Ok, with cars there comes nostalgia.........those of us who came out of the '50's and '60's, there's a lot of nostalgia.
Remember back then going to the grocery store and cashing in soda bottles?
There were certain days of the week for everything....washing, taking a bath & getting groceries.
Almost always, when you went, just before they finished checking you out the checker would ask 'Did you bring bottles?'.
You would always put them in a rack just outside the store before you went in and it was the honor system.
It really wasn't to save money, it was the norm, it was the expected.
My dad had a Bi Rite grocery store back then and I had to seperate them by make...Pepsi, Coke, Squirt etc. ......made it easier when the soda truck came.
When I was in high school I can't count the times I would take a case or two of bottles, cash them in to put gas in the car....empty bottle was worth 2 cents and a case was 24 bottles.
Usually a case of empty bottles was worth two gallons of gas.
Many times we'd go back after dark and get the cases we cashed in and take 'em back the next day ;D
Remember back then going to the grocery store and cashing in soda bottles?
There were certain days of the week for everything....washing, taking a bath & getting groceries.
Almost always, when you went, just before they finished checking you out the checker would ask 'Did you bring bottles?'.
You would always put them in a rack just outside the store before you went in and it was the honor system.
It really wasn't to save money, it was the norm, it was the expected.
My dad had a Bi Rite grocery store back then and I had to seperate them by make...Pepsi, Coke, Squirt etc. ......made it easier when the soda truck came.
When I was in high school I can't count the times I would take a case or two of bottles, cash them in to put gas in the car....empty bottle was worth 2 cents and a case was 24 bottles.
Usually a case of empty bottles was worth two gallons of gas.
Many times we'd go back after dark and get the cases we cashed in and take 'em back the next day ;D
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