Recent dump finds...

[alaskan]

Aside from a ton of books (my favorite book find being an autographed copy of "The Art Of Talk" by art bell. Found it while me and a friend were cruisin around listening to coast to coast) I've gotten a nice big tv (one good thing about the digital switch-nice tvs there on an almost daily basis,) a nice vcr, a nice dvd player, movies (picked up a brand new still in the wrapper copy of bill and ted's bogus journey the other day), and a bunch of bike stuff.

I usually just take the tires/tubes from the bikes unless they're something special, like this little miniature 16 inch bmx I got the other night -Before cleaning it up-

after-

And also this big schwinn roadbike that can apparently sell for around 200 bucks to the right hipster...

Note the telescope next to it, also from the dump. It's a bushnell "computerized star locator."

And I think my all time best is this frickin green laser

I've never had so many meatheads try to fight me in my life, and over a little light no less.


Anyone else find treasure worth mentioning?

 

[bigbadwasg]

no ur weird

 

[JacuzziSplot]

cool shit

whats the green laser about? does it react with stuff?

 

[alaskan]

I haven't really tried to burn anything with it, but you can just barely feel some warmth when it's on soft skin.

 

[PistilPete]

that redline rocks. nice find.

 

[The End Is Near]

I used to go dumpster diving relatively often. Not so much anymore, but once behind a Food Lion they threw out a box of strawberries, probably 20 lbs, past their expiration date but a good 75% were still good/mold free, so I took them home to sort and double wash them. I had a strawberry buffet for the next week or so. I also eat vegetables if they don't look bad.

Back when they cost $100, I found a 1GB flash drive behind a computer shop. And just last year when a flea market burned down it was open for looting. By the time I knew of it all I got was fire extinguishers and a leather swivel chair that I had to fix the arm of.

 

[LolaGal]

1930s Coke Machine with 95% original paint still intact. It says Drink Coca Cola 5 cents all over it. AND it has the original Coca Cola bottle opener intact.


Worth: $3500. Cost: FREE at the dump.

I did wax it with turtle wax after I got it home.

 

[PuReKnOwLeDgE]

Wow just like my Dad, he can't stop himself when he sees somehting sticking out of a dumpster he might want.....He has 3 very nice sheds in his yard all built from pallets used for shipping large pieces of titanium....my Dad will literally pull out a rusty bent nail and straighten it.....nothing wrong with it just not my style

 

[Stoner4Life]

call the sanitation dept in the wealthiest suburbs near you and ask them which days (of the week or month) they pick up bulk items (tv's, microwaves, computers, etc), have a good cover story about doing a garage/attic cleanup for a resident because they'll want to keep curbside divers from invading the neighborhood. wealthy folk don't value great flea market, eBay, garage sale items as we do.


If you live in the NYC area the bulk days in the following neighborhoods
would be like hitting garage sales and just taking what you like for free:
Scarsdale is #1 for sidewalk finds
Hartsdale
Edgemont (Scarsdale area)
Larchmont
Mamaroneck
Eastchester....... these six are tops for slightly used items being tossed.


White Plains
New Rochelle
Yonkers....... these three cities have both good & bad neighborhoods
select only from streets w/out people hanging out, the nice burbs never
have people (other than kids) on the streets.

Don't do any sidewalk diving near kids in the burbs, they pay high taxes
to have the privilege of quiet safer streets, trash diving creates an image.

 

[Haps]

My best finds were mostly after midnight in affluent neighborhoods, just drive slow and quietly, and do not mess piles up. For 30 and 55 gallon drums, try hospital and institutional dumpsters.
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[Stoner4Life]

My best finds were mostly after midnight in affluent neighborhoods, just drive slow and quietly, and do not mess piles up. For 30 and 55 gallon drums, try hospital and institutional dumpsters.
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I had the advantage of driving taxi in Scarsdale & its neighboring communities listed in group my A, I could see the good stuff while making my rounds and scooped them whenever I was vacant, most of the stuff I sold to fellow drivers who needed this and that (TV's, micros, stereos, etc) for $20-25, a few items went home or to good friends like a large wrought iron chandelier too big for even my moms home but great for my friends log cabins vaulted ceiling. there seemed to be an endless supply of near mint bicycles every spring. I do however recall thinking one day as I was looking at a crying kid in my rearview mirror, "gee, I guess he shouldn't have left that bike so close to the garbage pile......."


j/k, I always made sure I wasn't stealing any bikes, I hadda see it in the pile for awhile before taking it away.


my best find ever was in a guys driveway in 2001, there sat an old '68 mercedes 230SL convertible/coupe w/only 67,000 miles. it had vines growing around the tires & so I rang his bell one evening when I thought he'd be home. He was cordial and told me he'd recently called a church to donate it, he said they'd offered him a receipt for $2500 as a charitable donation against his taxes, I asked him what that meant in cash right now and he told me $450, these cars have a base value if never wrecked and so I agreed, paid him the next night & towed it away two days later....... I knew the car was a project needing mechanical attention so I went to the Hemmings Motor News to see who was buying MB classics in the area, I had a few tire kickers and a few shop owners come by, one of them (Peter Kumar) offered me $4,500 if I would tow it to his garage in Queens 'Gullwing Motor Cars', done deal.

that car was found/bought in Scarsdale, remember "askin's for free"

 

[MarquisBlack]

Dude, I've always wanted one of those Schwinn road bikes. Those things is faaaast...

 

[greenhead]

You people will probably like the show American Pickers, if you haven't already seen it. It's on the history channel.

 

[Stoner4Life]

You people will probably like the show American Pickers, if you haven't already seen it. It's on the history channel.

a lot like the show, a reflection of our lives



we have auctions up here in northern MN only issue I don't care for is that you always pay top dollar as high bidder, I like to bid on some blind boxes of junk, usually going for a dollar or two.

 

[whiterabbit9]

tt

 

[antimatter]

Your a hoarder be careful, if you continue this behavior you may have to bring it all back to the dump again.

 

[etinarcadiaego]

and yes you can call your redline the trash re-cycle cycle no charge

lol

@whiterabbit9: where did you take that photo if i may ask?

 

[kweb1989]

that looks like the lazer we used in astronomy. It was used to point stars out since the beam i visible at night. nice find... if it is that kind of light and you can see the beam... those suckers are a pretty penny!

 

[alaskan]

that looks like the lazer we used in astronomy. It was used to point stars out since the beam i visible at night. nice find... if it is that kind of light and you can see the beam... those suckers are a pretty penny!

That's what I was thinking since it was near the telescope when I got it, and it is the kind where you can see the beam.

And everyone that's said I'm a hoarder - It's not like I'm picking up/saving everything I see, just the stuff that I like/have uses for...

 

[headfortrinity]

That telescope is a great find!