Speaking of dumpsters, Raven. The dumpster queen will be here this weekend!!! Carisa and baby are in Clearwater and she's coming up this weekend for the day!!! In the west, safeway I think has the best dumpsters all around. They throw away phat deli sandwiches every day. Remember the one we got kicked out of? There was an unopened gallon of water in it, slightly smashed, and produce and potatos and teddy grahms We still got a good haul. When we were in sedona we would hit the bashas and the safeway, then head down to cottonwood and do the same there. Cali wasn't very good for dumpsters, mostly locked (as if trash needs to be protected) or compacters, but we almost always found something at the Smart and Final, and if your around one, the Trader Joes were good. We found like 20 dozen candles in a TJ dumpster once!
That place we got kicked out of was in Pheonix, where we got the big deli sandwiches. The woman told us to put the stuff back but it was too phat a score, we just took it anyway. That's how Carisa taught me to do it. When they yell "Put that back" you just say "thank you" and walk away. Hey now that Carisa isn't pregnant, maybe it's time to do our dumpster-diving cooking show, remember that idea? (For those who don't, we send people out diving and they have to make a meal out of what they find, the best meal wins. And Carisa is the star.)
Think about it, it's kinda sick how much we actually do throw away... just from food products too... all the cartons and bottle and stuff we throw away each week...
Ok, I'm thinking about it.....oh shit, now I'm really depressed. You got me all depressed and now what.....
You gotta be careful, sometimes. Jamba has a perverse sense of humor. My X dumpstered a big ol' mess of (clean, of course) diapers once. We didn't have kids, but we had some friends that were pregnant or with babies, or we could always give them to the Women's Shelter, so she grabbed them up. The next day we found out that a sister of ours had to spend two weeks in jail, and nobody else could take care of her 18 month old girl, so it was "Tag You're IT!" I don't understand how the threading works, sometimes. I thought this would be in the main line of the thread, not a reply to papabear.
dumpster donuts yyyyyyyyuuuuuuuuummmmmmmm. what a treat when you are in the woods, or any where else.
Things often seen in dumpsters: 1: Bagged salad (stuff goes bad so quick in them bags, and of course they stores feel it's better to overstock than run out) 2: Peppers (little blotvhes appear quickly, but hey, still yummy) 3: bananas (same deal) 4: Potatos (eyes! How scary!) 5: pastries (thank you!) 6:Tomatoes 7:melons oh, i'm getting hungry. When we were camping in the desert in Arizona Safford had a tortilla factory, and we got all the mishaped tortillas we could eat out of that dumpster. That same town we found 15 packages of Alouette cheese spread, retail value over $4 a package. We ate it on tortillas, and josh made a lovely pasta sauce out of it one day. In Largo, Florida we raided a Hostess dumpster and kicked down a box of little debbies to everyone at Ocala holding camp. We were like superstars that day.
Let's not forrget diving for profit as well as for food. Apartments in student ghettos of college towns can yield all kinds of stuff that can be sold at a flea market, yard sale, or pawn shop, or textbooks that can be sold at the school's bookstore. I once found a desk with the drawers still full of papers, notebooks, and other regular desk stuff, except behind one of the drawers the previous owner had stashed, and forgotten, a bag of shrooms. MMMMMM!!! Dumpster shrooms.....
thats pretty cool dumpster shrooms. you can get a lot of good stuff for yardsales or flea markets for sure. when we were up in madison it was collage clean up days. man how wasteful collage kids are. we got some good stuff but rumors were flowing about throw away pc'S and playstation units. one brother was talking about a real nice p.a. unit he dumpstered. spoiled kids dont care about money, mommy will buy another.
