The best thing I found...
Was a house for $119,500 US (what is that, like 40 pounds UK at this point?) in the middle of the local housing boom (when houses on average were going for $250,000 on subprime rates) on a 5.9 fixed mortgage.
Oh, it was in shambles, yes indeed, but I have a construction contractor for a brother-in-law.
And just the other day I stumbled on a sale at the local college nursery selling drought-resistant plants. If I'd bought them at a big chain, it would have run me $200. At the place I bought them, they would have ordinarily cost me $120. As it was the last day of the season, I got the lot - 4 young trees, four flowering bushes, two wormwoods, and a lavender bush for $40.00. Just waltzed in to gaze longingly at their greenhouses, like I do, and the nice man at the counter gave me a discount for coming in on the last day and being familiar with desert plants.

Found a coffee table that has been awaiting my staining and sealing skills for four years. A bookcase with a gabled roof that now needs serious repair.

An entire, fully-grown cottonwood that had gotten a fungal infection and had to be cut down. My friend and I rushed to the scene of the landscaping renovation, and when the gentlemen had finished for the day, and had conveniently cut the tree into 18-in or so sections, she and I had yon logs away in our trucks. After investing in a maul and a splitting wedge, I have not run short of firewood since.
(aeon chicken Like the Millenium Falcon, only slower and noisier, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 1:55, 3 replies)

Well...
You should find a life, then maybe post about that.
(Wil0, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 4:27, closed)

that's just it
I find life everywhere I look. It's amazing.
(aeon chicken Like the Millenium Falcon, only slower and noisier, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 8:16, closed)

Well
Said
(never-right -getting it wrong since '78, Tue 11 Nov 2008, 10:40, closed)