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What To Do With The Covid-19 Windfall????
Michigan has a 10 cent bottle deposit and we haven’t been able to return them since before mid-March.
The Mrs. consumes a lot of Sparkling Ice and I’ve been known to have a beer or three after checking the forum. I also enjoy a diet cola from time to time.
The front left quarter of our garage is now filled with bags of returnables. I’m looking for advice on how to use the money when I can finally redeem them.
Vacation home?
Stock investments?
A Corvette or Mustang GT?
More guns?
Your advice is appreciated! 
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06-02-2020, 07:56 PM
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Only more guns and ammo make sense to me!
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A large cup o coffee?
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You are a member of one of the finest forums in the world. We are some of the best enablers in the known universe! Yet you act as if this question didn't have a foregone conclusion.
Of course you are morally obligated to buy more guns! In particular, more Smith & Wesson's!
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06-02-2020, 08:06 PM
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 I'm no fun anymore after all this craziness, so ......
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06-02-2020, 08:10 PM
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Let your wife decide. 
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06-02-2020, 08:15 PM
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For some reason your story reminds me of Newman and Kramer! haha
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Your only suspect statement is that you "claim" to have a bottle or three AFTER checking the forum. What is wrong with you? It is WAY more fun to imbibe while checking the forum. This may lead, unfortunately, to some unintended consequences, such as out of budget expenditures, thinly disguised political rants, picking on your fellow SW fans, picking on uninformed newbies, and undeserved timeouts  What fun! 
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I'd invest in lead.
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Memories.
In '66 I had an after school job at Carl's Pony Keg sorting, stacking and wheeling cases of empties out to the fenced in loading dock.
I always seemed to go home with a poke of Mallo Cups, Goo-Goo Clusters, Moon Pies, Honey Buns, Barq's Creme Soda and other such truck.
Best job ever.
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Already posted- gave my $171 to a local food bank.
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I read a news report that said the people Michigan are sitting on over $50 billion in bottle and can returns.
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A. Spend it on guns & ammo.
B. Waste it foolishly.
You just discovered a way to save gun money.
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I read a news report that said the people Michigan are sitting on over $50 billion in bottle and can returns.
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That's gotta hurt.
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Toilet paper....just sayin'...
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With as much time as that will take, in what are usually very foul-smelling areas, you'll certainly be earning your money!
We bag ours up, then leave the bag next to our dumpster. We're not the only people here who do this. It doesn't keep the less fortunate from "dumpster diving", but it does reduce it.
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I blew 75% of my COVID-19 money on a collectible gun, but I guess that's hardly news around here.
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Michigan has a 10 cent bottle deposit and we haven’t been able to return them since before mid-March.
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With that many dimes you should be able to cover us all:
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I'd invest in lead.
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Uhh.....that's lead bullion.
Brass bullion's pretty good too.
I think some people here have more than Ft. Knox.
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06-03-2020, 05:44 AM
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Troublemaker; that wasn’t one of the options. Did Mrs. Chad pay you to post that?
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I read a news report that said the people Michigan are sitting on over $50 billion in bottle and can returns.
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That’s $50 Million, with an “M”. Works out to $5 for every resident of the State. A lot of people obviously don’t drink carbonated beverages here, because the wife and I have accumulated WAY more than our share! 
When will bottle returns open again? Michiganders keep waiting
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Your only suspect statement is that you "claim" to have a bottle or three AFTER checking the forum. What is wrong with you? It is WAY more fun to imbibe while checking the forum. This may lead, unfortunately, to some unintended consequences, such as out of budget expenditures, thinly disguised political rants, picking on your fellow SW fans, picking on uninformed newbies, and undeserved timeouts What fun! |
I plead the 5th!!! ……..or is that I tip the 5th??
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Wine, women and song and if there is any left, just waste it.
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I donate my cans & bottles to the local non-profit animal shelter.
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Call a local food bank or charity and donate the cans to them, they will come pick them up,
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S&WChad, if you and the missus were to switch from Sparkling Ice, beer and diet sodas, to strong spirits, your problem would disappear. With enough vigor in the pursuit, you would, indeed, soon forget you had the problem in the first place.
Poof!
(While this latter approach does have some drawbacks, I find they fall beyond the immediate purview of this discussion, and therefore leave their explication to another day... )
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