Monday, February 23, 2009
Yoooou, yooou, yoooou, I'm in love with yooou, y....
Sandy wanted to put the whole song down, but she ran out of quarters before she ran out of "you"s....
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$ Report!!! for 22 Feb
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!
Volume 2, Number 4
IN THIS ISSUE:
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
3] General News!
4] Last week's total!
5] Money reported this week!
6] Grand total to date!
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
SANDY: be sure to always stay in communication with your getaway driver. upon spotting a wayward cart, exit the vehicle, obtain the monies located in the cart, noting the cart two rows over, and race to obtain said cart (rinse, repeat). at this time, your driver should approach you and say, sweetly, "HOW THE HECK DO YOU EXPECT ME TO FIND YOU?? I'M DRIVING ALL OVER HELL'S HALF ACRE LOOKING FOR YOU!!! GET IN THE CAR!!"
KAREN: "So, mom and I had this theory a while back and it paid off!~ I went into the goodwill and started poking through purses and coat pockets in case the people didn't clean them out before they donated them and the store didn't check! so, coats: no money, but dirty kleenex, eye liner, business cards and tylenol pills PROVING that they don't clean out (or check) the pockets (bring hand sanitizer). BUT! the purses!.. check about 30 purses....found...a penny in one... a penny in another one....and a LOONIE in a third!!!"
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
MARYANN: if the MS Society sends you two nickels for no reason that you can see, can you count them?
A: yes! why not? i don't begin to understand why the MS Society would be sending you nickels, but throw them on the pile! from one charity to another.
3] General News!
* Stu and i are going to Crete for the month of October. i received a travel grant to finish a book i've set there, and Stu has agreed to come with me. during that month (a charity month), Sandy will be tabulating, reporting, and collecting. she says to say that the newsletter won't be as funny as it is now, but we've read her emails. they regularly make us pee. we think the newsletter will be in fine hands.
* from Sandy: "interesting fact.. my glass jar of coins from us and stacey, now weighs 4 pounds!"
4] Last week's total! we started the week with $70.26
5] Money reported this week!
+ Sig and Sandy's $2.45 from living in the Dangerousway parking lot (15 Feb)
+ Kim's 50 cents from 2 abandoned carts INSIDE THE BUGGY PLACE! (15 Feb)
+ Larry's $5.75 !!!!!!!!!!!!! from the Dangerousway! Larry, we've been telling you for weeks! that place is a goldmine! (15 Feb)
+ Karen's 25 cents from an abandoned Dangerousway cart (15 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent from outside the Starbucks!!! Yay! every penny counts! (16 Feb)
+ Kim's 10 cents from a water bottle left on a window sill at the gym (16 Feb)
+ Sandy and Mia's 80 cents (2 carts, 2 bottles, and Mia's dime she gave to Sandy!) (16 Feb)
+ Karen's 10 cents at the 7-Eleven. that place NEVER lets us down! (16 Feb)
+ Stacey's 1 cent brought home from Regina by her mom! (16 Feb)
+ Alan and Maryann's 10 cents in the form of 2 nickels (?) from the MS Society. hey, who cares where it came from?! (17 Feb)
+ Maryann's 2 cents from in front of the post office and the feed store (17 Feb)
+ Stu's 3 cents from Ole Faithful (the ticket spitter in the parking lot) (17 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent on a Centre Street sidewalk (17 Feb)
+ Maryann's 2 cents at the Wendy's drive-thru (18 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent at the CB Burgers drive-thru (18 Feb)
+ Sandy's 21 cents from 2 juice bottles at a fake patient gig and a penny on the sidewalk (18 Feb)
+ Karen's 2 cents (one from a downtown sidewalk and one from Dangerousway) (19 Feb)
+ Maryann's 11 cents from the helpful kids at her school who sweep money into piles for her! (20 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent (every one counts!!) at Baraka. i don't know what Baraka is. is that where the new President gets his coffee?? (20 Feb)
+ Karen's $1.13 !!!!!!!!! from: purses at the Goodwill, and a pop can at Griff's school where she had to go to get his keys to let herself into the house she'd locked herself out of! (20 Feb) ($11.64)
+ Sandy and Sig's $4.61!!!! found like so: "All of these [beer cans] were found on the road right beside our house!!, most of them stuffed into 2 coke cartons!! $2.00 worth, plus another large juice container, 20cents, that yes, I did indeed pull out of a garbage can while sig pretended not to know me. plus, one cent on the floor of the golden capital restaurant, where we were eating wor wonton soup, plus 6 quarters from safeway, collected by the new team of Bertha and Clyde..
(Bonny and clyde wont work today, bonny was very fit, and could out- race buggy boys, bertha walks very slowly, once she manages to get out of the car, walks like the letter Z, groans a lot, and needs the carts to lean on)
+ Stu's 11 cents from the ever faithful ticket spitter (21 Feb)
For a total of $16.36.
Our grand total is now:
$86.62 !!!!!
$48.48 is currently in the Xmas dinner fund
$38.14 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Volume 2, Number 4
IN THIS ISSUE:
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
3] General News!
4] Last week's total!
5] Money reported this week!
6] Grand total to date!
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
SANDY: be sure to always stay in communication with your getaway driver. upon spotting a wayward cart, exit the vehicle, obtain the monies located in the cart, noting the cart two rows over, and race to obtain said cart (rinse, repeat). at this time, your driver should approach you and say, sweetly, "HOW THE HECK DO YOU EXPECT ME TO FIND YOU?? I'M DRIVING ALL OVER HELL'S HALF ACRE LOOKING FOR YOU!!! GET IN THE CAR!!"
KAREN: "So, mom and I had this theory a while back and it paid off!~ I went into the goodwill and started poking through purses and coat pockets in case the people didn't clean them out before they donated them and the store didn't check! so, coats: no money, but dirty kleenex, eye liner, business cards and tylenol pills PROVING that they don't clean out (or check) the pockets (bring hand sanitizer). BUT! the purses!.. check about 30 purses....found...a penny in one... a penny in another one....and a LOONIE in a third!!!"
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
MARYANN: if the MS Society sends you two nickels for no reason that you can see, can you count them?
A: yes! why not? i don't begin to understand why the MS Society would be sending you nickels, but throw them on the pile! from one charity to another.
3] General News!
* Stu and i are going to Crete for the month of October. i received a travel grant to finish a book i've set there, and Stu has agreed to come with me. during that month (a charity month), Sandy will be tabulating, reporting, and collecting. she says to say that the newsletter won't be as funny as it is now, but we've read her emails. they regularly make us pee. we think the newsletter will be in fine hands.
* from Sandy: "interesting fact.. my glass jar of coins from us and stacey, now weighs 4 pounds!"
4] Last week's total! we started the week with $70.26
5] Money reported this week!
+ Sig and Sandy's $2.45 from living in the Dangerousway parking lot (15 Feb)
+ Kim's 50 cents from 2 abandoned carts INSIDE THE BUGGY PLACE! (15 Feb)
+ Larry's $5.75 !!!!!!!!!!!!! from the Dangerousway! Larry, we've been telling you for weeks! that place is a goldmine! (15 Feb)
+ Karen's 25 cents from an abandoned Dangerousway cart (15 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent from outside the Starbucks!!! Yay! every penny counts! (16 Feb)
+ Kim's 10 cents from a water bottle left on a window sill at the gym (16 Feb)
+ Sandy and Mia's 80 cents (2 carts, 2 bottles, and Mia's dime she gave to Sandy!) (16 Feb)
+ Karen's 10 cents at the 7-Eleven. that place NEVER lets us down! (16 Feb)
+ Stacey's 1 cent brought home from Regina by her mom! (16 Feb)
+ Alan and Maryann's 10 cents in the form of 2 nickels (?) from the MS Society. hey, who cares where it came from?! (17 Feb)
+ Maryann's 2 cents from in front of the post office and the feed store (17 Feb)
+ Stu's 3 cents from Ole Faithful (the ticket spitter in the parking lot) (17 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent on a Centre Street sidewalk (17 Feb)
+ Maryann's 2 cents at the Wendy's drive-thru (18 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent at the CB Burgers drive-thru (18 Feb)
+ Sandy's 21 cents from 2 juice bottles at a fake patient gig and a penny on the sidewalk (18 Feb)
+ Karen's 2 cents (one from a downtown sidewalk and one from Dangerousway) (19 Feb)
+ Maryann's 11 cents from the helpful kids at her school who sweep money into piles for her! (20 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent (every one counts!!) at Baraka. i don't know what Baraka is. is that where the new President gets his coffee?? (20 Feb)
+ Karen's $1.13 !!!!!!!!! from: purses at the Goodwill, and a pop can at Griff's school where she had to go to get his keys to let herself into the house she'd locked herself out of! (20 Feb) ($11.64)
+ Sandy and Sig's $4.61!!!! found like so: "All of these [beer cans] were found on the road right beside our house!!, most of them stuffed into 2 coke cartons!! $2.00 worth, plus another large juice container, 20cents, that yes, I did indeed pull out of a garbage can while sig pretended not to know me. plus, one cent on the floor of the golden capital restaurant, where we were eating wor wonton soup, plus 6 quarters from safeway, collected by the new team of Bertha and Clyde..
(Bonny and clyde wont work today, bonny was very fit, and could out- race buggy boys, bertha walks very slowly, once she manages to get out of the car, walks like the letter Z, groans a lot, and needs the carts to lean on)
+ Stu's 11 cents from the ever faithful ticket spitter (21 Feb)
For a total of $16.36.
Our grand total is now:
$86.62 !!!!!
$48.48 is currently in the Xmas dinner fund
$38.14 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
All this and she can't even WALK straight!
SANDY: "All of these were found on the road right beside our house!!, most of them stuffed into 2 coke cartons!! $2.00 worth,
plus another large juice container, 20cents, that yes, I did indeed pull out of a garbage can while sig pretended not to know me.
plus, one cent on the floor of the golden capital restaurant, where we were eating wor wonton soup,
plus 6 quarters from safeway, collected by the new team of Bertha and Clyde..
(Bonny and clyde wont work today, bonny was very fit, and could out- race buggy boys, bertha walks very slowly, once she manages to get out of the car, walks like the letter Z, groans a lot, and needs the carts to lean on)
total for today.
$4.61"
Sunday, February 15, 2009
All-Time Best Day!! He really IS going to Hell!!
Larry: "Thanks to my own indifference to going to hell, I bit the bullet and went to Safeway today (it is right beside the Timmy Hoes) and found nadda. so on my way into work I stopped by the Safeway in Capilano and was rewarded with $0.25 from a cart not pushed in all the way. (silly people, you take the time to take the cart back and don't take your money) First ever 25 cents found a Safeway. I am a Safeway cart virgin no more.
On the way back from work to pick up Ella, stopped by the first Safeway again. (mom and Sig's stomping grounds) and figured I would ignore Sig's comment that he "already checked the carts behind the store next to the garbage bin". 50 cents!!! now sitting with $5.75 for the day I figured I would...........Did I forget to mention the $5.00 on the ground beside the buggy coral?????? (picture me do a jig in the middle of Safeway parking lot not unlike the one performed by the grandfather in the remake of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" after the boy finds the final golden ticket.........I will do it for you some day)
Mom, Sig, I know where you work.......
Please feel free to see the attached picture
Going to hell rich!!!"
On the way back from work to pick up Ella, stopped by the first Safeway again. (mom and Sig's stomping grounds) and figured I would ignore Sig's comment that he "already checked the carts behind the store next to the garbage bin". 50 cents!!! now sitting with $5.75 for the day I figured I would...........Did I forget to mention the $5.00 on the ground beside the buggy coral?????? (picture me do a jig in the middle of Safeway parking lot not unlike the one performed by the grandfather in the remake of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" after the boy finds the final golden ticket.........I will do it for you some day)
Mom, Sig, I know where you work.......
Please feel free to see the attached picture
Going to hell rich!!!"
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$ Report!!!
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!
Volume 2, Number 3
IN THIS ISSUE:
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
3] General News!
4] Last week's total!
5] Money reported this week!
6] Grand total to date!
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
From Larry: when sitting at the Tim's wndow, always have Mother on speakerphone to encourage you with gentle, subtle proddings such as the following: "LOOK ON THE GROUND UNDER THE WINDOW!!!!! LOOK ON THE GROUND LARRY!!! EVERY ONE DROPS MONEY THERE!!! LOOK ON THE GROUND UNDER THE WINDOW!!!!!" no one will EVER look at you funny when THAT'S going on...
From Kim: it seems to me that the bigger the parking lot, and the further people have to walk to put the cart back, the more people will leave them lying about rather than trudging them back to the cart thingy. by putting them away, you thereby obtain a]money, and b]exercise!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Stacey: if someone gives you too much change back, does it count?
A: YES! if the money is money you would not have normally received, and is a result of someone being nice to you because you're cute and your kid is cute, throw it on the pile!
3] General News!
* all monies collected till the end of Feb will be added to the Charity Fund.
* in March, we go back to collecting for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
4] Last week's total! we started the week with $57.24
5] Money reported this week!
+ Karen's 2 cents from the Tim's (08 Feb)
+ Kim's 10 cents from a Red Bull can in the gym parking lot (09 Feb)
+ Sandy's 50 cents from two Dangerousway carts (09 Feb)
+ Sig's 1 cent from the Tim's. every one counts!!! (09 Feb)
+ Larry's 12 cents from the Tim's which should have gone on last week's total but he was too ashamed at its collection method (digging around in the ice with his butt sticking up) to report it. ah, Larry. you shall become used to the looks of derision, misunderstanding, and downright disgust. it's all part of the game! (09 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent, in her words: "Finally! After 2 days of fruitless searching. A penny in the bus shelter at 4th Ave and 9th street SW. " (10 Feb)
+ Stacey and Ella's 11 cents from nice people at Walmart and Carwash who thought they were so cute, they should get extra change! (10 Feb)
+ Kim's 10 cents from under a change spitter at the Dangerousway. no carts though *sigh* (11 Feb)
+ Sig and Sandy's 37 cents, found like so: "a lousy quarter from a cart on my way home,, but a beer can on the road, and a water bottle on a table at the deaf school and sig's 2 pennies, one at tim's one at sobey;s" (11 Feb)
+ Sandy's 25 cents from two Dangerousway carts. she's determined that the buggy boys get to keep the quarters! this is bad news indeed! ah well, every penny counts! (12 Feb)
+ Karen's 11 cents from a phone booth and a gutter! (12 Feb)
+ Stu's LOONIE! from in front of a mailbox outside his shop (13 Feb)
+ Kim's $1.62 from various locations in and around Dangerouway, but mostly in the carts of lazy people (13 Feb) ($4.34)
+ Kim's 10 cents from a crushed Coors Light can in the drug store parking lot (13 Feb)
+ Sandy and Sig's $3.10 (!!!!!!!!!) from Safeway and a can (13 Feb). YEEE HAAAAWWWW!!!!!!!
+ Griffin and Karen's 26 cents from the floor of Safeway and an abandoned cart! and to think i was starting to worry about this week!!! (13 Feb)
+ Kim's 26 cents (one cart and a penny outside the Coop (14 Feb)
+ Sig and Sandy's $4.96!! let's get them a cot so they can just live in the Dangerousway parking lot! Happy Valentine's Day indeed! (14 Feb)
For a total of $13.02.
Our grand total is now:
$70.26 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
$48.48 is currently in the Xmas dinner fund
$21.78 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Holy Mondo Quarter Find!!!
Sig and Sandy's Wild Success Story:
"Total of $3.10 from safeway carts and one red bull can.
This money supercedes all monies found in Red Deer on this date.
Our success partly due to miserably cold weather. Missed one cart because a prick grabbed the cart while sandy was standing there, salivating at the prospect of having annother quarter, and the guy didn't even say SORRY. We hope he rots in hell!!!
Next to my $5.00 bill find this may be our all time high one day haul.
SIG."
"Total of $3.10 from safeway carts and one red bull can.
This money supercedes all monies found in Red Deer on this date.
Our success partly due to miserably cold weather. Missed one cart because a prick grabbed the cart while sandy was standing there, salivating at the prospect of having annother quarter, and the guy didn't even say SORRY. We hope he rots in hell!!!
Next to my $5.00 bill find this may be our all time high one day haul.
SIG."
Sunday, February 8, 2009
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!
Volume 2, Number 2
IN THIS ISSUE:
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
3] General News!
4] Last week's total!
5] Money reported this week!
6] Grand total to date!
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery
FROM SIG: "the best car for pop can pick ups, is [Sandy's] honda civic,, [I] can just lean out the door, and not even bend over, the car sits so low on the ground!"
FROM SANDY: "Monday morning out back of the Dangerousway is a great time to get carts. there are no corrals around!" [editor's note: imagine my mother pushing 3 carts hooked together through the mall every Monday morning. and yet... we love her]
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q [from Karen]: "I was working a casino for lunchbox theatre today and there was $278,600 just sitting on the counter in the cashier window. Can I count it?"
A: YES!! and we'll all come and visit you in the slammer!
3] General News!
- thanks to Kevin, the blog is up and running and filled with tons of great pictures of piles of cash and debates on ill-gotten gains. go and leave a comment or two! there are lots of fun pictures and debates up there, plus this newsletter. here's the address again: http://findingmosermoney.blogspot.com/
- a reminder that all monies collected during the month of February go into the Charity Jar. the No-$$ Xmas Dinner Jar collection will start up again in March.
- a reminder from Karen that all bottle values doubled (!!!) this year. i did not know this. here's a handy guide: http://www.cosmos-ab.ca/bottle_depots/worth.asp. keep picking up those bottles and cans!
4] Last week's total! = $48.48
5] Money reported this week!
+ Karen and Kevin's 36 cents from the Canmore Dangerousway Extravaganza SpectacuLAR! a penny on the ground! a dime on the ground! a quarter in a cart! (01 Feb)
+ Karen's 6 cents on the floor at Sobey's! (01 Feb)
+ Kim's 25 cents from one abandoned cart. i thought there would have been more, but forgot it was StuporBowl Sunday and all the men were at home watching the Large Sports Event and not shopping at Dangerousway and lazily abandoning their carts (01 Feb)
+ Kim's 1 cent at the gym (02 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent at the StoopidStore (02 Feb)
+ Karen's 33 cents (!!!!) at the Tim's drive-thru. she says there had to have been 2 bucks there but she didn't have time to pick it all up!!! (02 Feb)
+ Karen's 2 cents at Crappy Tire. Karen's on a roll!! (02 Feb)
+ Stu's 15 cents !!!!!!!!!. 4 cents from the Peavey Mart, 5 cents from the Co-op home centre, and 6 cents from Bob's Booze-o-Rama! (02 Feb)
+ Sandy's $2.30 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!) from various abandoned carts and three bottles she picked up. go, mom!!! (02 Feb. see the inventive scan on the blog)
+ Stu's dime from the East 40th Pub where he happened to be, dropping off a buddy's pool cue (03 Feb)
+ Kim's 1 cent from the Dangerousway (i keep reminding myself that every one counts!!!!!!!) (04 Feb)
+ Stu's 3 cents from the downtown ticket spitter (04 Feb)
+ Karen and Kevin's 14 cents from the good folks of Canmore! 1 penny on the sidewalk, a dime in a coffee shop, and 3 more cents from under the mat at the Canmore Mac's. Canmore's a gold mine! let's all go!! (04 Feb)
+ Stu's $2.26 (!!!!!!!!!!!!) from his pub. one penny outside, a quarter on the floor under the pool table, and a toonie somewhere on the floor under a bar table (04 Feb)
+ Stacey's 20 cents from two cans (one left in a shopping cart, and one left on a table at school)! (05 Feb)
+ Kim's 35 cents from one cart and 1 water bottle. i made 7,543 stops today and that's my total haul (06 Feb)
+ Karen's 15 cents in various locales around Canmore (06 Feb). i've determined that Canmore people have more money than the rest of us lumpenproles...
+ Stu's 10 cents from the ever-reliable ticket spitter in the parkade (06 Feb).
+ Sandy's $1.25 from 4 carts in the buggy stall not plugged in (!) and one cart abaondoned in the parking lot (06 Feb)
+ Karen and Kevin's 29 cents in Canmore, yet again! 3 cents on the sidewalk and 26 cents scooped up at the Tim's (07 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent (she's going to hell) from the Canmore Xtian Thrift Store SpectacuLAR! (07 Feb)
+ Karen's 3 cents from the Canmore Mac's. that place really is a goldmine. (07 Feb)
+ Kim's 10 cents from one lousy water bottle. 8,000 stops and one water bottle. don't i need something from the Dangerousway?? hmmm... (07 Feb)
+ Kim's 25 cents from a Dangeousway cart. hey! i was going to the library anyway! it was only 3 blocks out of my way! (07 Feb)
6] and the grand total for the week is...
$8.76 !!!!!!!! bringing our total to date to:
$57.24 !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The $8.76 will start the charity fund for February! eyes to the ground everyone!
love,
Treasurer of Hell
Volume 2, Number 2
IN THIS ISSUE:
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
3] General News!
4] Last week's total!
5] Money reported this week!
6] Grand total to date!
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery
FROM SIG: "the best car for pop can pick ups, is [Sandy's] honda civic,, [I] can just lean out the door, and not even bend over, the car sits so low on the ground!"
FROM SANDY: "Monday morning out back of the Dangerousway is a great time to get carts. there are no corrals around!" [editor's note: imagine my mother pushing 3 carts hooked together through the mall every Monday morning. and yet... we love her]
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q [from Karen]: "I was working a casino for lunchbox theatre today and there was $278,600 just sitting on the counter in the cashier window. Can I count it?"
A: YES!! and we'll all come and visit you in the slammer!
3] General News!
- thanks to Kevin, the blog is up and running and filled with tons of great pictures of piles of cash and debates on ill-gotten gains. go and leave a comment or two! there are lots of fun pictures and debates up there, plus this newsletter. here's the address again: http://findingmosermoney.blogspot.com/
- a reminder that all monies collected during the month of February go into the Charity Jar. the No-$$ Xmas Dinner Jar collection will start up again in March.
- a reminder from Karen that all bottle values doubled (!!!) this year. i did not know this. here's a handy guide: http://www.cosmos-ab.ca/bottle_depots/worth.asp. keep picking up those bottles and cans!
4] Last week's total! = $48.48
5] Money reported this week!
+ Karen and Kevin's 36 cents from the Canmore Dangerousway Extravaganza SpectacuLAR! a penny on the ground! a dime on the ground! a quarter in a cart! (01 Feb)
+ Karen's 6 cents on the floor at Sobey's! (01 Feb)
+ Kim's 25 cents from one abandoned cart. i thought there would have been more, but forgot it was StuporBowl Sunday and all the men were at home watching the Large Sports Event and not shopping at Dangerousway and lazily abandoning their carts (01 Feb)
+ Kim's 1 cent at the gym (02 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent at the StoopidStore (02 Feb)
+ Karen's 33 cents (!!!!) at the Tim's drive-thru. she says there had to have been 2 bucks there but she didn't have time to pick it all up!!! (02 Feb)
+ Karen's 2 cents at Crappy Tire. Karen's on a roll!! (02 Feb)
+ Stu's 15 cents !!!!!!!!!. 4 cents from the Peavey Mart, 5 cents from the Co-op home centre, and 6 cents from Bob's Booze-o-Rama! (02 Feb)
+ Sandy's $2.30 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!) from various abandoned carts and three bottles she picked up. go, mom!!! (02 Feb. see the inventive scan on the blog)
+ Stu's dime from the East 40th Pub where he happened to be, dropping off a buddy's pool cue (03 Feb)
+ Kim's 1 cent from the Dangerousway (i keep reminding myself that every one counts!!!!!!!) (04 Feb)
+ Stu's 3 cents from the downtown ticket spitter (04 Feb)
+ Karen and Kevin's 14 cents from the good folks of Canmore! 1 penny on the sidewalk, a dime in a coffee shop, and 3 more cents from under the mat at the Canmore Mac's. Canmore's a gold mine! let's all go!! (04 Feb)
+ Stu's $2.26 (!!!!!!!!!!!!) from his pub. one penny outside, a quarter on the floor under the pool table, and a toonie somewhere on the floor under a bar table (04 Feb)
+ Stacey's 20 cents from two cans (one left in a shopping cart, and one left on a table at school)! (05 Feb)
+ Kim's 35 cents from one cart and 1 water bottle. i made 7,543 stops today and that's my total haul (06 Feb)
+ Karen's 15 cents in various locales around Canmore (06 Feb). i've determined that Canmore people have more money than the rest of us lumpenproles...
+ Stu's 10 cents from the ever-reliable ticket spitter in the parkade (06 Feb).
+ Sandy's $1.25 from 4 carts in the buggy stall not plugged in (!) and one cart abaondoned in the parking lot (06 Feb)
+ Karen and Kevin's 29 cents in Canmore, yet again! 3 cents on the sidewalk and 26 cents scooped up at the Tim's (07 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent (she's going to hell) from the Canmore Xtian Thrift Store SpectacuLAR! (07 Feb)
+ Karen's 3 cents from the Canmore Mac's. that place really is a goldmine. (07 Feb)
+ Kim's 10 cents from one lousy water bottle. 8,000 stops and one water bottle. don't i need something from the Dangerousway?? hmmm... (07 Feb)
+ Kim's 25 cents from a Dangeousway cart. hey! i was going to the library anyway! it was only 3 blocks out of my way! (07 Feb)
6] and the grand total for the week is...
$8.76 !!!!!!!! bringing our total to date to:
$57.24 !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The $8.76 will start the charity fund for February! eyes to the ground everyone!
love,
Treasurer of Hell
Friday, February 6, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
everytime it rains, it rains pennies (and quarters and nickles and dimes) from heaven
mom, Sig, Larry, Stacey, and Ella's stash
Monday, February 2, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
The Great GAP Card Debate
STACEY: here's another kicker - spent a $50 gift card at Gap today that has been in my wallet then larry's wallet then mine again for the last 5 years - it was originally "purchased" with airmiles. didn't quite spend the fifty and refused to spend more than $50 so i received $1.70 in real change back...can i add it to our fund?
KIMMY: I say yes!! it's clearly passed the statute of limitations on no-$$ stuff and it is, for all intents and purposes, free. I'd say no if the card was less than a year old but the combination of its age and the inventive rationale you dreamed up makes me say yes! vehemently!
STACEY: YIPPEE!
KIMMY: unless there are any stern objections but everyone should know that it puts us so near $50 I can smell it.
LARRY: Alright, two things.
First, I love my wife and her inventive, irrational thought process.
Second, I do not believe that the funds should be allowed. My reason is as follows:
the gift card, even being five years old, was still ours to begin with. The fact it was acquired through air miles still makes it a bought item. Therefore, it was purchased with our money, regardless of age. If you find money in a couch that hasn't been checked in five years it still makes it money found in our house.
My vote is no. Before the rule book gets too lengthy I think we should leave well enough alone with found money, not forgotten money.
So says I
Going to hell.
KIMMY: I open it to the floor. one could argue that all cart money is also inadmissable as it requires gas money to get to the Dangerousway parking lot or that bottles can't be redeemed as they require gas money as well. I submit to the judges that airmiles are not money in the same way as carts rounded up are not necessarily a direct result of having driven somewhere on purchased gas. you might have needed milk anyway. I'm stumped personally and don't know how to rule on this. mom? as co- founder of this brain-child, why don't you be the mediator and we will abide by your wise judgement.
SANDY: TAKE THE DAMN MONEY AND RUN!!!
Be resonable Larry Johnson.. Whatever you bought to receive airmiles in the first place, would have cost you exactly the same if you did NOT have an airmile card.. hence... the airmiles are NOT money, but are a come-on to buy certain things..
Come- ons are not legal tender..
therefore, never at any time did you or your wife over the past 5 years own any of the $1.70 that she received today. You could NOT have taken the airmiles card to the bank and exchanged it for $50. and statutes of limitations are valid points in this endeavor,, hence, even for no money gifts,, if you have bought material or wool 5 years ago for god's sake!! you can now sew something out of it for a gift..
therefore, never at any time did you or your wife over the past 5 years own any of the $1.70 that she received today. You could NOT have taken the airmiles card to the bank and exchanged it for $50. and statutes of limitations are valid points in this endeavor,, hence, even for no money gifts,, if you have bought material or wool 5 years ago for god's sake!! you can now sew something out of it for a gift..
As the oldest member of this cohort of fools, I declare the money in..
so say me
LARRY: If that is ruling, I will abide by it.
But if that's the case, everything that we have bought with air miles in the past, ie: our 2 DVD players, blender, toaster, PS2, and others can be sold and the proceeds go to the fund? just seems to take away from the whole "Found Money" thing if it is pre meditated. (Obviously if you looking at the ground for forgotten monies it is premeditated).
so say me
LARRY: If that is ruling, I will abide by it.
But if that's the case, everything that we have bought with air miles in the past, ie: our 2 DVD players, blender, toaster, PS2, and others can be sold and the proceeds go to the fund? just seems to take away from the whole "Found Money" thing if it is pre meditated. (Obviously if you looking at the ground for forgotten monies it is premeditated).
If your heading to Safeway only, with the sole purpose of finding quarters in carts, hey, that's your gas baby. If your there buying something, or driving by and stop in, whoopee. if it cost some people $95 a week in gas to try and find $0.79, who are wee to stop them.
I just think that we should stop drifting from the original plan of looking at the ground.
I will go with what ever you guys want.
Going to hell
PS. if the gas money thingy was not admissible, you would only be able to find monies as far as you could walk. you couldn't drive, cab, or bus, or catch a lift with anyone to find said funds.
KAREN: I totally agree with mom. The airmiles are free. So the 1 70 is free. Today I picked a penny off the floor of a Christian thrift store. It was in the toy section. Under the knee of a boy about 7 years old. No lie. Who is going to hell now?
LARRY: you win......or loose I guess
KIMMY: that's easy. YOU are going to hell! I'll add it to the total in good conscience. is there anyone else who would possibly have a similar dilemma to this? I wonder if we should let this stand as a contribution to the fund this time only given its similarity to "dish out gas for cart quarters" and allow it to stand? I'm cool with that. perhaps we're all going to hell. but we'll have a good Xmas meal before we do!!
I just think that we should stop drifting from the original plan of looking at the ground.
I will go with what ever you guys want.
Going to hell
PS. if the gas money thingy was not admissible, you would only be able to find monies as far as you could walk. you couldn't drive, cab, or bus, or catch a lift with anyone to find said funds.
KAREN: I totally agree with mom. The airmiles are free. So the 1 70 is free. Today I picked a penny off the floor of a Christian thrift store. It was in the toy section. Under the knee of a boy about 7 years old. No lie. Who is going to hell now?
LARRY: you win......or loose I guess
KIMMY: that's easy. YOU are going to hell! I'll add it to the total in good conscience. is there anyone else who would possibly have a similar dilemma to this? I wonder if we should let this stand as a contribution to the fund this time only given its similarity to "dish out gas for cart quarters" and allow it to stand? I'm cool with that. perhaps we're all going to hell. but we'll have a good Xmas meal before we do!!
i see Larry's point about drifting away from "looking on the ground", but the very act of picking up a bottle drifts from that, as does the act of putting a cart away. since Larry and Stacey spent no money in the first place, i see this case as the equivalent of finding $1.70 lying on the floor of the GAP store.
Happy face money emails I have received.
this picture (drawn by mom) is titled "don't ya hate the warm weather?" apparently, the belief is that people don't leave their quarters in the carts if it's easy to plug them in. i say people are lazy year-round! the spring run-off will tell all...
mom called this recent one-day haul "The Motherlode - literally"
this one is, apparently, a smiling guy with a cavity:
FW: Weekly $$$$$$$$ Report for 01 Feb
-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Beach [mailto:kimmybeach@mac.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 10:46 AM
To: Griffin Cork; Kevin Cork; larry home; Mom Sig; Karen Cork; Jennamay; shmare Maryann
Subject: Weekly $$$$$$$$ Report for 01 FebThe Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!Volume 1, Number 4IN THIS ISSUE:1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!3] General News!4] Last week's total!5] Money reported this week!6] Grand total to date!1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!- Sandy: young moms won't leave their kids in the car to take the cart back (and rightly so!). watch for carseats and strollers next time you buy milk!- Karen: if you take money that has clearly just missed the tip jar on a coffee shop counter, put the equivalent amount of money into the tip jar and take the stray coins.
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!Q: if it looks like a Canadian coin, but it isn't a Canadian coin, can it count as a Canadian coin?A: YES! pretend you thought it was a nickel and wrap it when you wrap the nickels. what are they going to do at the bank? fire you???Q: does bottle and can money count?A: not if the bottle (or can) originates from inside your house (like the phone call of a serial killer with no imagination). per popular vote, money resulting from the return of bottles and cans left lying about that have NOT ORIGINATED in any of our houses and have not been purchased by anyone in the family can be added to the fund.3] - as a family, we've decided to allocate alternating months to either a] Xmas Dinner or b] Charity.- as a family, we've determined that non-family-purchased empty containers are now fair game. please report on the money once the containers are returned and the money is in your hands. OR put the amount of money you WILL receive from the return of said bottles or cans into your collection box, but return the bottles and cans by the end of this year.- Kevin has set up a blog at http://findingmosermoney.blogspot.com/2009/02/collecting-and-saving-posts.html. visit often, put yourself on the "Follow" list, and if you're blog-savvy, contribute!!4] we started the week with $37.06 (25 Jan)5] + Kim's dime on the floor in front of the post office counter (25 Jan)+ Sandy's $1.00 from... well, you've probably figured it out by now.. (25 Jan)+ Sandy's 50 cents from... do i have to tell you? (26 Jan)+ Kim's 1 cent from the Coop floor (practically had to go down on my hands and knees to get it (26 Jan)+ Karen's 1 cent (every one counts!!!!!!!!) from the Dangerousway (27 Jan)+ Karen's 2 cents from the OTHER Dangerousway (27 Jan)+ Sig's 5 cents: a 10-something coin from the Cayman Islands which (i am informed) is worth 15 cents Canadian. for the purposes of wrapping it up for the bank, they're pretending they thought it was a nickel and so a nickel it is! are you thoroughly confused yet? (27 Jan)+ Kim's 25 cents from a Dangerousway cart (27 Jan)+ Kim's 51 cents from an alien spaceshi.... oh, i mean a Dangerousway cart, the floor in front of the Dangerousway carts, and a penny from in front of the café (28 Jan)+ Kim's $1.00 on a second trip to the Dangerousway. forgot to buy juice! man, people are silly and lazy when two snowflakes fall! (28 Jan)+ Stu's 1 cent (every one counts!!!!!!!) from the ticket spitter in his parking lot (28 Jan)+ Karen's 13 cents from the Tim's drive-thru (29 Jan). never go through a drive-thru without opening your door and looking down at the ground!!+ Kim's $1.25 (once again with that number!) from Dangerousway carts, all within about 5 minutes. right time, right place. (29 Jan)+ Kim's 10 cents from under a change spitter at the Dangerousway (29 Jan)+ Karen's 4 cents from: Penny at mall food court, Penny at safeway number 1, 2 pennies at 7 eleven (29 Jan)+ Karen's 2 cents from Safeway #2 (29 Jan)+ Karen's 2 more pennies!!! One at a and w and one in eb games!+ Karen's 25 CENTS from a grocery cart (Karen's on a roll !!!!!!!!!! that's 46 cents in one day! jackpot!!) (29 Jan)+ Larry's 1 cent planted by a co-worker outside his office!!!!! (29 Jan)+ Sig's 1 cent in the town of Tofield (as mom says, "no town is safe!")+ Sandy's $1.75 (!!!!!!!!!!) from... well... i think she's got a new job, being Unpaid Buggy Boy at the Dangerousway(s). she arranged the quarters in the shape of a cross and called it "the grave marker of any Buggy Boy who gets in my way". (29 Jan)+ Karen's 25 cents from the Starbuck's counter. in her words, "which I am sure was supposed to be in the tip cup next to it so I put my own quarter in the cup and took the other". YAY! (30 Jan)+ Karen's 1 cent at the Tim's (30 Jan)+ Alan's 25 cents at the grocery store. Alan: "can i take your cart back for you?" guy: "uhhh..." Alan: "great!" (30 Jan)+ Kim's 75 cents in under 2 minutes from lazy Dangerousway shoppers in the slush. Kim says a little slush never hurt anyone! but sure, lazy people! i'll return your carts for you! fools...MWA HA HAAAAAA! (30 Jan)+ Larry and Stacey's 20 cents from, as Stacey says, "I go regularly with our kindergarten stuff so I've added the 20 cents to our found money box from the can where recycling depot money goes and will return said 20 cents to depot money can (Ella's school fund) once the recyclables are taken in." i have no idea what any of that means, but it's in the fun!!! (30 Jan)+ Sandy's 50 cents from 2 abandoned carts (30 Jan)+ Karen's 2 cents at the Starbuck's before the play. YAY! (30 Jan)+ Kim's 58 cents found in the following pattern: 3 pennies in different spots under the carts inside the Dangerousway, 50 cents from 2 carts, and a nickel on the counter on the edge of the Take-a-Penny dish, BUT clearly not scooped up by previous customer as nobody puts nickels in the Penny tray, so i took it. but i bought a $5 foodbank pack to assuage my guilt. (31 Jan)+ Larry and Stacey's $1.70 (!!) from an ages-old Gap card initially purchased with AirMiles back in The Day. what the heck!? i think it counts (31 Jan)+ Karen and Kevin's 11 cents from under the mat at the Canmore Mac's (31 Jan)+ Karen's penny from under the knee of a needy child at the Christian thrift store. she's going to hell. (31 Jan)6] AND OUR GRAND TOTAL IS NOW ....$48.48 !!!!!!!!!!!!loveTreasurer of Hell and the old man.
collecting and saving posts
I think we need to save this debate on this blog and then for a no-money Christmas present, I'll edit and highlight the "journey" for all of us.
this way, we can also use color, bold, italics, links and pictures in the blog to highlight our very important POV
I've made this private and unsearchable so it will only be us writing here.
To keep up all you need do is click on the left and be a follower and it will send you a note when it is updated.
this way, we can also use color, bold, italics, links and pictures in the blog to highlight our very important POV
I've made this private and unsearchable so it will only be us writing here.
To keep up all you need do is click on the left and be a follower and it will send you a note when it is updated.
To start, lets copy and past some of the more recent debates from the email here so we have it all preserved for posterity.
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