The Lesson in Not Wasting
I am pretty much like many of you. We have one closet in our house that is a complete write off. It is completely filled with shopping bags (we use green ones now), one shelf full of cans and cleaning materials, brooms and god only knows what else. Every time we open the door it's a nightmare trying to find things. So my other half wants some proper shelves built so we can get it organized.
What are my options? Heading off to a lumber or hardware store and buying some pieces of wood to build the shelves more than likely. But first I go down to the basement and start looking for any left over material and there I find it. An old piece of tv furniture that we replaced a few months back. The shelving from it once cut make perfect shelves and I have some left over 2×4 pieces under my work bench to use as brackets.
So I have my shelves and they didn't cost me a penny. I recycled some old pieces of wood left over from an old piece of furniture and from an old project. If you want to save some money don't throw out things like wood or building material that you might be able to use down the road. The same goes with anything that you think you might be able to turn into something else.
