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RE: Up-Cycling Material for the Homestead ...Let the Scavenging Frenzy Begin!
While a good long ways from Hollywood, we also had a source of waste materials for a long time. My husband worked at a hospital in the Maintenance dept and then as a Project Manager for 17 years. He brought home all kinds of thrown out stuff: Civil Defense water barrels (so handy, used all the time for the last 20 years); enough plywood and stud panels to build our entire wood shed; the copper clad bay window in our butchershop, and I could go on and on. But all good things come to an end and he left the hospital over 20 years ago.
Free stuff like that is great!
I think I forgot to mention that when I say Hollywood, I am talking about the industry. We are in New York City!
But anyways, yeah it's amazing how much hospitals and schools will throw away. There's a hospital we work at from time to time and their dumpster is always filled with construction material and weird machines!
It's so great you guys benefited from your husband's work that way.