Returning bottles for money: how much have you made so far?
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For those of you who live in a state or country that has enables you to return bottles for cash:
- do you do it? Because you need the money or the fun of it?
- how much have you made so far?
Other than the fact that i can get 6-6.5 cents on a 5 cent bottle , i really " make no money"...im simply getting back the 5 cent deposit i paid when i bought it.
Yes i do save and take back the bottles to a bulk processor and come out with $20 on average every 6 weeks or so.
I also moslty pay cash and i save the change in a soccer ball bank i made in a ceramics class.
Combined bottles and change brings about $40-50 every other month.
I have a revolving CD at my CU that i can deposit $25-250 into per month and i get the 1 year CD rate on it. I dump this "found money" into it.
But as far as "making anything ", i dont. I really just get back the deposit i paid or the left over change from breaking a dollar.
DW and I once stopped to dabble at a little river landing by a back road in Iowa, which has a 5c law.. While sh swam, I picked about 30 cans. The next store refused them in a bag, had to be on a flat, so the clerk brought me a beer flat, I neatly arranged them, and took my 1.50.
I live in a state (VT) with a bottle bill, next door to a state (NH) with no deposit. It is possible to buy drinks in NH, that have the deposit etching on the top, so you pay no deposit, but can get back 5 cents per container at a VT location. It's illegal, but it can be done.
I used to pick up cans roadside on my walks, but I got too lazy to do that anymore.
I used to pick up cans roadside on my walks, but I got too lazy to do that anymore.
I do it. I don't go out just for the sake of looking for bottles, but if I see one while I'm out and about, I'll pick it up.
Here, we have 2 different kind of deposit: a smaller one for soda cans, small plastic, and small glass beer bottles. It is 30 agorot per bottle, about 8 cents. And a bigger one for large glass beer bottles, which is 1 shekel and 20 agorot, about 30 cents. Unfortunately there is no deposit on large plastic bottles.
I recycle our own bottles, plus those I find.
All in all, it really isn't much at all, between 5 and 10 dollars a month. But it is a lot of fun.
Other than the fact that i can get 6-6.5 cents on a 5 cent bottle , i really " make no money"...im simply getting back the 5 cent deposit i paid when i bought it.
Yes i do save and take back the bottles to a bulk processor and come out with $20 on average every 6 weeks or so.
I also moslty pay cash and i save the change in a soccer ball bank i made in a ceramics class.
Combined bottles and change brings about $40-50 every other month.
I have a revolving CD at my CU that i can deposit $25-250 into per month and i get the 1 year CD rate on it. I dump this "found money" into it.
But as far as "making anything ", i dont. I really just get back the deposit i paid or the left over change from breaking a dollar.
I guess you're still making a penny or a penny and a half on your own bottles.
Do you sometimes pick bottles you see on the street, too?
I've never returned containers except in two states where there was a significant deposit - CA and CT. And then only my own. California's system got refined and streamlined over the years to where it was easy to use; CT, being behind the times and always starting at the same point some other state did 20 years earlier, was almost more work than it was worth.
But if you're counting income from can scavenging, I think you're somewhere below 'frugal living.'
I've never returned containers except in two states where there was a significant deposit - CA and CT. And then only my own. California's system got refined and streamlined over the years to where it was easy to use; CT, being behind the times and always starting at the same point some other state did 20 years earlier, was almost more work than it was worth.
But if you're counting income from can scavenging, I think you're somewhere below 'frugal living.'
Yes! I'm a proud penny-pincher - have always been.
Will spend whatever is needed for what's important, though: health, education, vacations, healthy food, etc.
Yes! I'm a proud penny-pincher - have always been.
I'm a fairly frugal person, too, and never throw away a can or bottle if I can help it... but I'm glad to live somewhere with no bottle law, no deposit fees, and be able to just toss them in the recycle can each week.
I live in a state (VT) with a bottle bill, next door to a state (NH) with no deposit. It is possible to buy drinks in NH, that have the deposit etching on the top, so you pay no deposit, but can get back 5 cents per container at a VT location. It's illegal, but it can be done.
I used to pick up cans roadside on my walks, but I got too lazy to do that anymore.
Seinfwld episode, Newman drove a mail truck to Michigan full om dime empties, but ran over a sewing machine.
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