Eye Opener: Junk on the Brain

Part One: Terms                         

• Antiques/antiquing : Dating from a period long ago; to shop for antiques.
  
• Junk/junking : Discarded material, such as glass, rags, paper, or metal, some of which may be reused in some form.  
• Flea market : A type of bazaar where inexpensive or secondhand goods are sold or bartered.
• Thrift shop:  A place that sells mainly second-hand goods donated by members of the public, and are often staffed by volunteers. 
•  Upcycling : 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 landfilling) 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: 

Part Two:  1. All of the terms above are important to environmental health because all of them have to do with reusing, and re-thinking how we use things and where we are purchasing things.  By going to flea markets, and upcycling we are taking what is already available to us and using it is a new way, making it less necessary for other companies to be producing these items over and over again!
2. The following are all links to places YOU can go near duluth to take part in antiquing, junking, upcycling, and shopping at thrift stores, flea markets, and resale shops.  

• Old Town Antiques and Books , located on 102 E. Superior Street, Duluth MN (218) 722-5426.  
• Junkologie , contact at alvn.mail@gmail.com, located in Wisconsin.  
• Savers , located on 1740 Mall Drive, Duluth MN, (218)-722-1894. 
• Dannie Duluth Consignment Clothing and Furniture, located on 932 E. 4th Street Duluth, MN (218)- 724-8507. 
• Platos Closet , located on 5115 Burning Tree Road, Duluth, MN (218)-733-9455.
  
• I was unable to find a upcycling website near Duluth.

3. My mom loves garage sales and thrift shops, so needless to say my family has quite a bit of re-usable items around my house, and that gene was definitely passed on to me, because I too love to use re-usable things!
Part Three: The three projects that I really liked off of the Junkmarketstyle.com  website are: October Floral of the Month, Organ Pipe Photo Holders, and the Paris Themed Necklace . 
I really enjoyed these three projects the most, just because they were all very different, yet so creative.  I would never think to do anything like these projects, but I know that if I tried I could come up with something really cool!  This eye opener has been really inspiring!