10,000 lines my arse!!

You wish! Wait til he's on Oprah telling his sob story....
Don't know about you but I can recall every single time I got whacked in detail, something you don't exactly forget in a hurry.

Yeah but you deserved it!!

So can I

Rushie ..... That tale about nicking bottles bought back memories

As for redemption centers, we usually save what we intend to be a few bags ten take them away, but I can never be bothered to drive 15 miles for just a couple of dollars, so our basement floor gets covered in bin liners full of bottles and eventually there are so many that there is not enough room in the car even with the boot and every seat except the drivers one full. I eventually drag the things out and into the car and take them to a place in VT where they do all the messy counting and handling.
I used to hate those f**kin machines outside stores ... They always show the 'Call attendant' symbol after 6 bottles, he comes along after 15 minutes, clears up the problem, stands and watches for a few minutes to make sure it's working ok and then leaves, as soon as he is out of sight the f**kin thing lights up again

Blimey, that's a bit of a hike.

In Maine, I would only do it when we had bags full, to get laundry money or toll money....only do it around here for toll money, but it's so much hassle...will have to look out for redemption centres, but probably just start chucking it out.

I hate just chucking them out, the state gets enough in taxes etc from us, why shouldn't we get some of it back ?

I know, and it use to be such a good way of getting toll money...I can't get to my bank because none of the branches are open when I'm off work, so it's a mare getting a roll of change.

That, and we've paid our deposit, should be easy to reclaim it..

All grocery stores and some gas stations have recycle centres here, one large black bag is @ $10.00 worth recycled. My son calls it the hickabilly ATM
Apparently before can/bottle recycling started the highways were littered with trash, now they are pretty much clean.

Jan

We have the redemption places at all of our local supermarkets here in Fairfield (they smell terrible).

The recycling people collect bottles,cans etc also. We put ours out for recycling - and notice that people come down our street during the evening and take the bottles out of everyone's recycling boxes - I guess they are going to redeem them.

It used to bug me (very odd, like someone going through your bin!) but now I feel like - if they need it that badly, and I don't want it, then why not.


(All the time I'm typing this - I've got Bob Marley's Redemption song in my head for some reason!).

So. I exaggerate.