Would u return pop cans, sell scrap metal, etc to fund site?

[froggyboy604]

How likely are you to go outside, and pick pop cans, scrap metal, newspapers, and sell your stuff to exchange for money from a recyclers, or person who pay back money for pop cans, scrap metal, and old stuff?

If I'm unemployed, or not earning any money from my websites because it has low ad earnings/donations, I probably sell some or most of my stuff I rarely use on eBay, Craigslists, and similar sites before I go out to pick cans, and scrap metal to sell to the local recyclers.

I think earning money offline via selling your stuff and collecting cans and scraps to pay for a website is better then using a free hosted forum with their subdomain since you don't own the name, or the web space. In some cases, you also do not have control of your own forum software, or the content is owned by the free host.

Plus, it looks more professional then using other people's name like co.cc domains, or freeforums.org, so you have a better chance of finding a forum co-owner, or a person with funds to help pay for hosting, design, and other additional costs.

If Google, Facebook, Yahoo, myspace used a subdomain, and free webhost when they got started in the early days, I bet they would not be in the top 10 of most visited sites in the world.

 

[Toxic Agenda]

Re: Would u return pop cans, sell scrap metal, etc to fund s

At 5 cents per can it is worth having a dabble. Whenever i cashed in my cans and bottles at the end of the month there was always $30.00 or more - that is some going but the family would drop them in a bag. A good way if you live in a high traffic area is to make your own can and bottle bins.

 

[USHost247]

Re: Would u return pop cans, sell scrap metal, etc to fund s

At 5 cents per can it is worth having a dabble. Whenever i cashed in my cans and bottles at the end of the month there was always $30.00 or more - that is some going but the family would drop them in a bag. A good way if you live in a high traffic area is to make your own can and bottle bins.

What we have done before was get a trash can (good size), cut a hole in the top of the trash can lid and then get PVC pipe. (big enough for aluminum cans) and then bolt the pvc to the porch or something and then when the trashcan gets full, pop the pvc off and take the bin and get another or something. 😉 Better then bags!

 

[froggyboy604]

Re: Would u return pop cans, sell scrap metal, etc to fund s

At 5 cents per can it is worth having a dabble. Whenever i cashed in my cans and bottles at the end of the month there was always $30.00 or more - that is some going but the family would drop them in a bag. A good way if you live in a high traffic area is to make your own can and bottle bins.

Indeed, it is pretty worth it since if you have a few bags of 2L pop botles which are worth 25 cents, or a lot of cans or smaller bottles, or even milk cartons you can get 5-10 cents for each. Alcohol and beer bottles are also worth a bit of cash depending on the size.

I think my family used to get 20-30 dollars or more a year for just returning our own pop bottles, and our house guests who drink a lot of pop and other container beverages.

With the money earned from returning cans, plastic bottles and paper products, it can be used to fund a small website for a year or a few month with a .info or 1.99 savings code .com domain name from Godaddy or NameCheap, and inexpensive webhosting.

 

[Kurama]

Re: Would u return pop cans, sell scrap metal, etc to fund s

I don't see why not? Extremely easy money, that is.