Though I have to say that I still have no idea how they got these potatoes (or why they were free), here they are, without a penny spent! Xmas dinner is fully paid for, but mom says she'll take $10.00 (approximate cost of potatoes) and add it to the charity fund in the next report. Great idea!
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Free Potatoes!
Though I have to say that I still have no idea how they got these potatoes (or why they were free), here they are, without a penny spent! Xmas dinner is fully paid for, but mom says she'll take $10.00 (approximate cost of potatoes) and add it to the charity fund in the next report. Great idea!
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Every time it rains, it rains...
Quarters from Heaven.... (courtesy of Sandy, Sig, and a bunch of idiots who don't put their Dangerousway carts away)
Thursday, August 27, 2009
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!!!
Volume 8, 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!
*"Did you know, if you have a pet parrot, you can feed him anything that you eat? EXCEPT chocolate and avocados, which are fatal." Hmm... The next time I get a parrot, I'll remember that!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q: Can we see the video of Karen's awards acceptance speech?
A: Why... YES! Yes, you can! i'm having a bit of an issue publishing it to my site just now, but when it's uploaded, i'll send you the link. i didn't want to wait for it to load to send you this report!!!!
3] General News!
* KAREN IS FAMOUS!!! Karen won the first ever Duval Lang Award for Excellence in the area of Theatre for Young Audiences at the Betty awards in Calgary on Monday night. Witness the trophy! It's the Best! Trophy! Ever! I got to see her win it and she only cried EIGHTY TIMES!

4] Last report's total!
* We started the week with (give or take) $291.92
5] Money reported this week!
+ Kim's 1 cent from outside the Aboriginal Youth Outreach Centre (I was walking by on my way to Dangerousway to find no carts at all)
+ Ella's 10 cents from a Coke can left on a bookcase
+ Sandy's 10 cents from a pop can somewhere
+ Stacey, Larry, and Ella's $1.02 (!!!) a-like so: "2 cents vi found in the parking lot. 10 bottles dumped in the driveway across the street from mom's - guy was likely evicted for the $1200 in fines for having eyesores in the driveway and a landfill in the back yard. he decided to clean out his truck before he left for good. my mom was really sad to see him go."
+ Karen's 1 cent found at the C-train station
+ Kim's 1 cent on the sidewalk somewhere downtown
+ Kim's 10 cents from one Pepsi can on the street outside my house
+ Kim and Stu's 71 cents from various locations (faithful Sev payphone, shop floor, sidewalk, pub floor, and ticket spitter)
+ Karen's 35 cents from a dime in the alley and a Dangerousway cart
+ Sandy's 35 cents from a Dangerousway cart and a pop bottle
+ Stacey and Ella's 30 cents from three pop bottles
+ Ella's 10 cents from a pop can left on a Costco bookshelf
+ Sandy's 10 cents from a pop can
+ Stacey's 20 cents from 2 pop can/bottles
+ Sandy and Sig's 70 cents from pop cans
+ Sandy's 10 cents from one "lousy" pop can. Sandy! every one counts!
+ Karen's 26 cents from a quarter at the Auburn and a penny on the sidewalk
+ Karen's 28 cents from Tims, Dangerousway, and the library
+ Stacey and Vi's $3.75 (!!!!!!!!) from a one litre pop bottle, a $1 DQ dip [i don't even know what that is, but i'm counting it!] and $2.50 Vi found in Bill's coin collection box. She knows it doesn't count, but as the compiler of this newsletter, i make the final judgement, and i say.... IT'S IN!
+ Stacey's $1.17 (!!!!!!!) from "12 cents Timmy's drive through, 3 water bottles from movie ( 1- 25cent and 2 - 10 cent), 2 parking lot at school, 2 side of highway by S&S's, 1 water bottle from friend's mom's moving day, 1 water bottle from cleaners at school (I bet Maryann doesn't leave empty water bottles lying around :)"
+ STOP THE PRESSES!!!!! STOP THE PRESSES!!!!!!!!! $5000.00 FOUND IN THE STREET!!! WE'RE RICH! WITNESS BELOW!!!!!!

*ahem*! back to the ACTUAL TOTAL!
+ Sandy and Sig's 20 cents from 2 pop cans while camping
+ Karen's 61 cents from the Dangerousway and a can
+ Sandy's 50 cents from two Dangerousway carts
+ Karen's 1 cent from the coffee shop where she had a Latté I.V. drip inserted on the day following the Bettys
For a weekly total of $5,011.04 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Er.... actually, it's $11.04.
Our grand total is now:
$302.96!!!!!!!!!
WE DID IT! AND IT'S ONLY AUGUST!!!! AS ELLA WOULD SAY, "EYES TO THE GROUND!"
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$197.25 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Volume 8, 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!
*"Did you know, if you have a pet parrot, you can feed him anything that you eat? EXCEPT chocolate and avocados, which are fatal." Hmm... The next time I get a parrot, I'll remember that!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q: Can we see the video of Karen's awards acceptance speech?
A: Why... YES! Yes, you can! i'm having a bit of an issue publishing it to my site just now, but when it's uploaded, i'll send you the link. i didn't want to wait for it to load to send you this report!!!!
3] General News!
* KAREN IS FAMOUS!!! Karen won the first ever Duval Lang Award for Excellence in the area of Theatre for Young Audiences at the Betty awards in Calgary on Monday night. Witness the trophy! It's the Best! Trophy! Ever! I got to see her win it and she only cried EIGHTY TIMES!
4] Last report's total!
* We started the week with (give or take) $291.92
5] Money reported this week!
+ Kim's 1 cent from outside the Aboriginal Youth Outreach Centre (I was walking by on my way to Dangerousway to find no carts at all)
+ Ella's 10 cents from a Coke can left on a bookcase
+ Sandy's 10 cents from a pop can somewhere
+ Stacey, Larry, and Ella's $1.02 (!!!) a-like so: "2 cents vi found in the parking lot. 10 bottles dumped in the driveway across the street from mom's - guy was likely evicted for the $1200 in fines for having eyesores in the driveway and a landfill in the back yard. he decided to clean out his truck before he left for good. my mom was really sad to see him go."
+ Karen's 1 cent found at the C-train station
+ Kim's 1 cent on the sidewalk somewhere downtown
+ Kim's 10 cents from one Pepsi can on the street outside my house
+ Kim and Stu's 71 cents from various locations (faithful Sev payphone, shop floor, sidewalk, pub floor, and ticket spitter)
+ Karen's 35 cents from a dime in the alley and a Dangerousway cart
+ Sandy's 35 cents from a Dangerousway cart and a pop bottle
+ Stacey and Ella's 30 cents from three pop bottles
+ Ella's 10 cents from a pop can left on a Costco bookshelf
+ Sandy's 10 cents from a pop can
+ Stacey's 20 cents from 2 pop can/bottles
+ Sandy and Sig's 70 cents from pop cans
+ Sandy's 10 cents from one "lousy" pop can. Sandy! every one counts!
+ Karen's 26 cents from a quarter at the Auburn and a penny on the sidewalk
+ Karen's 28 cents from Tims, Dangerousway, and the library
+ Stacey and Vi's $3.75 (!!!!!!!!) from a one litre pop bottle, a $1 DQ dip [i don't even know what that is, but i'm counting it!] and $2.50 Vi found in Bill's coin collection box. She knows it doesn't count, but as the compiler of this newsletter, i make the final judgement, and i say.... IT'S IN!
+ Stacey's $1.17 (!!!!!!!) from "12 cents Timmy's drive through, 3 water bottles from movie ( 1- 25cent and 2 - 10 cent), 2 parking lot at school, 2 side of highway by S&S's, 1 water bottle from friend's mom's moving day, 1 water bottle from cleaners at school (I bet Maryann doesn't leave empty water bottles lying around :)"
+ STOP THE PRESSES!!!!! STOP THE PRESSES!!!!!!!!! $5000.00 FOUND IN THE STREET!!! WE'RE RICH! WITNESS BELOW!!!!!!

*ahem*! back to the ACTUAL TOTAL!
+ Sandy and Sig's 20 cents from 2 pop cans while camping
+ Karen's 61 cents from the Dangerousway and a can
+ Sandy's 50 cents from two Dangerousway carts
+ Karen's 1 cent from the coffee shop where she had a Latté I.V. drip inserted on the day following the Bettys
For a weekly total of $5,011.04 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Er.... actually, it's $11.04.
Our grand total is now:
$302.96!!!!!!!!!
WE DID IT! AND IT'S ONLY AUGUST!!!! AS ELLA WOULD SAY, "EYES TO THE GROUND!"
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$197.25 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Monday, August 3, 2009
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$ Report!!!
The Weekly (BAAA HA HA!) Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!!!
Volume 7, 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!
Once upon a time there was a girl called Kim. Kim promised to write a report about found money every week. "I promise to write a found money report every week," said Kim. One day, Kim let an entire month go by before filing a report. She rationalized this away by saying that if an entire month went by, the total would look even huger. "I'll rationalize it by saying that if I let an entire month go by, it'll seem even huger!", she rationalized. And it turns out that she was right. The end.
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Did you know? Currency paper is composed of 25% linen and 75% cotton. Red and blue synthetic fibers of various lengths are distributed evenly throughout the paper. Prior to World War I the fibers were made of silk.
3] General News!
According to Sandy, Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.
4] Last report's total!
* We started the month with (give or take) $268.43
5] Money reported this past month!
+ Karen's 6 cents from a Penny outside arts centre and a nickle at 7 11
+ Sandy's 50 cents from two Dangerousway carts
+ Karen's 30 cents like so: 15 cents in the peavy mart parking lot. A dime in studio b and a nickle in the cafeteria
+ Kim's 10 cents from the college parking lot
+ Kim's 5 cents from the floor of the King's Head pub in Calgary.
+ Sandy and Sig's $1.60 (!!!) from six carts and a pop bottle
+ Stacey, Larry, and Ella's 75 cents (!!) a-like so: "scooped a half full juice box from ground by the speaker order box at second cup - 10 cents, 2 water bottles - 20 cents, 1 2L pop bottle - 25 cents!, now the Lucky Beer cans are appearing on our front lawn - 10 cents, Ella's journey under the candy/toy dispensers to retrieve her dropped quarter resulted in a found dime :)"
+ Karen's 2 cents from Stoopidstore and the college
+ Sandy and Sig's 87 cents a-like so: "3 safeway carts and one pop bottle in the store.., 2 pennies sig found at tim hortons, one good old faithful lucky lager in the ditch (is he cutting down?)"
+ Sandy and Sig's $1.55 (!!!): "just cause its a long time since I*'ve been able to send a photo..
+ Larry and Sandy's $1.60 (!!!) a-like so: "went to a fund raiser hair cut with larry today, for school lunch program.. no one recycles.. between that, and larry stopping for every can in the ditch, we have 11 cans and bottles, so on the way home stopped at one safeway, 2 carts.. not just in the coral, but plugged in, quarters still in.. I am competing with a 12 year old on roller skates.. he is way faster than I,, but not as smart.. he isnt thinking to look at the carts plugged in! He gives me a look of incredulity. I give him one of distain and walk away with the quarters...
+ Griffin, Sig and Sandy's 85 cents a-like so: "one pop can, sig found a quarter in front of the cash machine on the floor of the dollar store, and 2 safeway carts.. the old lady that griffin and I were trying to beat was there racing around the lot, while her husband sat in his brand new red truck watching.. beat her to it.. she was very pissed off. griffin will remember the lady.. she's one hard broad."
+ Sandy's 10 cents: "one lousy can.. 10 cents.. but it was a pretty A&W root beer can.. it was nice"
+ Stacey's 40 cents: "parking lot bottles/cans...Wal-Mart 2 and school 1, from the theatre after seeing harry potter...4 water bottles
+ Karen's 18 cents found on the stage at RDC, on a walk, one at Tims, and one at Starbucks
+ Maryann's 22 cents: "10 cents cleaning the grade 1 room Wednesday, 11 cents cleaning the kindergarten room Thursday, 1 cent crossing the street in Rimbey on Tuesday grand total for me this week TADA. 22 cents whoopee not much but it adds up!"
+ Karen's 2 cents from the accountant's bathroom
+ Sig and Sandy's $2.35: "this is how sig spent his 77th birthday, me driving along the road out here, him getting in and out to pick up bottles and cans.
Does it get any better than that?? plus one safeway cart."
+ Maryann's $2.04 (!!!) a-like so: "Summer school cleaning and of course kids didn't do such a great job of cleaning out their lockers.
From a number of different lockers grades 3,5 and 6. Monday 2x 25 ix10 and 1x1= 61 cents :). Tuesday 1x25 2x10 and 1x5= 50 cents for :). Wednesday 1x25 1x10 1x5 and 3x1=43 cents :). Thursday 1x25 1x10 and 3x5 =50 cents :) (in lost and found plastic tub south wing. Going to check the other one Monday LOL. So yes I am sweating my face off washing walls stripping and waxing floors etc but am being richly rewarded or rather the fund is. Happy to report my weekly found!"
+ Griffin and Sandy's $1.10 (!!) "griffin and oma checkin' in the ditch.. 11 pop, water and beer cans"
+ Sandy's 10 cents from a pop can.
+ Maryann's $4.00 (!!!!!!) a-like so: "WOOHOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Alan and I took the girls to Capital Ex yesterday and I scored again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. 1 of the 2 rides that I will go on, the Tilta whirl, Alan and I were going to get into the seat and there on the bright shiny yellow seat in the sun were. a toonie and a loonie!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great ride and money back LOL. No idea who was on that seat right so found is found.
We get home and I'm cleaning things out of th etruck( I put tags and such inth elittle slot on my passenger front door niche and when I was cleaning it out there was a loonie on it's edge right up against the inner part of the panel. I asked Alan if he knew it was there and he never is in that seat and knew nothing about it and I have never yet put anything in it, hardly even rode in it more than 4 or 5 times since we got it and never stuck anything in there so.................. that loonie had to have been in there when we bought the truck !!!!!!!!!!! so........ of course it's found money and not ours so in the fund it goes.
+ Karen's 11 cents from a penny and a pop bottle
+ Karen's 25 cents from a cart in the cart thingy not plugged in.
+ Sandy, Griffin, Stacey, Sig and Ella's 45 cents: "one quarter on the floor at chuckie cheese, one water bottle, one old faithful lucky lager"
+ Karen's 26 cents at Tims drive thru
+ Sandy's $1.00 from 4 Safeway carts
+ Kim's 1 cent from ... somewhere.
For a July total of $20.83 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our grand total is now:
$289.26!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$183.55 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Volume 7, 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!
Once upon a time there was a girl called Kim. Kim promised to write a report about found money every week. "I promise to write a found money report every week," said Kim. One day, Kim let an entire month go by before filing a report. She rationalized this away by saying that if an entire month went by, the total would look even huger. "I'll rationalize it by saying that if I let an entire month go by, it'll seem even huger!", she rationalized. And it turns out that she was right. The end.
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Did you know? Currency paper is composed of 25% linen and 75% cotton. Red and blue synthetic fibers of various lengths are distributed evenly throughout the paper. Prior to World War I the fibers were made of silk.
3] General News!
According to Sandy, Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.
4] Last report's total!
* We started the month with (give or take) $268.43
5] Money reported this past month!
+ Karen's 6 cents from a Penny outside arts centre and a nickle at 7 11
+ Sandy's 50 cents from two Dangerousway carts
+ Karen's 30 cents like so: 15 cents in the peavy mart parking lot. A dime in studio b and a nickle in the cafeteria
+ Kim's 10 cents from the college parking lot
+ Kim's 5 cents from the floor of the King's Head pub in Calgary.
+ Sandy and Sig's $1.60 (!!!) from six carts and a pop bottle
+ Stacey, Larry, and Ella's 75 cents (!!) a-like so: "scooped a half full juice box from ground by the speaker order box at second cup - 10 cents, 2 water bottles - 20 cents, 1 2L pop bottle - 25 cents!, now the Lucky Beer cans are appearing on our front lawn - 10 cents, Ella's journey under the candy/toy dispensers to retrieve her dropped quarter resulted in a found dime :)"
+ Karen's 2 cents from Stoopidstore and the college
+ Sandy and Sig's 87 cents a-like so: "3 safeway carts and one pop bottle in the store.., 2 pennies sig found at tim hortons, one good old faithful lucky lager in the ditch (is he cutting down?)"
+ Sandy and Sig's $1.55 (!!!): "just cause its a long time since I*'ve been able to send a photo..
+ Larry and Sandy's $1.60 (!!!) a-like so: "went to a fund raiser hair cut with larry today, for school lunch program.. no one recycles.. between that, and larry stopping for every can in the ditch, we have 11 cans and bottles, so on the way home stopped at one safeway, 2 carts.. not just in the coral, but plugged in, quarters still in.. I am competing with a 12 year old on roller skates.. he is way faster than I,, but not as smart.. he isnt thinking to look at the carts plugged in! He gives me a look of incredulity. I give him one of distain and walk away with the quarters...
+ Griffin, Sig and Sandy's 85 cents a-like so: "one pop can, sig found a quarter in front of the cash machine on the floor of the dollar store, and 2 safeway carts.. the old lady that griffin and I were trying to beat was there racing around the lot, while her husband sat in his brand new red truck watching.. beat her to it.. she was very pissed off. griffin will remember the lady.. she's one hard broad."
+ Sandy's 10 cents: "one lousy can.. 10 cents.. but it was a pretty A&W root beer can.. it was nice"
+ Stacey's 40 cents: "parking lot bottles/cans...Wal-Mart 2 and school 1, from the theatre after seeing harry potter...4 water bottles
+ Karen's 18 cents found on the stage at RDC, on a walk, one at Tims, and one at Starbucks
+ Maryann's 22 cents: "10 cents cleaning the grade 1 room Wednesday, 11 cents cleaning the kindergarten room Thursday, 1 cent crossing the street in Rimbey on Tuesday grand total for me this week TADA. 22 cents whoopee not much but it adds up!"
+ Karen's 2 cents from the accountant's bathroom
+ Sig and Sandy's $2.35: "this is how sig spent his 77th birthday, me driving along the road out here, him getting in and out to pick up bottles and cans.
Does it get any better than that?? plus one safeway cart."
+ Maryann's $2.04 (!!!) a-like so: "Summer school cleaning and of course kids didn't do such a great job of cleaning out their lockers.
From a number of different lockers grades 3,5 and 6. Monday 2x 25 ix10 and 1x1= 61 cents :). Tuesday 1x25 2x10 and 1x5= 50 cents for :). Wednesday 1x25 1x10 1x5 and 3x1=43 cents :). Thursday 1x25 1x10 and 3x5 =50 cents :) (in lost and found plastic tub south wing. Going to check the other one Monday LOL. So yes I am sweating my face off washing walls stripping and waxing floors etc but am being richly rewarded or rather the fund is. Happy to report my weekly found!"
+ Griffin and Sandy's $1.10 (!!) "griffin and oma checkin' in the ditch.. 11 pop, water and beer cans"
+ Sandy's 10 cents from a pop can.
+ Maryann's $4.00 (!!!!!!) a-like so: "WOOHOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Alan and I took the girls to Capital Ex yesterday and I scored again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. 1 of the 2 rides that I will go on, the Tilta whirl, Alan and I were going to get into the seat and there on the bright shiny yellow seat in the sun were. a toonie and a loonie!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great ride and money back LOL. No idea who was on that seat right so found is found.
We get home and I'm cleaning things out of th etruck( I put tags and such inth elittle slot on my passenger front door niche and when I was cleaning it out there was a loonie on it's edge right up against the inner part of the panel. I asked Alan if he knew it was there and he never is in that seat and knew nothing about it and I have never yet put anything in it, hardly even rode in it more than 4 or 5 times since we got it and never stuck anything in there so.................. that loonie had to have been in there when we bought the truck !!!!!!!!!!! so........ of course it's found money and not ours so in the fund it goes.
+ Karen's 11 cents from a penny and a pop bottle
+ Karen's 25 cents from a cart in the cart thingy not plugged in.
+ Sandy, Griffin, Stacey, Sig and Ella's 45 cents: "one quarter on the floor at chuckie cheese, one water bottle, one old faithful lucky lager"
+ Karen's 26 cents at Tims drive thru
+ Sandy's $1.00 from 4 Safeway carts
+ Kim's 1 cent from ... somewhere.
For a July total of $20.83 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our grand total is now:
$289.26!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$183.55 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$ Report!!!
The (Sort of) Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!!!
Volume 7, Number 1
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!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q from Sig: If the bank gives you a free pop, does the pop can money count as the bank gave it to you free? After all, they've been taking money from me for years.
A: YES!
3] General News!
* Heh heh... Pay no attention to the girl behind the curtain!!! You know, the one who hasn't filed a report in two and a half weeks!
* The money pot at Sig and Sandy's now weighs 8.5 pounds!
4] Last week's total!
Volume 7, Number 1
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!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q from Sig: If the bank gives you a free pop, does the pop can money count as the bank gave it to you free? After all, they've been taking money from me for years.
A: YES!
3] General News!
* Heh heh... Pay no attention to the girl behind the curtain!!! You know, the one who hasn't filed a report in two and a half weeks!
* The money pot at Sig and Sandy's now weighs 8.5 pounds!
4] Last week's total!
* We started the week with (give or take) $257.41
5] Money reported these past two weeks!
+ Karen's penny from Sunridge Mall
+ Katie's 11 cents from various sidewalks
+ Katie's 25 from a cart. she jumped out of a moving van to get it!
+ Karen's 3 cents from the food court. she had to wait for a stoopid woman to move so she could get the third
+ Karen and Katie's 42 cents a-like so: "Quarter at eb games. Dime at in source. Nickle in hallway of mall. Penny at quiznos. Penny miraculously appearing at the feet of me and Katie"
+ Karen and Katie's $1.13 (!!!!!!) from carts and sidewarlks and food courts!
+ Karen and Griffin's 86 cents a-like so: "Market mall in another storm. 75 cents in cart money and 11 cents from food court. Griffin for carts. Karen for court"
+ Griffin and Karen's $1.45 (!!!!!) from five carts and two bottles
+ Karen's 4 cents from a pay phone and three on the floor of the St. Albert Starbucks
+ Stacey's community effort of $1.25 a-like so: "well, in honor of Ella's father we walked away from thirty cents after seeing a movie today. had I had my trusty reusable bag on hand they would have been ours. however Mrs.H. and family didn't shy away from this opportunity and found 8 bottles, much to her boys' excitement but to her husband's embarrassment. Amy's mom Lin found a penny on the way to the washroom at Moxie's for us :). our neighbour of days passed donated 24 cents from her Norwex order change
and 10 cents from Mrs. Q who couldn't find a recycle bin so I offered to recycle it for her :) found dr.pepper on dog walk - 10 cents
+ Larry's 1 cents from Beer-o-clock Friday!
+ Sandy's 1 cent from somebody's shoe while camping
+ Sandy and Sig's 20 cents from 2 pop bottles
+ Karen's 10 cents on the step at her friend's house
+ Karen's 1 cent at the Dangerousway
+ Stacey's 1 shiny penny in the grass
+ Sandy's 26 cents from a penny found somewhere and a cart
+ Sandy and Sig's $2.20 (!!!!!) a-like so: "4 safeway carts and one loonie STUCK in a super store cart! someone had plugged in the cart, but given up on getting the dollar unstuck!! not me baby. plus!! then we had to go to the bank, and outside they were having a free hotdog BBQ to say thank you for your service.. so hot dogs in hand, they hand us each a can of pop!! so 20 more cents for 2 cans."
+ Karen's 1 cent at the Coop.
+ Sandy and Sig's 10 cents from an apple juice container
+ Stacey, Larry and Ella's 66 cents from a free chocolate milk and 55 cents left on a calling card Stacey found on the ground. we don't care if Larry objects. the 55 cents counts.
+ Karen's 3 cents under a campground pay phone
+ Karen's 25 cents outside the corner store
+ Kim and Sandy's 95 cents a-like so: "7 beer/pop/water cans and one 2 litre sprite bottle, all in the ditches along the roads by Sandy and Sig's house.
+ Kim and Sandy's 1 cent at the Tims downtown Edmonton
+ Stacey and Ella's 30 cents from life-risking bottle pickups and dog walks on Canada Day
+ Stu's nickel at the Sev.
+ Kimmy and Stu's 43 cents. it's on my desk. i have no idea where it all came from. cause i didn't report. so, 43 cents from... somewhere.
For a total this (more than a) week of $11.02 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our grand total is now:
$268.43!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$162.72 is currently in the Charity Fund.
5] Money reported these past two weeks!
+ Karen's penny from Sunridge Mall
+ Katie's 11 cents from various sidewalks
+ Katie's 25 from a cart. she jumped out of a moving van to get it!
+ Karen's 3 cents from the food court. she had to wait for a stoopid woman to move so she could get the third
+ Karen and Katie's 42 cents a-like so: "Quarter at eb games. Dime at in source. Nickle in hallway of mall. Penny at quiznos. Penny miraculously appearing at the feet of me and Katie"
+ Karen and Katie's $1.13 (!!!!!!) from carts and sidewarlks and food courts!
+ Karen and Griffin's 86 cents a-like so: "Market mall in another storm. 75 cents in cart money and 11 cents from food court. Griffin for carts. Karen for court"
+ Griffin and Karen's $1.45 (!!!!!) from five carts and two bottles
+ Karen's 4 cents from a pay phone and three on the floor of the St. Albert Starbucks
+ Stacey's community effort of $1.25 a-like so: "well, in honor of Ella's father we walked away from thirty cents after seeing a movie today. had I had my trusty reusable bag on hand they would have been ours. however Mrs.H. and family didn't shy away from this opportunity and found 8 bottles, much to her boys' excitement but to her husband's embarrassment. Amy's mom Lin found a penny on the way to the washroom at Moxie's for us :). our neighbour of days passed donated 24 cents from her Norwex order change
and 10 cents from Mrs. Q who couldn't find a recycle bin so I offered to recycle it for her :) found dr.pepper on dog walk - 10 cents
+ Larry's 1 cents from Beer-o-clock Friday!
+ Sandy's 1 cent from somebody's shoe while camping
+ Sandy and Sig's 20 cents from 2 pop bottles
+ Karen's 10 cents on the step at her friend's house
+ Karen's 1 cent at the Dangerousway
+ Stacey's 1 shiny penny in the grass
+ Sandy's 26 cents from a penny found somewhere and a cart
+ Sandy and Sig's $2.20 (!!!!!) a-like so: "4 safeway carts and one loonie STUCK in a super store cart! someone had plugged in the cart, but given up on getting the dollar unstuck!! not me baby. plus!! then we had to go to the bank, and outside they were having a free hotdog BBQ to say thank you for your service.. so hot dogs in hand, they hand us each a can of pop!! so 20 more cents for 2 cans."
+ Karen's 1 cent at the Coop.
+ Sandy and Sig's 10 cents from an apple juice container
+ Stacey, Larry and Ella's 66 cents from a free chocolate milk and 55 cents left on a calling card Stacey found on the ground. we don't care if Larry objects. the 55 cents counts.
+ Karen's 3 cents under a campground pay phone
+ Karen's 25 cents outside the corner store
+ Kim and Sandy's 95 cents a-like so: "7 beer/pop/water cans and one 2 litre sprite bottle, all in the ditches along the roads by Sandy and Sig's house.
+ Kim and Sandy's 1 cent at the Tims downtown Edmonton
+ Stacey and Ella's 30 cents from life-risking bottle pickups and dog walks on Canada Day
+ Stu's nickel at the Sev.
+ Kimmy and Stu's 43 cents. it's on my desk. i have no idea where it all came from. cause i didn't report. so, 43 cents from... somewhere.
For a total this (more than a) week of $11.02 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our grand total is now:
$268.43!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$162.72 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
The Famous MS Nickel!
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!!!
Volume 6, 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!
*When trying to load the millions of bits of paper in your office onto the digital picture frame you bought on sale at London Drugs, make sure you find out how to reformat your pictures so they will play before you cut it to bits with your chainsaw arm and throw the thing out the window into the garden. To this end, obtain a Mac Guru (who you refer to as "Dear Free Tech Support") and let him talk you off the ledge. Enjoy the new picture frame freely!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q: Given that Sandy's money pot now weighs over 8 pounds, if you suffer from back strain from lifting the pot of found money, will it be covered by workwomen's compensation?
A: That depends entirely on the number and brand of chainsaw arms found on the jar. If the jar has two Stihl brand chainsaw arms and someone tries to lift it, knowing that the chainsaw arms will increase the weight of the jar, then the injured person is not eligible for Workman's Compensation.
3] General News!
* It's a slow week, kids, but don't despair. Take Ella's advice: "Oma! Eyes to the ground!!" And actually, this week's report only encompasses 3 days so I think it'll be better next week.
4] Last week's total!
* We started the week with (give or take) $250.86
5] Money reported this week!
+ Kim's 7 pennies from random parking lots and Dangerousway stores. 4 of them were lined up in a bread crumb sort of way, as though luring me into the grocery store.
+ Stu's 36 cents (!!!). 25 cents from the ticket spitter, a penny at the pub, and a dime on the street outside the shop
+ Karen's 9 cents (!!!!!) following her goddaughter Katie around downtown Toronto. Katie loved our idea so much she started randomly flinging pennies to the ground for Karen to "find".
+ Karen's 1 penny on Queen Street, Toronto
+ Karen's 1 penny on Yonge Street, Toronto
+ Karen's 8 cents (!!!!!!) at Union Station, Toronto. she postulates that it's because there's a food court in there.
+ Karen's 2 cents on King Street, Toronto. [Editor's note: Toronto is the goldmine Vegas never was!!!] she had to wait for two teenagers to get on the bus so she could grab them from under their feet.
+ Sandy's $1.15 (!!!!!) from some cans at a Standardized Patient gig and a cart. yay!
For a total this week of $1.79 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our grand total is now:
$252.65!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$146.94 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Volume 6, 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!
*When trying to load the millions of bits of paper in your office onto the digital picture frame you bought on sale at London Drugs, make sure you find out how to reformat your pictures so they will play before you cut it to bits with your chainsaw arm and throw the thing out the window into the garden. To this end, obtain a Mac Guru (who you refer to as "Dear Free Tech Support") and let him talk you off the ledge. Enjoy the new picture frame freely!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q: Given that Sandy's money pot now weighs over 8 pounds, if you suffer from back strain from lifting the pot of found money, will it be covered by workwomen's compensation?
A: That depends entirely on the number and brand of chainsaw arms found on the jar. If the jar has two Stihl brand chainsaw arms and someone tries to lift it, knowing that the chainsaw arms will increase the weight of the jar, then the injured person is not eligible for Workman's Compensation.
3] General News!
* It's a slow week, kids, but don't despair. Take Ella's advice: "Oma! Eyes to the ground!!" And actually, this week's report only encompasses 3 days so I think it'll be better next week.
4] Last week's total!
* We started the week with (give or take) $250.86
5] Money reported this week!
+ Kim's 7 pennies from random parking lots and Dangerousway stores. 4 of them were lined up in a bread crumb sort of way, as though luring me into the grocery store.
+ Stu's 36 cents (!!!). 25 cents from the ticket spitter, a penny at the pub, and a dime on the street outside the shop
+ Karen's 9 cents (!!!!!) following her goddaughter Katie around downtown Toronto. Katie loved our idea so much she started randomly flinging pennies to the ground for Karen to "find".
+ Karen's 1 penny on Queen Street, Toronto
+ Karen's 1 penny on Yonge Street, Toronto
+ Karen's 8 cents (!!!!!!) at Union Station, Toronto. she postulates that it's because there's a food court in there.
+ Karen's 2 cents on King Street, Toronto. [Editor's note: Toronto is the goldmine Vegas never was!!!] she had to wait for two teenagers to get on the bus so she could grab them from under their feet.
+ Sandy's $1.15 (!!!!!) from some cans at a Standardized Patient gig and a cart. yay!
For a total this week of $1.79 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our grand total is now:
$252.65!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$146.94 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!!!
Volume 6, Number 1
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!
To remove suddenly-appearing strange children on bicycles from your back yard, call the landlords and have them evicted by making up stories about how they're stealing your asparagus. Erect a large, electrified fence. Next, confiscate the basketballs and bike helmets they leave lying around in your garden and refuse to give them back, thus earning yourself the noble title, "That Mean Old Lady Next Door". Next, play Barry Manilow's greatest hits on repeat from a CD player strategically pointed at the house. If all of that fails, try the old "Get off my lawn!" tactic. [Editor's note: only the last technique has actually been applied to the problem.]
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q: The Bat Boy from Baseline Burger Barn asks, "Why is this report so late again?"
A: Because, like, um.
Q: "Ah."
3] General News!
Described as a mysterious mix of chiroptera and human, Bat Boy is a regular character appearing in the pages of the veracity-challenged tabloid Weekly World News, as well as the subject of the theatrical production Bat Boy: The Musical. In 1992 the tabloid reported that a strange creature called the Bat Boy had been found in a cave in the mountains of West Virginia. At the time he was described as being three or four years old, with fangs, a bald head, "enormous amber eyes" and ears "like satellite dishes." Since then Bat Boy has appeared many times in the pages of the Weekly World News, most recently as a thorn in the side of Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. Bat Boy's popularity helped launch a musical, which debuted off-Broadway in 2001 and has been described as a cross between My Fair Lady andThe Rocky Horror Picture Show.
4] Last week's total!
* We started the week with (give or take) $241.05
5] Money reported this week!
+ Karen's 11 cents from a beer can at the Vipers' game and a penny at Dangerousway
+ Sandy and Sig's $2.42 a-like so: "4 safeway carts, went to the varscona to a play tonight and found 2 pennies and one quarter near the door. a dime AND a quarter on the floor of safeways while actually insided and buying milk! 7 cans. (3 from the fake patient thing, two in the ditch possible someone new.. canadian this time, and 2 from inside the varscona)
+ Sandy's $3.05 (!!!!!!!!!!!!) a-like so: "so there I was, being a liver, and at the break, I was telling the lady who runs the fake patient thing, about finding money and no money xmas. and safeway carts, and found pop cans.. at the end of the day, she hands me a bag full of all the cans and bottles from lunch! plus one safeway cart on the way home.
+ Sandy's 10 cents: "a ROOT BEER can???? in the ditch here? what the hell, has he become a reformed drinker?
+ Karen's 12 cents a-like so: "A dime and two pennies at the south centre mall food court proving my theory that mall food courts are gold mines"
+ Karen's 1 cent from some parking lot
+ Karen's 26 cents from a penny and a Dangerousway cart (on a +27 degree day)
+ Kim's 1 Yankee Cent a-like so: "i found a total of ONE PENNY in Vegas and it was in my room! it had been half vaccuumed under the lip between the carpet and the bathroom. i had to dig it out. no other money anywhere"
+ Karen's 26 cents a-like so: "Another cart quarter and another penny! Yay dangerous way!"
+ Karen's 11 cents (a dime from the Dangeroussay and a penny from the SEV.)
+ Ella and Sandy's $3.26 (!!!!!!!!) a-like so: "AND.. today I found a quarter in a safeway cart, A LOONIE IN A ZELLERS CART, the picked up ella from school, and we went through the drive through at macdonalds. this from a 5 year old: "OMA!!! eyes to the ground!" so opened the door, and ella is yelling "A PENNY! A PENNY!" but there was also a quarter!!"
+ Stu's 10 cents from down the street.
For a total this week of $9.81 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our grand total is now:
$250.86!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$145.15 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Volume 6, Number 1
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!
To remove suddenly-appearing strange children on bicycles from your back yard, call the landlords and have them evicted by making up stories about how they're stealing your asparagus. Erect a large, electrified fence. Next, confiscate the basketballs and bike helmets they leave lying around in your garden and refuse to give them back, thus earning yourself the noble title, "That Mean Old Lady Next Door". Next, play Barry Manilow's greatest hits on repeat from a CD player strategically pointed at the house. If all of that fails, try the old "Get off my lawn!" tactic. [Editor's note: only the last technique has actually been applied to the problem.]
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q: The Bat Boy from Baseline Burger Barn asks, "Why is this report so late again?"
A: Because, like, um.
Q: "Ah."
3] General News!
Described as a mysterious mix of chiroptera and human, Bat Boy is a regular character appearing in the pages of the veracity-challenged tabloid Weekly World News, as well as the subject of the theatrical production Bat Boy: The Musical. In 1992 the tabloid reported that a strange creature called the Bat Boy had been found in a cave in the mountains of West Virginia. At the time he was described as being three or four years old, with fangs, a bald head, "enormous amber eyes" and ears "like satellite dishes." Since then Bat Boy has appeared many times in the pages of the Weekly World News, most recently as a thorn in the side of Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. Bat Boy's popularity helped launch a musical, which debuted off-Broadway in 2001 and has been described as a cross between My Fair Lady andThe Rocky Horror Picture Show.
4] Last week's total!
* We started the week with (give or take) $241.05
5] Money reported this week!
+ Karen's 11 cents from a beer can at the Vipers' game and a penny at Dangerousway
+ Sandy and Sig's $2.42 a-like so: "4 safeway carts, went to the varscona to a play tonight and found 2 pennies and one quarter near the door. a dime AND a quarter on the floor of safeways while actually insided and buying milk! 7 cans. (3 from the fake patient thing, two in the ditch possible someone new.. canadian this time, and 2 from inside the varscona)
+ Sandy's $3.05 (!!!!!!!!!!!!) a-like so: "so there I was, being a liver, and at the break, I was telling the lady who runs the fake patient thing, about finding money and no money xmas. and safeway carts, and found pop cans.. at the end of the day, she hands me a bag full of all the cans and bottles from lunch! plus one safeway cart on the way home.
+ Sandy's 10 cents: "a ROOT BEER can???? in the ditch here? what the hell, has he become a reformed drinker?
+ Karen's 12 cents a-like so: "A dime and two pennies at the south centre mall food court proving my theory that mall food courts are gold mines"
+ Karen's 1 cent from some parking lot
+ Karen's 26 cents from a penny and a Dangerousway cart (on a +27 degree day)
+ Kim's 1 Yankee Cent a-like so: "i found a total of ONE PENNY in Vegas and it was in my room! it had been half vaccuumed under the lip between the carpet and the bathroom. i had to dig it out. no other money anywhere"
+ Karen's 26 cents a-like so: "Another cart quarter and another penny! Yay dangerous way!"
+ Karen's 11 cents (a dime from the Dangeroussay and a penny from the SEV.)
+ Ella and Sandy's $3.26 (!!!!!!!!) a-like so: "AND.. today I found a quarter in a safeway cart, A LOONIE IN A ZELLERS CART, the picked up ella from school, and we went through the drive through at macdonalds. this from a 5 year old: "OMA!!! eyes to the ground!" so opened the door, and ella is yelling "A PENNY! A PENNY!" but there was also a quarter!!"
+ Stu's 10 cents from down the street.
For a total this week of $9.81 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our grand total is now:
$250.86!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$145.15 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!!!
Volume 5, 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!
How to Build an Ark!
Obtain a large quantity of gopherwood. If gopherwood is not available, substitute common cypress, noted in the Mediterranean for its resistance to rotting. Begin gathering animals to carry in the ark. Start with pack animals, which will make it easier to haul in the necessary gopherwood. Prepare a framework on which to attach the outer hull, planking and decking. Framework dimensions are 300 cubits (450 feet) long by 50 cubits (75 feet) wide by 30 cubits (45 feet) high. Attach planking for the outer hull, placing a door in the side to make it easier to load the animals into the ark. Also attach decking and two subdecks, dividing the ark into upper, middle and lower levels. Divide the floors into rooms to keep the animals separated and provide separate space for the human crew. Secure the galley so that hungry animals can't break in and eat more than their share. Make a roofed cabin for the upper deck and finish the ark to within a cubit (18 inches) from the top. Coat the hull inside and out with pitch to seal any gaps between the planks and protect the wood. Apply several coats, as the ark must withstand forty days and nights of rain, plus another 110 days of ocean travel and another 7 months of sitting in mud on Mount Ararat.
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q: Karen from Calgary asks, "how much does the human head weigh?"
A: With or without a Chainsaw Arm?
Q: "With."
A: Okay, well, an adult human cadaver head cut off around vertebra C3, with no hair, weighs somewhere between 4.5 and 5 kg, constituting around 8% of the whole body mass. BUT with a chainsaw arm attached to vertebra C3, it would weigh approximately 14 kg, depending on the brand of chainsaw one attached to it. Since the Terminator's head weighs 20 kg all on its own, if one added a chainsaw arm to the Terminator's head (again, depending on the brand of chainsaw and given the head was from the T-800 series and not the T-1000 series as the T-1000 series' heads are lighter with less bad acting and big sunglasses), the total weight would be between 24 and 30 kg. We hope that answers your question, Karen from Calgary, and thanks for writing!
3] General News!
Weekly Found Money Report Late Because of Influence of Space Alien Bat Boy!
The Weekly Found Money Report is late this week, we can reveal, because of the evil influence of the Space Alien Bat Boy. Sources say that the Bat Boy has been influencing the cosmos by wearing a tinfoil hat and channelling his Space Alien Energies into making the Weekly Found Money Report late. "The Weekly Found Money Report is late this week," said the source, "because the Space Alien Bat Boy has fashioned a tinfoil hat which reportedly channels his Space Alien Energies." The source added that the Bat boy Energies were responsible for the lateness of this week's report and that Kimmy was not to be blamed in any way for the lateness of the Report. "We must be careful not to blame Kimmy in any way for not getting her poop in a group and getting the Report out on time. The Space Alien Bat Boy has been using his tinfoil hat to channel his Space Alien Bat Boy Energies into making the Report late."
4] Last week's total!
* We started the week with (give or take) $231.89
5] Money reported this week!
+ Sandy's 10 cents from "one measly water bottle." MOM! every measly water bottle counts!
+ Karen's $1.28 haul (!!!!!!!!) a-like so: "Very good trip to the mall yesterday. A penny at home depot. 2 pennies in the gold mine food court. One safeway cart quarter and a LOONIE on the floor at the shoppers drug mart cosmetic counter!"
+ Sandy's 25 cents from "one measly cart". i think she's beginning to form an unnatural attachment to the word "measly".
+ Karen's 4 cents at Tim's drive-thru
+ Karen's 4 cents a-like so: "2 pennies at the newspaper smoke shop at the north hill mall. God I love this mall! Then 2 more at safeway and one of those was at the great florist counter!
+ Sandy's 25 from "one measly cart". there's that "M" word again!
+ Kim's 25 cents from the floor of the pub. i told a guy who was standing next to where i found it what we were doing, and then THIS happened:
+ Kim's $2.25 from a guy called Oliver who i've never met! he heard what i was doing, and "accidentally" dropped $2.25 on the floor and said, "Oh no! Look! I dropped my money! Now I guess it will have to go to charity!" i thanked him like mad!
+ Griffin and Cam's 60 cents (2 carts and a can)
+ Sandy and Sig's 55 cents from two bottles, a Dangerousway cart and a Lucky Lager (old faithful) can
+ Karen's 2 cents from the ticket spitter and the print shop
+ Stacey and Ella's $2.41 !!!!!!!!!!!! from all kinds of carts and bottles and the help of Vi!!!
+ Sandy's 50 cents all from beer cans in the ditch
+ Sandy and Sig's 62 cents (2 Safeway carts + one water bottle + a penny at the bank + one penny at Eastgate mall.
For a total this week of $9.16 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our grand total is now:
$241.05!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$135.34 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Volume 5, 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!
How to Build an Ark!
In case you need to build one, here are the instructions:
Obtain a large quantity of gopherwood. If gopherwood is not available, substitute common cypress, noted in the Mediterranean for its resistance to rotting. Begin gathering animals to carry in the ark. Start with pack animals, which will make it easier to haul in the necessary gopherwood. Prepare a framework on which to attach the outer hull, planking and decking. Framework dimensions are 300 cubits (450 feet) long by 50 cubits (75 feet) wide by 30 cubits (45 feet) high. Attach planking for the outer hull, placing a door in the side to make it easier to load the animals into the ark. Also attach decking and two subdecks, dividing the ark into upper, middle and lower levels. Divide the floors into rooms to keep the animals separated and provide separate space for the human crew. Secure the galley so that hungry animals can't break in and eat more than their share. Make a roofed cabin for the upper deck and finish the ark to within a cubit (18 inches) from the top. Coat the hull inside and out with pitch to seal any gaps between the planks and protect the wood. Apply several coats, as the ark must withstand forty days and nights of rain, plus another 110 days of ocean travel and another 7 months of sitting in mud on Mount Ararat.
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q: Karen from Calgary asks, "how much does the human head weigh?"
A: With or without a Chainsaw Arm?
Q: "With."
A: Okay, well, an adult human cadaver head cut off around vertebra C3, with no hair, weighs somewhere between 4.5 and 5 kg, constituting around 8% of the whole body mass. BUT with a chainsaw arm attached to vertebra C3, it would weigh approximately 14 kg, depending on the brand of chainsaw one attached to it. Since the Terminator's head weighs 20 kg all on its own, if one added a chainsaw arm to the Terminator's head (again, depending on the brand of chainsaw and given the head was from the T-800 series and not the T-1000 series as the T-1000 series' heads are lighter with less bad acting and big sunglasses), the total weight would be between 24 and 30 kg. We hope that answers your question, Karen from Calgary, and thanks for writing!
3] General News!
Weekly Found Money Report Late Because of Influence of Space Alien Bat Boy!
The Weekly Found Money Report is late this week, we can reveal, because of the evil influence of the Space Alien Bat Boy. Sources say that the Bat Boy has been influencing the cosmos by wearing a tinfoil hat and channelling his Space Alien Energies into making the Weekly Found Money Report late. "The Weekly Found Money Report is late this week," said the source, "because the Space Alien Bat Boy has fashioned a tinfoil hat which reportedly channels his Space Alien Energies." The source added that the Bat boy Energies were responsible for the lateness of this week's report and that Kimmy was not to be blamed in any way for the lateness of the Report. "We must be careful not to blame Kimmy in any way for not getting her poop in a group and getting the Report out on time. The Space Alien Bat Boy has been using his tinfoil hat to channel his Space Alien Bat Boy Energies into making the Report late."
4] Last week's total!
* We started the week with (give or take) $231.89
5] Money reported this week!
+ Sandy's 10 cents from "one measly water bottle." MOM! every measly water bottle counts!
+ Karen's $1.28 haul (!!!!!!!!) a-like so: "Very good trip to the mall yesterday. A penny at home depot. 2 pennies in the gold mine food court. One safeway cart quarter and a LOONIE on the floor at the shoppers drug mart cosmetic counter!"
+ Sandy's 25 cents from "one measly cart". i think she's beginning to form an unnatural attachment to the word "measly".
+ Karen's 4 cents at Tim's drive-thru
+ Karen's 4 cents a-like so: "2 pennies at the newspaper smoke shop at the north hill mall. God I love this mall! Then 2 more at safeway and one of those was at the great florist counter!
+ Sandy's 25 from "one measly cart". there's that "M" word again!
+ Kim's 25 cents from the floor of the pub. i told a guy who was standing next to where i found it what we were doing, and then THIS happened:
+ Kim's $2.25 from a guy called Oliver who i've never met! he heard what i was doing, and "accidentally" dropped $2.25 on the floor and said, "Oh no! Look! I dropped my money! Now I guess it will have to go to charity!" i thanked him like mad!
+ Griffin and Cam's 60 cents (2 carts and a can)
+ Sandy and Sig's 55 cents from two bottles, a Dangerousway cart and a Lucky Lager (old faithful) can
+ Karen's 2 cents from the ticket spitter and the print shop
+ Stacey and Ella's $2.41 !!!!!!!!!!!! from all kinds of carts and bottles and the help of Vi!!!
+ Sandy's 50 cents all from beer cans in the ditch
+ Sandy and Sig's 62 cents (2 Safeway carts + one water bottle + a penny at the bank + one penny at Eastgate mall.
For a total this week of $9.16 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our grand total is now:
$241.05!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$135.34 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!
Volume 5, Number 3
IN THIS ISSUE:
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
3] General News!
4] Last week's total!
5] Money reported this week!
6] Grand total to date!
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
How to Make a Chainsaw Arm!
Bruce Campbell made chainsaw arms famous in his portrayal of Ash Williams in the Sam Raimi action-horror movie classics “Evil Dead,” “Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn” and “Army of Darkness.” In the films, Bruce Campbell sports a chainsaw over his stump of an arm and wields it into a zombie-ridden crowd. Read on to find out how to make your own chainsaw arm to fight zombies during Halloween!
1. Decide which arm you want to have your chainsaw arm.
2. Apply a generous amount of glue to the top side of the glove.
3. Attach the underside of your toy chainsaw handle to the topside of the glove.
4. Press with heavy books to keep the glue and chainsaw close and allow the glue to fully adhere.
5. Let dry for at least 1 hour.
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q: How do earthworms digest their food?
A: Since it has no jaws or teeth, the earthworm uses its muscular pharynx to suck in soil containing food. The food particles and soil go through a long esophagus into a round organ called a crop. Then it is forced into the gizzard. The gizzard contracts and expands, causing grains of sand and food to rub together. In this way, the food is ground up. Digestion is made significantly more easy if the worm has at least one chainsaw arm.
Q: Ah.
3] General News!
Bat Boy Found In Cave Making Space Alien Luring Chainsaw Arms to Lure Space Aliens to his Lair, says source. A source has revealed to The Weekly Found $$$ Report that the famous Bat Boy of Baseline Burger Barn has been found making Space Alien Luring Chainsaw Arms to lure Space Aliens to his Lair. His reasoning is unclear. "We're not clear about his reasoning," said the source, "but we know that he's been making several Space Alien Luring Chainsaw Arms to lure Space Aliens to his Lair." The source also revealed that there was not just one but several Space Alien Luring Chainsaw Arms being constructed but that the Bat Boy's reasoning is still unclear. "The Bat Boy's reasoning is still somewhat unclear," revealed the source, adding that several of the mysterious Space Alien Luring Chainsaw Arms had been constructed by the Bat Boy for an unclear reason other than to lure Space Aliens to his Lair.
4] Last week's total!
* We started the week with (give or take) $223.01
5] Money reported this week!
+ Kimmy's 25 cents from a Dangerousway cart found in the cart thingy while walking through the parking lot on her way to the pub to play pool with the Writer in Residence.
+ Sandy and Sig's $1.70 a-like so: 6 safeway carts. (on a lovely day in the middle of the afternoon) and one water bottle and one old faithful lucky lager in my ditch!! My apologies! This should have been in last week's report!!!!!!
+ Sandy's 25 cents (every one counts) from one cart even though it was SNOWING.
+ Sandy's 75 cents (it was -1 so she thought it should have been more but that's a pretty good haul!)
+ Kim's 1 cent at Stu's pub under the foot of the visiting Writer in Residence. he stepped off it to play his turn at the pool table, and i nabbed it!
+ Karen's TOONIE!!!! at the florist counter at the Dangerousway!
+ Kim's 10 cents in the College parking lot
+ Sandy's $1.00 from driving around Dangerousway lots when she was supposed to be racing home with Sig's prescriptions. as she says, "i know. i'm a rotten wife."
+ Sandy's 10 cents from one bottle somewhere
+ Karen's 22 cents from 2 cans and 2 pennies outside the school yard on a dog walk.
+ Sandy and Sig's $1.75 a-like so: "loooooonnnniiieeeeee AT SUPER STORE!!!! one safeway cart and five drink containers in the ditch. one dr, pepper, one "monster energy drink", and two lucky lager (old faithful)"
+ Sandy's 50 cents from 4 bottles and a lucky lager can in the ditch. (those teenagers shore do drink a heap o' Lucky Lager in mom's ditch!)
+ Sandy's 25 from one "measly" Dangerousway cart. Mother! Every One Counts!
For a total this week of $8.88 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our grand total is now:
$231.89!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$126.18 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Volume 5, 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!
How to Make a Chainsaw Arm!
Bruce Campbell made chainsaw arms famous in his portrayal of Ash Williams in the Sam Raimi action-horror movie classics “Evil Dead,” “Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn” and “Army of Darkness.” In the films, Bruce Campbell sports a chainsaw over his stump of an arm and wields it into a zombie-ridden crowd. Read on to find out how to make your own chainsaw arm to fight zombies during Halloween!
1. Decide which arm you want to have your chainsaw arm.
2. Apply a generous amount of glue to the top side of the glove.
3. Attach the underside of your toy chainsaw handle to the topside of the glove.
4. Press with heavy books to keep the glue and chainsaw close and allow the glue to fully adhere.
5. Let dry for at least 1 hour.
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q: How do earthworms digest their food?
A: Since it has no jaws or teeth, the earthworm uses its muscular pharynx to suck in soil containing food. The food particles and soil go through a long esophagus into a round organ called a crop. Then it is forced into the gizzard. The gizzard contracts and expands, causing grains of sand and food to rub together. In this way, the food is ground up. Digestion is made significantly more easy if the worm has at least one chainsaw arm.
Q: Ah.
3] General News!
Bat Boy Found In Cave Making Space Alien Luring Chainsaw Arms to Lure Space Aliens to his Lair, says source. A source has revealed to The Weekly Found $$$ Report that the famous Bat Boy of Baseline Burger Barn has been found making Space Alien Luring Chainsaw Arms to lure Space Aliens to his Lair. His reasoning is unclear. "We're not clear about his reasoning," said the source, "but we know that he's been making several Space Alien Luring Chainsaw Arms to lure Space Aliens to his Lair." The source also revealed that there was not just one but several Space Alien Luring Chainsaw Arms being constructed but that the Bat Boy's reasoning is still unclear. "The Bat Boy's reasoning is still somewhat unclear," revealed the source, adding that several of the mysterious Space Alien Luring Chainsaw Arms had been constructed by the Bat Boy for an unclear reason other than to lure Space Aliens to his Lair.
4] Last week's total!
* We started the week with (give or take) $223.01
5] Money reported this week!
+ Kimmy's 25 cents from a Dangerousway cart found in the cart thingy while walking through the parking lot on her way to the pub to play pool with the Writer in Residence.
+ Sandy and Sig's $1.70 a-like so: 6 safeway carts. (on a lovely day in the middle of the afternoon) and one water bottle and one old faithful lucky lager in my ditch!! My apologies! This should have been in last week's report!!!!!!
+ Sandy's 25 cents (every one counts) from one cart even though it was SNOWING.
+ Sandy's 75 cents (it was -1 so she thought it should have been more but that's a pretty good haul!)
+ Kim's 1 cent at Stu's pub under the foot of the visiting Writer in Residence. he stepped off it to play his turn at the pool table, and i nabbed it!
+ Karen's TOONIE!!!! at the florist counter at the Dangerousway!
+ Kim's 10 cents in the College parking lot
+ Sandy's $1.00 from driving around Dangerousway lots when she was supposed to be racing home with Sig's prescriptions. as she says, "i know. i'm a rotten wife."
+ Sandy's 10 cents from one bottle somewhere
+ Karen's 22 cents from 2 cans and 2 pennies outside the school yard on a dog walk.
+ Sandy and Sig's $1.75 a-like so: "loooooonnnniiieeeeee AT SUPER STORE!!!! one safeway cart and five drink containers in the ditch. one dr, pepper, one "monster energy drink", and two lucky lager (old faithful)"
+ Sandy's 50 cents from 4 bottles and a lucky lager can in the ditch. (those teenagers shore do drink a heap o' Lucky Lager in mom's ditch!)
+ Sandy's 25 from one "measly" Dangerousway cart. Mother! Every One Counts!
For a total this week of $8.88 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our grand total is now:
$231.89!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$126.18 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Monday, May 11, 2009
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!
Volume 5, 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!
* To remove blood stains, follow this procedure. This may be difficult for use in large areas.
Gather some spit in your mouth.
Spit on the blood-stained area.
Rub the stains out.
Rinse with cold water.
The enzymes in spit used to help digest food also degrade the proteins in blood that make it so difficult to clean. This method works well, but it is also recommended to wash with cold water and use stain removers. It works well on not only items of clothing, but on rugs.
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q: How come only Maryann gets all the charity nickels?
A: Cause she's way nicer than the rest of us.
Q: Ah.
3] General News!
* Bat Boy Found in Texas Cave Predicts End Times by Deciphering Snot Patterns on Cave Floor!
4] Last week's total!
* we started the week with (give or take) $221.00
5] Money reported this week!
+ Karen's LOONIE in a One Yellow Rabbit theatre dressing room
+ Karen's 1 cent from the same dressing room
+ Sandy's 10 cents from one pop bottle at NAIT
+ Karen's 1 cent at the Subway
+ Stacey, Ella, and Vi's 80 cents (!!!!) all frm pop cans
+ Karen's 2 cents in the faithful North Hill Mall food court
+ Maryann's 7 cents a-like so: the CNIB sent her a nickel (i really want to know why charities don't send me money) and 2 found pennies
Yes, folks. That's it for the week. Our first fairly slow one. Thank heavens for the people above. Otherwise, we'd have nothing!
For a total this week of $2.01!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our grand total is now:
$223.01!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$117.30 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Volume 5, 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!
* To remove blood stains, follow this procedure. This may be difficult for use in large areas.
Gather some spit in your mouth.
Spit on the blood-stained area.
Rub the stains out.
Rinse with cold water.
The enzymes in spit used to help digest food also degrade the proteins in blood that make it so difficult to clean. This method works well, but it is also recommended to wash with cold water and use stain removers. It works well on not only items of clothing, but on rugs.
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q: How come only Maryann gets all the charity nickels?
A: Cause she's way nicer than the rest of us.
Q: Ah.
3] General News!
* Bat Boy Found in Texas Cave Predicts End Times by Deciphering Snot Patterns on Cave Floor!
4] Last week's total!
* we started the week with (give or take) $221.00
5] Money reported this week!
+ Karen's LOONIE in a One Yellow Rabbit theatre dressing room
+ Karen's 1 cent from the same dressing room
+ Sandy's 10 cents from one pop bottle at NAIT
+ Karen's 1 cent at the Subway
+ Stacey, Ella, and Vi's 80 cents (!!!!) all frm pop cans
+ Karen's 2 cents in the faithful North Hill Mall food court
+ Maryann's 7 cents a-like so: the CNIB sent her a nickel (i really want to know why charities don't send me money) and 2 found pennies
Yes, folks. That's it for the week. Our first fairly slow one. Thank heavens for the people above. Otherwise, we'd have nothing!
For a total this week of $2.01!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our grand total is now:
$223.01!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$117.30 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!
Volume 1, Number 1
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!
* Kim says, Senoirs TOOZday at the Dangerousway looks like it would be a great time for carts no matter what the weather. i was there yesterday (i think it must be the first Tuesday of the month) and i was in a big hurry so i didn't drive around but it looked like there were abaondoned carts everywhere!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q: Why isn't the MS Society sending us nickels anymore?
A: Maybe they've cottoned on to us?
3] General News!
* apparently, Sandy and Sig's neighbourhood is SCTPC (Strathcona County Teenage Party Central), and every day they seem to find more and more beer cans in the ditch! if only those rebellious youngsters knew that their seemingly transgressive activities (they think they're so cool) are actually HELPING people less fortunate than themselves. would they stop or carry on? we should leave a ditch sign for them letting them know what their empties are going toward and see what happens.
4] Last week's total!
Volume 1, Number 1
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!
* Kim says, Senoirs TOOZday at the Dangerousway looks like it would be a great time for carts no matter what the weather. i was there yesterday (i think it must be the first Tuesday of the month) and i was in a big hurry so i didn't drive around but it looked like there were abaondoned carts everywhere!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Q: Why isn't the MS Society sending us nickels anymore?
A: Maybe they've cottoned on to us?
3] General News!
* apparently, Sandy and Sig's neighbourhood is SCTPC (Strathcona County Teenage Party Central), and every day they seem to find more and more beer cans in the ditch! if only those rebellious youngsters knew that their seemingly transgressive activities (they think they're so cool) are actually HELPING people less fortunate than themselves. would they stop or carry on? we should leave a ditch sign for them letting them know what their empties are going toward and see what happens.
4] Last week's total!
* we started the week with (give or take) $211.94
5] Money reported this week!
+ Stu's 5 cents from Ol' Faithful (the ticket spitter in the parking lot downtown)
+ Kim's penny from outside City Hall
+ Kim's 25 cents a-like so: "a cart was GIVEN to me yesterday! i was at the Dangerousway buying buns and a guy is just finished putting his groceries in the van. it's snowing like crazy. the guy says "do you need a cart by any chance?" me: "i just might!" knowing full well i DIDN'T. him: "here you go!" me: "but your quarter!" him: "meh..." me: "thank you!" that guy's goin' steeeee-RAIGHT TA HEAVEN."
+ Karen's 10 cents from the theatre box office
+ Sandy and Griffin's 20 cents from 2 bottles
+ Kevin's 3 cents found somewhereorother (Karen's word)
+ Sandy's 85 cents from a pop can and 3 carts in a "circle the wagons" configuration
+ Sig's 10 cents from the floor of the bottle depot. that seems prophetic.
+ Sandy's 25 cents from "one measly cart". mother, EVERY ONE COUNTS!
+ Ella and Stacey's 51 cents from 2 carts and the penny from somewhereorother
+ VI'S $1.26 (!!!!!!!!) FROM A LOONIE IN FRONT OF A CASINO, AND 26 CENTS OUTSIDE HER HOUSE! VI! YOU GO!
+ Sandy's 50 cents from 2 carts
+ Sandy's 60 cents from 2 Dangerousway carts and a pop can
+ Karen's 2 cents from the Husky station and the coffee shop
+ Karen's 11 cents from Starbucks. those Starbucks customers... some of them are so rich, they don't even CARE that they dropped 11 cents!
+ Karen's 2 cents: one at the Auburn and one at Dangerousway
+ Sandy's 20 cents from 2 pop cans at Corbett Hall
+ Sandy and Sig's $1.15 (!!!!!!!) a-like so: "only one safeway cart!! 25 cents.. BUT a total of 90 cents of pop bottles.. whoever drinks and throws on our road has switched brands.. from lucky lager, to brew house."
+ Sandy and Sig's $1.15 (!!!!!!) found exactly the same way as above!
+ Sandy's 85 cents from 3 Dangerousway carts and a pop bottle
+ Sandy and Sig's 85 cents found exactly the same way as above! do those two have a daily pattern?
For a total this week of $9.06
Our grand total is now:
$221.00!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$115.29 is currently in the Charity Fund.
5] Money reported this week!
+ Stu's 5 cents from Ol' Faithful (the ticket spitter in the parking lot downtown)
+ Kim's penny from outside City Hall
+ Kim's 25 cents a-like so: "a cart was GIVEN to me yesterday! i was at the Dangerousway buying buns and a guy is just finished putting his groceries in the van. it's snowing like crazy. the guy says "do you need a cart by any chance?" me: "i just might!" knowing full well i DIDN'T. him: "here you go!" me: "but your quarter!" him: "meh..." me: "thank you!" that guy's goin' steeeee-RAIGHT TA HEAVEN."
+ Karen's 10 cents from the theatre box office
+ Sandy and Griffin's 20 cents from 2 bottles
+ Kevin's 3 cents found somewhereorother (Karen's word)
+ Sandy's 85 cents from a pop can and 3 carts in a "circle the wagons" configuration
+ Sig's 10 cents from the floor of the bottle depot. that seems prophetic.
+ Sandy's 25 cents from "one measly cart". mother, EVERY ONE COUNTS!
+ Ella and Stacey's 51 cents from 2 carts and the penny from somewhereorother
+ VI'S $1.26 (!!!!!!!!) FROM A LOONIE IN FRONT OF A CASINO, AND 26 CENTS OUTSIDE HER HOUSE! VI! YOU GO!
+ Sandy's 50 cents from 2 carts
+ Sandy's 60 cents from 2 Dangerousway carts and a pop can
+ Karen's 2 cents from the Husky station and the coffee shop
+ Karen's 11 cents from Starbucks. those Starbucks customers... some of them are so rich, they don't even CARE that they dropped 11 cents!
+ Karen's 2 cents: one at the Auburn and one at Dangerousway
+ Sandy's 20 cents from 2 pop cans at Corbett Hall
+ Sandy and Sig's $1.15 (!!!!!!!) a-like so: "only one safeway cart!! 25 cents.. BUT a total of 90 cents of pop bottles.. whoever drinks and throws on our road has switched brands.. from lucky lager, to brew house."
+ Sandy and Sig's $1.15 (!!!!!!) found exactly the same way as above!
+ Sandy's 85 cents from 3 Dangerousway carts and a pop bottle
+ Sandy and Sig's 85 cents found exactly the same way as above! do those two have a daily pattern?
For a total this week of $9.06
Our grand total is now:
$221.00!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$115.29 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$ Report!!! for 26 April
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!
Volume 4, 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!
*Sandy's fear that the carts may dry up in good weather may be true. however, i remain convinced that timing is everything. on a very busy Saturday afternoon before the big game, the Buggy Boys are too busy bagging tortilla chips to be outside putting away carts!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
3] General News!
*the newsletter was missing last week (you may have noticed) for various reasons, not the least of which was that it was a very slow week in the money-finding department. there was sweet little to report!
*the Charity Fund has surpassed the Xmas Dinner Fund! see below.
4] Last week's total!
* we started the week with (give or take) $205.52
5] Money reported this week!
+ Stacey and Ella's 30 cents (3 cans pilfered from various locales including the car repair shop)
+ Karen's 10 cents at Starbucks
+ Sandy's 10 cents from a FRUZZ bottle (whatever that is!)
+ Sandy and Sig's $3.05 a-like so: "proof positive, that students who use corbett hall are not in fact very environment friendly! The also like vodka...All these were in front on my car when I parked there today! total of these bottles. $1.05. then tonight we went out for a pizza, and found 2 quarters at safeways, 4!!! at London drug, and 5 juice bottles, for a further total of $2.00.
+ Karen and Kevin's 11 cents a-like so: "I have high hopes that vegas will provide so much money, but after our first day here, no such luck.
However, this morning at the calgary airport: 1 penny at Tim's, and a dime at starbucks"
+ Karen's 2 cents: "Found my first 2 Vegas coins. 2 pennies at starbucks". comforting to know that wherever we go, there are Starbucks...
+ Kevin's 1 cent from the Paris hotel buffet in Vegas
+ Karen's 1 cent from the casino floor at the Paris hotel
+ Karen's 10 cents a-like so: "A dime on the floor of the cab I am in now and damn rights I took it cuz he's making 'eh' jokes." damn rights, i sez too!
+ Karen's 1 cent from the airport kiosk. Vegas was not the goldmine we all imagined it would be...
+ Sandy's 60 cents from 6 juice boxes left at the University
+ Sandy and Sig's 40 cents a-like so: "just went out to montana's for supper,, spent $70.. way too overpriced.. picked up 4 beer cans on the way home. 40 cents.. sig says something is wrong with this picture.. I disagree"
+ Sandy's $1.60 a-like so: "things are looking slightly up. 4 safeway carts and 6 pop bottles."
+ Kim's 1 cent from the pub parking lot.
For a total this week of $6.42
Our grand total is now:
$211.94!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$106.23 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Volume 4, 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!
*Sandy's fear that the carts may dry up in good weather may be true. however, i remain convinced that timing is everything. on a very busy Saturday afternoon before the big game, the Buggy Boys are too busy bagging tortilla chips to be outside putting away carts!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
3] General News!
*the newsletter was missing last week (you may have noticed) for various reasons, not the least of which was that it was a very slow week in the money-finding department. there was sweet little to report!
*the Charity Fund has surpassed the Xmas Dinner Fund! see below.
4] Last week's total!
* we started the week with (give or take) $205.52
5] Money reported this week!
+ Stacey and Ella's 30 cents (3 cans pilfered from various locales including the car repair shop)
+ Karen's 10 cents at Starbucks
+ Sandy's 10 cents from a FRUZZ bottle (whatever that is!)
+ Sandy and Sig's $3.05 a-like so: "proof positive, that students who use corbett hall are not in fact very environment friendly! The also like vodka...All these were in front on my car when I parked there today! total of these bottles. $1.05. then tonight we went out for a pizza, and found 2 quarters at safeways, 4!!! at London drug, and 5 juice bottles, for a further total of $2.00.
+ Karen and Kevin's 11 cents a-like so: "I have high hopes that vegas will provide so much money, but after our first day here, no such luck.
However, this morning at the calgary airport: 1 penny at Tim's, and a dime at starbucks"
+ Karen's 2 cents: "Found my first 2 Vegas coins. 2 pennies at starbucks". comforting to know that wherever we go, there are Starbucks...
+ Kevin's 1 cent from the Paris hotel buffet in Vegas
+ Karen's 1 cent from the casino floor at the Paris hotel
+ Karen's 10 cents a-like so: "A dime on the floor of the cab I am in now and damn rights I took it cuz he's making 'eh' jokes." damn rights, i sez too!
+ Karen's 1 cent from the airport kiosk. Vegas was not the goldmine we all imagined it would be...
+ Sandy's 60 cents from 6 juice boxes left at the University
+ Sandy and Sig's 40 cents a-like so: "just went out to montana's for supper,, spent $70.. way too overpriced.. picked up 4 beer cans on the way home. 40 cents.. sig says something is wrong with this picture.. I disagree"
+ Sandy's $1.60 a-like so: "things are looking slightly up. 4 safeway carts and 6 pop bottles."
+ Kim's 1 cent from the pub parking lot.
For a total this week of $6.42
Our grand total is now:
$211.94!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$106.23 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Bent money!!!
Unopened Booze Scavengers Backwards "R" Us!
Sandy and Sig are the finders of lost, unopened booze. (How does this happen, one wonders...) Sandy wonders whether a bottle of unopened vodka trumps 6 unopened beer in a hypotheitical game of No-$$ Xmas Scavenging Poker. I open it to the floor.
The haul Chez Johnson. While the hockey pucks and unopened beer don't count as money, the empty cans do, and who knows? Maybe someday Ella will be a famous NHL star, and if she signs those pucks, they'll be worth a mint on Ebay!!!



The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!
Volume 4, 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!
* hockey pucks, 7-Eleven bucks, full vodka bottles, and full cases of beer are not technically acceptable, but the beer cans and vodka bottles sure are! i'm not sure i want to taste "Lucky" beer anyway. it sounds... unlucky, somehow.
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
*if money is bent, is it still money? yes! let the teller worry about it. alternately, a sledgehammer could be taken to it prior to rolling.
3] General News!
*people in Jamaica drop money too, but they tend to stand on it so you can't get it! i saw a Canadian nickle under the foot of a Jamaican person at the airport but could not wait to get it. it was in that "no stopping!" zone.
* i apologize for the lateness of this newsletter. Easter and all that.
4] Last week's total!
* we started the week with (give or take) $193.03
5] Money reported this week!
+ Kim's 2 cents (one in the liquor store and one in front of the Blockbusters)
+ Kim's LOONIE (!!!!!!!) from my first abandoned StoopidStore cart found 48 steps from a cart corral.
+ Larry, Stacey, and Ella's $1.32 a-like so: $1 (ten bottles/cans from an extended dog walk), 10 cents from a "pop" can found by ella, 1 cent at walmart by the coin turner toys, another 2 cans and another penny :)
+ Stacey's 10 cents from an abondoned bottle in the hallway
+ Kim's 1 cent on the ground outside the Matchbox theatre
+ Karen's 10 cents from the Husky station
+ Larry, Stacey, and Ella's $5.66 (!!!!!) a-like so: amy's nephew, 4 year old Daemon, found 11 cents at a restaurant for us - the fever of found money spreads! diet dr pepper bottle in parking lot at walmart, just laying in the middle of the road not even driven over - 10 cents. having breakfast with baba found a juice box in denny's parking lot - 10 cents. the three of us went for a slushy spring walk around our skating rink at school and through part of our forest and found...
a shiny new quarter (a tad muddy). 13 empties of a various drinks. 3 hockey pucks. a soggy 7-11 Big Buck. and a 6 pack of unopened 'Lucky' beer stashed away in the woods, now drained down the sink (sorry, buddy who forgot where they were)
1 spring walkabout = $3.55. ella, oma and opa's jaunt about sherwood park yesterday - a wonderfully warm day i might add - 2 carts and a dime = 60 cents. ella and i from the school's hallways - 2 water bottles - 20 cents, another dog walk along main boulveard - 10 very yucky bottles - $1
+ Stacey's 3 cents from Vi and Ella's kindergarten teacher
+ Sandy's 26 cents from one cart and a penny at the liquor store.
+ Maryann's 45 cents not picked up by (obviously weathy) students! a-like so: "5 CENTS where I was looking for the lost money that I had found and lost because I was so excited so it was found then lost but now found 25 cents while looking for th eother Dime or Nickle can't remember doesn't matter we're money ahead. 10 cents from the grade three classroom that was there for 2 days( I left it to see if someone would pick it up... obviously they are wealthier than that) so I picked it up today. 10 cents today when I was taking the car to have the tires checked, drove around back to the service dept door and there was a dime by th egarbage can not for long."
+ Ella's 60 cents (!!!!) from 2 carts and a pop can with Oma.
+ Karen's 2 cents from EB games
+ Karen's 26 cents from under the toonie massage chairs at the mall
+ Karen's 30 cents (3 bottles - 1 at the mall and 2 at the zoo). RED LETTER DAY FOR KAREN!
+ Stacey's 40 cents a-like so: "another untouched can in walmart parking lot, a dented dime, beer bottle and can found when walking the dog"
+ Sandy's 85 cents from ditch scavenging, including a full unopened bottle of vodka!!
+ Maryann's 10 cents found in front of Sig and Sandy's garage. since they never use the front door, it could be anyone's. the newsletter will let it go in the fund. this time.
+ Karen's 20 cents (one from Safeway and one at Shoppers).
+ Karen's 10 cents from one bottle at Ol' Faithful (the downtown parkade)
+ Kim's 11 cents from the college parking lot
+ Sandy's 60 cents from 2 carts and a squooshed water bottle
For a total this week and a half of $12.49
Our grand total is now (I think, though it must be counted up manually; there's a reason Kevin is the financial planner in the family and not me):
$205.52!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$99.81 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Volume 4, 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!
* hockey pucks, 7-Eleven bucks, full vodka bottles, and full cases of beer are not technically acceptable, but the beer cans and vodka bottles sure are! i'm not sure i want to taste "Lucky" beer anyway. it sounds... unlucky, somehow.
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
*if money is bent, is it still money? yes! let the teller worry about it. alternately, a sledgehammer could be taken to it prior to rolling.
3] General News!
*people in Jamaica drop money too, but they tend to stand on it so you can't get it! i saw a Canadian nickle under the foot of a Jamaican person at the airport but could not wait to get it. it was in that "no stopping!" zone.
* i apologize for the lateness of this newsletter. Easter and all that.
4] Last week's total!
* we started the week with (give or take) $193.03
5] Money reported this week!
+ Kim's 2 cents (one in the liquor store and one in front of the Blockbusters)
+ Kim's LOONIE (!!!!!!!) from my first abandoned StoopidStore cart found 48 steps from a cart corral.
+ Larry, Stacey, and Ella's $1.32 a-like so: $1 (ten bottles/cans from an extended dog walk), 10 cents from a "pop" can found by ella, 1 cent at walmart by the coin turner toys, another 2 cans and another penny :)
+ Stacey's 10 cents from an abondoned bottle in the hallway
+ Kim's 1 cent on the ground outside the Matchbox theatre
+ Karen's 10 cents from the Husky station
+ Larry, Stacey, and Ella's $5.66 (!!!!!) a-like so: amy's nephew, 4 year old Daemon, found 11 cents at a restaurant for us - the fever of found money spreads! diet dr pepper bottle in parking lot at walmart, just laying in the middle of the road not even driven over - 10 cents. having breakfast with baba found a juice box in denny's parking lot - 10 cents. the three of us went for a slushy spring walk around our skating rink at school and through part of our forest and found...
a shiny new quarter (a tad muddy). 13 empties of a various drinks. 3 hockey pucks. a soggy 7-11 Big Buck. and a 6 pack of unopened 'Lucky' beer stashed away in the woods, now drained down the sink (sorry, buddy who forgot where they were)
1 spring walkabout = $3.55. ella, oma and opa's jaunt about sherwood park yesterday - a wonderfully warm day i might add - 2 carts and a dime = 60 cents. ella and i from the school's hallways - 2 water bottles - 20 cents, another dog walk along main boulveard - 10 very yucky bottles - $1
+ Stacey's 3 cents from Vi and Ella's kindergarten teacher
+ Sandy's 26 cents from one cart and a penny at the liquor store.
+ Maryann's 45 cents not picked up by (obviously weathy) students! a-like so: "5 CENTS where I was looking for the lost money that I had found and lost because I was so excited so it was found then lost but now found 25 cents while looking for th eother Dime or Nickle can't remember doesn't matter we're money ahead. 10 cents from the grade three classroom that was there for 2 days( I left it to see if someone would pick it up... obviously they are wealthier than that) so I picked it up today. 10 cents today when I was taking the car to have the tires checked, drove around back to the service dept door and there was a dime by th egarbage can not for long."
+ Ella's 60 cents (!!!!) from 2 carts and a pop can with Oma.
+ Karen's 2 cents from EB games
+ Karen's 26 cents from under the toonie massage chairs at the mall
+ Karen's 30 cents (3 bottles - 1 at the mall and 2 at the zoo). RED LETTER DAY FOR KAREN!
+ Stacey's 40 cents a-like so: "another untouched can in walmart parking lot, a dented dime, beer bottle and can found when walking the dog"
+ Sandy's 85 cents from ditch scavenging, including a full unopened bottle of vodka!!
+ Maryann's 10 cents found in front of Sig and Sandy's garage. since they never use the front door, it could be anyone's. the newsletter will let it go in the fund. this time.
+ Karen's 20 cents (one from Safeway and one at Shoppers).
+ Karen's 10 cents from one bottle at Ol' Faithful (the downtown parkade)
+ Kim's 11 cents from the college parking lot
+ Sandy's 60 cents from 2 carts and a squooshed water bottle
For a total this week and a half of $12.49
Our grand total is now (I think, though it must be counted up manually; there's a reason Kevin is the financial planner in the family and not me):
$205.52!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
$99.81 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Monday, April 6, 2009
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!
Volume 4, Number 1
IN THIS ISSUE:
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
3] General News!
4] Last week's total!
5] Money reported this week!
6] Grand total to date!
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
Sandy: if you think it's money but you're not sure, soak it in CLR overnight!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Sig: don't they ever clean that bank?
A: apparently not.
3] General News!
* money coming in after Tuesday 31 March will all be added to the Charity Fund till the end of the year. a big thank you to Stuey for coming up with the Free Xmas Dinner Fund idea. now that it's complete, we'll see what the total in the Dinner Fund will buy for Xmas day! see below for the Grand No-$$ Xmas Dinner Fund total!
4] Last week's total!
* we started the week with (give or take) $178.86
5] Money reported this week!
+ Stu's 12 cents from the ticket spitter (Ol' Faithful!) (23 March)
+ Karen's 10 cents from a plastic bottle in the Mill Woods parking lot (23 March)
+ Karen's 39 cents (!!!) from the Whyte Ave Tims. (23 March)
+ Kim's 25 cents from one cart while racing against time and the Buggy Boy to get it (24 March)
ALL MONIES APPEARING BELOW THIS LINE WILL BE ADDED TO THE CHARITY FUND. ALL MONEY COLLECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR GOES TO CHARITY. START THINKING ABOUT YOUR FAMILY'S PREFERRED CHARITY! WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CRAPLOAD OF CASH TO GIVE AWAY!!!!
______________________________________________
+ Sandy and Griffin's $2.60!! a-like so: "$2.25 found in safeway carts. 25 cents in a coin return in a pop machine!! thank you griffin for looking!! one water bottle (10 cents)" (01 April)
+ Sig and Sandy's $5.10!!!! "all safeway carts, but one wallmart loonie! and one beer can." (01 April)
+ Sig and Sandy's 35 cents a-like so: "one quarter at safeway (beautiful sunny day!) and a nickle under the same ATM machine at the bank where we found the money last time.. strangely, the nickle was there yesterday, but I couldnt get at it.. had to go back today, and there it still was!!
sig: "don't they ever clean?"" (01 April)
+ Karen's 1 cent at the Dangerousway (01 April)
+ Ella's 25 cents. her first cart find!!!! (01 April)
+ Karen's $1.35 in the arts centre vending machine! Good Lord!!!!!!! (01 April)
+ Karen's 1 cent at the Dalhousie 7-Eleven (02 April)
+ Griffin's 3 cents at Coffee and Scream (02 April)
+ Sig and Sandy's $1.60 (!!!!!!!) a-like so: "one LOONIE in a super store cart, 2 quarters at safeway, one bottle of water that the med students gave me, so I didnt buy it, so I can count the dime."
+ Sandy's $1.35 a-like so: "one LOONIE in a zellers cart!! and one thing that might be a quarter or might be a slug.. I have it soaking in CLR to find out. and one squished water bottle in the parking lot.."
+ Sandy's 20 cents from two drink containers (mom! every smelly old germ-riddled pop can counts!) (03 April)
+ Ella's 1 cent at Boston Pizza (!!!!!!!) here's her note to me: "I found a pene at bostin pezu. ella"
+ Kim's 35 cents from the floor of Stu's pub (04 April)
+ Kim's 10 cents from outside the health food store (05 April)
For a total this week and a half of $14.17
Our grand total is now (I think, though it must be counted up manually; there's a reason Kevin is the financial planner in the family and not me):
$193.03!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund. well done, money scroungers!
$87.32 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Volume 4, Number 1
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: if you think it's money but you're not sure, soak it in CLR overnight!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Sig: don't they ever clean that bank?
A: apparently not.
3] General News!
* money coming in after Tuesday 31 March will all be added to the Charity Fund till the end of the year. a big thank you to Stuey for coming up with the Free Xmas Dinner Fund idea. now that it's complete, we'll see what the total in the Dinner Fund will buy for Xmas day! see below for the Grand No-$$ Xmas Dinner Fund total!
4] Last week's total!
* we started the week with (give or take) $178.86
5] Money reported this week!
+ Stu's 12 cents from the ticket spitter (Ol' Faithful!) (23 March)
+ Karen's 10 cents from a plastic bottle in the Mill Woods parking lot (23 March)
+ Karen's 39 cents (!!!) from the Whyte Ave Tims. (23 March)
+ Kim's 25 cents from one cart while racing against time and the Buggy Boy to get it (24 March)
ALL MONIES APPEARING BELOW THIS LINE WILL BE ADDED TO THE CHARITY FUND. ALL MONEY COLLECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR GOES TO CHARITY. START THINKING ABOUT YOUR FAMILY'S PREFERRED CHARITY! WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CRAPLOAD OF CASH TO GIVE AWAY!!!!
______________________________________________
+ Sandy and Griffin's $2.60!! a-like so: "$2.25 found in safeway carts. 25 cents in a coin return in a pop machine!! thank you griffin for looking!! one water bottle (10 cents)" (01 April)
+ Sig and Sandy's $5.10!!!! "all safeway carts, but one wallmart loonie! and one beer can." (01 April)
+ Sig and Sandy's 35 cents a-like so: "one quarter at safeway (beautiful sunny day!) and a nickle under the same ATM machine at the bank where we found the money last time.. strangely, the nickle was there yesterday, but I couldnt get at it.. had to go back today, and there it still was!!
sig: "don't they ever clean?"" (01 April)
+ Karen's 1 cent at the Dangerousway (01 April)
+ Ella's 25 cents. her first cart find!!!! (01 April)
+ Karen's $1.35 in the arts centre vending machine! Good Lord!!!!!!! (01 April)
+ Karen's 1 cent at the Dalhousie 7-Eleven (02 April)
+ Griffin's 3 cents at Coffee and Scream (02 April)
+ Sig and Sandy's $1.60 (!!!!!!!) a-like so: "one LOONIE in a super store cart, 2 quarters at safeway, one bottle of water that the med students gave me, so I didnt buy it, so I can count the dime."
+ Sandy's $1.35 a-like so: "one LOONIE in a zellers cart!! and one thing that might be a quarter or might be a slug.. I have it soaking in CLR to find out. and one squished water bottle in the parking lot.."
+ Sandy's 20 cents from two drink containers (mom! every smelly old germ-riddled pop can counts!) (03 April)
+ Ella's 1 cent at Boston Pizza (!!!!!!!) here's her note to me: "I found a pene at bostin pezu. ella"
+ Kim's 35 cents from the floor of Stu's pub (04 April)
+ Kim's 10 cents from outside the health food store (05 April)
For a total this week and a half of $14.17
Our grand total is now (I think, though it must be counted up manually; there's a reason Kevin is the financial planner in the family and not me):
$193.03!!!!!!!!!
$105.71 is the final total for the Xmas Dinner Fund. well done, money scroungers!
$87.32 is currently in the Charity Fund.
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