I spent a lot of days after school throughout the grades starting from kindergarten up until about eighth grade in Girl Scouts. Throughout the years, we would sell cookies, work on daily skills, and learn life lessons and even gain patches with each “lesson” we completed. One of the things we did was collect pop tabs. We would collect them for years, from a lot of different people. My parents helped me collect them because once every few months we would donate them to the Ronald McDonald house in Columbia, South Carolina. They would take the pop tabs we donated and recycle them. They would further be used to pay for the house's expenses in order to continue helping the children and the children’s families who stayed there. One day, I was looking through our garage and found three bags full of pop tabs. I figured that I could produce my own way of recycling a fair amount of them so that they didn’t continue to just sit there without any use.