Hey guys welcome back to the Clutterbug podcast today I wanted to talk about junk

just absolute trash and my love for transforming something that is considered trash or junk into treasure.

And I've been doing this for a long time and I think it started out in the beginning as necessity.

I didn't have a lot of money. I left home young and so when furnishing my home I had to find things really inexpensively and I remember picking up dressers, even a kitchen table, and coffee tables, those type of things

from the side of the road, giving it a good scrub and a couple of coats of paint and I was hooked on transforming things that were free or really small price into something really beautiful.

And I think all of those pieces I can think of,

I still have things in my home today

even though we could afford to replace them,

like the dresser in my son's bedroom,

a night, you know, an end table at like a nightstand in my

daughter's room. Different things are at my home, a light fixture in my

bedroom, the things that were found either in the garbage or you know for under ten dollars at a

yard sale that I fixed up and those are the things that have you know a story attached

they have meaning and they're really really special to me.

So I want to encourage you to do the same thing and you don't need you know

talent to fix something up you don to be you know some crafting expert.

Usually it's just a can of spray paint. A can of spray paint can literally transform anything and as a housewife I think this is a really big

important part of making my house a home is giving things that sentimental value

that really you know if something can have sentimental

value because it's special to you, but things are special to you if you've fixed it up yourself.

And you know, maybe your spouse, your family's got involved in that process then you've

created something really really special that is going to have a story attached and

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