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Building Goals

When we were out this weekend I noticed that Target had 4'x6' soccer goals priced at forty dollars each. Pursuant to my team's lack of scoring on Saturday I was in the market, but not at eighty bucks for a pair. I mentioned it to Paul at lunch and he suggested that I could put my own together much more cheaply. He found a plan on the internet that looked easy enough that even I could handle it, so I went and bought some PVC pipe and some joints. Including tax these materials cost me just under twenty-five dollars. I finally put my miter box to use and got the things put together in about three hours.

 

I went to Academy this evening to see if I could find a fishing net to use with my frames. They didn't have anything in the fishing department. Over in the team sports area I found a mulit-use net that was about 6'x8' priced at $8.88. This would bring the cost of my two goals up to about forty-five bucks. In the same part of the store I found 4'x6' soccer goals for twenty bucks apiece. Yeah, they were metal, and so would not suffer injury well, but they had carrying cases and were ready to go. If I had seen them before I had built my own, I would have bought them.

Tomorrow I may be doing some hunting for nets. I also need to scout the park and see if practice will even be possible after the big rain and hail storm this morning.

Posted to Family and Home at March 7, 2005 11:25 PM