I had this article pop up in my google feed about people throwing away change that ends up being captured by one company for upwards of $10 million dollars recovered in trash in the past 7 years. Americans Throw Away Up to $68 Million in Coins a Year. Here Is Where It All Ends Up. (msn.com) “As a child I used to get excited about buffalo nickels, I thought they were rare,” said Angelo Geraci, the facility’s operations supervisor. “Here we have jars and jars of buffalo nickels.” ... "This year, Sara and Justin Ilse finished building a floor for their home’s 230-square-foot entryway out of 65,507 pennies." but by the look of some of the recovered coins .. it looks like super rare mint errors not just trash j/k these will probably end up on Etsy sooner or later hahahaha
I'll run out into traffic to pick a coin up off the road. I have found drink cups filled with change at the car wash before. I work too danged hard and just don't understand this ambivalence toward spending money.
That's all we need. Random people treasure hunting in public garbage cans now. I see trash laying all over the ground around public trash cans in the near future. This would explain why the trash can at the bus stop in front of my office building always has the trash pulled out and laying on the ground. Someone read that article about finding money in the garbage can. I spent about five minutes picking it up because it’s right out front of my office building and it make our property look bad.
Seriously, it's much more profitable to panhandle vs going on public trash can treasure hunts. Take for example, how much money will you end up with going through 1,500 garbage cans a day? Now compare asking 1,500 people a day for money at like a tourist spot such as San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Odds are, out of those 1,500 asked, maybe 1 out of 10 will give you at least a dollar. And for each 10 who give you something, 1 out of every 10 of those will give you more than just 1 dollar, like a few dollars or even a $5.00 or greater. So if you really want to find money, panhandling is the answer. Besides, it's a whole lot cleaner just standing around with your hands in your pocket, or one in your pocket while the other is holding up a sign, asking for money vs going through garbage cans full of spoiled milk drink containers, soggy baby diapers, doggy doo-doo bags, snot rags, and even worse, on your best day for just a few morsels of pocket change.
I never pass a coin on the ground, not even a penny. I collect my change at the end of the day in a little pencil cup. When it gets full I take it to Walmart or wherever has patrons using self checkouts and I pay partially with it. The cup generally holds about $20 worth of change, so a nice chunk off of my total. I have much younger co-workers who have change all over their cars and things. Had one once run a debit card for a drink when I know there was enough change in the console to cover it!
The only place I refuse to pick coins up is if they happen to be in the public bathroom. I pass on those. Of course, I look down at them just to be sure we're not passing up on an old silver coin or a Wheatie. So far I've not seen one of those two type of coins on the deck in the head. If I ever do though, I'd have to pick it up with a wad of paper towel and then sterilize it in the garage before bringing it into the house.
they're probably picking through finding aluminum pop cans to return for 5 or 10 cents. I see that happen a lot around here. There are also ppl driving around at house trash looking for metal scrap junk in people trash to take with them.
Personal data for ID theft too. As for the 5 or 10 cents thing, around here in the San Francisco area where I live, you only get 5 to 10 cents per few pounds of plastic bottles or aluminum cans. The recyclers around here don't pay per container, only by weight. You have to bring an actual carload to get enough to buy a nice dinner, depending on what it is you're bringing, plastic containers or aluminum containers. Glass is so bad no one bother's bringing it in unless they have a pickup truck that they are driving around to collect on recycle night from every house in the neighborhood.
My son loves when I go to the self checkout at the store because he goes around to each one and looks under them for coins. It's a little embarrassing for me to see him crawling on the ground in the store but he always finds several coins. I tell him to look anywhere where people are putting their hands in their pockets. Parking lots and checkouts are the best places.
"The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away". Yesterday was blistery windy. I was watching an episode of GunSmoke on MeTV+ in the evening. I wanted to walk to the minimarket in the area for a Sprite to drink. I really wanted that soft drink, but remembering how my father loved watching GunSmoke every night after he got home from work when I was around 2 years old, I decided to wait until this episode was over. After it was over, I slipped on my tennis shoes and headed on foot to the minimarket for that Sprite I was thirsting for while watching GunSmoke. Sure enough, I round the corner at the end of the block in the wind and what blows up and stops at my feet? A $20.00 bill. The day before on Sunday, I had accidently paid $20.00 more to a clerk where I was buying something. I had paid with all $1.00 bills, 9 bills to be exact. It wasn't until I drove off when I realized that I had a $20.00 mixed in with my ones. Sure enough, when I got home I went through all the ones left in my wallet and that $20 was gone. The clerk is $20 over. When I handed the stack of $1.00 bills I said that they should count it to be sure it's all there. The clerk declined and said that they trust me and then put the stack unchecked in the register. Sure I could have gone back and asked for the clerk to look through the $1 bills for the $20 bill I gave mixed in with the ones. But I just let it go and figured that's just the way it goes sometimes. And last night (the very next day) after getting that $20 bill blown to my feet, I reflected and realized, it's all taken care of. "The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away".
Kramer buying a snack with coins he collected from spending a week solid going through public trash cans.
I guess, but when those people hand you money, you still don't know where that money's been. Heck, they might have picked it out of the trash. GoFundMe is a lot more hygienic, and you don't have to stand out in the weather.
