scrap diary

hello from sunny Florida
my name is Knives and i deliver news paper in the early morning. 1am-7am
on my rout i find all sorts of goody's and in this thread i am going to document all my finds
please fell free to share your finds of the day (sorry for any and all grammar mistake)


Today i found:
aluminum cot
4 good patio chairs(recently move and need furniture)
15-20 lbs scrap iron
square floor fan
1 dryer but it had a 75$ sign on it so ill wait till the guy gives up and just wants it off his lawn
it was a good day considering its not trash day

hey! I deliver papers as well! Do you do home delivery or single copy? Sounds like you do home delivery. I do single copy so when I get stuff its big refers, commercial racking etc. From grocery stores and convenience stores etc.
I only deliver 3 nights a week and fill in as needed within our "group" of drivers

lucky i deliver 7 nights a week 365 days a year lol and yeah i do home and apartments

Originally Posted by newattitude

Welcome knives! And, do you find yourself getting the papers delivered late because you are picking up scrap?!

i do some times like if i find a big pile to root around in i lose track of time

welcome from Durban, South Africa.

your posts bring back memories of the time when i was in the US
i worked at a gas station in Newark, NJ. in 2001

it was the Gulf gas station 1434 Mcarter Highway, Newark.
i even got robbed once- two guys with 9mm pistols
both wearing masks

the police came and dusted for fingerprints etc
nobody was hurt- fortunately

there was this one regular customer who also delivered papers
he use to keep an extra copy for me

anyways- no time to wax nostalgic.

welcome-again.

Originally Posted by msmoorad

welcome from Durban, South Africa.

your posts bring back memories of the time when i was in the US
i worked at a gas station in Newark, NJ. in 2001

it was the Gulf gas station 1434 Mcarter Highway, Newark.
i even got robbed once- two guys with 9mm pistols
both wearing masks

the police came and dusted for fingerprints etc
nobody was hurt- fortunately

there was this one regular customer who also delivered papers
he use to keep an extra copy for me

anyways- no time to wax nostalgic.

welcome-again.

Unfortunately Newark hasn't changed... How in the world did you end up in South Africa!

Hey Knives.... Whats your best find scrap wise on the paper route so far?

im born & raised in SA

wanted to see the world & experience things
so i got a visa for the US & spent a few months experiencing life in the US

ive been to many places in the US
from NY down to Miami & out west to Houston/Dallas/Ft Worth

ive been to almost every big city in that area
except for Charlotte & New Orleans.

msmoorad- Next time you come to the US, you should try the Midwest. If you get lost in rural areas out East, you tend to be lost in a forest. There are forests in some places of the Midwest, especially up off the the Great Lakes, but for a lot of Midwest, you get lost out in the rural areas, you're either in crop fields or pastures (grasslands depending on how far west you want to stretch the Midwest). I think a lot of people from further east can't imagine it when I say "we don't have any forests around here" (we have patches of trees but few that would qualify as a real forest).