Scrapper sayings you repeat often

Would like to know what some of your sayings are that you repeat often & that are about scrap money. Or sayings you tell people to educate them on scrap. Sayings dont have to rhyme or be funny but it is ok if they do.



For example I often tell people "The more buckets you have, the more you'll make".

I can relate to that. I always say "every little bit adds up"

It' may not be much, but it all adds up eventually.

I don't have a saying, but I can relate a discovery.
Having been a hoarder (is that possible - "having been"?) I often tell people who will listen that I can keep something for
25 years, not have had a use for it yet, and be persuaded by swmbo to dispose of it.
The human mind is a powerful thing. The very next day, or at least in the next week or so, that item I was persuaded to
chuck out will suddenly turn out to have been ideal for a project I'm working on. What do you guys say in the USA - Go Figure?

Cheers

If I find something small - "Money is Money."
If I make a big haul I use Mick's saying - "Laughing all the way to the bank."
If somone asks me if I take something - "I'd be more than happy too!"

I charge for crts....

everyday....

Originally Posted by Scrappa2

I don't have a saying, but I can relate a discovery.
Having been a hoarder (is that possible - "having been"?) I often tell people who will listen that I can keep something for
25 years, not have had a use for it yet, and be persuaded by swmbo to dispose of it.
The human mind is a powerful thing. The very next day, or at least in the next week or so, that item I was persuaded to
chuck out will suddenly turn out to have been ideal for a project I'm working on. What do you guys say in the USA - Go Figure?

Cheers

That was once a way of life here too scrappa, but it wasn't called "hoarding", it was called "surviving. Even during the dark days of the great depression and the dust bowl there was little scrapping being done, if people lacked work, they'd throw a hoe across their shoulder and go looking for some. There was a saying here then, "use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without", which people lived by to a large degree. Those were things that helped us win the second world war. Although people had tons of scrap on the farm they hadn't sold it off, but during the war, they gave it to "Uncle Sam" who turned it by the billions of tons into tanks, planes, battleships, bullets, and anything else it would make. When the next world war comes, and it will come, we're going to be in a mess.

It's like this .... If I see a penny laying on the ground I pick it up.... It makes my daughter so mad when I do that... I always tell her it takes pennies to make dollars

metal=money

“If it plugs in its worth something“

When I find a stray piece of copper wire when sweeping the floor I always pick them up and throw it in the copper bucket and say...
"Its worth more than on the floor."

Or when loading the truck or organizing the garage at night and the steel falls over with that extra loud crash i say..
"Thats exactly what I wanted to happen."

My ex-wife used to tell me all the time that I was a packrat. Always asking "why are you keeping that? Just get rid of it." I always told her that "everything has value." My current wife laughs with me all the way to the bank.