BERLIN, WI (WTAQ) – A company in Berlin is proving this Holiday season that truly one man’s trash can be another man’s treasure.
Saving Grace Salvage Company is hosting their 13th annual Christmas Bazaar where they take old items and turn them into Holiday displays.
The discarded items could be an old bucket, or a chair seat, or a barrel lid.
The shop’s assistant manager, Nicole Roost, says the event, which about a dozen vendors participate in, is counter to most people’s mindset.
“We kind of been slated the throw-away society and we wanted to get away from that,” she says. “We want to show people that we don’t have to throw things away, they still have value and they’re still graceful and beautiful and that’s why we want to save them.”
For the more daring, they will even provide raw materials to create a unique display.
And it all happens inside an old church that had its parish leave years ago. Perhaps because the building doesn’t have heat inside.
“It sat empty for 12 years and we talked to the owner and he was thrilled and wanted to keep it from being torn down,” says Roost.
Saturday from 10 to 6 PM is the last day the shop will be open for the year.
Plans are for it to reopen in May of 2019.
