Monday, February 23, 2009
Yoooou, yooou, yoooou, I'm in love with yooou, y....
Sandy wanted to put the whole song down, but she ran out of quarters before she ran out of "you"s....
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$ Report!!! for 22 Feb
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!
Volume 2, Number 4
IN THIS ISSUE:
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
3] General News!
4] Last week's total!
5] Money reported this week!
6] Grand total to date!
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
SANDY: be sure to always stay in communication with your getaway driver. upon spotting a wayward cart, exit the vehicle, obtain the monies located in the cart, noting the cart two rows over, and race to obtain said cart (rinse, repeat). at this time, your driver should approach you and say, sweetly, "HOW THE HECK DO YOU EXPECT ME TO FIND YOU?? I'M DRIVING ALL OVER HELL'S HALF ACRE LOOKING FOR YOU!!! GET IN THE CAR!!"
KAREN: "So, mom and I had this theory a while back and it paid off!~ I went into the goodwill and started poking through purses and coat pockets in case the people didn't clean them out before they donated them and the store didn't check! so, coats: no money, but dirty kleenex, eye liner, business cards and tylenol pills PROVING that they don't clean out (or check) the pockets (bring hand sanitizer). BUT! the purses!.. check about 30 purses....found...a penny in one... a penny in another one....and a LOONIE in a third!!!"
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
MARYANN: if the MS Society sends you two nickels for no reason that you can see, can you count them?
A: yes! why not? i don't begin to understand why the MS Society would be sending you nickels, but throw them on the pile! from one charity to another.
3] General News!
* Stu and i are going to Crete for the month of October. i received a travel grant to finish a book i've set there, and Stu has agreed to come with me. during that month (a charity month), Sandy will be tabulating, reporting, and collecting. she says to say that the newsletter won't be as funny as it is now, but we've read her emails. they regularly make us pee. we think the newsletter will be in fine hands.
* from Sandy: "interesting fact.. my glass jar of coins from us and stacey, now weighs 4 pounds!"
4] Last week's total! we started the week with $70.26
5] Money reported this week!
+ Sig and Sandy's $2.45 from living in the Dangerousway parking lot (15 Feb)
+ Kim's 50 cents from 2 abandoned carts INSIDE THE BUGGY PLACE! (15 Feb)
+ Larry's $5.75 !!!!!!!!!!!!! from the Dangerousway! Larry, we've been telling you for weeks! that place is a goldmine! (15 Feb)
+ Karen's 25 cents from an abandoned Dangerousway cart (15 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent from outside the Starbucks!!! Yay! every penny counts! (16 Feb)
+ Kim's 10 cents from a water bottle left on a window sill at the gym (16 Feb)
+ Sandy and Mia's 80 cents (2 carts, 2 bottles, and Mia's dime she gave to Sandy!) (16 Feb)
+ Karen's 10 cents at the 7-Eleven. that place NEVER lets us down! (16 Feb)
+ Stacey's 1 cent brought home from Regina by her mom! (16 Feb)
+ Alan and Maryann's 10 cents in the form of 2 nickels (?) from the MS Society. hey, who cares where it came from?! (17 Feb)
+ Maryann's 2 cents from in front of the post office and the feed store (17 Feb)
+ Stu's 3 cents from Ole Faithful (the ticket spitter in the parking lot) (17 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent on a Centre Street sidewalk (17 Feb)
+ Maryann's 2 cents at the Wendy's drive-thru (18 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent at the CB Burgers drive-thru (18 Feb)
+ Sandy's 21 cents from 2 juice bottles at a fake patient gig and a penny on the sidewalk (18 Feb)
+ Karen's 2 cents (one from a downtown sidewalk and one from Dangerousway) (19 Feb)
+ Maryann's 11 cents from the helpful kids at her school who sweep money into piles for her! (20 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent (every one counts!!) at Baraka. i don't know what Baraka is. is that where the new President gets his coffee?? (20 Feb)
+ Karen's $1.13 !!!!!!!!! from: purses at the Goodwill, and a pop can at Griff's school where she had to go to get his keys to let herself into the house she'd locked herself out of! (20 Feb) ($11.64)
+ Sandy and Sig's $4.61!!!! found like so: "All of these [beer cans] were found on the road right beside our house!!, most of them stuffed into 2 coke cartons!! $2.00 worth, plus another large juice container, 20cents, that yes, I did indeed pull out of a garbage can while sig pretended not to know me. plus, one cent on the floor of the golden capital restaurant, where we were eating wor wonton soup, plus 6 quarters from safeway, collected by the new team of Bertha and Clyde..
(Bonny and clyde wont work today, bonny was very fit, and could out- race buggy boys, bertha walks very slowly, once she manages to get out of the car, walks like the letter Z, groans a lot, and needs the carts to lean on)
+ Stu's 11 cents from the ever faithful ticket spitter (21 Feb)
For a total of $16.36.
Our grand total is now:
$86.62 !!!!!
$48.48 is currently in the Xmas dinner fund
$38.14 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Volume 2, Number 4
IN THIS ISSUE:
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
3] General News!
4] Last week's total!
5] Money reported this week!
6] Grand total to date!
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
SANDY: be sure to always stay in communication with your getaway driver. upon spotting a wayward cart, exit the vehicle, obtain the monies located in the cart, noting the cart two rows over, and race to obtain said cart (rinse, repeat). at this time, your driver should approach you and say, sweetly, "HOW THE HECK DO YOU EXPECT ME TO FIND YOU?? I'M DRIVING ALL OVER HELL'S HALF ACRE LOOKING FOR YOU!!! GET IN THE CAR!!"
KAREN: "So, mom and I had this theory a while back and it paid off!~ I went into the goodwill and started poking through purses and coat pockets in case the people didn't clean them out before they donated them and the store didn't check! so, coats: no money, but dirty kleenex, eye liner, business cards and tylenol pills PROVING that they don't clean out (or check) the pockets (bring hand sanitizer). BUT! the purses!.. check about 30 purses....found...a penny in one... a penny in another one....and a LOONIE in a third!!!"
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
MARYANN: if the MS Society sends you two nickels for no reason that you can see, can you count them?
A: yes! why not? i don't begin to understand why the MS Society would be sending you nickels, but throw them on the pile! from one charity to another.
3] General News!
* Stu and i are going to Crete for the month of October. i received a travel grant to finish a book i've set there, and Stu has agreed to come with me. during that month (a charity month), Sandy will be tabulating, reporting, and collecting. she says to say that the newsletter won't be as funny as it is now, but we've read her emails. they regularly make us pee. we think the newsletter will be in fine hands.
* from Sandy: "interesting fact.. my glass jar of coins from us and stacey, now weighs 4 pounds!"
4] Last week's total! we started the week with $70.26
5] Money reported this week!
+ Sig and Sandy's $2.45 from living in the Dangerousway parking lot (15 Feb)
+ Kim's 50 cents from 2 abandoned carts INSIDE THE BUGGY PLACE! (15 Feb)
+ Larry's $5.75 !!!!!!!!!!!!! from the Dangerousway! Larry, we've been telling you for weeks! that place is a goldmine! (15 Feb)
+ Karen's 25 cents from an abandoned Dangerousway cart (15 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent from outside the Starbucks!!! Yay! every penny counts! (16 Feb)
+ Kim's 10 cents from a water bottle left on a window sill at the gym (16 Feb)
+ Sandy and Mia's 80 cents (2 carts, 2 bottles, and Mia's dime she gave to Sandy!) (16 Feb)
+ Karen's 10 cents at the 7-Eleven. that place NEVER lets us down! (16 Feb)
+ Stacey's 1 cent brought home from Regina by her mom! (16 Feb)
+ Alan and Maryann's 10 cents in the form of 2 nickels (?) from the MS Society. hey, who cares where it came from?! (17 Feb)
+ Maryann's 2 cents from in front of the post office and the feed store (17 Feb)
+ Stu's 3 cents from Ole Faithful (the ticket spitter in the parking lot) (17 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent on a Centre Street sidewalk (17 Feb)
+ Maryann's 2 cents at the Wendy's drive-thru (18 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent at the CB Burgers drive-thru (18 Feb)
+ Sandy's 21 cents from 2 juice bottles at a fake patient gig and a penny on the sidewalk (18 Feb)
+ Karen's 2 cents (one from a downtown sidewalk and one from Dangerousway) (19 Feb)
+ Maryann's 11 cents from the helpful kids at her school who sweep money into piles for her! (20 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent (every one counts!!) at Baraka. i don't know what Baraka is. is that where the new President gets his coffee?? (20 Feb)
+ Karen's $1.13 !!!!!!!!! from: purses at the Goodwill, and a pop can at Griff's school where she had to go to get his keys to let herself into the house she'd locked herself out of! (20 Feb) ($11.64)
+ Sandy and Sig's $4.61!!!! found like so: "All of these [beer cans] were found on the road right beside our house!!, most of them stuffed into 2 coke cartons!! $2.00 worth, plus another large juice container, 20cents, that yes, I did indeed pull out of a garbage can while sig pretended not to know me. plus, one cent on the floor of the golden capital restaurant, where we were eating wor wonton soup, plus 6 quarters from safeway, collected by the new team of Bertha and Clyde..
(Bonny and clyde wont work today, bonny was very fit, and could out- race buggy boys, bertha walks very slowly, once she manages to get out of the car, walks like the letter Z, groans a lot, and needs the carts to lean on)
+ Stu's 11 cents from the ever faithful ticket spitter (21 Feb)
For a total of $16.36.
Our grand total is now:
$86.62 !!!!!
$48.48 is currently in the Xmas dinner fund
$38.14 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
All this and she can't even WALK straight!
SANDY: "All of these were found on the road right beside our house!!, most of them stuffed into 2 coke cartons!! $2.00 worth,
plus another large juice container, 20cents, that yes, I did indeed pull out of a garbage can while sig pretended not to know me.
plus, one cent on the floor of the golden capital restaurant, where we were eating wor wonton soup,
plus 6 quarters from safeway, collected by the new team of Bertha and Clyde..
(Bonny and clyde wont work today, bonny was very fit, and could out- race buggy boys, bertha walks very slowly, once she manages to get out of the car, walks like the letter Z, groans a lot, and needs the carts to lean on)
total for today.
$4.61"
Sunday, February 15, 2009
All-Time Best Day!! He really IS going to Hell!!
Larry: "Thanks to my own indifference to going to hell, I bit the bullet and went to Safeway today (it is right beside the Timmy Hoes) and found nadda. so on my way into work I stopped by the Safeway in Capilano and was rewarded with $0.25 from a cart not pushed in all the way. (silly people, you take the time to take the cart back and don't take your money) First ever 25 cents found a Safeway. I am a Safeway cart virgin no more.
On the way back from work to pick up Ella, stopped by the first Safeway again. (mom and Sig's stomping grounds) and figured I would ignore Sig's comment that he "already checked the carts behind the store next to the garbage bin". 50 cents!!! now sitting with $5.75 for the day I figured I would...........Did I forget to mention the $5.00 on the ground beside the buggy coral?????? (picture me do a jig in the middle of Safeway parking lot not unlike the one performed by the grandfather in the remake of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" after the boy finds the final golden ticket.........I will do it for you some day)
Mom, Sig, I know where you work.......
Please feel free to see the attached picture
Going to hell rich!!!"
On the way back from work to pick up Ella, stopped by the first Safeway again. (mom and Sig's stomping grounds) and figured I would ignore Sig's comment that he "already checked the carts behind the store next to the garbage bin". 50 cents!!! now sitting with $5.75 for the day I figured I would...........Did I forget to mention the $5.00 on the ground beside the buggy coral?????? (picture me do a jig in the middle of Safeway parking lot not unlike the one performed by the grandfather in the remake of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" after the boy finds the final golden ticket.........I will do it for you some day)
Mom, Sig, I know where you work.......
Please feel free to see the attached picture
Going to hell rich!!!"
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$ Report!!!
The Weekly Found $$$$$$$$$$$$ Report!!
Volume 2, Number 3
IN THIS ISSUE:
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
3] General News!
4] Last week's total!
5] Money reported this week!
6] Grand total to date!
1] Tips from the Peanut Gallery!
From Larry: when sitting at the Tim's wndow, always have Mother on speakerphone to encourage you with gentle, subtle proddings such as the following: "LOOK ON THE GROUND UNDER THE WINDOW!!!!! LOOK ON THE GROUND LARRY!!! EVERY ONE DROPS MONEY THERE!!! LOOK ON THE GROUND UNDER THE WINDOW!!!!!" no one will EVER look at you funny when THAT'S going on...
From Kim: it seems to me that the bigger the parking lot, and the further people have to walk to put the cart back, the more people will leave them lying about rather than trudging them back to the cart thingy. by putting them away, you thereby obtain a]money, and b]exercise!
2] Strange and/or Relevant Questions I have Received!
Stacey: if someone gives you too much change back, does it count?
A: YES! if the money is money you would not have normally received, and is a result of someone being nice to you because you're cute and your kid is cute, throw it on the pile!
3] General News!
* all monies collected till the end of Feb will be added to the Charity Fund.
* in March, we go back to collecting for the Xmas Dinner Fund.
4] Last week's total! we started the week with $57.24
5] Money reported this week!
+ Karen's 2 cents from the Tim's (08 Feb)
+ Kim's 10 cents from a Red Bull can in the gym parking lot (09 Feb)
+ Sandy's 50 cents from two Dangerousway carts (09 Feb)
+ Sig's 1 cent from the Tim's. every one counts!!! (09 Feb)
+ Larry's 12 cents from the Tim's which should have gone on last week's total but he was too ashamed at its collection method (digging around in the ice with his butt sticking up) to report it. ah, Larry. you shall become used to the looks of derision, misunderstanding, and downright disgust. it's all part of the game! (09 Feb)
+ Karen's 1 cent, in her words: "Finally! After 2 days of fruitless searching. A penny in the bus shelter at 4th Ave and 9th street SW. " (10 Feb)
+ Stacey and Ella's 11 cents from nice people at Walmart and Carwash who thought they were so cute, they should get extra change! (10 Feb)
+ Kim's 10 cents from under a change spitter at the Dangerousway. no carts though *sigh* (11 Feb)
+ Sig and Sandy's 37 cents, found like so: "a lousy quarter from a cart on my way home,, but a beer can on the road, and a water bottle on a table at the deaf school and sig's 2 pennies, one at tim's one at sobey;s" (11 Feb)
+ Sandy's 25 cents from two Dangerousway carts. she's determined that the buggy boys get to keep the quarters! this is bad news indeed! ah well, every penny counts! (12 Feb)
+ Karen's 11 cents from a phone booth and a gutter! (12 Feb)
+ Stu's LOONIE! from in front of a mailbox outside his shop (13 Feb)
+ Kim's $1.62 from various locations in and around Dangerouway, but mostly in the carts of lazy people (13 Feb) ($4.34)
+ Kim's 10 cents from a crushed Coors Light can in the drug store parking lot (13 Feb)
+ Sandy and Sig's $3.10 (!!!!!!!!!) from Safeway and a can (13 Feb). YEEE HAAAAWWWW!!!!!!!
+ Griffin and Karen's 26 cents from the floor of Safeway and an abandoned cart! and to think i was starting to worry about this week!!! (13 Feb)
+ Kim's 26 cents (one cart and a penny outside the Coop (14 Feb)
+ Sig and Sandy's $4.96!! let's get them a cot so they can just live in the Dangerousway parking lot! Happy Valentine's Day indeed! (14 Feb)
For a total of $13.02.
Our grand total is now:
$70.26 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
$48.48 is currently in the Xmas dinner fund
$21.78 is currently in the Charity Fund.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
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