A few months ago, a neighbor posted to our marvelously salty Hamline Midway FB group that someone had dumped an old bike trailer filled with garbage and half-burned firewood in the alley behind her garage.
Now, our neighborhood has endured no small measure of dissention about garbage collection and dumping while St. Paul transitioned to city-wide trash collection. It’s mostly an agree-to-disagree kind of thing at this point but when this trailer was dumped emotions were still running high. Comments on the post were already heating up when I volunteered to pick up the trailer, garbage and all, much to our neighbor’s relief.
It turned out to be an InStep trailer in fine condition except for all the fabric, which all smelled like smoked dog poop. I stripped it down to the frame, then made a wood base from an old pine Lundia shelf which used to hold toys in our store and had previously served in a local Pier 1 store. The fabric sides are made out of canvas Bananagram swag bags we got from a vendor at a game store conference.
After a couple hours work and $0 spent, the Bananwagon is complete. Possibly my finest work of creative reuse in 2018.
It turned out to be an InStep trailer in fine condition except for all the fabric, which all smelled like smoked dog poop. I stripped it down to the frame, then made a wood base from an old pine Lundia shelf which used to hold toys in our store and had previously served in a local Pier 1 store. The fabric sides are made out of canvas Bananagram swag bags we got from a vendor at a game store conference.
After a couple hours work and $0 spent, the Bananwagon is complete. Possibly my finest work of creative reuse in 2018.
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