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

 
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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.

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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.

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... 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.
 
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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.

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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!
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Repurposed garbage bags and roadside parasols for shading
Repurposed garbage bags and roadside parasols for shading
 
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Black Friday weekend, when "normal" people go shopping and spend lots of money....

The last two days, with three neighbors involved, I ended up with 3 boxes of canning jars, a pile of trampoline parts, and right around 300 pounds of decorator pumpkins! And at my cheap scratch and dent store, super cheap purple onions (.99 for 3 pound bags) and red wine vinegar (1.99 a gallon) to pickle them with!

Black Friday weekend, Pearl style...
My canner is about to be busy.

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Pearl that sounds like a perfect thanksgiving!
What makes more sense than spending Thanksgiving to put away food preserves! All those pumpkins! Like wow!

Trampoline parts: gotta love roadside scrounging! I have one being used as a tarp this winter, and a platform for a tree hammock tent next spring! I am hoping to use some of the supports to rig up an ama to a damaged canoe to make a prototype proa while fixing the canoe sidewall damage with a makeshift belt and trampoline springs -- also for a platform between the ama and the canoe !
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.... when your doorbell rings, a neighbor you have only spoken to a few times is at the door "Do you want a trampoline?" Why yes. Yes I do....    
So in the spring she'll tell me when and I'll add another to my collection.
:D

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

Well.. I think These are some 'pretty clear signs of Infection', no? ie: 'Perf-cut Ziplock-bag Box-top Scoop'...



Garbage?? Nope, not until it's been used awhile for transferring 'granulars' (salt, sugar, pepper, BP, whatever..) into small-mouth containers / vials, etc (that a Larger 'proper scoop' might be too 'enthusiastic' with...

..and look, the Photo even makes a nice Derp-face..

Some more crazy 'Don't Toss it - Re-Tool It!' ideas, over here:  https://permies.com/t/41572/Reduce-Recycle-RePurpose#3742775

Every Man Dies... Not Every Man Really Lives.

 
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My friend's flannel PJ's got chewed by a rat. I cut out all the good bits and made cozy covers for my hot rice packs.

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Found it!

jd hutton wrote:You know you are a "reuse everything" person when....


..You realize you might have a Few loose screws...

Every Man Dies... Not Every Man Really Lives.

 
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Pearl Sutton wrote:.... when your doorbell rings, a neighbor you have only spoken to a few times is at the door "Do you want a trampoline?" Why yes. Yes I do....    
So in the spring she'll tell me when and I'll add another to my collection.
:D


So, spring has sprung, and today I added a 14 foot trampoline to my collection. I was not going to try to scrounge any more, but when one walks up to my door and rings my bell...

I have a weird reputation in this neighborhood. Which, to be fair, I have earned every scrap of.  :D

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.... when you find yourself saying to your spouse, with a straight face
"so there is this cabinet someone threw into the empty lot up the street, i'm going to go drag it home tomorrow to make tree fertilizer with the dog shit."

(you know you've married a keeper when the response is, "mmkay. want help?")
 
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