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Just because it's old and broken doesn't mean you can't breathe new life into something. Today we share some fun and easy ways you can turn things like empty water bottles and old shutters into useful and beautiful items for your home #upcycling #homedecor #recycling #thisoldhouse #bobvilla
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good afternoon everybody Welcome to
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ultra universe live under the official
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Rock Gloucester Network and today if
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you're a fan of upcycling or recycling
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we're going to share some cool things to
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do to spruce up the home so let's begin
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hey so Rob great topic today right we're
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talking about upcycling first of all
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let's just describe what does upcycling
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mean and then we'll jump into the
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article what is up okay sure so for
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those who might be confused upcycling
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versus recycling recycling is the actual
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process of turning your waste into
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something new whereas upcycling means
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you don't have to actually retrieve or
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turn it into anything you just use it
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for something else so upcycling is
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strictly the ability to make something
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out of something you have recycling is
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what it says on your bottles and cans
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you know this product will be used with
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90 whatever oh that makes sense okay
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that makes sense so recycling is
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important you need to recycle in order
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to save the waste however if you don't
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want to have waste to begin with or if
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you just want to kind of you know have
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some fun you can play around with some
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objects you have
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so all right this oldhouse.com if you
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guys don't remember that show it's
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actually back on Roku with a new series
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new uh host as well
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figured we'd enjoy that because Roku
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against everybody now yep um but this
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particular article comes from the
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original website 33 ways to upcycle old
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things we're not going to go through all
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of them but I picked through a bunch
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that I liked we're going to start out
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with the shutter uh which is just like
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along the list here there we go now old
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shutters don't have to be thrown away
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also being that it's wood it's very hard
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to get rid of it appropriately and most
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of the time you're going to end up with
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with dead wood that has no purpose so
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if you have some old shutters or maybe
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you know you're looking to replace some
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but they're fairly new you can use them
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as a board on this particular example
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they just took some of those what do
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they call them those bigger clips and
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they attach some notes some receipts
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looks like some uh greeting cards as
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well yeah it looks like pictures
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memorable things to
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kind of right and really all you all you
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do a lot of the times the shutters are
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already really cool you don't have to do
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anything other than maybe give it a
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quick rub down
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to clean it up or if you choose and you
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want to color grab your paint and you
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can paint them let it dry and you now
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have a board I don't what do you call
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them these days I don't know
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thank you that's what I'm thinking of I
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couldn't remember bulletin board I I
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think we should go out and just buy you
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know like used shutters because this is
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so clever I want to like put one in my
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office very very close yeah this is
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pretty cool all right so the next one I
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like right below is mason jars now you
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can do a lot however what they did was
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actually make a light fixture now keep
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in mind this kind of thing you're going
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to have to know how to be crafty and
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know how to do use your woodworking
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tools but if you want to just go
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simplistically hanging a mason jar on a
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appropriate rope and light gives you a
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new light fixture you don't have to go
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all out how they did it here this is a
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very fancy version I like it it's a
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little too much for me
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you know uh to look at but basically
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taking old mason jars cleaning them out
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and attaching them to your light fixture
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most of the time if you already have
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maybe a hanging light you know sometimes
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you just have kind of a light bulb you
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can just kind of attach it around now
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you might have to make sure that you uh
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secure it correctly so it doesn't fall
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but it looks like just some good twine
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some strong rope is really all you need
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for this but mason jars I love and mine
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are outside we use them as picture
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frames but mason jars are great because
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you really actually don't throw them out
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they're they're glass they're reusable
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you can wash them but if you so decide
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that your mason jars are getting old and
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you don't want to use them for for food
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you can perfect thing yeah exactly it's
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beautiful I think it's actually really
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really pretty
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now one that I thought was kind of
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simplistic but I know you kind of like
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this one the ice cube tray and bakeware
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idea great way to organize your drawer
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now for me you know it's kind of obvious
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kind of easy but look at the different
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shapes and sizes they have a muffin tin
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they have an ice cube tray they have I
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guess a mini loaf pan in there I think
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is what that is
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um but look at all the stuff you can do
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now this kind of goes to the drunk
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drawer thing if you have a lot of stuff
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in the drawer or maybe you just have you
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know a drawer where all of your
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silverware needs to go but you don't
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have a good silverware container right
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grab an old
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um
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and this is this is great and another
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thing I don't think it's actually in the
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article one of the things that I do here
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in the house
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um you can go to a an office supply
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store and get those file uh metal file
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holders they sit on your desk and it
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like literally has
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and what I do is I put that under my um
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one of the cabinets and I put all my
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baking pans in there and I literally
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keep them upright and it keeps them all
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sorted so along the same lines you
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repurposing re you know upcycling
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something that's used for one thing to
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be used for something else this is very
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cool very very yeah there you go now the
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next one you're going to love because
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you talk about the planting all the time
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yes water bottles for an indoor
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Greenhouse all you're going to do is
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slice off the bottom of the bottle
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pop it on top of your um whatever it is
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you're growing and after watering it
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you're going to have some plants
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um you know you've talked about doing it
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with food you can do with with regular
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flowers or plants as well but most all
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of us have some sort of bottle so why
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not go ahead and do that and I believe
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even with the bottom part too you can
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use that as kind of a drainage thing
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outside so if you slice off the bottom
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of your water bottle you can keep that
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bottom part and use it to collect you
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can I've seen people use it as a bird
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water
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hang it maybe even hang it and and have
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the bottom part with a hole in it so the
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water you know doesn't just stay stuck
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in there there you go yeah so this is
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pretty cool this is something that
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almost anybody can do and we're going to
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talk about gardening next week this is
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something that you can do inside
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um let me see what else oh the shipping
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palette this is really cool I know you
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love this one yeah I like this too so
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not everybody has them however working
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in retail before I used to be around
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them all the time because that's how all
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of the stuff came in now I actually
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don't know where they all went because
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usually we put them back on the thing
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and whoever dropped them off would come
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back and pick up the pallets probably
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for later use right though if you are
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someone who maybe uses them in your
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backyard or you might be the person who
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takes care of the pallets you might have
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a couple lying around so being that it's
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already outdoorsy why not make a place
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to put all of your outdoor tools you can
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see their shovels their hand trowels
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even their plants as well yeah if you so
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wanted to you can do this inside as well
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I'm not sure you'd have to have a pretty
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big wall to put it on because these
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things aren't small I like the idea of
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keeping it outside because you don't
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even have to hang it per se if you lean
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it against your wall
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you can still keep them out of the
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elements and have a nice little day and
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it looks like they painted it too so
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yeah it looked like they painted it and
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guys you know go click on that little
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there is actually some more information
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on on how to actually do this using S
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hooks and and you know how do you clean
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the palette when you get it home things
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like that so make sure you click on that
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link
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all right so the next one that I liked
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uh and I looked up what they were the
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balusters those are the pieces between
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your stair rail that can be repurposed
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um really all you need is probably some
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wood glue to glue the bottom because I
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think the stair rail is strictly the
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middle part but you can always get a
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base and what they did here in this
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picture was giant candlesticks right
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pretty freaking cool
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um I'm pretty sure if you just want to
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use it as Decor without the candles that
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works too oh there you go so they set a
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base a standard base 4x4 you can pick up
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at a home store so they glued that onto
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the bottom so this one's an easy one
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because there's nothing much to do other
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than kind of shine it out right now the
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doorknob one wasn't certain shooting to
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me but I know you kind of stopped and
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what the heck you know what's going on
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so you're using it as a way to hold back
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the blinds in a decorative way right all
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you got to do is you just need the screw
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to the doorknob you're basically
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screwing the doorknob in where it would
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go if it was on there right and you're
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using it as Decor no paint no nothing
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just the doorknob yeah what else we have
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here
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um
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oh let's go to the old rank that one's
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pretty cool
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so this is freaking weird but really
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cool so they can't handle off the rake
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and again you can use the handle for
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something else I'm sure and they nailed
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it into what I'm guessing is a door and
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they hang all their tools so if your
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rate goes bad it gets too rusty you
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can't use it how about using it to hang
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your other what looks like Rusty tools
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but you know or or or you know polish it
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up get get rid of the rust and paint it
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up and do what I do I I don't do exactly
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this but I have something that's similar
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to that hanging in my bathroom on the
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wall and I put all my necklaces and
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jewelry on the little rungs
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okay all right cool so there's three
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more on here that I really like that I
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think will end with these three the old
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drawers uh which I think is awesome
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awesome Yep so I couldn't tell they were
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drawers until I actually looked at the
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handles and it looks like they either
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wallpapered them or it was the bottom of
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the drawer already you stick them on the
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wall
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um spray oh okay so they they used a
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wallpaper and then what did they tack it
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up oh okay so just those regular Brads
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you would used to have a picture on and
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you have really cool places to put
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pictures
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yeah they look like little shadow boxes
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you could do your collectibles in there
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right yeah there you go now the next one
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is the clamps I know we like those we
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have books here you have books I'm sure
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people watching as well this is pretty
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now I don't know how many people have
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them but places like Facebook
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Marketplace you could probably pick up
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all the stuff
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um but all there's really no
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installation you literally are
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unclamping it you're putting it where
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you want and you have homemade
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bookshelves right it's a little weird
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for me I'm not really big on the look of
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this but I do like you know the fact
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that it you don't have to really do any
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work you're just basically
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you know I like yeah I like the fact
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that it's again it's repurposing stuff
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that you already have around the house
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and you can look at this and say well I
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don't have one of those but you may have
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something that's similar to that you
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might get you know an idea in your head
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oh you know what I might be able to use
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that in addition
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um really cool things uh anything the
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last thing I wanted to do really quick
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was the old and Salvage books bookcase
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because we have bookcases all over the
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place here and again they turn it into a
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serving
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rolling table thing basically but really
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all it is is you either you take apart
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the pieces you want or you keep the
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whole thing depending on what you're
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doing with it a little bit of paint and
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you have yourself a uh storage and they
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put they put wheels on it and it looks
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like under the top shelf they put um a
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way to store your glasses upside down
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like little uh I think they're like a
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place to slide the top of the glass or
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the bottom of the glass into it and
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that's how they hang that upside down
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wow it's for a bar or for a drink thing
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you could also use that as a rolling
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um possibly an arts and crafts you know
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thing that you can roll around with your
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paper very clever very clever things
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we're curious guys out there those of
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you are listening whether you're live or
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on replay what do you think about these
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upcycling things and what can you
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consider doing in your home
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um to upside upcycle things that you
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have we would love to hear about that no
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I know you got some cool stuff for us
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now so I'm going to pass it over
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all right so when we were talking about
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this we said why don't we go find some
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resources in addition to the Articles
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and things that we're showing right now
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that maybe you know you might want to go
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check it out for yourself and so the
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first thing is the rescue restore
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redecorate and it is Amy Howard's guide
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to upcycling
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um and again we're trying this new thing
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so take your phone and you can go ahead
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and
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um you know uh take your camera and
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focus it on the QR code and it will take
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you right to where you're going so that
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you can check it out
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um the second thing is and and that one
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is probably the most expensive of the
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bunch right that's 24.99 the rest of
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these are really really affordable this
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is 20 creative projects made from
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reclaimed materials check that one up
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this is all about recycling as well a
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very good price for that if you don't
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have any ideas in your head and you
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don't have any ideas that even though we
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gave you all of these and you need some
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more that's where you should go check it
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out right and these are arts and crafts
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kind of uh projects 100 of cycling
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projects
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very very cool
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um okay and then I'm going to go ahead
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and click on this one oh somebody's
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scanning our QR codes right now there
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you go
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um and this is 31 crafts so guys what
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we're doing is we're giving you
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Alternatives there's lots of different
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books out there these were some of our
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favorites right this is for your living
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space and then finally uh Mason jars
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both of us love these mason jars I use
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mine for um every year we open up a new
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one and we put our wishes and our
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thoughts and our uh this good things
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that happen and we put them all into a
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mason jar so mason jars can be done for
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use for a lot of things in addition to
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actually using them as glasses and we
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can actually upcycle these right these
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glasses if we want
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um I'm looking here
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I don't know if we have I see we had
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some messages I don't know where it went
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um any last minute thoughts guys what do
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you guys think
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guys that you would do would you go out
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and recycle some of the things or
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upcycle rather not recycle up Cycles the
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things that you have in your house we'd
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love to hear what you do with that let
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us know
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um we you know we want to thank you you
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have a choice as to how you spend your
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time you chose to spend it with Rob and
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I today so we encourage you to go out
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give somebody an awesome day and we'll
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see you next time on Ultra universal
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