Subject: Re: [Homestead] The value of scrap lumber
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:24:33 -0700
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.