Christmas is a very bright and merry season with lots of cheer and laughter that can be heard from all around. This festive season can, however, also be quite expensive. Everything from the hearty Christmas feast to the decor costs a small fortune. We can all do with a little bit extra money during this pricey season and one of the best ways to make some extra money is by collecting and reselling scrap metal.
The festive season is a great time to build your scrap metal pile. The celebrations and decor can deliver surprisingly many disposed of goods that contain lots of metal.
In this guide, we are going to share some of the best scrap metal items that you can collect during this festive and merry season.
01. Christmas Lights
Christmas lights, fairy lights, or string lights can only be used for a few years before they stop working. Thousands of strings of Christmas lights are tossed out each year. This can, however, be a perfect opportunity for a scrap metal collector to make some extra money. Plenty of Christmas lights have copper inside of them and copper is one of the most valuable scrap metals you can collect. Don’t allow any of those valuable broken lights go to waste. Collect as many of these cables as you possibly can because they can be a very good source of extra funds.
02. Faux Christmas Trees
Quality and older Christmas trees usually have an iron or metal stand that keeps the tree from toppling over when it is decorated. Metal wires are also used for the structure and branches of the tree. When the plastic leaves of these trees become unattractive and worn out, the tree is usually tossed out. All of that metal inside this tree can be added to your scrap pile.
03. Extension Cords
A lot of extension cords are used to power festive decorations and garden lights during the holiday season. Any cors that no longer work or that might have gotten damaged by rain during the holidays can also be recycled or used as scrap metal. Most extension cords have a lot of copper wire inside them. It can be tiresome to strip the copper from inside these cords but you will be surprised at how much copper you will have when the project is done with.
04. Old Kitchen Appliances
Kitchen appliances are very common Christmas gifting solutions because these kitchen tools can make life a lot simpler. When people receive a brand new and sparkling kitchen tool, they usually discard the old appliances. Old kitchen appliances often contain a lot of metal like iron, aluminium, stainless steel, and copper, and all of these metals can be helpful for increasing the size of your scrap metal pile.
05. Scrap Vehicles
You will find a lot of good car deals during the festive season as people try to increase their spending money to fund this expensive season. It is a good time to look out for a scrap or junk car that someone might be willing to sell off. If you can get the old car at a bargain deal, you can easily resell it to a scrap metal company and earn a good turnover rate on your sale.
If it is time to convert your pile of scrap metal into cash then you should give Danny Scrap Metal a call. We offer the best prices for all types of scrap metal and are happy to buy any used metal goods from you. We are also happy to drive to your Melbourne site for a free pickup if you have a nice big pile of scrap metal to sell.