welcome mmm. my old lady and my buddies used to pick on me for picking up can from parking lots or pulling metal out of the woods, or when i sat in front of the tv stripping copper wire watching football. then i paid for our trip to japan with my "metal money". they dont laugh anymore. once you show them that metal = $$$ , they change their minds pretty quick.most of my buddies have started doing a little bit of scrapping themselves. one of them even gets his daughter to help him sort and strip wire. when they take it to the yard together she cant wait to get her"cut"of the cash. she even harasses him to get out the wire whenever he sits down in front of the tv for a few minutes.....anyway everyone else pretty much said it all...do some reading through the archives whenever you scrap something new, there are lots of tips and tricks there to help you make more money faster. good luck