Trash Shoppin'

[jcjava]

Well, it is the day after Christmas and someone mentioned getting stuff from the trash. I laughed and thought...hey tonight (Wednesday) is the night before trash day, plenty of people have tons of Christmas trash.

So, we went out for about 5 hours just driving around and looking through neighborhoods (with a 1 hour stop for food) and this is what we got. (not all electronic items have been thoroughly tested, just plugged into our ac/dc adaptor in the car)

• A Soccer Goal(nice metal one with net intact)
• Adjustable Basketball goal
  
• nice metal and wood shoe rack
• Telescope with stand
• rechargeable Ryobi 4 volt drill with bits and attachments
• scanner fax printer copier with sheet feeder and network capability
• unused vhs tapes (about 6)
• a nice folding camp chair (for use with our many bonfires here at the house)
• a cd/tape/radio
• art desk with adjustable tabletop and under top storage like this one
  
  
• metal frame papason chair (needs new cover, but is perfect for alex who likes to curl up in chairs)
• a nice bicycle with front and rear shocks and is really quite nice...even if we need to fix a few small things

I was gungho and Mike was all like bored till he started getting cool stuff.  He is now playing with the copier.  We are going out Sunday night to the nice part of town and seeing what we can find.  A few of these things are things we have wanted for a while just couldnt afford (like the soccer goal which is at least $75) and others and just fun things that we can use.    Just one way to Recycle-Reduce-Reuse!!

Alex is excited! he loves to recycle!  All night he kept saying "I love trash shopping!!!"  yeah, he was up till almost 5am with us, but being homeschoolers, we can sleep late :)
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