Building Supplies are starting to take over!

My husband and I have a 'bad habit' we love to shop online and in the discontinued and damaged areas of stores. One of our favorite haunts has recently become the Re-Store from Habitat for Humanity. We have purchased several things from these two stores in our area with significant savings to boot. This house is going to have beautiful solid wood doors that cost us $600.00 for the entire house. Granted we will have to build casings for them, but we have also found a local company that will build them for supplies and $20.00 each.

We have also found stuff online on Craigs list. We got the double drainboard sink I had been searching for for $75.00. We also found 3'0x5'0 windows, high energy efficiency, double pane glass, vinyl for $350.00 for 6 of them. The windows alone are a $650.00 savings!

One of our favorite purchases was one I found at a local LOWES. I was on the way home from the property one day and stopped at our Lowes on the way home. I was looking for bath fixtures and in my wanderings found a box marked $50.00 on a tub. I inquired with the salesperson in that department and she told me I'll show it to you but you probably won't want it because it is cracked. She pulled it out and it was indeed cracked at the top side and all the way through as well. The tub was plastic, a Kohler and a Jacuzzi! I still was not certain about this 'bargain' but waited until my partner in crime came home from work and had eaten dinner.
I told him of my find and his remark was, you bought it, right?
I said no I wanted him to see it first.
His first reaction was let's go now and check it out.
We got to the store and pulled out my 'prize'.
Yep it's cracked, he remarked. We'll get it anyway because I can probably use fiberglass to fix it.
Images of Chris's past boat repair adventures flashed in my mind.
This is not fiberglass it's plastic.
Then epoxy will fix it.
It appeared his mind was already made up.
We loaded our treasure onto a cart and then the murmurings began, a man remarked, Where did you find that? Another, Found you a bargain huh? Wow! said yet another. Chris's grin was evident by the time we got to check out. The girl at the counter said was that price for real?

The original price for the tub was $499.00. We walked out for $54.50. We got home and looked online for repair options and found a product called Plastiaid. 3 days and about $35.00 later we had a tub with lovely seashells made from candy molds adhered onto the surface and a crack repaired. All told it was a fun project.

If you are willing to take a chance on scratch and dent, the savings can be significant.
Look for the bargains they are there!
Oh wait I was probably ahead of you!