Creative recycling - *great* stuff for kids!

[Alex Franke]

We recently discovered a creative recycling center here in NC, and it's just filled with inexpensive invention fodder. My son went in for robot parts, and after a good deal of browsing time and a grand total of $5, he came out with a couple bags filled with random stuff for his robot, and a few more creative project ideas as well.

If you have kids (or even if you don't!) you might want to see if there's a place like this by you. Here's a list I found online:

http://www.scrapbox.org/links.html

The store near us is called the Scrap Exchange -- There are lots of pictures on their site of the kinds of things they often sell: http://www.scrapexchange.org/

[Kristofor]

Hmmm, interesting concept. I would have never clicked on the URL thinking it was a scrapbooking thing without your intro.

The one listed in the Twin Cities is over in St. Paul and looks "eclectic" but perhaps we'll stop by on a trip to the childrens museum or science museum (about the only reason I go to Saint Paul these days, despite living there for a while in my college years).

[BobSch]

The pics from the Scrap Exchange look a lot like a surplus house we have around here called Ax-Man. I check in there every couple of months because they keep getting new stock. Last time I found a rack full of WWII Belgian field telephones. Ya just never know.