Hee. It never even occurs to me to do anything with my empties except recycle them, coming from a non-deposit state! Once early on in my New England days, I was impressed with how evangelical small-town Maine was - there were Redemption Centers everywhere!

The kissing balls have been cracking me up, toooo (somehow I never noticed them before, but this year they're everywhere.) Also frappes are definitely milkshakes in my experience (while 'milkshake' I think is just milk and syrup? or a more liquid milkshake? idk, where I come from, we just have milkshakes and malts and concretes.)