Karen;
You got me thinking, we live in Washington and they don't pay very much for cans, but that is something that is easy to do and something is better than nothing. So I started calling anyone who would still be awake and asked them to start saving cans for us. I am making a list of anyone and everyone we know and asking them to help, and to see if they knwo anyone else that would too. My mom wroks at wal*mart and she has a lot of friends that would help, and maybe they will let her put a can in the break room for me too. I am also going to try our two local high schools, they may be able to help if not it didn't cost us anything. I called my husbands aunt and asked her and she said yes and that they would donate things to us to sell at a garage sale as well. But she says that her neighbor takes copper into Oregoen and recylces it. She says that he saves about a 55 gallon drum full and takes it in and gets anywhere between 600-900 dollars, I am going to try and do that too. That may take a while because though my husband is a plumber and uses it all the time his boss does the same. But maybe he would donate some to us. I am so excited! I have an I think ... no no I know we can feeling about this.
Thanks so much for the idea, hopefully everything goes well. I can't do the loose change jar becasue we never use cash. We pay with our debit card. But the can thing really seems promising even if we nickle and dime it! Not to mention the copper thing! Thanks again to you and everyone.