Dumpster Diving

[puff_not_snuff]

Do any dumpster diving lately? Today I climbed in a dumpster and pulled one of these out.

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[gamzultovah]

I’ll give you a buck fifty for it.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

I’ll give you a buck fifty for it.

Ok... I'll meet you by the docks. You will know it's me by the smell of Grousemoor in the air.

 

[trudger]

You crawled out a winner with that score!

 

[mso489]

When I met my Navy minesweeper after flying to the Philippines and bussing from Clark Air Force base to Subic Bay, to leave the next day for Vietnam, being new aboard, I was immediately assigned to haul bags to the dumpster.

When I swung open the big dumpster door, to my amazement there was a little recycling factory in there, with a group of people diligently sorting and bagging materials they wanted to salvage, locals who used the superabundance of the Yankee Navy as a resource to be mined. I carefully deposited my bags of refuse in the assembly line of re-use and gently closed the door each time I brought out two other bags of trash. I admired their orderly and industrious work effort.

 

[mortonbriar]

Plenty of scores in the past, but it has been a while...

 

[mawnansmiff]

Many moons ago when I lived in Suffolk I was staggering home from the pub one evening when I spotted an overflowing skip on the other side of the road.

I wobbled over to it and after a quick rummage I pulled out an old brass fire fender, brass & copper coal scuttle and something else that escapes me.

My then girlfriend was none too happy with me bringing home this 'junk' as she called it. However her face lit up when at the weekend I took it to an antique shop and got £50 for the lot. £50 was quite a sum back then.

Regards,

Jay.

 

[jaingorenard]

Picked up this 1930s desk chair from the bin area of our flats when we lived in London about a year ago. The original upholstery was ripped and one arm was coming off, but everything else was fine. Can't believe someone wanted to just throw it away!

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Picked up this 1930s desk chair from the bin area of our flats when we lived in London about a year ago. The original upholstery was ripped and one arm was coming off, but everything else was fine. Can't believe someone wanted to just throw it away!View attachment 236069View attachment 236067

That upholstery looks like it would smell of Lakeland aka a grandma's purse.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Plenty of scores in the past, but it has been a while...

Yea... it's been pretty dry for a long time for me. My girlfriend is actually better at spotting valuable home decor that's been tossed out. During the pandemic people here were in such a rush to flee they threw away a lot of good stuff. I don't think any other country in the world can compete with the USA when it comes to discarding perfectly good or valuable items.

 

[jaingorenard]

That upholstery looks like it would smell of Lakeland aka a grandma's purse.

We actually removed the horsehair and stuffed it with Ennerdale instead, slightly rubbed out it makes for a comfy chair.

 

[AJL67]

Dumpster Diving you say, ready when you are!!!

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Dumpster Diving you say, ready when you are!!!


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I'm pretty sure that guy is just looking for pizza!

 

[AJL67]

I'm pretty sure that guy is just looking for pizza!

They get more carbs than me, yesterday was Chewy deliver day 2 22 pound bags of cat food, 2 20 pound bags of bird seed and from amazing 1 50lb bag of pick out blanched peanuts (no shells no skins only the best for them!)

The only dumpster diving i did was back in the 80s, there was a storefront "computer store" that did electronics, once in awhile they would throw out a bunch of circuit boards and me and a friend would raid the place and scrap the gold off the connectors ... you know to get rich .. LOL

 

[gamzultovah]

They get more carbs than me, yesterday was Chewy deliver day 2 22 pound bags of cat food, 2 20 pound bags of bird seed and from amazing 1 50lb bag of pick out blanched peanuts (no shells no skins only the best for them!)

The only dumpster diving i did was back in the 80s, there was a storefront "computer store" that did electronics, once in awhile they would throw out a bunch of circuit boards and me and a friend would raid the place and scrap the gold off the connectors ... you know to get rich .. LOL

How many do you support? A friend of mine started feeding one and ended up with a family of 20. Cute when they’re used to humans.

 

[AJL67]

How many do you support? A friend of mine started feeding one and ended up with a family of 20. Cute when they’re used to humans.

Roughly 10, a family of 5 and a few others that may or may not be related to each other.

 

[sablebrush52]

I don't put anything in the dumpster unless it's really, really dead. I'll leave something potentially useful to someone else, next to the dumpster. Left a Herman Miller Aeron chair behind next to the dumpster in this move. It disappeared in a nanosecond. I don't regret that in the least. I don't find Aeron chairs comfortable, and they're frankly annoying when you want to tilt back because of the design philosophy, and they don't hold up, regardless of what gets written about them. Now I have a Stressless chair that is light years more comfortable than that Herman Miller.
I've left tools, kitchen materiel, whatever I didn't need that someone else could use. But never in the dumpster.

 

[kcghost]

We our neighbor we decent stuff out by the curb. If someone hasn't pick it up bay garbage day, then the trash men can remove it.

 

[Andre_T]

I work for a college. It amazes me what we throw away. This week I tossed 8 or so full body dummies from the nursing department. (No I wont post the pics here.) The whole time driving to the dumpster I was hoping the kids were not outside the daycare as I would be heaving naked anatomically correct bodies into the dumpster. For context the dumpster is within view of their outdoor play area. It is truly insane what we toss out.

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

They get more carbs than me, yesterday was Chewy deliver day 2 22 pound bags of cat food, 2 20 pound bags of bird seed and from amazing 1 50lb bag of pick out blanched peanuts (no shells no skins only the best for them!)

The only dumpster diving i did was back in the 80s, there was a storefront "computer store" that did electronics, once in awhile they would throw out a bunch of circuit boards and me and a friend would raid the place and scrap the gold off the connectors ... you know to get rich .. LOL

My Mother in law has one that comes to her patio door every night and gets two peanut butter sandwiches, he's pretty adorable. Mine don't seem to want to have too much to do with me .