Your junk my treasure

It's funny how we Americans look at something we are done with. We either throw it away or give it away. Most people with comfortable lives just throw it away or give it to "the needy." Well that concept is funny to me now.
I started out throwing stuff away, having a garage sale (which I would never be caught dead shopping at one before we moved to Haltom City) or giving it to the needy (You know those people who live in the trashy part of town with nothing but what we give them). God really changed this concept for me. We once got this computer desk free from my work gently used. When we were done with it we put it by the garbage dump. We lived in apartments at the time and that same day we were going somewhere and siting at the light in the back of a truck was our old computer desk. The one meant for the dump. We knew it was ours by the missing parts.
We were so jazzed by this. How cool someone else found it useful. Fast forward 3 years. Most of our out door toys, and chairs are from someones trash pile that they were getting rid of. We also pulled out a wooden bench that we have totally stripped down and replaced any material with new. Old picture frames that we still need to refinish.
We now trash dive. It's not really diving because in part of town people leave things they don't want on the curb for others to take. We dont like to waste and so we keep passing it around. I love that we do it and now I cant stand that somethings will go to the trash dump it even a part of it can be used. It's called recycle, not wasting. sharing, another man's treasure.