I think my husband would never, ever let me go to the feed store if that was the caseHe has finally seen the benefits of thrift stores and roadside finds. We are replacing the old wood windows in our barn and I take them out to the road 2-3 days before trash day and they always dissappear.
Okay, so my husband gets embarrassed when I ask for seemingly unwanted items. He refuses to stop if I spot something and has offered many times to buy me a car. My reply? I will accept a car but I KEEP MY TRUCK- I can't haul good finds in a car! An ad he said I shouldn't have placed for scrap lumber netted a 20'×20' building's worth of 2×4s and 2×6s that we have used to build an 8'×24' porch with roof and an outdoor brooder coop with a big stack of lumber left over. Lesson learned
As a kid I was embarrassed by my Dad "garbage picking". He used to rebuild bicycles and actually made some decent money fixing them up and selling them.Okay, so my husband gets embarrassed when I ask for seemingly unwanted items. Lesson learned
NICE!!!They have a neighborhood clean-up every year where my sister lives. i've gotten some great scores there. But now there are people driving around with trucks and large trailers, scooping nearly everything the moment it hits the curb. That's fine, better than having things crunched up and taken to the dump. Went there yesterday and managed to find some nice and needed stuff. Four plastic chairs to use in the chicken pens, a sturdy wooden bench for us and the goats, a louvered door i can fix and turn long-ways for a short fence, then some lattice - one large piece of plastic lattice and two smaller wooden ones which you can't see in the pic. Also got the rails from a crib. My sister took the side pieces to use as a trellis for her plants. i took the end pieces to use as fencing or gates. When you have goats, you always need fencing material.
