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Jeepers! This is quite a thread! :celebrate Dare I make another suggestion? :idunno

This is no ‘big find’ but it’s a useful thing that just required an hour or a little more of my spare time. A few days ago, I found this folding chair left at the same little recycle-bins parking lot where I found the discarded festival chairs I mentioned in the opening post on this thread...

Well this thread is turning out great! :) It might be even better — is that possible? — if we maybe posted a pic now and then of a favorite thing that we found for free. Whuddya think?

:gigI can relate.

Quite a picture you painted, milkmansdaughter! Care to say anything about the sources that have been typical? (besides the people who were moving or downsizing) Oh yeah, your post reminded me of direct give-aways. A guy once gave me a wood-fired cookstove after I'd done his household a couple...

True, very true. ⛄

Yes, happy Thanksgiving to Americans. We had ours a month ago... Further north, growing season ends earlier, harvest-festival time comes earlier.

Our household has frequently used one... but my wife takes the lead on that. I do most of the grape, blueberry, strawberry, and raspberry cultivation. (Though my wife likes to pick raspberries and cut out the old canes at the end of the season.) Besides fresh eating, we freeze some of our...

Psstt! Keep the plan a secret and only your friends here will know "how he financed his Lamborghini". ;):clap

Well, it's like that around here too. A lot of people living close to the edge, so it's sort of a competitive environment, you could say. Which is why I've considered myself very fortunate sometimes to have come across the kind of things I mentioned. It's definitely not like you can find just...

Welcome pippomky75. Sounds like you're getting established with zest on your land. Also seems implied that you've got a good source of water there. Great! (Is there really any market for tumbleweed, or is that a Nevada quip?)

Well, treerooted & Bee, you've got a point about being tuned-in by the locals. And you've reported on real good stuff! One year, we crossed paths with a fellow we don't know well. But he operates a serious log-house building operation (employs himself and a small number of other guys). Well...

milkman’s daughter’s “free wood” thread in the DIY forum has spurred me to try starting another thread. I hope its theme will encourage others here to post.:frow I shared my story of finding a compressor air tank for free at the local recycling bin parking lot. If anyone missed it and is...

Yeah, I screwed that up, didn't I ?! Well, I'm not used to expressing temperatures in Fahrenheit. I guess I made us seem hardier up here than we actually are. :p Although a whole bunch of Canadians really are that hardy.

Most of Canada has much harsher winters (colder, more snow, more winds) than we do where I'm located. Of course, it's true that even here in the months of, say, December through February, you could die sleeping outside overnight in the average sleeping bag. We know how to dress for winter, how...

What I find hard in winter are those days that we refer to as "socked in". Meaning, when the cloud cover makes the daylight hours — which are already brief, because of how far north of the equator we are — dim. Even though our colder days can be four or four-and-a-half months long, I find...

We’re getting a little heatwave here.:sick It’s been as high as 40*F outside today, and the forecast for overnight is only down to 28*F. Unexpected by virtue of the recent cold and the fact that it got chilly for a while back in September. What’s happening for us is that we’ve got cloud...

Wow! We almost never get down to -20*F here. Now that the picture of your winters is getting clearer to me, I'd say ours are not brutal. What's happening is we've been getting this weird early winter, starting several weeks ago. But you're temps will eventually go down and surpass ours, in...

We're just a little ways north of the U.S. border, more or less above Idaho. We're slightly warmer here than the average winter temps in North Dakota. Many parts of Canada get colder winters, ones that would be comparable to Minnesota, and if you lived up northward in Canada the temps would be...

I doubt we'll see 55* again until maybe April. Well, 55* Fahrenheit is 12* on our centigrade/celsius temp scale... but my statement still stands. Any breeze & humidity during the day can make is seem colder. We've been having days that are a couple degrees on either side of freezing, and...