Junk Brothers

We switched to Direct TV last July in one of those attempts to bundle and save with Qwest. Lots of trouble and I still haven't figured out how to read the bill to see if we are actually saving $$$, but that's for another blog post, or, perhaps, for a letter to the attorney general's office.

At any rate, the channels are all weird at Direct TV. There seems to be no particular rhyme or reason, so I have memorized some channels (Fox News is 360, The Food Network is 231, CNN is 202, etc.). I discovered if you go to 231 (Food) and click down two channels, you get the Home and Garden TV and if you do it at the right time (I don't know what time that would be since I don't know how to find the schedule yet), you come across a very entertaining show called The Junk Brothers.

They are two guys from Canada who go out at night lurking. Their goal is to find furniture that people have put out in their garbage, but that the Junk Brothers think just needs some TLC and creativity.

They take the item, rework it into something creative, and bring it back all restored. They ring the doorbell and run and the owner comes out, looks at the reworked item, scratches his/her head and says, "Wasn't that the beat up dresser we threw out last week?"

Next time you're looking for some mindless entertainment, check out The Junk Brothers.