The Cellar / Old Git Corner (get off my lawn)

**Posted by monster** 6/01/2025 8:58 pm

I was recycling cans today (which have a 10¢ deposit in Michigan). You feed them in the machine and at the end get a slip you can cash out or just put toward your shopping. Mine was for $24.70 and the cashier said "wow how many cans did you have to recycle to get like $25? Me: 247. you just divide by 10. Take the zero off. Cashier: You did that really well. I would never have thought of that. Me: that's just from yesterday. Cashier doesn't bat an eyelid.

When is the next bus off the planet?

(In case you need to know... the maximum you are allowed to recycle in one day is $25. I store them in the garage in plastic grocery bags and guesstimate when I'm about at the $25 mark then undertake the task. I was reasonably chuffed with today's outcome)

**Posted by glatt** 6/02/2025 6:51 am

That sounds like it must be really close. How many cans away were you from the $25 when you dropped off 247 cans for $24.70?

**Posted by Clodfobble** 6/02/2025 9:43 am

If monster leaves her house at 10:15am traveling east at 40mph, how many of her 247 cans...

**Posted by Flint** 6/02/2025 11:23 am

We have this thing called "bottle drop" which are these green bags you buy, and print barcode labels linked to your account, you dump the bags down a chute and they apply everything in it to your account. I checked mine recently, there's $300 in it.

To add context: I live in the county and they don't pick up my recycling. Seems like if they did, they could be turning a profit on it?

**Posted by monster** 6/02/2025 9:28 pm

glatt wrote:
That sounds like it must be really close. How many cans away were you from the $25 when you dropped off 247 cans for $24.70?

probably around like a hundred or something

Last edited by monster (6/02/2025 9:29 pm)