Eye Opener: Junk on the Brain

Antiques/Antiquing: a work of art, piece of furniture, or decorative object made at an earlier period and according to various customs laws at least 100 years ago

Junk/Junking: old iron, glass, paper, or other waste that may be used again in some form (2): secondhand, worn, or discarded articles (3): clutter 1b b: something of poor quality: trash c : something of little meaning, worth, or significance

Flea Market: a usually open-air market for secondhand articles and antiques

Thrift Shop: a shop that sells secondhand articles and especially clothes and is often run for charitable purposes

Up cycling: involves processing used materials into new products, or the re-use of a product with crippled functionality for alternative purposes, to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from land filling) by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production, with the intent of creating a product of higher quality design and artistic value.

Resale Shop: typically buy used items outright and resell them

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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary

 What do the terms above have to do with environmental health?

Its all about reusing items again, instead of throwing them away, Someone’s junk is another persons treasures! Reusing things help save our environment by not being wasteful!

 Antiques

Main Street Gallery

Hugh Passow

306 Main St.

Eau Claire Wi. 54701

715 832 2494

mgallery@sbcglobal.net

http://www.trocadero.com/mgallery/

 We deal in fine antiques, art, prints, sculpture, china, glass, furniture and decorative arts.

Junk

Toy’s Scrap & Salvage Corp.

8010 Olson Drive

EC, WI 54703

www.toysscrap.com

Flea Markets

I couldn’t find any flea markets exactly in Eau Claire.

Super Pages.com

http://www.superpages.com/yellowpages/C-Flea+Markets/S-WI/T-Eau+Claire/

Thrift Shop

Hope Gospel Mission

 Location: 8 South Farwell St. Eau Claire, WI

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1127 Eau Claire, WI 54702

Phone: (715) 552-5566

Fax: (715) 552-5563

Email: questions@hopegospelmission.org

http://www.hopegospelmission.org/

Up cycling

I couldn’t find any up cycling in Eau Claire either.

Snack wrappers get up cycled

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Resale shop

Savers

Eau Claire #1067

2833 Mall Dr,

Eau Claire, WI   54701

Phone: (715) 835-8500

Hours: Mon - Sat 9-9, Sun 10-6

http://www.savers.com/

I use Savers once in a while when I am looking for furniture, and also hope gospel mission has really cool furniture for super cheap!

Get your junk on!

Visit JunkMarketStyle.com

#1 http://www.junkmarketstyle.com/item/14855/a-few-of-my-favorite-things-from-oronoco-with-love

A few of my favorite things - from Oronoco with LOVE!!

Framed linoleum pieces with letters on them is super cute! I could do this for people and use the first letter of their names! Cute gift idea!

#2 http://www.junkmarketstyle.com/item/15374/simple-mondays-take-two

Simple Monday's - Take Two

This was a really cute idea with taking old margarita glasses in a vintage tote, placed fake rocks in them with flowers! I am always looking for ideas to make decorations that don’t cost a lot! I love this!

#3 http://www.junkmarketstyle.com/item/12818/pyrex-trays-take-one

Pyrex Trays - Take One

Pyrex are food storage containers as well as cooking pans, and when they are old you can reuse them again! I am going to share this one with my Mom because she loves Pyrex and gets new ones every year. Now she doesn’t have to throw them away!