I'm so old I Remember when:

[The Moonshiner]

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That was way more profitable then collecting aluminum cans.

 

[Nomadicus]

That was way more profitable then collecting aluminum cans.

I never collect cans but selling bottles back was my first venture into getting a pay day. Selling bottles was not regulated by child labor laws back then.

 

[notabitail]

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Yes.I collected them and got some nice money for it. Well, plastic bottles. In California. They have some kind of money back thing on it.

 

[NanaK]

I remember collecting bottles to sell. I also remember the wooden crates the drinks were stored in.

Drink bottles were glass with a metal top, stored in wooden crates. No plastic. Even juices were in glass bottles. There was a time even milk was sold in glass and sanitized for reuse.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

I remember collecting bottles to sell. I also remember the wooden crates the drinks were stored in.

Drink bottles were glass with a metal top, stored in wooden crates. No plastic. Even juices were in glass bottles. There was a time even milk was sold in glass and sanitized for reuse.

I still have one wooden crate that held 6 packs of Cokes.
We used to walk down the roads looking for bottles that people flung out their car windows. We could turn them in and buy candy when we got to the store.

 

[Canadian Wind]

I would search ditches and fields for discarded bottles to cash in!

 

[NanaK]

I still have one wooden crate that held 6 packs of Cokes.
We used to walk down the roads looking for bottles that people flung out their car windows. We could turn them in and buy candy when we got to the store.

Yep, us too!
The store that bought our bottles had a big candy rack. Guess where our bottle money went?

 

[NanaK]

I would search ditches and fields for discarded bottles to cash in!

We cashed in on people who were litter bugs!

 

[Hayden Goseek]

 

[muddy75]

I remember when headlight dimmer switches were on the floorboard