I read your post and wondered if I had blacked out and wrote it myself!! We just had that discussion here a couple of weeks ago! I used to live in the Chicago area, where stores and wood was cheap and plentiful. Now, living here in Nova Scotia, I am three hours from Halifax and the nearest hard wood supplier (although the store is awesome!). I only get there a couple of times a year and I drive a Ford Mustang so I usually need to get my boyfriend's dad to let us use his SUV. At least my BF is now interested in scroll sawing and woodworking and he is even designing his own patterns (I think he got the bug!) so he has more of an understanding. The more he does, the more he sees the 'value' in what people call 'scraps'. He isn't totally convinced yet though, and still puts a price on each scrap ("that piece is only worth two dollars", etc.) But now he is starting to do segmentation and I noticed that he isn't throwing quite as much out.
In fairness to him, we do have a small place, but I look at anything larger than a match stick twice before I throw it out!
"Waste not, want not!"
Sheila
