Dumpster Diving

You guys need purses.

 

it would probably end up in my dumpster anyway.

 

i take a backpack with me most places that is basically a purse

 

If you live in a college town, when the students leave you would not believe all the stuff that ends up in the dumpsters. Just sayin'

 

I've heard about people getting great furniture, dvd's, cd's, drugs and alcohol. I can't wait for OSU dorms to get out so i can furnish the place im about to get.

I had a good find today, found 10 beers and a working microwave. too bad the beer was colt 45

 

It's slim pickin's where I live. Unless you want an smelly mattress or a pre digital TV.

 

i found a big ass box of national geographics from like 1940. I looked them up they were worth like 5 bucks each supposedly. Too bad they never got sold.

 

ahh. You are one of those assholes that would take from my "keep me looking busy" work when i worked there.

 

Those tv's can really make you some cash. If you tear them open and save the copper it really adds up.

 

I'd never thought about that, to be honest.

When I say 'pre digital' - I meant before the analogue signal was swithched off (here).

http://www.digitaltelevision.gov.uk/

 

i know what you mean but those tv's still have copper in them. Copper around the tube and a piece visible when you bust open the back

 

Fair enough. It's been some time since I had to fiddle with a TV. The last one had a wood finish

 

My boyfriend is a trash man, so he pretty much dumpster dives all day. He's brought home hundreds of dollars in scrap metal, and hundreds of dollars in perfectly good shit that people from rich neighborhoods throw away. Last night he brought home a perfectly good flat screen sony computer monitor, 10x better than the one he had.

 

I find nothing for ages, and the very next day it's mentioned here - I find a wide screen monitor. It had been raining, so I did have to dry it out, and it did start to smoke when I hooked it up to my PC. BUT, that was me being too hasty, and not really the point. I FOUND AN ITEM OF VALUE. It could be ok after a day drying out. It didn't explode, and it seems to be working.
This time next year I could be a millionaire.

Note to self: keep your eyes open.

 

my buddy has found a couple stand up basses, and a ukelle, and i know people who have found brand new shoes, and house wear. the best place, and time to go is around college campuses before the semesters end. there's plenty of kids flying back home to their parents, who can't bring everything with them, so they end up throwing a bunch of things away.
also, dumpster diving behind walmarts, or any grocery store. they'll throw a lot of stuff out that's perfectly fine! you'd be surprised how much you can get! :2thumbsup:

 

Knew a lady that found just under $6,000 in a brown paper sack in the gutter. It was all 5's 10's and 20's.

 

i knew a dude that worked at a local landfill. one day a guy came up there, and threw away some garbage, and 2 rusty swords were in his garbage, my friend picked up one of them, and the guy said they belonged to his late father and he didnt know what to do with them so he threw them away. before my friend could grab the other sword it got covered in a bunch of trash.

well my friend took it to some dealer or whatever, and the guy cleaned off some of the rust near the handle and found the sword was a claymore made in france in the later 1700's and was worth a couple grand.

also one day a garbage truck came and threw out a walmart battery display, that they threw away cuz they ran out of time for some sale or whatever. ALL landfill employees then filled up all their clothes with batteries, to the point they could hardly walk. brand new batteries.

 

I've never actually never done it. I know, I'm such a square. My husband's father got arrested for doing so. That's all I have to add.

 

actually, it seems like the best mechanics are really neat and clean

 

Not the dumpsters, but I'd cruise around trash night every week or so and stuff the spare bedroom full of things I found. After I fill up a room load up the truck and head to the flea market. Two trips and I made about $900.