Hi there! I'm a mom from Ohio got hooked on scrapping 2 years ago when my grammas old house was tore down and they left the scrap behind. My dad said to take it up the road (I never knew it was there or that scrapping/recycling was big business) so we did and they gave us money! Light bulb went off over my head - I give them junk and they give me money! Soooooo........slowly I got into scrapping and now its become an obsession and taken over my life. My moms friends call her if they have something and my dad will go pick it up until I get there. Every Sunday I scrap in their town and they take turns going with me as spotters. My kids now come home and tell me if they saw something (as will one neighbor) and one will pick things up for me if he has an empty trunk or even call me with an ''Is this worth anything?''
I felt funny doing it the first time but not any more because it IS hard work, very hard work and it buys groceries or any tools I might need or think I might need and gas that doesn't have to come out of the household budget and allows me to work from home basically. If I'm not working in my yard or house I am either out scrapping or breaking things down in my garage - I even went and got extra recycling bins our town uses and use them to sort small metals I have broken down and aluminum. I also have compiled a tool for tool match that I keep at my parents house when I work from there so I dont have to haul tools back and forth, just stuff from garage sales that didn't cost an arm and a leg. I have learned a lot but still learn something new every now and then!! I look forward to checking out the rest of this site and how cool is this - I never thought I would be joining a scrap forum! lol!

cindy