One Man’s Trash

     My Dad always told me that one mans trash was another mans treasure and through the years I have found this to be so true.  Now with Ebay, flea markets and garage sales this idea has expanded in truth.  My Dad loved to repair broken toys and give them to kids who needed them as a hobby.  He used to go to the garbage dumps and pick up bikes, wagons, etc and work on fixing them up and putting them in our yard with a free sign on them.  Now with the times being hard this same concept can turn your hidden talents into extra cash.

     I have a friend who loves to work with wood but has found the price of wood has risen so that he can not make any money building new so he goes toall kinds of sales and buys old furniture.  He repairs, refinishs, or reconstructs and sells for a profit.  This gives the buyer a piece of furniture they need or want, saves the waste of wood and lets him do what he loves. 

   The things that we all have laying around our house that the kids don’t  play with anymore, the dishes we don’t use, the clothes we can’t wear,etc.  The list could go on for ever.  This could bring you needed cash and the person buying the very item they needed but could not buy new.  The help that this could bring to each other is huge and rewarding.  Less things in our landfills, extra money in our pockets and meeting the needs of our fellow americans. 

     Our relatives who started this great nation always used barter or trade.  They made out pretty well and maybe some of their ideas should become ours.  If you can build start to restore, if you sew start to repair or renew, if you can knit or tat make beautiful pieces.

     We must start to help our selves and to recycle for the needs of our fellow.  In the end we all profit.