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""\"\\\"\\\\nWalking around our home recently, I realized that about 85% of our furniture was given to us by people who were downsizing, inherited from deceased relatives, or salvaged from someones trash and refinished.\\\\n\\\\nWe think long and hard before we dispose of anything. You have to be careful doing this so that you dont end up with a lot of clutter, which would make finding things difficult, and you have to be willing to part with things if you really cant come up with a way to reuse\\\\\\\/repurpose\\\\\\\/upcycle them, but with a little effort, most things can be used again when theyve outlived their original purpose. I thought Id share a few recent ones from around here.\\\\n\\\\nThis past summer my mother-in-law downsized from a large home to a condo. She and my husbands father (who passed away about a year and a half ago) lived in their home for many years and had acquired a lot of furniture that was stored in their basement. She needed to get rid of this furniture before moving. Weve acquired some of these items from her and have been having an interesting time figuring out how to fix them up and reuse them.\\\\n\\\\nOne such item is an old pedal sewing machine. My MIL has two others, both of which work, so we didnt feel like this one needed to be saved for actual sewing. All summer it served as a plant stand in the garden, but the summer rains warped the cabinet badly.\\\\n\\\\n