Bottles & Cans - That's MY five cents!

So just clap your hands! Yeah, returning bottles and cans is so much fun!

Maybe not, but you got to do it. Not only is it good for the environment, but you get back your own $0.05 per can and bottle.

I do this about twice a month, and it nets approximately $5.00 per month. This is about 1/4 of our electricity bill, so I keep doing it.

In Massachusetts, we call these cans "returnables" because you pay the $0.05 up front when you buy the beverage. That's why I say you are getting your own money back.

This is getting very minor, but it helps even more that we buy all our soft drinks using a credit card which gives us 5% back on our supermarket purchases, and we have 12 months of 0% interest, so we're getting a slightly better deal than just the $0.05. Its such a small amount I won't bother to calculate it. But its there, and that makes me feel better. :-)