Denise Hopps has filled her house with other people’s castoffs. Her dining set, she said, is “kind of one of those retro pieces.”

“You’ll find a reproduction, and you’ll find it at a very high dollar. Mine was free,” she said.

She has gotten treasures as varied as her grill, towels and candles through Freecycle.

“Someone was just cleaning out their home and decided they didn’t need it anymore,” Hopps said. “So it kind of fell into my scheme of ‘Nothing matches in my home.’”

She said a cabinet she got for free ended up being a “beautiful addition to the room” after she spent about $9 to put knobs on it.

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