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"Monte, I didn't want to hijack your post, and this kinda follows it."
If you've ever been to a casino, you'll notice that they provide change cups for your winnings, or should I say, "The money they didn't get."
Well these change cups make perfect paint containers. They hold about a quart, (32oz.) and mild thinners won't effect them.
...So, I would go around to different slot machines and pick up these cups. After awhile, I had a stack of about ten or so...then I went to another casino, stopping off at the truck first to drop off my new paint containers, and so on, and so on...
"I carried out a stack of ten, right in front security, and they didn't even blink an eye."
...after some time, I figured out that during the time I spent there, gambling, dinner, booze, and such, I spent a grand total of $250. dollars.
"...all and all, I'm about a couple of hundred paint containers down."
Note: I picked up around 70 cups from all the casinos. If you buy them at the paint store, they cost about $0.89-$1.29 each.
-Rich
-------------------- Richard Bustamante Signs in the Pines www.signsinthepines.com Posts: 781 | From: Nevada City, California | Registered: Nov 1998
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Cat food cans work quite well also, small enough to hold while painting and large enough to mix custom colours in. If you have a cat, you are just gonna throw them out anyway..
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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Yeh but . . . don't the sharp edges of the cans cut your brush hairs a little??
I often pallette my brushes on the side of the paint cup and sometimes along the edge to catch a drip or run . . .
In the first shop I worked in we cut drink cans on the table saw for paint cups and I hated doin' that...
So we now consume quite a bit of yogurt, apple sauce, fruit jello, etc. and I have a few freinds who save 'em for me too . . . .poor Em' . . .she always knows when I'm low on paint cups when there's several cups of yogurt or jello for supper. She goes, "AW MOM... not THIS again . . .I'm like severe: "JUST EAT IT...I need paint cups!!"
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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Good idea Richard...lol but getting all those "cups" in the suitcase was near impossible.
We use a lot of "waxless" dixie cups here for small amounts... coffee cans for mixing...intermixed with lots of soup and veggie cans we collect.
One of my personal favorites was cat food cans because you were never without a lid (simply stack them) they took up little room and stored neatly...we lost our 19 year supply of cat food cans a month or two back and Patsee tells me there are no more cats in our future...I knew sooner or later I would miss that old cat I just didn't know why. ;(
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Altho they are not free, Timi turned me onto these cups @ Dixie. They are like the sample cups you'd get from a Starbux, bigger than a Dixie or Solo, non-waxed, thick, and nearly indestructable.
I know I should recycle tuna cans and such, but I hate washing them out. I used to get cans from Bill Berberich, but his were lost (along with 35 years of sign stuff) in Ivan's flood.
Mom saves me prescription bottles and yogurt cups. Those teeny little jelly jars you get in food baskets at Christmas are great too, as well as baby food jars. Love....Jill
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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