If you have an easy and good use for aluminum cans good for you. Keep it up. I found I could either:

* Put them into the big recycling tote,
* Collect them separately and sell them out at LeMay's or,
* Do something else.

Here is my "something else". We use recycling bags for shopping, but forget sometimes and end up with the plastic bags. I hang one up on a hook in the garage. Aluminum cans go into the bag. When it's full, I tie it up and set it aside. On a Wednesday or a Saturday, if I remember, I throw the bags into the back of the truck. If I don't remember, the bags stack up. I don't think I've ever ended up with more than five. Mrs. Stash may have a different count.

Sometime during the day I'm headng down Park Street past PAWS. They have a bin out front. I put the bags in the bin. The volunteers sell them and buy food or cleaning supplies for the facility.

It's easy for me and it really adds up for PAWS. The time and effort to sort them out and sell them barely pays for the gas to get out there... and certainly doesn't pay enough for the smell, work, and mess of having them hang around the house.

*LIKE*

Geezer! Welcome back.

Thanks, Stash. Didn't know about that. Habitat for Humanity collects cans as well but doesn't have easy drop-off places like that.

Thanks, it took them a while to certify my sanity but I'm back now.

About the aluminum cans--to all who read this, please,if you can, take them to PAWS. Because of the economy, there are so many pets that are being given up or abandoned that the facility needs help. Just one can a day, save 'em up and donate them on Friday. Newspaper also, for cages and the floor.

Newspaper, too? We burn most of ours but I'll start piling it up. Thanks for the tip and glad you're sane.

Burn or recycle the ads and pull outs and Sunday funnies. The main section, sports section, classified, etc. make the best cage liners. Glossy doesn't absorb well.