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"Collecting bottles and cans for which you could get some real money for back then."
As a kid, myself and my friends would scour the new neighborhoods being built looking for coke bottles left behind by the carpenters. I think the deposit on the bottle was 5 cents, then when it went up to 10 cents, we were rolling in the dough after cashing them in at the local convenience store. Enough to buy a coke or gum, or maybe ride the bike to the hobby shop for a model airplane kit.
It was a real genuine micro-economy back then. We learned to do some work for our rewards. Too bad all that is gone nowadays.
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