The ReStore stores are awesome.   I've found all sorts of GALOOT
appropriate items there.   Recently I found,  of all things,  a bunch of
Japanese style ryoba saw blades.   Blades only,  no handles.   I grabbed up
a few to make handles for them.   I really should get started on that.

Doc

John Holladay
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On Apr 20, 2015 9:49 PM, "CheekyGeek"  wrote:

> I'm passing this along in case other Galoots have such a place near them...
> We have a ReStore which is associated with Habitat for Humanity. I had seen
> the store for quite some time but had never gone in until a coworker told
> me I should go and that there was a lot of great stuff there. She had
> purchased a couple of vintage doors there.
>
> I'm not terribly "up" on exactly how the ReStore works, but I think it is
> basically a "Goodwill" for home improvement donations... everything from
> plumbing parts to doors to tile, to cabinets, countertops. There are some
> things new in boxes. The prices range from quite reasonable to almost
> ridiculously inexpensive. I imagine that any profits are put back into
> Habitat for Humanity.
>
> I had found a nice countertop made to fit into a corner a couple of weeks
> ago and so decided to pop in again this past weekend. In the last aisle,
> before I was going to leave the store empty-handed, I was stopped in my
> tracks by a beautiful, complete Stanley 358 Mitre Box with the original
> Atkins made saw with the Stanley etch. I determined that it wasn't a
> terribly vintage example, as I could see the Stanley blue paint on the
> legs, but it otherwise doesn't look any different from any other example
> I've seen. And, priced at $15 for the set, it had to follow me home.
>
> You can see if there is a ReStore near you by inputting your zip code here:
> http://www.habitat.org/local
>
> Darren Addy
> Alda, NE
>
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