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August 13, 2009 By Frugal Babe

My husband finished a window well cover earlier this week, and is nearly finished with the second one.  I’m pretty darn impressed, especially given that this is his first real welding project (he considered the umbrella stand practice, since it just involved attaching a piece of pipe to a piece of I-beam).  Here’s a picture of the finished window well cover:

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He spent $58 on the grating (enough to make covers for both windows), and about $10 on the angle iron.  He ran out of angle iron on the second cover, so he’s been using scrap metal that we found in a dumpster behind a welding shop here in town.  He talked with the owners a few weeks ago, and they said that he’s welcome to dig through their scrap metal dumpster any time he wants.  So for the last couple weeks, he’s taken me over there on Friday nights, for a “dumpster date.”  He gets in and pulls out the good metal, and hands it out to me so that I can load it up in our wagon.  And he gets a kick out of telling all the neighbors what a romantic guy he is, taking his wife dumpster diving on Friday nights ;)

Filed Under: home improvement, just my life, the simple life 4 Comments

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  1. Forest says

    August 13, 2009 at 10:58 pm

    dumpster diving sounds like a fun date, maybe i’ll surprise my fiance with a date like that tomorrow. i have a feeling she wouldn’t be as accommodating as you are. :)

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  2. FrugalChick says

    August 14, 2009 at 6:44 am

    Lol! How great that his new hobby is such a beneficial one. Glad this is working out for you guys!

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  3. Sara says

    August 14, 2009 at 11:50 am

    LOL! Dumpster date! The cover looks very nice! Your dumpster date reminds me of what my husband says everytime we go to the pull-your-own junkyard for car parts – “I really know how to treat a lady”. LOL I think junkyards are pretty fun, actually. Almost as fun as thrift stores, heh. ;)

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  4. Jane says

    August 18, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    It is so cool that your hubby can weld. That will certainly come in handy. My father collected angle iron from old bed frames. So many people have one that they trash on the curb. It might be worth scouting out craigslist for that kind of thing too.

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