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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

>  it was a shock when I realized that I didn't have anything with me to use.
> Up till that point I always took having scraps around as a given.
> Just something to think about...

I've had the same experience here in the city. Scrap all over the place 
back home but, here, I have had to accumulate that valuable stuff gradually.

One thing I have done is to buy the fifty-cent cut-offs at Home Depot 
whenever it made sense. The cutoffs are often four-foot pieces of one-by or 
two-by, which, laid across a shopping cart, allows easier carrying and 
unloading bags of mortar mix, cement mix, stucco mix, etc. than putting 
them down on a lowboy and then having to lift with the back instead of the 
legs.

Scrap lumber is like the stash of nuts, bolts, pipe, nails, washers, screws 
that one accumulates in a rural spot. Sure saves on town trips.