January 27: An afternoon trip to Topanga Promenade Mall in Woodland Hills from some mindlessness... after day of wind and rain. Biggest rainfall since moving to California in October of 2005. Ajay and I found 41 cents while strolling the shops.
4 dimes and a penny.
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.41
Bottles & Cans Collected: 1
Running Stats
This Month: $1.85
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $1.85
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $385.71 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $846.01 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 39 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
Monday, January 28, 2008
FMJ - Day 668
January 26: Found 3 pennies while spending the afternoon mostly idle due to the rains. Found the pennies at the Von's Grocery Store on Yosemite Ave.
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.03
Bottles & Cans Collected: 1
Running Stats
This Month: $1.44
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $1.44
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $385.30 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $845.60 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 38 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.03
Bottles & Cans Collected: 1
Running Stats
This Month: $1.44
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $1.44
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $385.30 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $845.60 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 38 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
FMJ - Day 667
January 25: Found a single penny at the Wells Fargo ATM on Patricia Street.
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.01
Bottles & Cans Collected: 3
Running Stats
This Month: $1.41
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $1.41
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $385.27 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $845.57 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 37 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.01
Bottles & Cans Collected: 3
Running Stats
This Month: $1.41
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $1.41
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $385.27 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $845.57 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 37 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
FMJ - Day 666
January 24: Found 2 pennies. Found them while shopping at the Lowes Hardware store in Simi Valley.
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.02
Bottles & Cans Collected: 2
Running Stats
This Month: $1.40
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $1.40
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $385.26 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $845.56 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 34 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.02
Bottles & Cans Collected: 2
Running Stats
This Month: $1.40
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $1.40
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $385.26 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $845.56 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 34 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
FMJ - Day 665
January 23: We found 4 pennies... in and around the Chicken Bowl restaurant on L.A. Ave.
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.04
Bottles & Cans Collected: 0
Running Stats
This Month: $1.38
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $1.38
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $385.24 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $845.54 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 32 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.04
Bottles & Cans Collected: 0
Running Stats
This Month: $1.38
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $1.38
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $385.24 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $845.54 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 32 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
Thursday, January 24, 2008
FMJ - Day 664
January 22: Maya and I found 52 cents... two pennies at breakfast at Carl's Jr. and two quarters in the Pacific Theaters on Winnetka where we saw the "Mad Money" movie... we picked up some mad money ourselves.
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.52
Bottles & Cans Collected: 2
Running Stats
This Month: $1.34
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $1.34
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $385.20 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $845.50 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 32 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.52
Bottles & Cans Collected: 2
Running Stats
This Month: $1.34
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $1.34
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $385.20 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $845.50 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 32 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
FMJ - Day 663
January 21: We found a quarter and a penny at the Movie theater in the Cerritos Mall.
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.26
Bottles & Cans Collected: 1
Running Stats
This Month: $.82
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $.82
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $384.68 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $844.98 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 30 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.26
Bottles & Cans Collected: 1
Running Stats
This Month: $.82
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $.82
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $384.68 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $844.98 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 30 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
FMJ - Day 662
January 20: We found a penny at the Shell Gas Station on Yosemite Ave.
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.01
Bottles & Cans Collected: 3
Running Stats
This Month: $.56
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $.56
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $384.42 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $844.72 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 29 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.01
Bottles & Cans Collected: 3
Running Stats
This Month: $.56
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $.56
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $384.42 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $844.72 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 29 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
FMJ - Day 661
January 19: I found three pennies at Walmart in Simi Valley. I found a dime in the 7-11 on Cochran St.
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.13
Bottles & Cans Collected: 0
Running Stats
This Month: $.55
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $.55
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $384.41 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $844.71 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 26 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.13
Bottles & Cans Collected: 0
Running Stats
This Month: $.55
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $.55
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $384.41 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $844.71 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 26 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
FMJ Days 642 - 660
January 1 thru January 18: During my trip back home, I found 2 dimes, a nickel, 16 pennies... 3 pennies were found in the Burbank Airport, a dime, nickel and 9 pennies were found over several stops at the WAWA convenience stores where I picked up my morning Iced Tea and newspapers. The other dime was found on the Rt. 113 Arby's restaurant. 4 pennies were found at a Royal Farms convenience store.
That's 41 cents in total for the trip.
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.42
Bottles & Cans Collected: 26
Running Stats
This Month: $.42
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $.42
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $384.28 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $844.58 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 26 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
That's 41 cents in total for the trip.
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.42
Bottles & Cans Collected: 26
Running Stats
This Month: $.42
Last Month: $4.34
2008 Finds: $.42
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $384.28 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $844.58 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 26 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
Recycling Update!
January 18: I decided to clean out the garage and took a few boxes of bottles and cans to the recycling center. $7.75 was received in cash from the turn-in.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,087.58
Saturday, January 19, 2008
My Dad's Story
Well, I arrived home on Wednesday evening, after being away in Delaware to help care for my mother whose handicapped while my father was in the hospital after suffering a massive heart attack and undergoing a quadruple bypass operation. Here's my Dad's story: On the night of January 2, at about 10:30p.m. a fire broke out in the neighbor's garage which lies along the back property line of my parent's home. Overhanging both properties and the shed is a very tall and expansive cedar tree which my father thought might catch fire as well. Where my parent's live most people go to bed at about 9:30p.m. in the winter time and my father knew that all his neighbors where most likely asleep. So, he sprung into action by calling the fire department and running from house to house to wake all his neighbors. First, he woke the his neighbors whose shed/garage was on fire... after about several minutes of frantic window pounding he got them out of the house. Then, he proceed to wake up the other surrounding neighbors. After that, he ran back into his house to get my mother dressed and into the car so he could drive her to a safe place at the end of his street. Just as the fire department was arriving he and his nextdoor neighbor turned on their rear hoses to soak their roofs and the area around the cedar tree.
As the fire department took over, he and his neighbor Barry stood side by side to watch the fire... about a minute later my Dad grabbed Barry's arm and fell to the ground suffering the massive hear attack...
As luck would have it his neighbor was a former Vietnam Vet who served as a medic. He immediately started CPR and waving for the firemen who rushed over with an emergency defibrillator.
The ambulance was also called arriving about three minutes behind the firemen. At that time, my father had been unconscious, not breathing and without heartbeat for about 4 minutes. Three attempts with the paddles had not revived him. The EMT's immediately got him into the ambulance and performed another defibrillation... luckily it was successful... Along the way to the hospital which was a 2O minute ride, my Dad's pulse gave out and he had to be revived three times more.
At Atlantic General hospital he was stabilzed and but the Doctors there decided to transfer him to Pennisula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Maryland as it it the only hospital that conducts heart surgery on the Delmarva shore.
Two days later upon further stabilaztion the doctors at the Guerreri Heart Clinic at Pennisula Regional performed a quadruple bypass. My Dad has been released from the hospital and is now in recouperation at home.
Thanks to God, luck, his neighbor Barry, the Millville, Delaware Fire Department for their quick response and the great doctors for saving my Dad's life and giving us a chance for a few years more.
Thanks also to my youngest brother Robert who has quit his job to care for our parent's for the next few months as my Dad gets back on his feet after this most shocking event.
As the fire department took over, he and his neighbor Barry stood side by side to watch the fire... about a minute later my Dad grabbed Barry's arm and fell to the ground suffering the massive hear attack...
As luck would have it his neighbor was a former Vietnam Vet who served as a medic. He immediately started CPR and waving for the firemen who rushed over with an emergency defibrillator.
The ambulance was also called arriving about three minutes behind the firemen. At that time, my father had been unconscious, not breathing and without heartbeat for about 4 minutes. Three attempts with the paddles had not revived him. The EMT's immediately got him into the ambulance and performed another defibrillation... luckily it was successful... Along the way to the hospital which was a 2O minute ride, my Dad's pulse gave out and he had to be revived three times more.
At Atlantic General hospital he was stabilzed and but the Doctors there decided to transfer him to Pennisula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Maryland as it it the only hospital that conducts heart surgery on the Delmarva shore.
Two days later upon further stabilaztion the doctors at the Guerreri Heart Clinic at Pennisula Regional performed a quadruple bypass. My Dad has been released from the hospital and is now in recouperation at home.
Thanks to God, luck, his neighbor Barry, the Millville, Delaware Fire Department for their quick response and the great doctors for saving my Dad's life and giving us a chance for a few years more.
Thanks also to my youngest brother Robert who has quit his job to care for our parent's for the next few months as my Dad gets back on his feet after this most shocking event.
Friday, January 04, 2008
Note to all: FMJ on Unexpected Hiatus!
January 2: Due to my Father suffering an emergency medical event, I must travel back to Delaware to be with my Mom, Dad and Family to comfort and help them during this unfortunate time. I will be gone for at least a week or more. I'll be certain to check in and post when I'm able to and keep a tally of any finds I make while I'm away. But, please don't expect it, though.
Thanks for the well wishes, support and prayers for my Dad to all who've sent emails.
Sincerely,
ANDY
Thanks for the well wishes, support and prayers for my Dad to all who've sent emails.
Sincerely,
ANDY
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
FMJ - Day 641
December 31: On a trip to Westwood Village, we found $2.00 in the form of dollar bills held in a "Ziploc" sandwich bag. I'll bet that this one has a story... kid's ice cream money, a bum's stash... maybe. Anyway, it'll be safely and wisely invested with the FMJ.
So, that's our last find of 2007!
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $2.00
Bottles & Cans Collected: 5
Running Stats
This Month: $4.34
Last Month: $4.53
2007 Finds: $199.86
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $383.86 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $844.16 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 137 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,079.83
So, that's our last find of 2007!
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $2.00
Bottles & Cans Collected: 5
Running Stats
This Month: $4.34
Last Month: $4.53
2007 Finds: $199.86
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $383.86 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $844.16 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 137 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,079.83
Dividends!
Dividend Report: On 12/17/2007, the Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust paid out its regular quarterly dividend on the FMJ's held shares. Received $11.02 which was reinvested for .372 fractional shares. We now hold 19.709 shares of PEI.
Dividend & Interest Income
This month: $11.02
Savings Interest 2007: 98 cents
Savings Interest 2006: $1.77
Dividends 2006: $34.30
Dividends 2007: $88.04
Non-reinvested Dividends: $17.10
Total Dividends Received: $188.39 (Since 2003 merger of CWN & PEI)
Dividend & Interest Income
This month: $11.02
Savings Interest 2007: 98 cents
Savings Interest 2006: $1.77
Dividends 2006: $34.30
Dividends 2007: $88.04
Non-reinvested Dividends: $17.10
Total Dividends Received: $188.39 (Since 2003 merger of CWN & PEI)
FMJ - Day 640
December 30: Found a penny at Carl's Jr. on L.A. Ave. At blockbuster on First St., another 3 pennies were picked up.
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.04
Bottles & Cans Collected: 5
Running Stats
This Month: $2.34
Last Month: $4.53
2007 Finds: $197.86
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $381.86 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $842.16 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 132 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,079.83
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.04
Bottles & Cans Collected: 5
Running Stats
This Month: $2.34
Last Month: $4.53
2007 Finds: $197.86
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $381.86 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $842.16 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 132 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,079.83
FMJ - Day 639
December 29: Found 37 cents. First find of a penny occurred during a stop for gas at the Exxon on Norwalk Blvd. in Cerritos. In front of the India House restaurant on Pioneer Blvd., I found a quarter, dime and penny.
A neighbor left a bag of cans for recycling -- 83
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.37
Bottles & Cans Collected: 85
Running Stats
This Month: $2.30
Last Month: $4.53
2007 Finds: $197.82
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $381.82 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $842.12 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 127 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,079.83
A neighbor left a bag of cans for recycling -- 83
Today's Stats
Money Finds: $.37
Bottles & Cans Collected: 85
Running Stats
This Month: $2.30
Last Month: $4.53
2007 Finds: $197.82
Since FMJ Blog Inception: $381.82 (March 28, 2006)
Total Found for FMJ Fund: $842.12 (since 1-1-2000)
Bottles and Cans Collected: 127 for the month.
Bottles & Cans Return Fund: $1,079.83
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