This weekend I found myself in the dire predicament of having no access to money. How I wondered would I survive? buy food? perhaps a package or two of cigarettes? the odd danish?? So I wandered around my downtown neighbourhood and spotted a empty beer bottle tossed onto a bit of grass.
I picked it up and thought ' hmmmm... do you think I could gather enough?' So one became two, which some became four , than eight and so on and so on and so on...
Until finally I had hit every recycling box in the area and had more bottles and cans than I could carry. Somewhere along the way I had picked up a bundle-buggy and magically enough $10 worth of returnables. This would equate into exactly 100 ten-cent bottles and cans. The next day I did it again and spent about an hour and a half collecting over the course of the day (30 minutes here and there and then once more) and came up with $15 worth of returnables. Yesterday I did the same and came up with only $7 worth of returnables. Seven dolars is pretty good for a holiday monday anyways. Tueday I did $12...
So... to make my long story short - i was broke - i collected returnables and made $44 over four days.
It took me approx. 5 hours to collect what I collected although if you include travel time to and from the beer store it would likely wind up being more like 6 hours.
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