Hot! Insider! Secrets! (to Finding Cheap Kitchen Cabinets)

All right, the headline is a little bit breathless, but how can you blame a guy who has just spent watching sixty straight minutes of economic doom 'n' gloom on CNN at his favorite coffee shop...and then proceeded to write an article about how homeowners can drop $20,000 or more cash on kitchen cabinets. So, it calls for a little spin, and the spin nowadays everywhere seems to be: save money.

Yep, that's the big news. Garage sales, consignment shops. Buy used, look for free. Reuse. Fix. (Remember back when people knew how to fix things?) My esteemed colleague, Bob Formisano, of the About Home Repair section, talks about that topic. Fix things; what a novel idea.

So in the spirit of repair, replace, reuse, and dumpster-dive, here are a few ideas about how to install kitchen cabinets on the cheap.