Mylar for cheap bastards like me (U.S)

MrFishy

Well-Known Member
No doubt, some folks are gonna think this is wrong, wrong, wrong . . . and I understand their position.
I played music in clubs for 30-some years and gave it up in 2001, at age 50. I haven't made a penny since, but my wife loves me (and works) so it's all good.
What d'ya call a musician w/o a girlfriend/wife ??? HOMELESS!

Anyway, I don't want to be spending her hard earned money on my grow stuff. I already had most of the basics for stash growing, but lacked any real reflectors for my growrooms' walls. I didn't figure I'd ever get any mylar.

We often walk our dogs around a beautiful local cemetery. When the flowers folks have left behind for their loved ones die, the ground keeper piles them up and tosses them in the trash. The other day I noticed many of these throw-away vases were wrapped in, you guessed it, sheets of mylar. I asked the grounds-dude and he told us to help ourselves. My room now glistens like Xmas morning and I'm sure it's gonna help my over-all grow. The sheets are maybe 2'X2' . . . I scotch tape them to thin cardboard and attached those "sections" to the wall with a rolled piece of duct tape, making the panels strong and mobile.

With Memorial Day tomorrow (MondayMay26) in about a week there's gonna be miles of mylar being readied for landfill disposal.
Just a thought.
Yeah, I know all about Karma. No pustules of plague yet.
:blsmoke:
 

Sadistic Incubus

Active Member
Awesome tip! And as far as karma goes, they are already dead, its going to landfill anyway, your not harming anything. Your karma is safe.
 

NLXSK1

Well-Known Member
You can use the inside of potatoe chip bags as well...

Lots of cheap mylar out there...
 

kochab

New Member
hel the shits free, their dead and wont be using it...
but you know that you can get wrapping paper that is mylar for like $2 for a 2ftx2ft roll.... i think it was called poly wrap?
 

MrFishy

Well-Known Member
How do you de-grease the chip bags? Sounds messy, but doable.
I suppose I should add that this is a great way to get planters, too . . . especially at the end of the season (Autumn), when they toss all the portable decor in the trash . . . up North here they do anyway?
 
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ThumbCrusher

Active Member
On a similar subject...I used to work in the headstone field. the guy I worked for used to stop off on Valentine's day and what not to grab some free flowers for his loving wife! That was over 10 years ago...and he is still alive and kickin'...so there should be no problems with taking out the trash!
 

socom3riot

Well-Known Member
On a similar subject...I used to work in the headstone field. the guy I worked for used to stop off on Valentine's day and what not to grab some free flowers for his loving wife! That was over 10 years ago...and he is still alive and kickin'...so there should be no problems with taking out the trash!
is that ur gf in ur avatar?
 

tusseltussel

Well-Known Member
No doubt, some folks are gonna think this is wrong, wrong, wrong . . . and I understand their position.
I played music in clubs for 30-some years and gave it up in 2001, at age 50. I haven't made a penny since, but my wife loves me (and works) so it's all good.
What d'ya call a musician w/o a girlfriend/wife ??? HOMELESS!

Anyway, I don't want to be spending her hard earned money on my grow stuff. I already had most of the basics for stash growing, but lacked any real reflectors for my growrooms' walls. I didn't figure I'd ever get any mylar.

We often walk our dogs around a beautiful local cemetery. When the flowers folks have left behind for their loved ones die, the ground keeper piles them up and tosses them in the trash. The other day I noticed many of these throw-away vases were wrapped in, you guessed it, sheets of mylar. I asked the grounds-dude and he told us to help ourselves. My room now glistens like Xmas morning and I'm sure it's gonna help my over-all grow. The sheets are maybe 2'X2' . . . I scotch tape them to thin cardboard and attached those "sections" to the wall with a rolled piece of duct tape, making the panels strong and mobile.

With Memorial Day tomorrow (MondayMay26) in about a week there's gonna be miles of mylar being readied for landfill disposal.
Just a thought.
Yeah, I know all about Karma. No pustules of plague yet.
:blsmoke:
my god you are such a rock starr mr fishy, thats a great source.. oh and i always herd it as what do you call a hippie without a girlfrnd.. but heres one for ya.. what do ya do if theirs a drummer running around your yard bleeding..................shoot again you missed! a little cruel but i play a guitar i think their is always some sort of tension between guitarists and drummers.anyhoo great idea dirt farmer, great job recycling i say
 

giantart

Well-Known Member
MrFishy - You are just the kinda guy we have all been lookin' for. Keep the good work up!

And BTW - the same kinda guy I believe we just voted in!!!! Yeah for all of us!
 
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