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bman
Penny Collector Member
USA
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 Posted - 02/26/2010 : 19:34:56
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I remember turning in aluminum soda cans at the local gracery store when I was a kid. They had a scale in the front of the store and a trailer outside to store them in.
are there any stores that do that now?
It was GREAT as a kid, I could go out and collect a trash bag full of cans, take them to the store for cash and buy candy & soda. HEAVEN!!!
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Mike
Penny Sorter Member
USA
65 Posts |
Posted - 02/26/2010 : 20:25:31
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| When I was a kid you could pick up soda pop bottles and return them for the three cent deposit. That was a lot of money back in 1961. |
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fb101
Administrator
USA
2856 Posts |
Posted - 02/26/2010 : 21:51:30
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| ditto Mike. And we had penny candy stores. |
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redneck
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 02/26/2010 : 22:59:26
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Originally posted by Mike
When I was a kid you could pick up soda pop bottles and return them for the three cent deposit. That was a lot of money back in 1961.
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fb101 Posted
ditto Mike. And we had penny candy stores.
We used to get a nickel for a pop bottle. My friends and I would ride our bikes around looking for bottles. After we found one or two we would go to the corner store and buy penny candy or ice cream.
Those were the days...
When life was simple...
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No82s
Penny Pincher Member
USA
198 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2010 : 00:15:24
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| Actually this goes back to the ethics thread a little. I remember doing the glass recycling thing when it first got started as Boy Scouts and we picked out all the returnable glass bottles so that we could get the money and split it between us. This thread shows a little age.... |
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thogey
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 02/27/2010 : 00:36:01
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Returnable bottles wow.
My first job was picking up the boxes on the grocery store floor at 0300 after the clerks put price tags on each and every item. I was the guy who crushed and baled them.
I also had to organize and crate up the bottles for return to the vendors. That was a filthy job.
Do they even make returnable bottles now ? They used to actually clean and refill them.
Remember the pulltabs on the Al cans, before the pop tops? The damn things were everywhere on the ground.
Remember When Al cans replaced the tins. The tin had a big seem on the side. |
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bman
Penny Collector Member
USA
425 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2010 : 06:26:06
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| we collected soda bottles too, I think we got 10cents credit per bottle but it might have only been 5cents. I'm not sure about that but I remember taking several empty bottles to the Highs store to get a full one for free. |
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cesario
Penny Pincher Member
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Posted - 02/28/2010 : 02:24:13
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Originally posted by thogey
Do they even make returnable bottles now ? They used to actually clean and refill them.
In other countries yes. |
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CrazyTom
Penny Sorter Member
USA
52 Posts |
Posted - 02/28/2010 : 17:54:04
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I had a wagon I dragged to all the neighbor's homes. I asked for bottles and they usually gave them to me.
I got 2 cents for small ones and 5 cents for big ones. The man at the grocery store probably dreaded the sound of my clinking bottles as I approached. |
Read Atlas Shrugged if you want to know why this country is in the crapper. |
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fire medic 160
New Member
USA
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Posted - 02/28/2010 : 23:35:59
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Still have a dairy around the area where I live that milk and oj comes in deposit/returnable glass jars. I hate to say it but the milk in these glass jugs taste much better to me than plastic jugs
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oldBPman
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 03/04/2010 : 06:32:42
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| when i was a kid in the 40s,early 50s, we could leave the house broke, walk 9 miles in any dirrection,depending which town had the best movie, we would pick up beer and soda bottles all way, 2 cents for small bottles and a nickle for the qt bottles, by the time we got to the town, we'd have enough money for the movies,pop corn, candy,ciggs. |
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