My mom’s dad had a stroke later in life, so he had trouble getting around his property. Having someplace to sit was vital to being able to continue enjoying his property … I always wanted to do something similar for our property. We found an auction for dozens of benches at a nearby university — getting them home is an undertaking, and they need some cleanup. But we absolutely will have some place to sit anywhere on the farm now!
We’ve been looking for bookshelves for a long time — both Scott and I have a lot of books, and Anya has an ever growing collection of books. We found about a dozen shelves — cantilever metal library bookshelves — and paid six dollars for them all. Basically, the shelves cost our labor and fuel to remove them from the site.
Now, that was a lot of work. We spent two days loading the truck with shelf bits — they used two 15′ box trucks to move the shelves in, but we managed to pack it all quite densely and got all of the shelves packed into the pickup truck bed in two trips. When we counted them all, there are 16 double-sided shelves and a single sided shelf.
