DUMPSTER JACKPOT!!! Updated with the tally!

[BigWaveDave]

Boss asks me to dump a bunch of pallets into the giant dumpster at work. So I climbed over the edge to see where they’d all fit…. I look down, and Oh Snap! Is that ring? I get ridiculed for climbing in the loaded messy, filthy, disgusting trailer of trash.
Then another? I start moving things around, and OMG!
There are at least 7 gold rings, silver, a few wheats, tokens, a war nickel…. And chains too!
They are mostly bunked up with grease, oil, nasty sticky stuff, so I’m looking forward to cleaning them up, I’ll get yall a tally later on.
Yay me!


Ok, so as it turns out, not as huge a score as I first thought, but still pretty good I’d say!
15 chains, bunch of junk bling, Avon stuff, costume jewelry and the like…

But BOOM! 6 Gold Rings, and a Sterling Sharp Shooter Pin. 1 18K, a 14K, and the others are 10K.
The class rings are engraved with the same initials as the wedding rings.
Hope to track down the owner….curious that the 3 wheats are all 1955…
So overall, I done good!

 

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[releventchair]

Congrats!

 

[Bart@Big Boys Hobbies]

Man! Nice find!

 

[coinshooter]

Awesome!

 

[pepperj]

Boss asks me to dump a bunch of pallets into the giant dumpster at work. So I climbed over the edge to see where they’d all fit…. I look down, and Oh Snap! Is that ring? I get ridiculed for climbing in the loaded messy, filthy, disgusting trailer of trash.
Then another? I start moving things around, and OMG!
There are at least 7 gold rings, silver, a few wheats, tokens, a war nickel…. And chains too!
They are mostly bunked up with grease, oil, nasty sticky stuff, so I’m looking forward to cleaning them up, I’ll get yall a tally later on.
Yay me!
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That's a great dumpster dive.
Good eye, excellent save.
Wonder if it was a quick get rid of the evidence type thing.

 

[Limitool]

How in the world did a stash like that.... get put into a trash bid in the first place in that sticky / dirty of a mess? Where does the "trash" come from mainly. But GREAT recovery guy. Can't wait to see what all you saved. I hope you found some really good items....!!!!! Brad

 

[Heavygold4me]

Massive score, way to go!

 

[Bucket Lister]

That's a great dumpster dive.
Good eye, excellent save.
Wonder if it was a quick get rid of the evidence type thing.

I was thinking either that, or stuff left behind when one domestic partner moves out and the other doesn't want any remaining reminders/reasons to return.

 

[mike b]

Boss asks me to dump a bunch of pallets into the giant dumpster at work. So I climbed over the edge to see where they’d all fit…. I look down, and Oh Snap! Is that ring? I get ridiculed for climbing in the loaded messy, filthy, disgusting trailer of trash.
Then another? I start moving things around, and OMG!
There are at least 7 gold rings, silver, a few wheats, tokens, a war nickel…. And chains too!
They are mostly bunked up with grease, oil, nasty sticky stuff, so I’m looking forward to cleaning them up, I’ll get yall a tally later on.
Yay me!
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If you don't post a picture of all that cleaned up, I'll take my "Like" back. Great find, love it.

 

[Oregon Viking]

Great finds!!
An occasional look in to other dumpsters is warranted. Be that guy!!

 

[Bucket Lister]

I miss the dumpster at my first job (early 70s). It was a factory that made church furniture and specialty items out of red & white oak and black walnut. The place was a 💩hole sweatshop, and the job so bad it incentivized me to go back to school after 1 year.

But the incredible scraps I used to bring home... 😁

I got a lifetime of small projects out of that yearlong haul. Still have a very few pieces left.

 

[iAmMike]

Wonder if it was a quick get rid of the evidence type thing.

That's what I was thinking. But, not like I wouldn't have took it too. So nice finds!

 

[BigWaveDave]

No telling who threw away all this stuff, maybe didn’t even realize what was in there.
Lots of people use the dumpster at my work, we got like 100 employees and they clean out houses and throw all sorts of crap in there…
So this is what I gathered…
A Jewish guy graduated college in 1961, he had some nice cuff links from High School, as evidenced by the patent date. He then served our country, met a Catholic girl about 14 years younger, as her HS ring is 1971.
Both their initials are on the wedding rings.
They visited Paris at some point. He worked in a coal mine, and was awarded a safety buckle. Probably lived in Clarksburg WV, with the auto store money clip in the stash…
He didn’t have a lot of money, because all her stuff is fake…. Oh yeah, I think she probably worked for Avon lol.
I’m determined to find this guy, or next of kin….
I love shit like this!

 

[billb]

Amazing ….
Outstanding Achievement Dave
Congratulations

 

[Gare]

AMAZING FIND Thanks for sharing with us

 

[GaRebel1861]

Heck yeah!

 

[Blak bart]

This happened to me once too. Congrats Dave...killer score !!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Wow !!!

 

[Blackfoot58]

What does it say on the bar above the cross? I can’t make it out. It looks to start with a ?AM. Is it RAM?
Possibly Royal Arch Mason. That style cross would make sense.👍🏼

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

Boss asks me to dump a bunch of pallets into the giant dumpster at work. So I climbed over the edge to see where they’d all fit…. I look down, and Oh Snap! Is that ring? I get ridiculed for climbing in the loaded messy, filthy, disgusting trailer of trash.
Then another? I start moving things around, and OMG!
There are at least 7 gold rings, silver, a few wheats, tokens, a war nickel…. And chains too!
They are mostly bunked up with grease, oil, nasty sticky stuff, so I’m looking forward to cleaning them up, I’ll get yall a tally later on.
Yay me!


Ok, so as it turns out, not as huge a score as I first thought, but still pretty good I’d say!
15 chains, bunch of junk bling, Avon stuff, costume jewelry and the like…

But BOOM! 6 Gold Rings, and a Sterling Sharp Shooter Pin. 1 18K, a 14K, and the others are 10K.
The class rings are engraved with the same initials as the wedding rings.
Hope to track down the owner….curious that the 3 wheats are all 1955…
So overall, I done good!

wow, always kinda looked down on, or felt sorry for a dumpster diver. you got me rethinking my strategy