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Financial Benefits of Shopping Reuse
Saving money! Who doesn’t love to save money. The great thing is that buying secondhand items is one of the easiest ways to save a lot of money. Especially in the purchasing of materials for your next remodel. We’ve all seen the headlines, inflation is through the roof and the cost of construction material is…
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Reusing may not be the most environmentally friendly option.
Gasp! It’s true, but to not leave you hanging, the answer, according to a study by MIT Daniel R. Cooper and Professor Timothy G. Gutowski from 2015 (link here) is that it is complicated. Specifically though, this is the case if the reuse is not able to replace new materials, or if the reuse is of an…
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Resources to Shop Reuse
Prices for everything are sky high, but you still want to get high quality materials for your home without paying an arm and a leg. We have the answer. Secondhand remodeling materials. Recently we covered what these materials are, why you should buy them and some places to find them. Today we want to highlight…
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How To Shop Reuse
On our quest to making the shopping of secondhand remodeling material more accessible we’ve explored what reuse material is, why we should shop it, and where to find these treasures. Today, we want to focus on some tips to make you a pro at finding gems. We feel this is extra helpful in the vast…
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Where To Shop Reuse
When I first started on this journey to help keep construction waste from going to the landfill, I thought I had such a great idea and was the only one who had thought of it. Luckily, as it turns out, I was very wrong. There are hundreds of organizations all across the country that have…
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Shopping Reuse Material is Almost Too Good To Be True
So you’re thinking of remodeling your home but you’re concerned about the high cost of materials? Or while looking at your soon to be remodeled kitchen or bathroom, you have a slight ting of guilt because none of the materials are really that bad? Maybe you wonder if replacing all these things means that they…
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What is Reuse?
It’s 88 degrees in late June, and in a neighborhood not too far from my DC apartment, there is a half-a-million dollar home being remodeled. Workers are running in and out of the wide open door, carrying cabinets, tiles, and appliances out to the 15-yard dumpster thats sitting out front while dust and debris piles…
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Turns Out You Can Find Ancient Roman Relics for $34.99 in Secondhand Stores.
According to a recent New York Times Story, Laura Young of Austin Texas was browsing a local Goodwill store when something caught her eye. It was on the floor with a yellow price tag on its face. Yet, she had a hunch that it could be more valuable than the $34.99 the tag priced it.…
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3 Main Reasons to Shop Reuse
Are you on the lookout for materials for a remodeling project? Then, using at least some secondhand construction materials is the way to go. They have become an extremely popular option in recent times. If you have never used these materials and want to know more about them, you have come to the right place.…
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Don’t demolish that house, take it down nicely.
We thought about naming this post, “You won’t believe what they are doing to old houses that should be destroyed?” but it felt too click bait, so we stuck with what you see up there. The impetus for this was a recent article by WIRED titled “Why Cities Want Old Buildings Taken Down Gently.” The…
