DUMPSTER DIVING GARBAGE PICKING READ & SEE WHAT IS FOUND HERE UPDATED 2012

[Aquila]

small cannonball from trash

 

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[Aquila]

silver cufflink from trash

 

[1637]

I wonder if was from a dog that was used it the war??

yesterdays find. i was on holiday cottage and went to local metal trash can. silver finnish ww2 bravery medal. sadly it has been heavily worn and there was dog rabies tag glued to it. i had to use iron saw to remove it.

 

[DPBOB]

WOW I'm glad they decided to put my thread in it's own separate category " Dumpster Diving" it only took 5 or 6 years.......

Great finds from all the new posters here....

 

[The Gray Fox]

Most of it is cheap, but considering I'm just getting into fishing, it's a great find.

 

[Aquila]

two nice finnish army rings saved from trash

 

[The Gray Fox]

Aquila, your finds are amazing!

 

[Aquila]

i found two silver copecs from trash last summer. they were in plastic bag with other foreign coins. another is 50 Soviet copecs from 1921.

 

[Silvervox325]

A guy that I see dumpster diving near my work all the time recently got semi-famous (Wired wrote an article about him), and he just posted a video where he finds Donald Trump's cellphone number in an old Rolodex, along with a guy's complete tax records :/ Be careful what you throw away! Video: Dumpster divers can find your private data

 

[T.C.]

Awesome finds!!

 

[metaldetecta]

Old salt crate from the Diamond Crystal Salt Company. On the bottom it says "constructed this 7th day of January 1893". It is a 123 year old piece of history I saved . There is a name inscribed on the bottom, but it is not very legible anymore.

 

[Aquila]

pocket watch fob from trash. i saw similar sold in webauction 73 euros. Suomi: Finland.

 

[kcm]

Has been a long time since we've been dumpster diving, but used to do it regularly. Went to dump our trash in town one day (last year, maybe?) when the wife spots something and calls me over. It's a new-in-package wireless headphone; IT model #: ITHW-858B. It was in the store bag along with the receipt. It had been opened, but everything was there and very clean - as if unused. The unit won't work on battery power, but works awesome with the supplied AC adapter. All cables and instructions included.

Used to get all sorts of racks and shelving from store dumpsters. Books, magazines, ...most of the stuff I can't even remember now. Still find magazines in the paper recycling bins - lots of older issues we have never seen, as well as often finding current, on-the-newsstand issues! Have found magazines we never knew existed. Lots of times we find where people are getting rid of their back-issues collections. Piles and piles of the same magazine, month-by-month, sometimes people still leave them in plastic grocery bags, which you're not supposed to do.

One time long, long ago, we went to town for groceries. As we were leaving, we stopped to notice this huge dumpster at the end of the store crammed full of food. Almost everything imaginable, but mostly MEAT!!! We had 6 hungry dogs at the time, so we loaded up the truck with all we could keep frozen and headed home. The dogs had belly aches for several days.....and LOTS and LOTS of POO!! Ever see a gluttonous dog be given a small frozen pizza? It lasts about 3 seconds. Along with the meat were bags of still-frozen chicken breasts, some seasoned some natural, lots of beef meatballs, etc. That was probably our best-ever dumpster find. Yes, as they were still frozen, we saved to eat the hard-frozen meats that we wanted. We'd thaw completely, do the sight and sniff test, then cook it up and see what it was like. ...Probably shouldn't have admitted to that, but we never once got sick, and it took us close to 4 months to use just the meat we kept for ourselves. Come to find out, the power had been out in the store for more than 2 hours, so the store dumped all the food and collected the insurance. Think about it - meat products in a grocery store after closing time, the power goes out for 2-3 hours, food is still perfectly frozen. Was VERY hot summer day, but meats were still hard-frozen when we got home.

 

[Aquila]

new find newport marked wrist watch totally unused and working

 

[Aquila]

yday i found 30 silver markka coins from trash.

 

[kcm]

Are they still active currency, or just the Euro?

 

[Jayers]

Aquila, interesting finds! Amazing, where do you find all the valuables in the trash?

 

[Chug And Red]

I love dumpsters and vacant apartments I'm Going to post a picture of the Mini rocking chair tomorrow Dumpster find Its in my shop at work I was Busy today!!! forgot too load it up before I came Home

 

[Aquila]

Jaeyrs i drive to check public scrap metal dumpsters and other places where people throw away stuff. i found Kalevala bird necklace last weekend worth about 50-100 euros.

 

[Aquila]

kcm no they are not active currency. markka coins. nowadays it is euros