Grandpa's Motto

My grandfather was a real trader. Yeah, typical Dutch, haha. He knew how to make money in almost anything.

One of the things he would do, he would stop by the side of the road, pick up empty soda and beer bottles, return them to the store and collect the deposit.

Every now and then, he would go to the dump and spent half a day, walking around on it, looking at what people had thrown out. Anything he thought might still have some value, he would bring home, polish it up, or restore it and hold a barn-sale. He made quite some extra money with this.

One time, as he was telling me what he had found beside the road, he said to me that many people might think he would be crazy for doing so. He mentioned how he didn't mind and told me the following: "If you can not appreciate the small, you are not worthy of any at all!"

I never thought he was crazy for doing all those things. I considered it to be quite ingenious. :-)