Empty Camper Shell and Successful Craigslist Shopping

 The past few weeks have been really busy with demolition, purging rooms, looking at land to park the Kozy Kottage, and preparing for a camping trip that we have been planning for months to visit the Joel Salatin farm. 

Here is the latest of what has been going on in the Kozy Kottage destruction.  After going through layers of mouse poo filled insulation (YUCK!), foam board, carpet, vinyl flooring, and paneling we have finally reached the aluminum frame.

 As I am writing this my husband has the sawzall cutting through the aluminum frame so hopefully by the end of the week he will have the frame cut off of the trailer.

We love the idea of re-purposing and found people that have been able to use some of the pieces that we don't want.  The windows and door were sold to someone who was building a small camper on their truck, the propane furnace was given to a lady who needed heat for her camper that she currently lives in, and the aluminum frame will be sold/bartered to someone that is building a fishing icehouse.

*My own plug for homeschooling* Through this project we are traveling picking up Craigslist finds throughout New Hampshire.  Today we were talking about the places and decided to flag each spot on our New Hampshire map as a geography lesson for our son.  My son loves to talk to people! Needless to say, he has done lots of talking the past few weeks.  This has been a great all around homeschool project.

We have found some great deals on Craigslist! I have become a Craigslist addict savvy shopper.  A couple of days ago, I got an alert for some free Andersen windows.  After several emails we scheduled a day to go pick them up.  These are heavy duty, double paned, casement windows. This saved us tons of money! They are in great condition and did I mention heavy.  If the ladies of church are reading this, start sneaking in some muscle building protein in your husbands diet because we need the extra muscle for the day we put that beast of a window in the frame. 

The Beast of All Windows

 

 The next Craigslist find we picked up today that was 20 minutes down the road will become sheathing.  We found 20 pieces of OSB in excellent condition for $54.  We need a total of 37 for our Kozy Kottage so this was a huge blessing.  Normally, these cost around $9 a sheet so we basically got 14 pieces for free! The guy threw in a piece of plywood and some other scrap pieces of OSB.  This utility trailer that we built for less than $500 has been a great tool the past few days!

I just LOVE our trailer!

I am off to go rest the back after attempting to help lift those heavy windows. May need to throw in some of that protein in my smoothies.