I've been entering Coke Rewards points since my accident as I couldn't really do any charity work that involved a ladder or lots of walking for a while. So instead, I kicked up four rewards accounts and attempted to make a dent in the giant box full of caps in a cube at work. Pictured is my own box, which I'm trying to empty for the second time. At least anecdotally, I'm having an impact.
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I've entered 7440 points so far (2480 caps). Most of them for Northview Elementary. If I use a $50 gift card (2000 points), that's about 2.5 cents per cap. If I switch over and use an LED TV, it comes down to like 1.2 cents per cap. And a TI-83 calculator, six tenths of a cent per cap. You'd think school stuff would average higher. If you go with the classics, like a TF-500 basketball, you're back up in the 2.2 cent/cap range. So overall, I've entered $162.44 worth of caps so far this year, which took about 62 hours (about 15 minutes to max out a 120 point account, e.g. 40 caps), or $2.62/hour. Ouch. Maybe I should just get a minimum wage job one hour a week and donate the proceeds?
I get the added benefit that the caps are recyclable at Aveda and stay out of the environment (in a bad way), but my caps are barely a dent in the 56,000,000 they'd collected by 2011 - I'm .004428% of the total). So many they're not taking new schools on.
"Points!"
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