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  • Hauling it away was the hardest part

    The first time I was able to buy a product and “flip” it for a profit was an old porcelain doll. I found it at a local yard sale, cleaned it up, and posted it on Ebay. That doll cost me two bucks, and I sold it for forty! After that I was hooked, and […]

  • I can’t believe I found all this wire!

    My buddy Gus and I have been haunting the local junkyard and scrap yard for the last few years. I am in construction, and he rebuilds old cars, so we are both constantly searching for old parts we can reuse. They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and I can tell you that […]

  • What to do with all this rebar

    She called around to several local building contractors, and had them come over, examine the rebar rods and wire ties, and then make us an offer Josie and I were so excited to move into our very first house. It wasn’t the biggest house in the world, or the nicest, but it was 100% ours! […]

  • Using rebar as the base for the tree house

    My Uncle Mike was a deranged hillbilly genius, and I say this as a compliment. Mike was smart enough to be an engineer, but he dropped out of high school to become a pot farmer. In my teenage years I spent a lot of time on his property, which adjoined the property owned by my […]