Cans 4 Christ: Where'd These Cans Come From??? And A Few Suggestions:)

9/8/12

We apologize for the delay in posts this week! Sometimes canning or life take over and we get busy:)

Well, it's been a crazy week for Cans4Christ-- with missing more recycling routes (due to a holiday-- click HERE to read all about it). I thought we wouldn't have to have a crushing party or recycle anytime soon...but we seemed to have a LARGE load after this week.

Q: Where did all of these cans come from??

A: I'm not sure! But I'm thankful for all of these donations and collections.

We had five of these large bags plus many more little bags. Not sure if you remember all the trouble we've had with bags falling off while in transit (click HERE to see some of our stories)...well, this trip I wanted to try something different. I told Trav to:

Load all of the small bags first- this would help in many ways!

The heavy bags would help keep the bags in the truck while in route to the recycling center and
It's best to put the heavy bags of cans on the scale first at the recycling center (if not--lots of bags and loose cans fall all over the floor! It's a mess!).

Put the straps on first before loading the bags--sometimes we forget and we have to reach down past five bags of cans to find the clasp. That isn't always easy!

Small bags first!

You can see the straps hanging from the side of the truck!

Trav is such a good husband--he followed along with my advice! There was only one flaw with my suggestions: the straps need to be on the same side! We ended up having to reach down and reclasp the straps because they wouldn't have been crisscrossed the way we started it.

Q: Did these suggestions work? Was Sav correct?

A: YES!!!!!!!!!! We had great success traveling down to the center and unloading! And the straps worked well (after we switched them to being crisscrossed)!!! HOOOOOOOORAY:)