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Hit 100 bottle caps on my magnet fishing trips and realized something weird
So I've been magnet fishing for about 8 months now mostly down at the old bridge by the creek behind the industrial park. Last weekend I finally pulled up my 100th bottle cap which I honestly didn't think I'd ever count. I keep a bucket for trash and a bucket for cool finds like old coins or fishing lures. But I started marking bottle caps with a sharpie just to track numbers and after number 100 I dumped them all out on my driveway. The thing that got me was how many different brands of soda I'd never heard of or seen before. Like there were caps from a root beer company that went out of business in the 80s and a bunch from a local soda that I guess only existed in like two counties. It made me wonder how much history is just sitting there under the muck that nobody looks at. Has anyone else kept a weird tally like this and found something unexpected in the numbers?
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emmasmith2mo ago
Just switch to a glass jar for the tally. That's what I did when I hit 50 caps and realized I'd lost track of which ones I'd already counted because they all look the same after they've been tumbled in sand for a few years. I'd also recommend keeping a little notebook with the date you pulled each one and maybe a quick sketch of the logo, especially for the old or weird brands. That way you can look them up later and actually figure out the history behind them instead of just having a pile of rusty lids you can't even read anymore.
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