My 8yr olds find from today

So we were driving home from the Annual VW car show about 15 mins from home, when the kids spot a skip bin and a pile of rubbish at a demolishion site near us, THEY ask me to stop!

(they didn't have to ask twice!!)



So we grabbed like 15kg of Romex style wire of these old wall sections that were on a burn pile, A star shapped NEON sign, complete with transformer etc..

(another reason to keep scrapping tools in ALL of your cars)

And my son yanks this from a box of papers and other crap!


1984 Nintendo 2 player boxing game!









AWESOME I told him! I am a big game 'n' watch fan, so was impressed.
We got home, put in new batteries, and the kids played it non stop for the next hour!

The boy has a good eye I tell ya!



He's now planning to flip it for some more LEGO money

Lol nice find. My 2 year old son says "scrap metal" when it's something on a curb and "copper" when he's looking at my insulated wire bucket. He also enjoys the scrap yard because of the big trucks they use on the shred pile.

Originally Posted by Midnight

My wife thought it was awful when I took our six month old with me to the yard. You have to start them young.

some of my earliest memories are markets, yard sales, and trash picking with my Dad! ....Good times

Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper

Its not what you do with your kids that counts. Its the fact you spend the time to do it with them.

So very true, and they remember things that you might not give a second thought too.