Hey there, hello and welcome back. It's Chris Kille about your host for Side Usel School.

What a week it's been, all kinds of amazing stories. I've actually been home for a couple

days, heading out next week to Canada, one of my favorite countries. I'll tell you about

that tomorrow, including where I'll be and what I'm up to.

Now appropriately today's story is about two Canadian DIYers who start out as hobbyists

and turn into hustlers. Full disclosure, we're talking about furniture renovation here.

This is definitely not a skill I have. In fact, I have absolutely zero skill in this department,

or an assembling IKEA furniture as we've talked about before. Basically anything DIY is not

me. I need whatever the opposite of that is. Not do it yourself, do it someone else.

But of course, some people do have this skill, perhaps you do as well. And today you'll

hear about how two people actually make money with it. That story is coming right up.

Have you ever heard the old saying, one man's trash is another man's treasure?

While for furniture upcyclers, Lindsay and Jamie LaRue, it's helped to form the basis of their

side hustle. The couple have been finding unwanted pieces of wooden furniture in their local

Ottawa area and breathing new life into them for it close to a decade. It first

was just a hobby, partly to help affordably decorate their home with unique pieces of furniture,

but with so many years of practice under their belts, they began to get pretty good at it.

It's when it came time for Jamie to reduce his hours at the bank where he worked,

and carve out more time at home with his preschool age children. They thought it might be the perfect

side hustle option. Jamie could work from home during the day while Lindsay was at her day job,

and Lindsay could work from home in the evenings when Jamie went to the bank. This allowed them to

increase their household income, save on childcare costs, and pick and choose how much work they took

...