Cash for Cans

​I have found myself recently saying something that really seemed appropriate.
It started with Merril getting crook.  We do not believe it was the flu, but it was a bad cold (she did a covid test and it was negative).  I could not believe the number of people I heard about coming down with it.  I was told of someone in Ayr, known to a person I spend time with, getting it.  In the zoom meeting I attend out of Melbourne someone said if they lost their voice, it was because they were getting over either the flu or a cold.  Three others in my neck of the woods got it the same week.
Anyway, with Merril it went on several days and then she declared she was feeling a bit better.  That was when I started saying we had turned a corner.  So often it seems things like that build to a crescendo and then thankfully wane.
Yesterday I thought of the same term in a totally different context.
Merril and I do the “Cash for Cans” for our church.  As far as I am concerned every little bit helps.  I see the books and I know it is not a case of the rich getting richer, but the joint operating on the smell of an oily rag.  I maintain that lots of little make a lot.  People donate what they use, or can get their hands on, and it adds up.  Never mega bucks, but multiple of tens.
(As an aside people also give me plastic tops.  I wash them and give them to the person across the road.  They are sent to a place in Australia and then overseas.  They are melted down and a 3D printer makes them into limbs for people in third world countries.  It amazes me how what I discard is regarded as so valuable by another and can be so life changing.)
I have thought often that if we can get access to a place that has 10c cans and containers galore we could make more.  (I never anticipate it being like Merril saw when she was banking one time.  The girl in front had a $30,000 account.  She had raised the lot through Cash for Cans.)
But yesterday I felt we may have turned a corner.  Maybe I am premature in thinking that, but I know what we received was substantial and if it continues it would be a game changer.  This person works for a major company and donated what had been discarded (several large garbage bags).
Such things always mean more work for me.  I tend to don gloves and go through what is donated removing tops where I need to, and emptying out where I have to.  Right now, I can handle it.  I hope there comes a day where I will need to share the load.
So that task awaits me today.  I thought it was incredible.  I was thinking I need to get the word out for us to make the catalyst for going to the cash for cans site.  In this instance I did not.  In the last week there has been a number of donations including the one that blew me away.  All I can think is keep em coming!