Nathan Payne got free garden tools and equipment from a friend named Donald who was moving to Croatia. He saw it as treasure hunting, a habit from thrift store days when he viewed anything free as a potential asset to flip or use.
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Donald, as he's moving back to Croatia, he had a bunch of stuff at the house. And I'm a— I don't want to say cheapskate, but I was born like, hey, you know, if something's free, go get it. You know, like, I grew up like, hey, I liked going to thrift stores growing up. I like doing all that. So when he left, he's like, hey, you can have pretty much anything here. And I was like, word, for real? And I just moved into a house, like, uh, you know, a couple minutes away. And, you know, I didn't have a lot of shovels or garden tools or any of that, and he had a ton of that stuff. So I went over there, picked up a bunch of shovels, a bunch of rakes and hoes and whatever, and I, uh, just grabbed whatever I that I thought was valuable. And I don't do that anymore. That was a cool thing for me to do back in the day. I thought it was fun. It was like a treasure hunt that you could go and get stuff from people's houses if they left and it was good.