One man's trash is another man's treasure

[HoneyBeeHomestead]

Hello everyone. My neighbor recently built a pole barn and had a bunch of leftover steel that he threw into our scrap metal pile! We have someone that comes and collects it every so often. I was surprised when I saw whole uncut sheets, roughly 3 x 6 feet, and some that size with only small sections cut out. There were also tons of smaller pieces, 2 x 4 ft, 2 x 2 ft, and a bunch in between. I put it in a neat pile to use for future coop projects. It doesn't look like much in the picture, but it's enough to make as many chicken tractors as my heart desires! I can't believe that he would consider it trash, but I immediately thought of the saying, "One man's trash is another man's treasure." So that got me thinking: does anyone else here have any treasures you found from what another considered trash?

 

[Debbie292d]

We adopted a cat that was someone's "trash." She patrols our yard and coop area for mice. We have her on camera chasing off a skunk without getting sprayed.

 

[HoneyBeeHomestead]

We adopted a cat that was someone's "trash." She patrols our yard and coop area for mice. We have her on camera chasing off a skunk without getting sprayed.

Chasing off that skunk must've taken some skill!
We have had many barn cats, many of whom I think people drop off. They keep our barns close to mice/rat free. Very rarely do I ever see one. But in turn we feed them and give them a nice place to stay. Good barn cats are treasures!

 

[notabitail]

I found a laptop in the neighbors' rubbish bin once. The hardware in said laptop is too old to be "usable", but I quite like such things. I collect old tech and as a result it got added to my collection.

 

[HoneyBeeHomestead]

Old tech like that is cool, especially compared to what we have now. I have one of my grandfather's old cell phones, one of the brick-sized ones with the antenna. It seems like it would be so heavy to carry around, lol.

 

[notabitail]

I found a laptop in the neighbors' rubbish bin once. The hardware in said laptop is too old to be "usable", but I quite like such things. I collect old tech and as a result it got added to my collection.

Trash can laptop:

 

[sourland]

Major score!

 

[CombNWattles]

lol in our Minecraft realm whenever I find a structure my friends have looted, I check the chest just in case, cause they’re pros and don’t need a few measly iron ingots

 

[BDutch]

A few weeks ago I saw someone had dumped a piece of sturdy vinyl flooring next to the garbage station of an appartement building at the end of our street. A piece of flooring of only 1.5 x 2 meter. Half of it , is perfect to use as flooring in the playhouse coop I have.

 

[HoneyBeeHomestead]

lol in our Minecraft realm whenever I find a structure my friends have looted, I check the chest just in case, cause they’re pros and don’t need a few measly iron ingots

That's a good one! Lol