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As he walked around the sales floor, JP Liesenfeld pointed to a group of sleek, modern chairs with a butterflylike design: the Herman Miller Aerons. "They're the Mercedes of office chairs," he said. They retail for $1,400 new. But here, at Furnish Office and Home, a nonprofit store in northeast Minneapolis that is like a Goodwill for office furniture, used models go for $399. And it has a .
Jeremy Marshik quit his unfulfilling sales job two years ago and started fishing good lumber out of construction dumpsters around town. He'd find everything from old-growth beams to universal 2-by-4s in like-new condition, haul it to his Kingfield neighborhood on his cargo bike and sell it out of his garage. Soon "LumberStash" became a full-time business, and Marshik hired three other people .