When we purchased the house back in March, we made sure to include a clause that would allow us to purchase the house “as-is.” Though this meant lots and lots of cleaning up, it also meant that we inherited quite a few useful items. After all, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure 😉

After several renters  and owners there was tons of stuff filling the garage and basement- everything from yard tools to appliances to furniture. There was even a stack of old love letters from the early 90’s (which made for HI-larious reading material, I might add).

There was also tons of scrap metal scattered around.

We took the first load to Hoosier Metal Recycling a couple of weeks ago and got a nice little bonus to help us pay for some of the materials that we have been using to repair the house.

One of the items we scrapped was a homemade go-cart left by one of the former tenants. Raul begged for weeks on end to keep the go-cart so that he could fix it up and ride it later, but I think it would have been more work than it was worth- and we definitely don’t have any time for any extra work at the moment! I had to bribe Raul with the promise of a new go-cart in the near future in order for him to part with this beloved piece of found trash, er treasure 😉

Even when it was already loaded in the trailer and ready for its final ride to the scrap yard he didn’t want to let go!