The Arctic Post

So the other day, while I was at work, Carly decided that it was time to do a bit of cleanup. Time for the bottles to meet their creator!!! (or end up at the bottle depot). By living in Alberta, I have learned that the process of getting your deposit money back for the bottles is not that easy. You have to sort them all and count them before you go to the bottle depot. It’s rarely open. Well, never opened when you want to go anyways. Here’s what the pile looked like. Carly must have thought it was photo worthy because she took a snap of it!

I have to admit there were quite a few bottles/tetrapaks/milk cartons.

22 Milk cartons (there’s not too many because it just started to be returnable)
72 Tetrapaks
253 Cans
128 Beer cans (Most of them graciously offered by my ex-neighbor, he didn’t want to count them before moving in July)
47 plastic bottles
47 Glass bottles

The day before we wanted to bring the bottles, we were at the vet getting Cisco her vaccines and decided to go by the bottle depot to check the hours. It’s opened Wednesday to Saturday 10:00 to 15:00. Saturday comes, we load all the bottles in the truck, drive to the bottle depot just to stare at a big spray painted sign saying “Saturday: Bottle Depot Closed” Couldn’t they have the sign up at least a day in advance??? So we drove back home and unloaded the bottles just to start all over again later in the week…

The joys of moving…. I’m grateful that Carly did that while I was working

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