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Floating around the blogosphere today-I found it hilarious

>>If you had purchased $1,000 of AIG stock one year ago, you would have $42 left.

With Lehman, you would have $6.60 left.

With Fannie or Freddie, you would have less than $5 left.

But if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.<<

I thought this was something about chickens.

Spock wrote: But if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.<<

The deposit is 5 cents per can in New York.

How many cans would you have bought with that $1,000?

Spock wrote:If Only

Floating around the blogosphere today-I found it hilarious

>>If you had purchased $1,000 of AIG stock one year ago, you would have $42 left.

With Lehman, you would have $6.60 left.

With Fannie or Freddie, you would have less than $5 left.

But if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.<<

Really? Hmmm. Let's do the math.

$1,000 worth of beer is about 2,000 cans at most. Probably fewer if you actually want to enjoy drinking it but let's stick with that. There are about 30 beer cans to the pound. Aluminum cans get about 50 cents to pound. That would work out to about $33.

That's the worth of the aluminum. Not so good.

If you wanted to figure the return on the deposit in those states that do it.

5 cent deposit = $100
10 cent deposit = $200

And really that 10 cents per can is a deposit. The beer distributor is collecting that money and then returning it to you when you bring the can back in. It isn't really an increase in the value of the can.

What you should have done was buy $1,000 worth of gas a year ago. Of course, that tastes slightly worse than 50 cent beer.

NOTE: Maybe I'm wrong about the price of beer.

andrewjackson wrote:

Spock wrote:If Only

Floating around the blogosphere today-I found it hilarious

>>If you had purchased $1,000 of AIG stock one year ago, you would have $42 left.

With Lehman, you would have $6.60 left.

With Fannie or Freddie, you would have less than $5 left.

But if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.<<

Really? Hmmm. Let's do the math.

$1,000 worth of beer is about 2,000 cans at most. Probably fewer if you actually want to enjoy drinking it but let's stick with that. There are about 30 beer cans to the pound. Aluminum cans get about 50 cents to pound. That would work out to about $33.

That's the worth of the aluminum. Not so good.

If you wanted to figure the return on the deposit in those states that do it.

5 cent deposit = $100
10 cent deposit = $200

And really that 10 cents per can is a deposit. The beer distributor is collecting that money and then returning it to you when you bring the can back in. It isn't really an increase in the value of the can.

What you should have done was buy $1,000 worth of gas a year ago. Of course, that tastes slightly worse than 50 cent beer.

NOTE: Maybe I'm wrong about the price of beer.

I take mine straight from the keg......(hic).

andrewjackson wrote:

Spock wrote:If Only

Floating around the blogosphere today-I found it hilarious

>>If you had purchased $1,000 of AIG stock one year ago, you would have $42 left.

With Lehman, you would have $6.60 left.

With Fannie or Freddie, you would have less than $5 left.

But if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.<<

Really? Hmmm. Let's do the math.

$1,000 worth of beer is about 2,000 cans at most. Probably fewer if you actually want to enjoy drinking it but let's stick with that. There are about 30 beer cans to the pound. Aluminum cans get about 50 cents to pound. That would work out to about $33.

That's the worth of the aluminum. Not so good.

If you wanted to figure the return on the deposit in those states that do it.

5 cent deposit = $100
10 cent deposit = $200

And really that 10 cents per can is a deposit. The beer distributor is collecting that money and then returning it to you when you bring the can back in. It isn't really an increase in the value of the can.

What you should have done was buy $1,000 worth of gas a year ago. Of course, that tastes slightly worse than 50 cent beer.

NOTE: Maybe I'm wrong about the price of beer.

AJ-It's a joke-not a financial plan.

Spock wrote:If Only

Floating around the blogosphere today-I found it hilarious

>>If you had purchased $1,000 of AIG stock one year ago, you would have $42 left.

With Lehman, you would have $6.60 left.

With Fannie or Freddie, you would have less than $5 left.

But if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.<<

If you took all those cans to the place me and my Dad always took the cans we collected back in the day, and put them on their rigged scale, you might've gotten as much as the AIG stock.... assuming the price of aluminum were high enough.....

lb13

Spock wrote:

andrewjackson wrote:

Spock wrote:If Only

Floating around the blogosphere today-I found it hilarious

>>If you had purchased $1,000 of AIG stock one year ago, you would have $42 left.

With Lehman, you would have $6.60 left.

With Fannie or Freddie, you would have less than $5 left.

But if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.<<

Really? Hmmm. Let's do the math.

$1,000 worth of beer is about 2,000 cans at most. Probably fewer if you actually want to enjoy drinking it but let's stick with that. There are about 30 beer cans to the pound. Aluminum cans get about 50 cents to pound. That would work out to about $33.

That's the worth of the aluminum. Not so good.

If you wanted to figure the return on the deposit in those states that do it.

5 cent deposit = $100
10 cent deposit = $200

And really that 10 cents per can is a deposit. The beer distributor is collecting that money and then returning it to you when you bring the can back in. It isn't really an increase in the value of the can.

What you should have done was buy $1,000 worth of gas a year ago. Of course, that tastes slightly worse than 50 cent beer.

NOTE: Maybe I'm wrong about the price of beer.

AJ-It's a joke-not a financial plan.

Ah,yes. Joke. Right. HA HA!













I still wonder how they got that $214. Is that wrong?

andrewjackson wrote:

Spock wrote:

andrewjackson wrote: Really? Hmmm. Let's do the math.

$1,000 worth of beer is about 2,000 cans at most. Probably fewer if you actually want to enjoy drinking it but let's stick with that. There are about 30 beer cans to the pound. Aluminum cans get about 50 cents to pound. That would work out to about $33.

That's the worth of the aluminum. Not so good.

If you wanted to figure the return on the deposit in those states that do it.

5 cent deposit = $100
10 cent deposit = $200

And really that 10 cents per can is a deposit. The beer distributor is collecting that money and then returning it to you when you bring the can back in. It isn't really an increase in the value of the can.

What you should have done was buy $1,000 worth of gas a year ago. Of course, that tastes slightly worse than 50 cent beer.

NOTE: Maybe I'm wrong about the price of beer.

AJ-It's a joke-not a financial plan.

Ah,yes. Joke. Right. HA HA!




I still wonder how they got that $214. Is that wrong?

I had kind of the same thought when I read it but I did not do the math. I just hauled in about 120 pound sof aluminum and got $72. Price was about 60 cents.