Judith, I know we talked a lot on the phone last week and since then I have been brainstorming. I was just wondering from everyone has anyone kept track of how much they have spent on any of their projects or tools? I just did a quick inventory of how much I have spent in the last year and half of playing with this and I estimated that I have spent a little over $60 so far.
Some of the stuff I have was given to me such as the 5 gallon buckets and now I have 40 gallon plastic barrels that were donated by my local community college.
I also just made a contact with a local book recycler that buys books of value. Weekly he throws a dumpster load of books away that cannot be resold or have little or no value to them. He has given me cartblanche to salvaging as much as I want. He also told me to mention this to the group because there are book recyclers everywhere but especially close to community and state colleges. Right now he is working on getting me a list of recyclers that he knows of and links to where more could be found. Soon as I get that information I will post it here for everyone. :)
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, JUDITH WILLIAMS <williams_judith@...> wrote:
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> Follow progress on the new project at http://www.papercretebyjudith.com/blog
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