Have you ever gone dumpster diving?
I’ve heard of people who love to go dumpster diving. I ran into a video of a couple who has made it their job to dumpster dive. The thought sounds gross to me. Watching them get excited over the junk that they found got lost in translation. I know that when I lived in DC that many of the homeless used the dumpsters for their private toilet…plus druggies left their used needles behind. Most people are such germaphobes that they won’t use stuff coming out of a dirty dumpster. These people were discussing taking the shoes they found that didn’t fit them & donating them to a charity. The list goes on & on. I know a local college has dumpster diving day every year on the last days of classes. My S-I-L goes to that one. However, the school puts out new, clean dumpsters & the rich kids whose parents would rather buy their kid something new in place of paying to get the crap shipped back home. She found a beautiful, clean rug for her basement. She says it’s not the same as going through a dirty dumpster to get junk. She’s found brand named clothes with the price tag still attached…the parents bought it but he kids never wore it.
IF you’ve ever been dumpster diving, can you explain the thought process behind it??? What is the thrill???
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Oh hell yeah! It’s mind boggling the perfectly good things that people throw out. I used to work next door to a furniture store. They’d throw brand new mattresses, literally still wrapped in plastic, in the dumpster. I couldn’t bear so see that go to waste so I’d bring them home. My son eventually had a bed that was 6 mattresses tall.
Then the furniture got replace with a thrift store. Same story. Tons and tons of perfectly clean, good clothes in the dumpster.
My son got me a wicker room divider that he found in a dumpster as a wedding present. You have to look very hard to find the flaw in it.
I’ve taken things that people had set out with the trash.
I also shop at Goodwill, and some people look all askance at me, like it’s gross or something….but they usually find out because they complimented me on what I was wearing and asked where I got it. People who don’t “get” dumpster diving are doing the same thing. They’re letting their imagination run away with them instead of looking at the reality.
I havent for awhile but I used to. When the college kids all leave for the summer they throw away furniture, art, clothes, all kinds of neat things. A friend found a beautiful big armoire worth a lot once.
My aunt talks local food places into bagging up leftovers or bagels, etc..and gives to the needy, too.
Just stay away from the meat products.
It’s like modern day treasure hunting!
I used to regular dumpster dive for books. When I worked at the bookstore, I learned that sometimes they can get partially reimbursed for books or readers that they don’t sell. But it costs too much to send them back to the publisher. So they pull off the covers and just send those back. The rest of the book or reader just gets tossed.
Other stuff has been less deliberate. More like walking or driving by and catching a glimpse of something in the corner of my eye.
In this town, if there is anything, ANYTHING that you want to get rid of, just put it out on the curb. Someone will take it.
@Dutchess_III In this town, if there is anything, ANYTHING that you want to get rid of, just put it out on the curb. Someone will take it.
I was thinking that exact same thing but ended up going to a husband swapping party, and as luck would have it, came home with a nice new toaster.
Yes! Many times. It is definitely a treasure hunt.
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