Marc, good idea about those Bucks mixing sticks, I will be there today and plan on leaving with A pocket full. I get all my mixing cups every year when my wife goes through her pudding cup thing, I just wash and save them. We all started with nothing but the basics and what ever we had before we started building. It's A surprise how many tools we have that can do the job. A box of single edge razor blades fills in for A lot of cutting tools. The main thing is A flat building board you can stick pins into. If it isn't flat and straight it doesn't fly as well. A nice flat piece of pine works out well. When you start building go into markets and dollar stores with building on your mind and watch what kinds of neat things you can find.