The One Thing Every Michigan Home Has: Returnables
Recently, Michiganders took to the internet to share where they stash their returnable bottles and cans. Some of the spots people mentioned, and what they do with their returnables, might surprise you.
Where in the House Do You Keep Your Returnables?
In Michigan, most pop and beer bottles and cans come with a 5- or 10-cent deposit. You pay the deposit when you buy them and get it back when you return the containers to the store. But before that happens, there’s one big question: Where do you stash all those bottles and cans?
People on the Michigan subreddit recently discussed where they keep their returnable bottles and cans before taking them back to the store. Here are some of the top comments from the thread:
Not a bad idea, especially if you’re grocery shopping every week.
That’s a pretty creative idea, but I’m not sure everyone is willing to cut a hole in their floor just to send their cans down to the basement.
I’m with the Reddit poster above, except I keep my trash bag in the laundry room.
Not a bad idea to add a second trash can if you have the room.
That is the hard part, getting the motivation to return them to the store.
These all sound like pretty typical ways Michiganders store their returnables, but there are plenty more comments in the thread to dig into. You might even find a few ideas you haven’t seen before.
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