Garbage Picking for treasures

DPBOB

DPBOB

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;) What's a Snowblower? hehehehe.....! Oh Yeah!, I remember! ;D Problem with Curbside is, you tend to fill your Garage up

FAST! Good Divin" Tho!

Joe
 

Good hobby. I have been dumpster diving for a bit too, but mostly because we needed the money from the aluminum cans, or back in the day when all companies offered rebates for proof of purchase. Ahh those were good days. Sometimes we could get $150 a month. Seems like our highest was $300ish in one month. We did not have a truck back then so we could not pick up furnitures, but we did used to check out appliances and other things for selling at flea market.

I have yet to ever find any silver coins though. That would be really cool. I did not have time to do any diving during my 13 years in the military, but the need has arisen again to get in the occasional dumpster. The good stuff from college's seem to be completely off limits now as you will always get chased off here by security guards.

But I will say one thing. As a youngster I could always count on college dorm dumpsters for gold. Porn gold that is LoL, at that age that was hidden in your pants and shirt try to slip by mother find.

Postalrevnant
 

i got a choach wristlet out of the garbage and sold it for 36.00 on ebay ;D
 

Ah the DD'ng

Down here we have to haul off to the dumpsters all our trash.

Folks down here, if something is good will set it out for viewing in front of the dumpsters.... We have collected many a good appliance or piece of furniture... Even when the neighbors come down for coffee we brag over who had the best week at DD'ng

great post.....
 

I just got a bunch of copper computer wire out of a dumpster. It is hard to strip, but with the awful weather I am bored and need something to do.
 

I may be bored but stripping computer network wire is not the way to relieve boredom. I gave it to another dumpster diver. I stripped all day and did not get two pounds!
 

Diving is great...especially when I suggest to my friends that we shop 'out back'...well he went in the store and came around the back to see me climbing into a dumpster with a 3-day expired carton of lemonade.
 

My mom was a serious dumpster diver. She took me to Des Moines about 8 years ago when there was a scholastic book center. Around back there was an ENTIRE dumpster of new books and all the craft fun stuff that is sold to the school children. We asked permission as we were in the city in broad daylight. I have a photo of myself with only my torso up sticking out of said dumpster. We filled the back of a van and their excuse for this atrocity was that their suppliers won't give them credit unless the books are thrown out. Sadly(to the divers) the center is gone but I saw one in the Des Moines phone book last time I was there. If you want some serious free books with no trash in the dumpster find yourself one of these places. I gave so many away and I bet there is a Scholastic or Troll book center in most big cities.
 

Kool stuff there Silver Bob! I dive up here once in awhile too. Just scored myself two sets of fancy brakes for my MTBike, last week that were attached to 2 dead bikes at the curb on garbage day. There weren't any wheels, pedals or seats on them but somehow those kool brakes were just waiting for me. I always carry a small tool kit on my bike for just such times and it paid off again.

Have you ever sold any of the stuff you find? I sold a Pentium II that I picked up off someones lawn which was left over after a yard sale that nobody bought,for $75. 8)

lb
 

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