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Fellow do-it-yerselfers, support habitat for Humanity
15 years ago
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Support your Habitat for Humanity place, do-it-yerselfers. Those places are not only FUN to go through, but you'd be amazed what you can find.
Today we went looking for something. Mom needed a birthday gift. I primised I'd help her get what she wanted, we didn't know if she preferred a bed or a new front door or what. So today we went out to decide and BOY did we have fun!
Habitat for Humanity is a lot like GoodWill or something like that. But it's more than just furnature. It's like a used Home Depot. Sometimes before a house is tore down they gut it, take out the stuff that's still good. Say a house burns down but has brand new triple pane windows, those get yanked out and gioven to a place like Habitat for Humanity. Everything, complete bathroom fixtures, hot tubs, toilets (ew), entire lighting systems, patio doors, interior and exterior doors, kitchen cabinets and stoves and fridges, complete sets of windows complete with rails and frames.
Since it's a charity they also get donations from scratch n dent sections from Home Depot and Lowes and such. When we walked in we checked out the beds, found mom a NICE antique headboard. $15. I found a bathtub so I can soak (Sometimes soaking in a hot bath is so much better on joints than a shower. Especially if standing up hurts) I got a DEEP iron bath tub for $40.
A set of REALLY nice decorative floor tiles for $1.50 each (35 of them, but we put them back. Not thick enough in our opinion)
But the best part came at the end. Lowes just donated a truck full of heavy steel security front doors with decorative glass. Real nice and very well insulated. We found one with this nice stained glass (Well, not stained glass but frosted, tinted, and textured glass window)
New from Lowe's? $600. Our price because the door frames they came with were broken? $250. We don't need the frame, the door itself wasn't damaged.
How about black marble floor tile, good 1/4 inch thick stuff, with gold foil and flecks for $3.00 each. Price new... $11 each.
Fancy offce chair, new at WalMart $150. Used from Habitat for Humanity... $30.
Plus we start getting our new roofs and a new shed this week. Maybe even tomorrow. We had a BIG hail storm last year and the insurance company is paying in full for a new roof on the house, garage, small shed, and completely replacing the tin shed.
Good year to be a house.
Today we went looking for something. Mom needed a birthday gift. I primised I'd help her get what she wanted, we didn't know if she preferred a bed or a new front door or what. So today we went out to decide and BOY did we have fun!
Habitat for Humanity is a lot like GoodWill or something like that. But it's more than just furnature. It's like a used Home Depot. Sometimes before a house is tore down they gut it, take out the stuff that's still good. Say a house burns down but has brand new triple pane windows, those get yanked out and gioven to a place like Habitat for Humanity. Everything, complete bathroom fixtures, hot tubs, toilets (ew), entire lighting systems, patio doors, interior and exterior doors, kitchen cabinets and stoves and fridges, complete sets of windows complete with rails and frames.
Since it's a charity they also get donations from scratch n dent sections from Home Depot and Lowes and such. When we walked in we checked out the beds, found mom a NICE antique headboard. $15. I found a bathtub so I can soak (Sometimes soaking in a hot bath is so much better on joints than a shower. Especially if standing up hurts) I got a DEEP iron bath tub for $40.
A set of REALLY nice decorative floor tiles for $1.50 each (35 of them, but we put them back. Not thick enough in our opinion)
But the best part came at the end. Lowes just donated a truck full of heavy steel security front doors with decorative glass. Real nice and very well insulated. We found one with this nice stained glass (Well, not stained glass but frosted, tinted, and textured glass window)
New from Lowe's? $600. Our price because the door frames they came with were broken? $250. We don't need the frame, the door itself wasn't damaged.
How about black marble floor tile, good 1/4 inch thick stuff, with gold foil and flecks for $3.00 each. Price new... $11 each.
Fancy offce chair, new at WalMart $150. Used from Habitat for Humanity... $30.
Plus we start getting our new roofs and a new shed this week. Maybe even tomorrow. We had a BIG hail storm last year and the insurance company is paying in full for a new roof on the house, garage, small shed, and completely replacing the tin shed.
Good year to be a house.
Plus buying from these guys is helping a charity. Habitat for Humanity uses money and supplies they get to build houses for the poor, annd help rebuild homes that are nearly destroyed.