Tales of an urban scavenger....

[Markypie]

Yesterday on my walk, I noticed a neighbor was throwing away some metal that he said was "just tin." I asked him for it and he said I could have it, so I loaded it into my truck. On the way back from the metal recyclers, I noticed a socket on the roadside so I snagged it. On the highway I noticed a tool-like object so I looped to get it. Irwin Vise grips. Now I need to figure out how to get a free lottery ticket.

 

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[pepperj]

What's amazing to me is how some people look down their nose at this stuff. You know darn good and well that they wouldn't walk past a dollar bill laying on the ground, but they act like you're a rag picker for metal detecting or picking up wheel weights.

Here's a little history on the Rag-Pickers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragpicker

From having ownied a scrap yard and knowing hundreds of pickers from walkers, bike riders, buggy pushers, cars, pick ups, trucks I can say that it's a hard go. Some make a pretty good living doing what they do as they don't have vices, and provide for their families. I know of folks that do indeed look down their snouts at those who scrap, as they think they're too good for that type of labour. I tip my hat at anyone that picks up some discarded item to reuse or to sell for profit, as it's found money in just another way.

 

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[pepperj]

Driving past our local hall last week and saw $$$ laying on the ground. 100 sheets of roofing tin for $100 easily 2 tons of sheet at $145 a ton is easy profit, but I'll reuse, sell, gift most of it for wood pile sheds lumber piles.