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Sep 30^th, 2012 at 6:14am

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If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you
would have £49.00 today
If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have
£33.00 today.
If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you
would have £0.00 today.
If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Northern Rock three years ago, you
would have £0.00 today.
But, if you had purchased £1,000 worth of beer one year ago at Tesco,
drank all the beer, then taken the aluminium cans to the scrap metal dealer,
you would have received £214.00.
Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily &
recycle.

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Reply #1 - Sep 30^th, 2012 at 7:20am

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Drinking heavily, in a vest, whilst cycling, sounds good to me... Smiley

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Reply #2 - Sep 30^th, 2012 at 10:29am

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Add to that guns!

My dad stealthfully purchased a couple handguns over the past year without my mother knowing. ALL the guns have already gun up $50-$100. With the exception of our Lee Enfield and some heavily used favorites, all have gone up tremendously in value.

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Reply #3 - Oct 1^st, 2012 at 1:00pm

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wahubna wrote on Sep 30^th, 2012 at 10:29am:

Add to that guns! My dad stealthfully purchased a couple handguns over the past year without my mother knowing. ALL the guns have already gun up $50-$100. With the exception of our Lee Enfield and some heavily used favorites, all have gone up tremendously in value.

To think that so many thought they'd be shot to pieces.

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Reply #4 - Oct 1^st, 2012 at 7:09pm

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Beer cans (or any aluminum cans), copper wire, copper pipe, scrap aluminum, and even what some people throw out as junk metals (cast iron, tin cans, scrap iron), all goes into the recycling pile to be disposed of at the end of the year at your friendly scrap dealer. Which turns out to be quite a tidey sum, I average around $200.00. Here's another neat thing I do to have a bit more stash at the end of the year. I make sure I get change, in coins. I don't care if the register says $1.10, even if I have that 10 cent in my pocket. I want 90 cent back in change. That adds almost another $200.00 at the end of the year. and you never know when you might get lucky and get a rare piece. Also 1/2$'s, quarters, and dimes before 1964 are worth there weight in silver, got a few of those stashed for a rainny day! It's nice to have this security, cause you never know when something unexpected comes along like a car part or the rent! Grin

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Reply #5 - Oct 1^st, 2012 at 8:00pm

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Ang2dogs wrote on Oct 1^st, 2012 at 7:09pm:

Beer cans (or any aluminum cans), copper wire, copper pipe, scrap aluminum, and even what some people throw out as junk metals (cast iron, tin cans, scrap iron), all goes into the recycling pile to be disposed of at the end of the year at your friendly scrap dealer. Which turns out to be quite a tidey sum, I average around $200.00. Here's another neat thing I do to have a bit more stash at the end of the year. I make sure I get change, in coins. I don't care if the register says $1.10, even if I have that 10 cent in my pocket. I want 90 cent back in change. That adds almost another $200.00 at the end of the year. and you never know when you might get lucky and get a rare piece. Also 1/2$'s, quarters, and dimes before 1964 are worth there weight in silver, got a few of those stashed for a rainny day! It's nice to have this security, cause you never know when something unexpected comes along like a car part or the rent! Grin

A bit off topic, but there is lot of folks hitting construction sites here for the metals they can steal. I came into a hockey arena I was working on one morning and some loogin had broken in and tried to steal a 6 inch copper water main. The water pressure broke the pipe free as he was cutting and blew him and his cutoff saw right through the wall. He got away but the cops were able to trace his blood trail and rounded him up. Even the farmers field next to the arena was flooded by the next morning. The shutoff valve was only 10 inches upsteam of his cut...

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Reply #6 - Oct 2^nd, 2012 at 4:31am

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Same here...

We get things like cast iron drain covers in the pavements and roads, removed and stolen, together with various pipe fittings, etc, from buildings temporally left unattended!
..and never leave your new Washing Machine, Lawn Mower, etc, in the front garden, whilst you put the car away in the garage...!!
All stolen for their scrap value!

Paul... Angry

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