Marko & Ashley’s Life Adventures…

This past weekend we house sat Ashley’s parents house once again!  Our adventure for the this weekend was, recycling!  No, not the type of recycling where you throw all your cans, plastic and paper in the big blue trash can and put it in the street.  I’m talking about the old school type or recycling where you take a truck full of black trash bags loaded to the sky and drive it down to the back of Vons to a little place called the recycle center.  This particular one was located in at the Vons in Poway, CA.

Here is how the truck looked mid trip…  (At this point we thought we still had all the bags…  HA!)

Long story short, on the way down we lost 2 bags.  A potential $8!!!  One was recovered 400 yards from her house on the return trip home and the other was lost on Poway Rd.  Unfortunately the second bag could not be recovered because of its positioning on the busy road and we could not justify risking our my life for $4.

The whole trip took about an hour and half.  The majority of time was spent waiting for the one person that beat us to the recycle center which took a good 45 minutes.  We took about 30 minutes to unload our recycle which could of gone quicker if we didn’t have to remove the cap on every single bottle.  Yay…

As you can see here, Ashley was quite excited to recycle!

Well, what else can I say, that picture pretty much sums it up! 

Some tips for first time recyclers going to cash in:

• Wear old clothes, it gets messy.
• Bring gloves, the trash cans you use are absolutely disgusting.
• Come early so you don’t have to wait.  We came 15min early and one guy was in front costing us 45 min.
• When stacking your truck, place plastic bottles on bottom with cans and glass on top so you don’t loose your load.
• Don’t save your cans for 5 years and then go with a semi truck load because it will take a lot of effort on your part to load them all up and you will royally piss everyone off behind you.  We certainly did.

20 bags of recycle, hour and a half later we were $95 richer.

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