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Couple Funds Honeymoon With Recyclables
John and Ann Till, from Petersfield, in Hampshire, spent three months collecting recyclables to pay for their honeymoon flights. The couple earned one reward point, which they converted into BA air miles, for every four items they recycled. In the end, they amassed 36,000 miles. Mr Till, 31, a railways communications manager, said, "We wanted to make our honeymoon special and were trying to think of ways to raise money for it. I saw on the machine that you got a Tesco Clubcard point for every four items you put in. For every 250 points you got 600 British Airways miles. We worked out that it would be possible to turn rubbish into our flights — as long as we had enough."
Shoot by then we can just put garbage in our DeLoreans and fly :)
I think part of the point is that they were doing something for the general good at the same time as helping finance their honeymoon.
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They did get part time jobs...collecting rubbish -and it paid them in the currency they sought....on their own time and own terms, right?
Note, they cheated: they cut cans in half so it counted as two cans. Invalidate half their value. They're stealing money from the system, basically. WTG.
They spent three months recycling, so that they could indulge in one of the most carbon-intensive, environmentally damaging activities a human can participate in (short of actually setting fire to a forest)? Bravo, middle classes! Next thing you know they'll be tarmac'ing over their front garden so there's more space for their two new electric cars.
We have scavengers like this that troll around the city using shopping carts and beat up pickup trucks. It's become a real problem, many have become really brazen and will take whatever they can get their hands on weather it's really trash or not They'll come up on your property and go through your trash bins looking for deposit items and other recyclables. I've confronted several of these people on a number of occasions, and even had steel rod stolen. I unloaded this in the driveway on the side of my house AWAY from the road and it was gone within an hour of unloading it.
heh! Don't knock it. I paid for my wife's wedding ring by walking the street, picking up empty soda-pop bottles.
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They cut the cans in half to "maximize" points. I'll try that next time I'm at the store. I'll cut a dollar bill in half and see if they let my buy $1 with each half.
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I doubt that actually. They made the equivalent of £3000 by doing 170 hours each ... that's £3000/340 hours ... so about £9/hour tax free. Not many part time jobs pay that sort of money.
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Would have been an even better story if it was 2nd (or any number > 1) marriage for both of them. Talk about recycling and reusing!
You've confronted people digging for through trash to find recyclables because they need the tiny amount of money they can get for them? I get the "they're trespassing on my private property to make a mess of my garbage" problem, but have a tiny bit of perspective here, man.
Property is theft.