ProlificMom

Last year in August I decided to get my kids involved in a missions giving project.  Money was tight because I was unemployed, so I decided that we would collect aluminum cans.  The Mister was not at all happy about my plan to store the cans in the garage, but I didn’t want to take them to the recyclers until I could fill up the back of my car.

This weekend he cleaned out the garage,  and with a little help from #5 we took the cans to be recycled at Valley Recycling in Grand Prairie.

At about  40 cents per pound we earned $15.20.  That’s roughly 37 pounds of aluminum cans. (By the way, I recently kicked the caffeine habit, so no more aluminum can collections for the ProlificMom house.)  Even though this is not a lot of money it was a great lesson for the kids, and the money will go to a missions group called Loved the Unloved to help them fund a fresh water well at a school that they support in Africa.

For more information about Love the Unloved go here.  Please watch their video embedded below.

If you live near Grand Prairie, Texas and you are looking for a place to recycle aluminum cans, Valley Recycling is a good place to go.  (But you might want to take a GPS to help you find them.)   They were friendly and helpful.  Overall it was a great experience.