Hello,
At 51 broke, divorced and out of work, I Happened on an Idea. 3 years ago I showed up at my Mom's house in Texas. I came to visit her after she had breast cancer, surgery and radiation. She responded well to the treatment, but I on the other hand was very sick. I had developed chronic pancreatitis. I suffered for two years spending almost 45% of my time in the Hospital.
To get to the point. I am debt with medical bills. Close to a million dollars. I am trying to claim bankruptcy but that cost money. Cannot work a regular job because I would still miss about 3 to 5 days a month of work do to the pancreatitis and other chronic pain. Plus my wages would be garnished because of the debt.
So, about 4 or 5 months ago, I helped a friend of my stepfather's take down the 3 radio towers we had in the back yard. The friend got the radio towers, my stepfather stop using his HAM radio due to health problems, and I was left with 180 lbs of an assortment of cable. A mix of RG's whatever and about 120lb of twenty five pair cable. My stepfather who thinks I am an idiot, and maybe I am wanted the 25 pair discretely gotten rid of since he kind of found it at his old job. He did not think I could manage to take it the dump because he thought I was not a resident, but I am.
I spend some years selling telecom equipment, and networks services. I knew there was copper in the cables and thought maybe I could take them to the scrap yard with I did. They took the 25 pair but not the RG.. I called it coax. and they said they did not take that stuff,
Anyway to get to the end, I knew the cable that I had was worth something. I started stripping it, then reading about bare brite, and then it hit me. Why not start scrapping. I started picking up cans, when I was out looking for those cans I found all kinds of things including scrap metal.
Yesterday I made my first little score. When picking cans I saw a business with 5 or 6 appliances in their parking lot. Stop by and ask if they wanted to get of them. They told me to come back some other time. Which I did. I know have 6 appliances for scrap. And all I did was ask.
I hope to learn a lot. Sorry for the tale for anyone who read the whole thing.
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