The Walking Group Community Group
This group is for those who walk as a form of exercise. You can start walking challenges, ask questions, start discussions anything you want.
You can only do this of course if you live in a state where there is a bottle return law. My wife loves to do this and she will not walk without bringing some plastic bags along with her. I thought we were the only ones who did this but after talking to my buddy, I discovered otherwise.
OK so you know what is is by now. It's picking bottles and cans that are thrown out by drivers passing through. When I use to drink, I use to toss them out the car window so my wife wouldn't know how much I drank or that I was drinking and driving. Thank God I don't do that anymore, I just pick up the ones that other drivers chuck!
We know who all the drunks are on out roads by the cans we pick up. For instance, a coors lite will bring excitement and one of us will say, "There's a Russel can"! A Bud Lite bottle means out brother in law, Ed has been through, and son on and so forth. Some people who have come to know us over the years, actually save there cans and bottles for us, and present them to us when they see us hit the roads in the spring, after the snow melts.! I think them seeing us is like seeing a robin, it's the first sign of spring! LOL!
Walking up and down sometimes steep banks to chase after empties is very good physical exercise!
We have collected anywhere from 2-3 dollars for a 2 mile walk to over 20 dollars for a walk to the next town and back, which is about 6 miles. O f course we can't carry only so many bags at a time so we hide them in the woods and pick them up later! Once we had them hid so well, it took us a while to find them lol!
Bottles and cans are worth a nickle each but we save them until the redemtion places have a deal where they will pay 6 cents each. There is alot of competition in redemption centers around here and we take full advantage of it.
Liquer bottles are worth 15 cents each and when one of us finds one, it's like we have power over the other! We hoot and hollar! I have already found the first liquer bottle of the year and it was in a garbage can off I-95 last weekend. My wife says it doesn't count because we were not walking when we found it. I told her she's just jealous lol!
The money comes in handy for gas and other things You guys ought to try it. By the way, I found the first liquer bottle of the year so. anyone else will have to discover two to one up me!
Happy Picking!
OK so you know what is is by now. It's picking bottles and cans that are thrown out by drivers passing through. When I use to drink, I use to toss them out the car window so my wife wouldn't know how much I drank or that I was drinking and driving. Thank God I don't do that anymore, I just pick up the ones that other drivers chuck!
We know who all the drunks are on out roads by the cans we pick up. For instance, a coors lite will bring excitement and one of us will say, "There's a Russel can"! A Bud Lite bottle means out brother in law, Ed has been through, and son on and so forth. Some people who have come to know us over the years, actually save there cans and bottles for us, and present them to us when they see us hit the roads in the spring, after the snow melts.! I think them seeing us is like seeing a robin, it's the first sign of spring! LOL!
Walking up and down sometimes steep banks to chase after empties is very good physical exercise!
We have collected anywhere from 2-3 dollars for a 2 mile walk to over 20 dollars for a walk to the next town and back, which is about 6 miles. O f course we can't carry only so many bags at a time so we hide them in the woods and pick them up later! Once we had them hid so well, it took us a while to find them lol!
Bottles and cans are worth a nickle each but we save them until the redemtion places have a deal where they will pay 6 cents each. There is alot of competition in redemption centers around here and we take full advantage of it.
Liquer bottles are worth 15 cents each and when one of us finds one, it's like we have power over the other! We hoot and hollar! I have already found the first liquer bottle of the year and it was in a garbage can off I-95 last weekend. My wife says it doesn't count because we were not walking when we found it. I told her she's just jealous lol!
The money comes in handy for gas and other things You guys ought to try it. By the way, I found the first liquer bottle of the year so. anyone else will have to discover two to one up me!
Happy Picking!
When I walk down the dirt road near by and start to get warmed up I will leave my shirt on a tree branch to grab up on the way home. So far I have not lost any shirts. We only have 10 cent deposit on pop and beer cans - not on liqueur bottles but I have made some pocket change on my walks too. Most of the time I leave them for another gentleman that from the looks of his attire needs the cans more than I do. But then you never know - he could be an excentric millionaire.
My other passion to find is stones that have interesting markings and coloring. I have a container outside the back door and shows my miles walked. My son-in-law asked me about them one day and now he does the same thing.
I don't collect cans/bottles but I do go through FREE boxes that are all over the place. I've picked up books, magazines, jewlery!!!, and many other interesting things.
What can you expect from a grandchild of an immigrant junk man?