Dh and I made 2 trailer load runs to the scrap metal yard with our metal piles that accumulate here and made $1100! We didnt have time to get the third load in before they closed, should be a lighter load for about $400. Dh save out the pricerier metals like #1 copper, it's like savings in the bank. If we need cash fast, it's there...especially when copper is high. Right now it dipped to a low last week, so its best for us to hang onto it.

However, we've made enough money since January to get a 1099 this year...but it's worth it!

Fantastic! That helps with those expenses that add up when moving.

Brandy:

Fantastic! That helps with those expenses that add up when moving.

Yes it does help!  My kids usually take the load to the dump site and depending on the load I usually just let them keep the money.

lucky kids...wil you adopt me????

 I recycle metal with my oldest granddaughter.  She saves all the food cans & soda cans & any other metal that comes her way, then I add our cans, and scrap metal that comes my way & I take it to the recycler for her.  She is 12, and lives out in the country with no other way to make pocket money, so I told her if she would recycle with me, she can have the money. I usually only get a couple of dollars a month, at the most, but it is money that she would otherwise not have & it helps her learn to budget & to save.  She pays her tithing, then puts half of what is left in her savings account in the bank, & can spend half.  She usually saves the spending money for a book she wants.

Our scrap metal comes in larger forms.....furnaces, boilers, air condioners, metal cuttings, piping, etc. We usually keep a dump site in the woods jut for metal and when we have the time we take a load in. Now that we have our home up for sale we are cleaning that out.

wow that is a good deal. we don't have enough metal here to make it worth it. I suggested taking the iron birdcage to scrap but dh said it wasn't worth it.   we have a big problem of people stealing metal like copper out of telephone wire, out of new buildings etc. 

here too...people steal the copper wire from job sites if not locked up.

If you only have a little bit of scrap and you just want it gone, there are poeple on craigslist that advertise scrap pick up. Some poeple collect scrap for their income, that's why after $600 the scrap yard issues a 1099 for taxes.

it is a cage we paid for with our new cockatiel..a fancy iron round one that is more of a gardenhouse ornament not a proper birdcage.  need to put it on craigslist for sale.