In Spain, many people struggle to make ends meet. The increasing cost of living, as well as salaries or pensions which in many cases are insufficient, mean that, notably the elderlylook for alternatives to cope … to expenses that they cannot cover with their pension.
Some, already retired, try to reduce their expenses while others are even forced to resort to options such as selling goods or looking for a job give them some extra money.
This is the case of a 90 year old man originally from Híjar, in Lower Aragon. Through a video shared on the social networks of Julio Caviedes, this elderly person He says he picks up cans off the street, crushes them, collects several bags and then sells them.
The old man was born in 1935 and says he lost his father during the civil war. “My mother fed us as best she could and raised us as best she could during those years. In the city we were the poorest», he remembers with a mixture of nostalgia and resignation. Today, with nine decades behind him, his situation does not seem to have changed much, although now the nonagenarian, who has three children, indicates that He lives with one of his daughters, a widow for years. “She’s the one who takes care of me.”.
He picks up cans on the street and sells them because his pension isn’t enough to pay his bills.
His pension, he assures us, is “normal, like that of any Christian”, but it is not sufficient. “In the apartment where I live, well between communities and electricity, water and a little history… And the town hall which gives you lots of receipts“, what if garbage collection, what if cleaning the pipes, etc.”, he comments, implying that he needs the money to pay his bills and not for whims.
This is why every day he goes out to collect cans in the streets: “I come here, I take laticas and when I have seven or eight, I take them outyes, I take it there to Cogullada”, sweeps Zaragoza where he explains that they buy them for 85 cents. “Before, they paid 80 cents, now they have increased by 5 cents,” he says.
“I take the laticas to a scrapyard that buys metals. It’s the one that pays the best,” he explains, talking about his daily life with his dog, which he says he carries in a van that he also uses to collect cans and transport them.
The story seems to have caused a sensation on social networks, since many expressed their sadness and outrage in the comments seeing that a man of this age is forced to earn his living because his pension is insufficient for the basic expenses of anyone in Spain.
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