Picture a tray of hopeful seedlings on your kitchen windowsill, stretching, sulking, then collapsing the night a late frost bites. The weather doesn’t read seed packets. Budgets aren’t rising either.

Ever heard of the "thrift shop gods"? TikToker Cameron Curry has. And it seems they were looking down on him with kindness recently, when he went out looking for second-hand picture frames to turn ...