Walking the Red Brick Road

Monday, November 17, 2008

Original salvaging trip

coffee stand/hospital cartWe’re going on a junking trip Saturday. I have heard of a possible broken-down organ in an old building south of here. I’d love to use that wood as a picture frame.

While I have one definite destination in mind, junking’s best part is grabbing whatever items opportunity presents. Once we visit the organ’s abandoned building, we’ll look for whatever else looks interesting.

The Game Warden, a/k/a Hubby, tries to limit my acquisitions to items that I see an immediate use for. But Hubby is not going Saturday. This is a girls’ day out. Hee, hee, hee!

I started salvaging by accident many years ago.

At the end of the 1986-87 school year, I saw an operative coffee pot that had been abandoned in an adjoining room. Irene and George came to see me about that time. I showed them what I’d found and we decided to see what else we might find. We went through all the rooms on my floor and picked up other interesting items. After that, we went through every room on every floor in every dorm on campus. We hauled off some very nice acquisitions. We found small appliances, furniture and clothes.

My mother was horrified at the waste. “You don’t leave things like that, do you?”

“Oh, no. Not this girl! You didn’t raise me like that.”

We made salvaging the dorms an annual tradition until we all moved away.

I still have a hospital nightstand from that very productive day so long ago. It’s now our coffee stand.

Labels: junking, my life, trash to treasure

posted by Roxie at 8:24 AM

2 Comments:

Blogger Jenni said...

My Mama raised me right too;o) Happy junking!

November 17, 2008 at 2:21 PM  
Blogger Roxie said...

Thanks. Looking forward to it.

November 18, 2008 at 4:35 PM  

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