Not necessarily trash such as milk jugs and packing peanuts, although that has happened - But more like items that people are planning to take to the Goodwill or broken pieces that people are trying to offload in their yard sales for $1. Growing up, my dad and granddad were always into thrifting/bargain hunting/picking, so naturally, I became rather fond of it all and begin doing it on my own as a sort of hobby. 

Today's featured project was a fun one! I found this solid pine dresser at a yard sale marked for $7.50...weird price, I know, but this person wasn't the brightest. I was in a smaller SUV and didn't have a tape measure, so I asked her to borrow one to make sure it would fit before I paid for it. Upon returning after confirming it would fit, the price was suddenly $15...Why? Well, some badass wannabe neighbor came over and started telling her everything was marked too low. Yeah. Lucky me. I handed her the tape back and was like, "Hey, uhh, wasn't that just marked $7.50 before I walked away?" - Her response? "Oh, uh, yeah...You saw that? Well, I guess you can have it for the $7.50."

I stripped the old fugly golden finish from the drawer faces and from the top of the dresser and stained them a beautiful black cherry. I then created my own chalk paint using Plaster of Paris and a flat paint called "urban sunrise" and covered the rest of the dresser in two coats of it. Once the paint was dry, I lightly distressed the edges and finished the entire dresser with a coat of wax. It turned out really nice...So nice, in fact, that I had to persuade @uglysweater that we didn't have space for it in our room!