First I would like to point out where I'm coming from, I am in the process of moving from a 4 year "traditional" academic school to a VOC school (couple different possibilities), but am believing that this is the direction that I need to go to make a living for my self..... I'm looking at starting this January at the local VOC. I have a lot that I need to do around the house... alot of scrap to clean/ car parts that need to be listed/ helping keeping up 2 houses due to aging family, so since I all ready have holiday plans/ all this to do I figure it might be hard to have a "normal" job. I still have A LOT of printing credits at the 4 year school to use up, so I decided to make business cards/ door hangers to use the credits plus hopefully drum up some scrap. My scrap history has been mostly as a "stop the car, side of the road picker." I have done e-waste before, and thanks to the knowledge on this forum have learned a lot more (Thank y'all very much)... I have tried to search for some answers on door hangers/ways to go about it, but I still have some questions. But before those questions, this is what I have researched and found out/Plans: In our county it is legal to put door hangers up and not be a registered business (with no charge) as long as there is not a no solicitors sign present, in the city (there's a $50 a year fee) to do the same thing. So I'm looking at starting in the county and seeing where it goes from there. While I am hanging the flyers, I am planing to dress in my 2nd "Sunday Best", nice blue jeans (that are not ripped) & my "church" Carhart (it does not have oil stains all over it from going to the junkyard) and acting as any polite young 20 something should as I hang up the hangers. I have all ready set up a Gmail account for this scrapping adventure/ have a Google voice number for people to contact me at so that every ****, Jane, & Harry does not have my number. I'm figuring that what ever I get mainly is going straight to the scrap yard (minus ALL items that have PM in them) and stocking up on boards until I can run over to Ohio with a full load (Live hour east of Chicago). I want to focus mostly on electronics, but will take anything that I can scrap. The only problem that I have is that, I do not feel that I have a place that will readily accept a large scale drop off of CRT TVs/Moniters (worried about how many I would get via doing door hangers), but do believe that I should be able to get rid of a decent number though a couple of different sources, and not have it cost me a cent, thus why the limiting of 1 monitor per tower & not accepting CRT TVS. So now on to the questions:
1) How does this look to y'all? (would have a business card with the same information) But I'm printing it (in black & white so it cost me $.05 instead of $.15 for color) 3 to a page at school on "bright green" card-stock that I bought at the office store
2) How would you do pickups? (Thinking about not wanting to spend $3.00 in gas to go get $1.00 worth of material, since I live about 10 miles from Town)
My thoughts on this is either: Scheduling Multiple Pickups in the Same Area or on the way to each other... or Writing on the hanger that I will be in the area on a given date and to give me a call to schedule a pickup on that day... Thoughts?
(I might run into more questions as this progresses)
Any other thoughts or advice is appreciated, Thank you for your time reading this
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