I am the scrounger queen! A dumpster diver from way back and I feel so much satisfaction in getting something for free that I brag about these things all the time! Not cheap......SMART!
Right now, the boys and I are tearing down an old building to reclaim the lumber to frame my 35 ft. x 4 ft. raised garden beds....8 of them! And will have lumber left over to build 3 large cold frames and a wood shed! We also will be building wooden gates with this wood! We also got 4 large sheets of corrugated tin, about 75 ft. of chain link fencing with 2 lg. metal gates and 1 sm. and all the posts! We found an old scythe in this building and he said we could have that also!
The cold frames will be topped with shower doors removed from the bathroom and one old screen door someone gave me.
My roosts are from very long tomato stakes that were here....they are the perfect diameter! I fenced in the rest of the yard with old fence posts I found in one corner of the lot, along with some partial roles of wire found in one of the old outbuildings. Heck, my whole place is made from donated or scrounged items!
I bought a vintage (30's) rattan settee and rocking chair from a road side junk sale...$65, and recovered the springs with some "horse hair" taken from a baby mattress someone had put out in the trash. I make new foam cushions from an old foam mattress I found in the attic and from a foam mattress topper my mom gave me.
I scrounged heavy cardboard boxes from work to tack up in the ceiling and walls of my old henhouse for insulation and someone gave me some aluminum storm windows. I will be putting them in the walls of the coop for additional lighting this winter.
One old fellow heard me admiring his ten hole galvanized nest box unit (with fold down roosts) that was behind his barn.... and gave it to me!
I have found, with enough white paint, anything can look new! Scrounge on, America! It keeps the environment AND the economy in better shape! If that is cheap, then I am one cheap hussy! LOLOL
