[chuckinca]

In New Orleans during Mardi Gras you attend the daily parades and the people on the floats toss beads to everyone (no show offs allowed at the parades due to half the crowds being kids)(pretty girls do get the most beads tho - we called my daughter's sister in law "the bead magnet"). You collect as many beads as you can (maybe a large suitcase full) and then during the evening after the parades are done you go down to the Quarter (no kids allowed) and get up on a night club balcony over Bourbon Street and toss the beads away to the less fortunate folk on the street below. Sort of a recycling project.