Ever thought of running a second hand store? When I was a kid my father took me to second hand stores on many a Saturday. I still have one memory of those Saturday "hunts," that being a Canadian made maple toboggan. I dreamed of owning a second hand store, aka junk store, for many years, but marriage made me clean up my messy ways.
Let me ask you, does fetching those specialty oldies, give you the same "butterflies" you experience when you are hunting smallish, or larger game?
Everyone has a junk pile. Comes in different forms but none the less...a junk pile. Mine is hidden in a crawl space. Call it my store and all my needful things are there. Oh yes, there are some treasures that I know I have, but darn the pile is too deep to find. Maybe someday.
Oh my beautiful junk pile , 1985 ford short bus , 85 nissan Sentra (ultimate geekmobile) antique car parts, windmill blades , rusty metal cans, pulleys , funky doors with 70s glass , old windows , rusty wire, typewriters , phones , , ,,,,,,,,, why you ask ? Appreciation of the old , salvation from dumpsters , future fantastic projects 💃💃💃
We hauled 4 trailer loads of someone else's junk off our land and out of our barn when we moved here. Note the distinction: "someone else's" junk! It's never the same as your OWN junk which you specifically pick for your OWN future projects!
One example: We had to haul hundreds of gallons of used stinky vegetable oil away because the past owners planned to turn it into biodiesel or something. Just ICK!!
Wow, that's a precious one! 👏 Love that term of "pile of potential". In my family we have a special word for things that could get useful one day - "przydasie" (that's in Polish).
I have a several junk piles myself, but on a much muuuch smaller scale (I do not own any backyard or basement). One of these piles contains some old music devices (walkmans, discmans, mp3 players, earphones, and stuff like that). The second one is very colorful and formed with all sorts of cables, wires, and spiky, shiny computer parts. And the third pile is filled with sentimental stuff like holiday cards, love letters, beer bottle caps, buttons, stickers, coasters from all around the world, etc. There's also this box full of folders with clippings from old newspapers and magazines that I gathered in my collagist era. I think I won't ever get rid of any of them.
😆😆😆 I so know what you mean! Just wait till you get into welding and fabricating. Then the pile gets even bigger because scrap steel can always be used to make that needed bracket or tool.
My scrap pile is pretty bad (good). Ranging from 2 complete and running Land Cruisers with rusted out frames, half a 20 foot sea can of Land Cruiser parts (including 3 diesel engines and transmissions, a bunch of 40 series body parts, and a mint frame), a parts car Suzuki Vitara (for my mom's car), a LOT of steel tubing, flat bar, pipe, a few generators that need repairs 🙄, a riding mower that I need the engine out of to upgrade my saw mill, and some left over chimney parts. This doesn't even include all the electrical and plumbing parts and wire that is in the house basement or the wood working things like milled boards and a cabinet needing restoration.
I'm trying not to let it get out of control and look like a junk yard.
My neighbour has 70 years of ranching life spread across his yard. There's stuff buried in the grass everywhere! That is something I do not want to become.
Ever thought of running a second hand store? When I was a kid my father took me to second hand stores on many a Saturday. I still have one memory of those Saturday "hunts," that being a Canadian made maple toboggan. I dreamed of owning a second hand store, aka junk store, for many years, but marriage made me clean up my messy ways.
Let me ask you, does fetching those specialty oldies, give you the same "butterflies" you experience when you are hunting smallish, or larger game?
Carver Glen
Everyone has a junk pile. Comes in different forms but none the less...a junk pile. Mine is hidden in a crawl space. Call it my store and all my needful things are there. Oh yes, there are some treasures that I know I have, but darn the pile is too deep to find. Maybe someday.
Keeping that pile of potential! Poetic! :)
Oh my beautiful junk pile , 1985 ford short bus , 85 nissan Sentra (ultimate geekmobile) antique car parts, windmill blades , rusty metal cans, pulleys , funky doors with 70s glass , old windows , rusty wire, typewriters , phones , , ,,,,,,,,, why you ask ? Appreciation of the old , salvation from dumpsters , future fantastic projects 💃💃💃
We hauled 4 trailer loads of someone else's junk off our land and out of our barn when we moved here. Note the distinction: "someone else's" junk! It's never the same as your OWN junk which you specifically pick for your OWN future projects!
One example: We had to haul hundreds of gallons of used stinky vegetable oil away because the past owners planned to turn it into biodiesel or something. Just ICK!!
True wealth is to have an indoor junk pile.
A patio window that was going to be used for a green house that has never happened.
Wow, that's a precious one! 👏 Love that term of "pile of potential". In my family we have a special word for things that could get useful one day - "przydasie" (that's in Polish).
I have a several junk piles myself, but on a much muuuch smaller scale (I do not own any backyard or basement). One of these piles contains some old music devices (walkmans, discmans, mp3 players, earphones, and stuff like that). The second one is very colorful and formed with all sorts of cables, wires, and spiky, shiny computer parts. And the third pile is filled with sentimental stuff like holiday cards, love letters, beer bottle caps, buttons, stickers, coasters from all around the world, etc. There's also this box full of folders with clippings from old newspapers and magazines that I gathered in my collagist era. I think I won't ever get rid of any of them.
😆😆😆 I so know what you mean! Just wait till you get into welding and fabricating. Then the pile gets even bigger because scrap steel can always be used to make that needed bracket or tool.
My scrap pile is pretty bad (good). Ranging from 2 complete and running Land Cruisers with rusted out frames, half a 20 foot sea can of Land Cruiser parts (including 3 diesel engines and transmissions, a bunch of 40 series body parts, and a mint frame), a parts car Suzuki Vitara (for my mom's car), a LOT of steel tubing, flat bar, pipe, a few generators that need repairs 🙄, a riding mower that I need the engine out of to upgrade my saw mill, and some left over chimney parts. This doesn't even include all the electrical and plumbing parts and wire that is in the house basement or the wood working things like milled boards and a cabinet needing restoration.
I'm trying not to let it get out of control and look like a junk yard.
My neighbour has 70 years of ranching life spread across his yard. There's stuff buried in the grass everywhere! That is something I do not want to become.
Happy hunting for new "junk".