Me, Myself and Bottles!

As so it feels lately. Thanks for an abnormal amount of outside contractors at my workplace, the bottle business is thriving. I have collected bottles and cans the last two nights and I took them back this morning and received $6.20 for my 15 minutes of dumpster diving.

So, with the lastest returns, I have completed Step 13! Yeah for me!!!

The extra workers around here will only last for the next couple weeks, so I am hoping that I can finish Step 14 by then. At that point I will need to find another way to increase my stake, so it won't take forever to complete.


Balance - $39.93 + $6.20 = $46.13 Step 13 Complete!

$35.79 from Completing Step 14!

Til next time.....

The Science Of Getting Rich!

Again, my mentor(if he doesn't know it, he will now!) in this doubling effort, Gerard from Double Your Way To a Million blog, has opened my eyes to what I believe to be a very deep hidden secret. It is not in so much a secret, but that it was written almost a hundred years ago and was definitely way ahead of its time.

I am talking about the book written by Wallace D. Wattles, The Science Of Getting Rich, which was written in 1910! I have just finished reading it myself, and know from what I have read that this is good stuff.

I have put a link in the right sidebar to the website where you can get your own, FREE, copy of this book for yourself. Do it now, it is a fabulous read!

More Bottles!

Just a quick note to let you know that I took back more bottles yesterday. 35 bottles and 36 cans for a total of 71.

So I can now add $7.10 to my stake.

Balance - $32.83 + $7.10 = $39.93 $1.03 from Completing Step 13!

Till next time.....

My Chainmaille Bank!

I have nothing to report as far as increasing my stake. I do have some cans and bottles to take back in the next couple of days though.

I wanted to share with you how I keep my money safe. A couple of years ago I started making chainmaille. Chainmaille is a very old artform. It is most predominately first noted in the ages of the knights and kings in England. They sewed large rings together for armor to protect them selves in battle. I have made rings, bracelets, earrings, coifs and bags.

When I first started this journey, I was not sure where I would keep my collections. Then I remembered a small bag I had made with chainmaille. It would be the right size, not to bulky and something I could hide away from everyone. I have added a picture of a similar bag for you to look at. The one I made is the same size, but has a blue and red stripe around it. Mine took about 10 hours to make. That time is just for connecting the jumprings together. It would have taken a few hours more if I had made the jump rings by myself as a lot of the chainmaille artists do.

So today I was thinking that there will be a time when the pouch will not be large enough or I will need to do transactions with a checking account. When that time comes, I think I will use this pouch to help complete a step. So save your pennies to have your chance to get my Double2Mil pouch.

Till next time.....

Other peoples trash...!

I took back another load of bottles last night. I had 35 cans and 65 bottles for a grand total of 100, which I received crisp new $10 bill to add to my stake. I am enjoying the huge increases in my stake from the bottles, but understand it won't last for ever. But I will worry about that when that time comes. Until then, thanks to everyone for thinking the bottles are just trash.

Balance - $22.83 + $10.00 = $32.83

$8.13 from Completing Step 13!

Till next time.....

Other Doublers!

I added links to other doublers that have a blog/website.

One thing that I noticed is that we all have different rules, different ways of collecting money and live in different parts of the world. But we do have one goal in common and that is to make money by doubling.

I hope that we can all learn from each other and gain confidence, inspiration and also to cheer each other on.

Pennies From Heaven....

About 100 actually!

Again, just walking around and not looking for anything, I stumbled across a dollar bill lying on the ground. There was no one around the area to claim it, so I did!

I have collected more cans and bottles from work and will be taking them in soon to claim the deposit. It is not as much as last time, but enough to make a dent in completing the next step.

Balance - $21.83 + $1.00 = $22.83

$18.13 from Completing Step 13!

Till next time.....

Made It To Wal-Mart!

I finally made it to Wal-Mart to return the bottles I had collected from work this past week.

I have to admit that taking sticky, dirty and nasty pop bottles back to the store is not my favorite thing to do. Taking three or four garbage bags back at a time probably adds to my dislike of this chore and just makes it that much worse the next time I take them back. The evolution of bottle return has gone from the consumers favor, to that of the retailer.

It used to be that the store employees would have to sort through the cans and bottles and count them in order for you to get your deposit back. But, technology has put that burden back on the consumer with the new fangled bottle return machines that have come out on the market lately.

Anyway, back to the task at hand. As mentioned above I returned the bottles and received $10.90 for my efforts last week. This amount will be added to my stake.

That means that I have completed Step 12 and have started towards completing Step 13!

Step 12 Complete! Balance $10.93 + $10.90= $21.83

$19.13 from Completing Step 13!

Till next time.....

Work, Work, Work!

Wow, I would like to apologize for the delay in posting but my work has kept me very busy. I have worked 64 hours already and have another 12 for today!

But one good thing has come of this. While at work I have been collecting empty pop bottles. Lots of them. It is surprising that the people at work are just throwing away money like this!

I know, it's only a dime! You are correct but, I have collected quite a few of them in the last week. I will turn them in at Wal-Mart in the next day or so and will let you know how I did. I may have enough to finish this step! We will see.

Till next time.....