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Repurposing is a lot of fun! By Ralph Waggener Trifecta Print and Design Repurposing is a lot of fun! When I was walking through the press room, I saw a lot of grocery carts that we had repurposed by putting tops on them so we could use them for jobs in printing! Years ago, I was in Memphis, Tennessee at a printing business auction when I saw this idea where someone had added a top to a grocery cart, and I was hooked! I love anything with wheels on them. Later, when the K and F Grocery closed their business, Norman Coomer bought all their grocery carts, I believe he gave $1.50 each for them! Later I was at his place getting something else when I spotted them and bought all of them for $3.00 each, at least I think that is what I paid! We got the carts home and figured a way to level them and cut boards to fit out of plywood and they are still working today! Later, our IGA Grocery store bought new carts and I then bought all their old one's! Then, I was in Louisville where I went every Thursday to see my customers there and to deliver printing. I also bought printing supplies there and picked them up to save on shipping costs! When I was at the printing supply company, they were telling me that Papa John's was having an auction just down the street, something that is hard for me to pass is an auction! After getting my supplies I thought I would go check out the Papa John's auction. When I arrived there were just a few buyers and nothing was bringing very much, so me being me, I started bidding and buying just about all the lots they had! I ended up with about seven trailer truck loads of office dividers and office furniture, the late Luther Redmon and son hauled these loads back for me! I knew I had gotten a good deal but did not have space to hold all I had bought! But finally got them delivered and found there was so much, it was hard to figure what to do with all of it! Chester Taylor bailed me out by letting me use his big building on Fairground St. at no charge! Later I rented a barn from Joe Barbee but it was located on a hill side and not very accessible! One thing I got was a lot of tops that were the right size for my grocery carts and covers and most of them with nice tops that are still in our shop today! This bargain turned out to not be such a bargain because not many office dividers are used in our area and storage cost ended up taking all my profits, but we did get a lot of carts built. I had bought a lot of long narrow carts in Nashville and some of these tops works great for a second shelf for them. The last of this went back to Louisville where it came from when a man who was at the auction called me and he knew how to sell them something I did not know! How to make any job easier is something on my mind always, anything with wheels I would buy and Trifecta Print has a lot of pieces in it with wheels on them, roll it don't carry it was hard to get people to do but eventually it won out! This story was posted on 2020-11-17 06:57:53
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