Tempe 10th Recycling Project

Everyone knows that I'm a little agro about this whole recycling craze that my friend Megan got me started on. I know, we're over the top about it, but it's fun, and we LOVE to get free money! So, when we go on walks, we call them treasure hunts, and we pick up bottles and cans that other people threw out. When I'm on a run, my friends just know to point the bottles out when they see them, cuz I sure do pick them up and run with them all the way home. AND, on bike rides, we play pass the bottle and huck them into my bike basket. We take them to the recycling center every few bags that we gather (oh, and I am an avid DC drinker, so that helps our stash) and get money for them, split the money in two and put them in Max and Ivy's savings accounts for either BYU (oops, I meant school) or the mish.

Anyway, we go one step further, and when Jeff's parents come over from AZ, they fill the back of their truck up with their cans (Chery's a DC girl, too) and they fill up our stash. So fun!

Well, Cheryl got a bunch of her Cronies in on the game, and every so often, she'll find a bag of cans on her porch from one of several different friends...Painters, Johnstons, Whipples, Childs, Baribeaus (shoot, sorry Inez, I don't know how to spell your last name!) and of course, Dean's work. If I am forgetting someone, sorry! I love you just the same.

Anyway, it's been since April since Tempe 10th has been saving their cans for Max and Ivy's college fund. I was warned that it was out of control, and I was sooo excited:

here is the stash that awaited us!

And, it just so happens that the YW needed to do a recycling project for girls camp that involved squishing, separating, and taking cans and bottles to a recycling center. They thought this massive mountain would suffice. I am eternally grateful for their feet that squished and their hands that took off lids and put them in the respective bags.

We started when it was still light outside...

and worked into the night.

They had pop for refreshments...which they then, also recycled..hee hee

ooooh, I can't wait for Monday to come, so we can take the cans to the recycling center and see what we got for them!

the YW's voted on how much we'll get for them. The closest guess gets a sonic date with me at the end of July for a huge route 44 drink...I'll post who wins later! get excited!

ps, it's ok to laugh...I know I'm a freak