Do you remember when we could turn in soda bottles for cash?

In Michigan we still have a bottle deposit, so we still get money for returning bottles. We have to pay .10 cents when we buy a carbonated beverage. Then we can return it to the store and get our ten cents back. It sucks having to pay the deposit, but when you're short on cash and you happen to have a bunch of bottles saved up, it's nice to get it back.

I remember when milk came in glass jugs with blue plastic handles and they gave us a quarter for every one we turned in. Us kids really cashed in when ever we came accross those jugs too! One day the store forgot to close their back door and I noticed the empty jugs were stored in the back room, so with my mind always thinking of ways to get extra money, and being the sneek that I was, I got a few friends together and we snuck in the back room of the store and grabed a bunch of those empty milk jugs and returned them for cash! We were at it all day long. We'd get them from the back and cash them in in the front, ha ha ha! Finally after we made around $50, we heard the back door slam shut, then we heard the lock snap into position, I guess the people realized the back room wasn't getting filled up with those empty jugs like they thought it was, ha ha ha!

Yes - as a matter of fact, when we were seniors in high school, we went around picking up the ones that people threw out along the road - then went door to door asking for bottles to turn in for money - and made most of the money for our senior trip.