I'm starting to discover that Lansing has a lot to offer. When I first started at Legal Services, I thought that I was going to have to do all things in my place or drive back to Ann Arbor to see new and exciting awesomenesses. What I realized is that Michigan State is its own incredibly unique campus that has a ton to offer. The Dairy Store was delightful, but even cooler were the pithy signs I kept seeing for the Surplus Store. I had no idea what it was though. Surplus what? MSU is an aggie college... they couldn't mean surplus cows, could they? Perhaps I'd find gently used dormitory furniture. It was an adventure I had to go on.
As I walked in, I realized it was surplus anything and everything college. There were old glass cases, textbooks, maps, cassette tapes and all other manner of delightful things to discover.
Yay! Gently used dormitory furniture!
Better than all that, the prices were seriously low. That couch was $20. If ever there was a place to go to find materials for amazing projects, this would be it. The biggest problem Justin and I ran into when we went antiquing was that destroying some of those things for projects would wrack up a huge bill. I'm insanely tempted to go back to the Surplus Store and buy a bunch of things and see what I can build out of them.
Then I remembered that there's no way I have time for that. Perhaps next year, I suppose. It was nice to get the creative juices flowing again though, that's for sure.
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