Aluminum cans....

[Ranger Mom]

....are they worth saving, crushing and cashing in??

I'm not speaking on an environmental level.....this is strictly a financial question!

[No Show Jones]

It all depends on how many cans you are talking. If it's just a 100 here and there then no it's not worth the hassle because it will just pay for your gas to go turn them in. If you are at 250+ cans then yes it could

[burnet44]

.42 cents a lb here

[Ranger Mom]

Between all the beer cans and soda cans we go through at my house, we are throwing away A LOT of cans!!

[mustang04]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
Between all the beer cans and soda cans we go through at my house, we are throwing away A LOT of cans!!

then keep them

[pirate4state]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
....are they worth saving, crushing and cashing in??

I'm not speaking on an environmental level.....this is strictly a financial question!

Most of the time it isn't. My dad used to do it, but when he was around there were plenty of cans around too. ;)

[Snyder_TigerFan]

According to yahoo answers:

32 SODA CANS OR 28 BEER CANS MAKE A POUND ON AVERAGE WE HAVE FOUND OVER THE YEARS .

[Ranger Mom]

My thought was to get a can crusher and and a 50 gallon drum......when that drum was full of crushed cans then I bag them up and take them in.

[LH Panther Mom]

Hubby has a "deal" with the youngest son. If Adam does the crushing, hubby will cash them in and give the $$$$ to Adam. The last pay-out was $18.

[pirate4state]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
My thought was to get a can crusher and and a 50 gallon drum......when that drum was full of crushed cans then I bag them up and take them in. That's what my dad did. He would start at the beginning of the year and always cash in right before Christmas. LOL. I remember getting on avg $100+ back from all those cans. :doh: Of course, he wasn't drinking alone and he did not allow bottles during a party. ROFL!

[mustang04]

Originally posted by LH Panther Mom
Hubby has a "deal" with the youngest son. If Adam does the crushing, hubby will cash them in and give the $$$$ to Adam. The last pay-out was $18.

BANKING!

[Ranger Mom]

I remember having to collect aluminum cans as a teenager.....my dad would drop us off on some road and drive about a mile or two up the road and sit there and read his National Geographic until we caught up.

When I was 16 and JUST got my license there was a Willie Nelson concert at the coliseum in Big Spring. There was dumpsters and dumpsters full of beer cans. We (brother and sister too) got to go "dumpster diving"....it wasn't too bad, I found $20.:D

On the way home, someone ran a stop sign and ran into me. When the cops were there, all they could smell was beer all over me, my brother and sister. My brother and I both had to go the hospital...I remember they kept asking me, "how much have you had to drink".

I remember being SO shocked that they would think that I, a 16 year old, would be drinking!! How times have changed!!!

[tigerpride_08]

we keep ours...but we drink alot of sodas which isn't a good thing but we do make some cash off of it...

[District303aPastPlayer]

Originally posted by tigerpride_08
we keep ours...but we drink alot of sodas which isn't a good thing but we do make some cash off of it...

we do too... they are .42 or .78 here... i passed by a recycling center leaving Sinton, and they are giving a good deal for em...

[pooch]

we used to collect from our neighbor after their family's parties/get-to-gethers

[burnet44]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom


I remember being SO shocked that they would think that I, a 16 year old, would be drinking!! How times have changed!!!

yeah right

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by burnet44
yeah right

Yeah right what??

I was a good girl...I never had a drink of alcohol until I was OF age!!

Back then...I didn't know anyone that drank! Kids OR grownups!! I darn sure wasn't raised around it!!

[DDBooger]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
Yeah right what??

I was a good girl...I never had a drink of alcohol until I was OF age!!

Back then...I didn't know anyone that drank! Kids OR grownups!! I darn sure wasn't raised around it!! damn, were your neighbors the Brady's and Partridges? or are you mormon? if so sorry:cool:

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by DDBooger
damn, were your neighbors the Brady's and Partridges? or are you mormon? if so sorry:cool:

Granddaughter of a Baptist preacher!!

:D

[mustang04]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
Granddaughter of a Baptist preacher!!

:D

all the daughters and grandaughters of prechers that i have known are FREAKS...like in a good way...they can bump and grind on the dance-floor like nobody's business:cool:

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by mustang04
all the daughters and grandaughters of prechers that i have known are FREAKS...like in a good way...they can bump and grind on the dance-floor like nobody's business:cool:

My mother is NOT a freak!!

I think she sometimes wonders where she went so wrong!!:p :p

[pooch]

Originally posted by mustang04
all the daughters and grandaughters of prechers that i have known are FREAKS...like in a good way...they can bump and grind on the dance-floor like nobody's business:cool:

like in Footloose

[Emerson1]

You can always build a house, just don't have leaks like you do now or it will rust

http://www.eco-artware.com/newsletter/images/0504tincanhouse.jpg

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by Emerson1
You can always build a house, just don't have leaks like you do now or it will rust

http://www.eco-artware.com/newsletter/images/0504tincanhouse.jpg

I'll stick with my bricks....thanks!!:)

[DU_stud04]

Originally posted by Snyder_TigerFan
According to yahoo answers:

32 SODA CANS OR 28 BEER CANS MAKE A POUND ON AVERAGE WE HAVE FOUND OVER THE YEARS . drink more beer. it pays.

[Gobbla2001]

then put old screws, nails, washers etc... inside of each can to make it weigh more...

[wildstangs]

Originally posted by Gobbla2001
then put old screws, nails, washers etc... inside of each can to make it weigh more...

Uhh...not that I know from experience or anything...but they can tell if a foreign object is in the can.

[sinton66]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
....are they worth saving, crushing and cashing in??

I'm not speaking on an environmental level.....this is strictly a financial question!

I'm told the recycling centers prefer the cans uncrushed.

[lostaussie]

had a friend pulled over one night . the officer looked in the back of his truck and asked my friend, "mr. stafford do you pick up aluminum cans?". "as a matter of fact i do" replied my friend. "well i just find it quite odd that the only cans you pick up are old milwaukee" replied the officer:D

[piratebg]

My in-laws don't save cans, but they save just the little can topper thingies. Supposedly there is this place in Corpus that gives them $50 dollars for every gallon milk jug they fill with those little things.

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by sinton66
I'm told the recycling centers prefer the cans uncrushed.

Really?? I wonder what the reasoning behind that is?

[Emerson1]

Probably easier to clean or something like that.