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“What the heck is Craig Stifter up to at P2R picking2repurpose?” That seems to be the question circulating the Crystal Valley in Colorado lately. To get a better handle on this conundrum we’ll need to set the WABAC Machine to the 1970’s…

So how did it all start? Where did Craig’s passion for picking old stuff come from? “I ‘blame’ it all on my parents!” Stifter says. Growing up in the Southwest suburbs of Chicago in the 1970’s like most little boys Craig was playing pond hockey, motor biking and building forts. But he was also tagging along with his dad, Bob Stifter, on picks ranging from the infamous Maxwell Street Market to the enormous M&R Double Drive-In Flea Market and in between all the usual junk jaunts - estate sales, garage sales, alley dumpster diving and doing what his dad referred to as "checking the traps" aka hitting his favorite junk stops. “Criss-crossing Chicago in my Dad’s old pick up truck full of junk, people would comically yell out ‘Hey Sanford and Son!’ What fun for a young child,” Stifter said.

His dad was known in Chicago as one of the premier pickers of all things vintage, or as Bob would say “I buy junk and sell antiques.” According to Craig - “Now my mother never did like the sound of that, but this is the basis of today’s Repurposer. My father - a man always ahead of his time!”

So what brought Craig’s parents to Colorado? Both Bob and Patricia Stifter were avid skiers. After Bob played in his first Rose Bowl at the University of Iowa in 1957, he drove out to Aspen in the middle of winter in his convertible MG. Having heard about the Aspen mystic and the wonderful powder snow, he had to experience it for himself. Soon after, Craig’s parents decided to buy property in the area, thus tying his family to Colorado. In 1999 his parents moved from Chicago to the quaint mountain town of Redstone, bringing their love for all things vintage to the Crystal Valley.

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