Well, yet another day in November's passed, and Ol' stew's still stuck at $100.
By the way I thought of something else; as I'm not familiar with the aluminum-can business, it took a while.
Does Illinois by chance have one of those deposits on cans, where one gets five cents apiece when one turns them in to a store? If so, Ol' stew can get a better price for cans he picks up that way, rather than just selling them by the pound.
Only twenty cans for a buck, as compared with circa twenty-four cans for forty cents.