If you came up to me and said, “Hey Lindsey, would you rather do some exercise on a rickety old chip-up contraption built during the Eisenhower era or sit on my front porch?” I am 99.99% certain I would say “Front porch.”

 Who needs chin-ups anyway? I believe they are the most worthless exercise in existence, and no, that is not my inner second-grader talking who was humiliated by her P.E. teacher in front of the whole class because she could only do two chin-ups, like seriously who makes second graders do chin-ups, why not make them memorize the Constitution backwards while you’re at it?!? Ahem.

 Kudos to Jeremy for hacking up this dumb thing into a cute bench topped with .99 Ikea cushions! Much better!

Last summer my son set up a lemonade stand and made about $20 in half an hour! That got my wheels a-churnin… would it be weird if I set up a lemonade stand at the end of my driveway? $40 an hour is no joke, yo!

 If I ever decide to put my son out of business and start my own lemonade stand, I would borrow Emma’s table here. 

 What I would have seen as deadly splinter factory, Emma saw as potential. She took in this weathered table and chair, loved them up and turned them into something spectacular! I can see myself now, sitting in that lovely chair, raking in the quarters and dimes. Check out more on her blog Pransellknit.

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