Earn Money Selling Scrap Metal at a Recycler
Okay, here is my breakdown of selling recyclables in the Prescott area of Arizona, trip number two:
- 100 lbs steel - Called Tin and White Goods - $7.70 (all kinds of neat stuff - horseshoes, a vintage metal tennis racket, old garden implements, random steel bricks, rebar, wire hangers, nails/screws/washers, steel cans, car parts, pulleys)
- 16 lbs Aluminum Cans - $8.80
- 2 lbs Painted Aluminum - .95 (this was a washing machine door i found on the side of the highway)
- 4 lbs Aluminum Breakage - .75 (aluminum window screen panes)
- 1 lbs Insulated Copper - $1.02 (this was old cords/wiring found on the side of the road)
- 5 lbs Yellow Brass - $7.98 (fittings found in an old lot, under the duff under some bushes)
- 4 lbs Tin and White Goods - .31 (small random steel objects i didn’t unload from the first weighing - this was mainly bottle caps I’ve been picking up along the roads)
So my total was $27.51 in cash that I received from Yavapai Metal Recycling in Dewey, AZ. I had another coupon for an additional 10%, so the total would have been less without that coupon (which came in the mail).
I have a birthday coming soon and I asked DH for a metal detector. Let’s see if I get one! I would love that. Not only could it help me collect small metals (and hopefully more brass and copper), I might find gold and silver jewelry, or old coins.
Along these lines - when you constantly scan the ground for metal, you also find a lot of coins. Not just pennies! Yesterday I found a quarter and a penny, and another day I found several dollars worth of nickels, dimes and pennies. In this dirt/gravel driveway alone I usually find a penny or dime around every other day (the rains keep stirring things up).
I have a jar I keep just for found money. When it gets full, I roll the coins up and bring them to my bank. Finding even a penny makes me feel happy!
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Back in Okla. my brother-in-law, Robert earns a decent income by going to farm auctions, and in todays economy there are many due to bankruptcy. At the end of the auction, all the items that didn’t sell, such as broken plows and things of that nature, are grouped together and go to the highest bidder. A few weeks ago he spent 180.00 on a bunch of broken misc. He then took the stuff to the metal recycling business a few miles away and was rewarded with a check for $1,200.00. Cool!
It makes one think. So much waste that could become money is just tossed in the trash.
What Robert is doing sounds fun, he is earning good money, and also helping keep things out of the waste stream!
We live where there’s always metered parking, and for a while we were always scrabbling for quarters. Now I decided to think of them as Not Money. Instead, they’re tokens, used (almost) only for parking at meters. It only took 3 expired meter parking tickets ($45 each!) to figure THAT one out.
Jennifer, that is a great idea about the not-money. We have to do the same thing. Quarters come in and we plop them in the laundry basket container.