Thursday, December 20, 2007
 
The Miser Chronicles
As one of our biggest home improvement projects in our previous house, sadly enough, we put drawer liners in our kitchen drawers. Surely that added $1000 to the selling price of the home and recouped more than 100% of our investment for the improvement in the sale price--if the purchaser opened the drawers and didn't rip out the marble-looking liner as part of a complete remodel.

Because I prefer to err on the side of too much, I bought a little more than a roll and a half more of the contact paper than I needed. I injected the complete roll and the partial roll into the second-hand contact paper market through the underground economy, meaning I sold them for a buck or something at a garage sale. However, I found some scrap in my basement that represented some cuttings from the partial roll.

Throw them out? What kind of miser would I be then? I mean, sure, I don't have a a drawer or two of suitable dimensions to use this contact paper as nature intended it, but I could find some use for it.

And I did:

Christmas gifts wrapped in drawer liner


Now that's Christmas wrapping paper you can reuse.

I didn't remove the adhesive backing, so the gifts' recipient can line two small drawers or wrap gifts herself. Given that she's a miser, too, I wouldn't put it past her. However, since it's my inheritance she's protecting, go, Mom!

You trained me well.


- posted by Brian J. @ 9:13 PM
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