Free homemade flower pots: Old Zhang grows one-of-a-kind bonsai, and neighbors are eager to buy them

The flower pots Old Zhang made without spending a penny hold one-of-a-kind bonsai, and neighbors are eager to buy them! Old Zhang is famous in the neighborhood as a flower-growing expert, and also famous as a master trash-bin digger! Old Zhang lives on the 2nd floor. The 1st floor is the neighborhood storefront, and the 2nd floor has a very large open platform, which Old Zhang turned into a sea of flowers, with hundreds of bottles and jars.

Before retiring, Old Zhang worked in the logistics department of a cigarette factory, specializing in logistics support, so he knows how to use electric drills, cutting machines and other power tools. At first, he just turned his own bottles and jars into vases for growing flowers. Gradually, as he grew more and more flowers, he needed more and more flower pots, and buying them specially felt expensive to him.

So every day, whether he had anything to do or not, Old Zhang would walk around the trash bins of each building in the neighborhood to see if there were any bottles or jars discarded by neighbors.

Old Zhang said that because of this, his wife even argued with him several times, saying that digging around the trash bins all day was no different from being a garbage picker, and that it made her lose face! But gradually, as Old Zhang turned these bottles and jars into flower pots of all different shapes, his family began to see him in a new light. They all felt that this was not a flower pot at all, but completely a work of art.

In order to make these flower pots of all different shapes, Old Zhang went on a certain online shopping site and bought all kinds of electric grinding heads. Up to now, the tools bought at home for making these flower pots already fill 3 boxes, Old Zhang said. After neighbors saw the flower pots Old Zhang made, they all felt they were much, much prettier than bought ones. Later, some neighbors brought bottles and jars from their homes and asked Old Zhang to make them into flower pots.

Later, quite a few neighbors offered money to buy them from Old Zhang, but he turned them all down. Old Zhang said that every piece was made with his heart and was not for sale; he wanted to leave them to his descendants as a keepsake!

Old Zhang said that this is delicate work and cannot be rushed. Especially porcelain liquor bottles, which must be polished slowly, so only a few can be made in a day. Making these bottles and jars into something everyone likes made Old Zhang feel very comfortable inside, and that is what matters most!

So whenever he has time, Old Zhang takes a stroll around each building in the neighborhood. First, it is normal exercise; second, if he can pick up a few bottles and jars, is that not an unexpected harvest too?

Flower lovers, after seeing this, are you tempted too? Old Zhang said that if you know how to use an angle grinder and buy a few special grinding heads online, you can likewise turn the bottles and jars in your home into whatever shape you want!

How about it, flower lovers? If you are interested, you can try it yourself! The flower pots you make and grow some flowers and plants in will surely be beautiful.

Alright, that is all for today's sharing from the editor. Have you ever made a flower pot yourself? You are welcome to leave a comment below and share.