Discount Divas do not limit their bargain shopping and resale opportunities to clothes and personal and home accessories. We pursue DivaDeals in all categories of life, even home building.

My Discount Dude husband George and I were in the process of building a house big enough to hold all of expanding collections of treasures. We wanted mostly wood floors and had found a company that sold beautiful Georgia pine floors however the cost was $45,000, considerably more than we cold afford.

As a determined discount diva, I did my part by continually lamenting my need for these floors to my Discount Dude who contributed in a smaller way by finding them. He was reading the classified adds (isn't he dreamy?) and he saw an ad for "free green wood.” Being well trained in the art of “free,” he quickly responded and inquired about “green” wood.

As it turned out, a school gymnasium with 6000 sq feet of maple floors was being demolished to create a much larger gym. The maple floors were being given away to anyone willing to haul them off. The “green” reference was actually an error but one that luckily turned potentially interested people off from calling.

The long story short is that for the price of feeding school football players all the burgers they could eat to load the wood into rental trucks, 6000 of flawless (gym floors are without knot holes) 30 year old maple floors were ours!

Regrettably, our DivaSaga does not end here. You see, you just can't put 6000 sq feet of wood in your bargain closet. We had to make sure it was properly stored until it was ready to be used so we rented 3 storage units. Two of the units were at one facility and one at another as our town has many successful discount divas and the storage facilities are hard to come by.

Our son agreed to remove the nails in the wood to prep it for our new house and for this he used a rotor tool. He started at the single storage unit which had no power source so he used a gas powered generator. Somehow a spark from the rotor tool connected with some spilled gasoline and you guessed it…kaboom! Thankfully he was not injured; however, the fire spread to the right of our corner unit and took out every unit after ours…all 21 of them!