly crawling on my stomach. Found a 3 inch millipede in bed with me. Groggy and creeped out, had a passing thought that maybe it had eaten its way out of my abdomen! Checked myself for holes... Probably fell out of one of those cans that had been a millipede condo for decades.

 

[Fuddy1952]

But that doesn't explain how much she knew to have charged to her card until your order had been totaled up.


But I don't really need to know .... just wondering.

Apparently she didn't care. She must of said to clerk add his stuff to mine.
The clerk then pulled off a long receipt throwing it in trash.
The girl wouldn't have known total, which didn't matter.

 

[Fuddy1952]

Speaking of cans. I just realized wife and I throw out lots of aluminum cans. I just called local recyclers and they pay 24 cents/pound.
I weighed a can, 0.7oz.
I did the math and works out to be a penny a can. Bottom line for me it's not worth my time/fuel to go to recycler. Even at 6 cans/day...that's about $1.80/month!!!!!

 

[fried1765]

Apparently she didn't care. She must of said to clerk add his stuff to mine.
The clerk then pulled off a long receipt throwing it in trash.
The girl wouldn't have known total, which didn't matter.

That is the way it is done!

 

[Wagtail]

My buddy says it's called pay forward.

It's a 'gesture' thing.

I 'somewhat' do it whenever I'm in Launceston at my favourite clothing shop, called "Rivers". On their receipt they give a 10% discount for your next purchase (3 month expiry) and, since I infrequently travel into "Launie", I simply hand the docket with the discount to either the next person in the queue or tell the salesperson to apply it to the next customer.

 

[Jstpssng]

Back in the late '60's for a few years I had a spring ritual in northern Vermont. First good weather weekend after ice-out, usually about early May if I remember correctly, my buddy and I would go on about a 10 mile bike ride "loop" picking up bottles and cans that had a deposit. We would each carry a grain sack and usually fill them up, mostly with discarded beer bottles. Good afternoons were had.

I've seen people do that in springtime up here. They will leave Lincoln ME and head north on the road everybody took all winter to go ice fishing, and by the time they get to my town 45 miles away they have an entire carload of empties. I often wonder wht else they find along their route... most of my best tow chains came off the side of that same stretch of road. I also lost a brand new Craftsman ratchet on the same stretch of road, the first time that I used it...