CG>In summary, the purpose of this exercise is to get people >thinking.
  The key to using materials over and over again is that >vital second
  use. Without the second use, there can be no third >or fourth use.
After reading your posting I felt I had to share :-)
I once saw a picture of a garden where an old wicker chair was used as a
climber for some flooring plants.  I thought marvelous and this summer I
found myself an old beat-up wicker chair that I felt was beyond seating
capacity.  I planted a clematis in the garden and placed this chair
behind it to train the plant over it.  Well that chair lasted barely 10
days before someone was at my door begging to releive me of my chair.
So I sold the freebee chair and received $5.00 for my troubles.  I
skipped back out to the local recycling centre a few weeks later and
found myself a wooden chair this time.  The well worn item was
completely stripped of finished and cracked in a number of places, but,
what the heck I was going to have it well covered with plant.  So I
bought it for $2.00
My second chair lasted slightly longer than the first.  Two weeks later
a very embarresed, yet insistent, elderly couple approached me.  Seems
they had chairs at home that so well matched my loner outside that they
asked if I could see my way clear to sell it to them.  I made another
$5.00.
I've replaced the chair once more.  Winter is here and my poor clematis
never got the chance to grow very tall.  I wonder what will happen come
spring?
I thought this was a prime example of what you had been talking about.
Susan
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