You know you are a "reuse everything" person when....

Decision made. It stays. a similar sized chair that is a normal mundane thing of modern make, objectively in better shape, will get scavenged for parts and go instead. I can get another modern desk chair if I ever need one. I can't get more oak ones that are probably as old as I am.

:D
Yay!
I go take apart another chair, and put the first one back together.  
I pulled the black fabric off the bottom to look when I realized how HEAVY it was... Oak and steel are heavy.

... when the "bone pit" is where funky chicken carcasses and other bones that have no other use end up. Better than the landfill. It's just a skinny barrel in the ground with a dog-proof cover on top.

Curiously, a year ago the bone pit was dead full. The insect decomposer crew has nibbled it down two feet! Lots of room to add more.

Someday I'll get around to emptying the pit and charring/crushing all the cleaned off bones for my garden.

Quick comment on that chair, I weighed all the pieces (I can't wrassle the whole chair onto the scale) it weighs about 45 pounds. For an office chair, that's... wow. Oak and steel.

Ra Kenworth wrote:When you don't just .... [reuse] ...
But ... also stopping by the roadside to rescue
someone else's broken parasol .... for shading [transplants]

I am counting repurposing roadside trash a solid upscale! parasols for the garden
Used for transplants, and also for droughts

A year since my last post for transplants, the fabric on the parasols disintegrated, now substituting reused plastic garbage bags - mulch sheets - not quite as good as fabric for shading -- on the skeleton frames of parasols

once upon a time the shading / mulch sheets held ashes - bags were washed and dried over the brush waiting on the campfire spot and the worst three were opened up lengthwise to make plastic mulch over compost and for an attempt at sweet potatoes (no go: just a bit too cold here)

Oh and a scrounged upside down playpen that had been slept in by puppies for shading!