[Guest]

We all know how tough it is to invest these days.

If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago,
it would now be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the
original $1,000.00.

With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.

If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00 left.

But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank
all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND
you would have $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink
heavily and recycle.

It's called the 401 Keg plan

I'm gonna start my investment today!

 

[sundrop]

I hate to think what I could have made in a lifetime!!!!..LOL!

 

[UCONNRULZ]

I guess I should start drinking again as I head toward retirement. How much of a nest egg do you think I could save over the next 20 years?

 

[Ben]

well i don't drink, but i guess i could start drinking MT. Dew from a can and turn those in.

 

[lefty]

But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank
all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND
you would have $214.00.

How much did it cost you to get to New York to claim your refund?

 

[backlash]

How does it work for those amber colored bottles?

 

[704gary]

My momma always told to invest in stocks.
For first time I was doing the right thing
all along. Gary

 

[sundrop]

invest in a cheap mattress, less stuffing means more room for cash!

 

[Guest]

i didn't do the math Lefty, but aluminum cans where selling for $.70/lb. when i left home in .
seems i kind of got screwed twice... first was the stock market the last couple weeks and i drink mostly bottle beer now.
i will be looking for a place to sell cans and other scrap... any info there ?

 

[Topsail Angler]

I got an idea for the money - Drink water and stick the $1000 in a CD. You'll have a $1000 plus dollars and no empty cans cluttering the place up

 

[sundrop]

Water is for fish... LOL!

 

[Topsail Angler]

Water is for fish... LOL!

And healthy people!

 

[lefty]

first was the stock market the last couple weeks and i drink mostly bottle beer now

I was fortunate enough to sell some tech stock on a pretty good high this year... Got another dozen gray hairs, though, watching the price for the six weeks or so before I pulled that trigger. I'd be in the funny farm if I ever tried day-trading...

I know the scrap metal industry is red hot (in more ways than one)... Don't know any places in particular, but I'd expect the yellow pages would find ya somebody. My plumber buddy is keeping close tabs on his inventory of copper fittings, you can be sure....

 

[Coach D]

Water?? You know what fish do in that stuff???

I'm having to drink more the wife is on a no carbonation kick and I have to go along with it. Although what I do at school is not talked about.

 

[sundrop]

I am convinced if I go more than one day without a DR Pepper I'll die !!

 

[Dave B.]

And healthy people!

Eat right, exercise... die anyway..

 

[tadpole1]

Dang, if I had saved my cans I would be wealthy

 

[Dave B.]

what I do at school is not talked about.

Kinda like fishin... what goes on on the boat, stays on the boat... Sometimes though the junior sailor slip's at the lip!!! (i.e. momma.. I had brownies and bubble gum for lunch...)

 

[Topsail Angler]

Eat right, exercise... die anyway..

True but this thread is about investing money. Drink water it's cheap and helps keep the checkbook healthy.

 

[Coach D]

Put a filter on your faucet at the house and you won't have to pay for the bottling of the water. Just use old bottles you've got from buying a $.99 water. Now wait. That's why I don't buy much bottled water. For a few cents more I get FLAVOR!!