PIGS---No Tractor

big tee · May 16, 2020

We have 3/4 of a mile of blacktop in front of our house and the other night I took the Gator to check the corn and I thought as long it was a nice day I would pick up the garbage on our side of the road--Some people are pigs! It looks like the beer of choice in North-East Iowa is Bush-Light and the pop of choice is Mountain Dew. In Iowa we have a nickel deposit on beer and pop cans for years but our law-makers in all their wisdom did not apply it to fruit or "health" drinks-Go figure. That's All---Tee

Saw this--Florida has pigs also!

I got 53 nickel cans=$2.65--I am rich!--Took me a hour though....

No deposit on trendy fruit cans!

Even got some kind of cattle pour-on.---That's All

MSD · May 16, 2020

I remember when we were kids growing up when pop bottles were the container of choice. We would walk the road ditches going in all directions from the filling station on our corner and pickup the pop bottles. They were worth .05 back then. If we wanted a candy bar after school, we didn't have any money to spend back then, all we had to do was walk a short distance till we had enough bottles to pay for the candy bar. Life was good back then.

dcarp · May 16, 2020

Congratulations on your new found riches. Yes, people are messier than pigs. On a weekly basis I also get a collection from the highway, Busch & Natural light, Fireball whiskey small bottles, Whataburger wrappers and cattle feed bags.

James Howell · May 16, 2020

"[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]They were worth .05 back then[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]"

Y'all were rich!

We only got .02 back then.

As a kid the way I figured, collect enough bottles to buy a "Big Red".

Drink it and get .02 back for the empty.

Agree that life was fun back then.

fastfarmall · May 16, 2020

When duck hunting starts, we get a lot of out of state hunters,, Bush is the beer of choice also, they even leave the case, or brown bag it came in too !

Charlie M · May 16, 2020

Around here there are people that leave their trash loose in their bins and it blows out the top of the garbage trucks when it goes down the road. Almost all the trash on our road side came out of a garbage truck.

Tom in TN · May 16, 2020

I have a very abundant, left-wing brother-in-law who lives in Minnesota. He's a pretty good guy but he just has an entirely different world view from me. He came down here (Middle Tennessee) last fall for Thanksgiving. He was very upset because we were still using plastic straws with our drinks. He is convinced that we are killing all of the whales by discarding the straws after we use them. He was totally unfazed when I pointed out to him that all of the garbage from homes and businesses around here goes into landfills. I'm not sure how many whales live in Middle Tennessee, but they must be endangered by our use of straws.

I guess it all depends on your point of view.

Tom in TN

RCP · May 16, 2020

We use to collect pop bottles, turn them in for the deposit and buy pop or candy. The store owner told us to stop because he had more empties than he was buying and it was causing him issues. I suspect he didn't have enough racks for all of the empties that he had.

Rich

JWA · May 16, 2020

Mongo59 · May 16, 2020

Save the whales! Collect the whole set...

fixerupper · May 16, 2020

When I was a kid in the fifties pop was a dime. I do not remember what the return was, maybe a penny? Dad remembers nickel pop, or soda when he was a kid in the late 20s, early 30s. There probably was a deposit back then but I cant imagine it being a penny if a full bottle was only a nickel. Come to think of it, didnt we have to pay a deposit Years ago if the bottle left the premises?

led · May 16, 2020

I remember in the 50's Coke was a 5 cents, bottle return 3 cents a bottle. My brother had a gas station (large city) with Coke machine for 7 cents.
First time for this old country boy.
Led

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