To cut down on costs and avoid having to go to the store, I thought of other ways to get wood for my projects. What I have started doing is getting furniture for free on Nextdoor (a neighborhood app where people can post things for sale or things they are giving away for free, among others) and then using that wood for woodworking projects. Note I would only do this for projects that don’t need to be that exact or pretty. The recent project I did were planter boxes which were going to be painted and full of dirt anyway, so didn’t need to be that pretty.

Make sure the wood is solid and not something hollow (like an Ikea table, you can see more on this in the post here: https://lifehackanddiy.com/ikea-table-main-ingredient-cardboard/)

It takes some work to isolate the wood into something you can use. For example, I got a dining table and had to remove some of the molding and leg fasteners. However, the wood is solid and sturdy.

Here is some stuff I made out of the salvaged wood:

I got over salvaging wood in more detail in the following video: