Thanks to the economic downturn the country has been facing, several local businesses have gone under recently. These are places that are well established, in some cases being fixtures in the community for decades. Alas, their time has come and gone, and they had to close for good. It’s sad, I agree, but there is a bright side. I have been going to a lot of auctions and finding some neat stuff I can use in my own business. I have a small construction firm, mostly for swimming pools and small structures. We don’t build houses, we build the extra stuff your house didn’t come with! I always have an eye out for construction supplies on the cheap, so imagine my excitement when I found a shipping container filled with rebar rods, wire ties, and dozens of spools of rod wire and bar wire! I checked my bank account to see what my budget was, and set about winning the auction for all the rebar rods and wire ties. I did win it, and much to my surprise the lot also came with the shipping container, too. I had no idea what I was going to do with a twenty foot long shipping container, but I had to find a way to move it back home. No easy chore, seeing as how heavy rebar rods and spools of bar wire and rod wire can be! Even with the extra expense of having it all shipped back to the construction site, acquiring so much bar wire, rod wire, and rebar rods is a huge win for us.