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Have you ever trash-picked or dumpster dived? If so, whats the best thing you've ever found?
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So this one time when I was eight years old or so, I had this "friend" named John. I lived in an apartment complex and John was the local "dirty" kid. His mom and my mom were good friends, so my mom used to make me be nice to him. All of the neighborhood kids called him smelly and dirty and wouldn't play with him. They would sing:
"John, John, the garbage man, digs in garbage as much as he can" -- Not real original, but it wasn't nice.
So I wasn't particularly kind to John either, but one day he came over to my house and asked me to come with him. I did, and he showed me in the dumpster where there was a bean-bag chair. He knew that I had been asking my mom for one, and he helped me pull it out.
From then on John and I were friends, and with a little duct-tape I had a new(ish) bean bag chair.
http://www.findbeanbags.com/Harvard_Faux_Leather_Bean_Bag_Chair.jpg
Side note: Years later I found out John's mom was manic depressant and bi-polar and that's why John was weird too.
So this one time when I was eight years old or so, I had this "friend" named John. I lived in an apartment complex and John was the local "dirty" kid. His mom and my mom were good friends, so my mom used to make me be nice to him. All of the neighborhood kids called him smelly and dirty and wouldn't play with him. They would sing:
"John, John, the garbage man, digs in garbage as much as he can" -- Not real original, but it wasn't nice.
So I wasn't particularly kind to John either, but one day he came over to my house and asked me to come with him. I did, and he showed me in the dumpster where there was a bean-bag chair. He knew that I had been asking my mom for one, and he helped me pull it out.
From then on John and I were friends, and with a little duct-tape I had a new(ish) bean bag chair.
Side note: Years later I found out John's mom was manic depressant and bi-polar and that's why John was weird too.
voted helpful: hushnow
Voted as best: cjd, tracebooks
i certainly have, and have found everything from flats of fresh tomatoes, onions and mushrooms (which i made an awesome spaghetti sauce with), to clothing in perfect condition, to antique furniture that with a bit of refinishing were in my home for years.
This used to be something we did every time we went to the dump when I was a kid! People would often leave things on the edge of the dumping platform, just in case someone wanted them. I still have several books I acquired in this way, including a nice copy of "Treasure Island."
We also added to the furnishings our first apartment with store displays that were put out as trash. I think I still have a Canada Dry rack/shelf in my storage shed. We didn't have the additional cash to pay for shelving at a store, and these were clean and useful.
Many of the adults around me had gone through the depression as kids. Their "waste not, want not" attitude probably had a lot to do with my willingness to consider the value of other people's trash.
We also added to the furnishings our first apartment with store displays that were put out as trash. I think I still have a Canada Dry rack/shelf in my storage shed. We didn't have the additional cash to pay for shelving at a store, and these were clean and useful.
Many of the adults around me had gone through the depression as kids. Their "waste not, want not" attitude probably had a lot to do with my willingness to consider the value of other people's trash.
Voted as best: masontx
I used to get a lot of great stuff of others people garbage. VCRs, TV's, a patio set, a lawnmower, bikes. But the best one was a computer ( pentium 200 Mhz) I found after a snow storm, it was buried in the snow, I took out the cover and left on the sunlight for a couple of days to dry out the internal parts and used that computer for 3 years!
Sure, a perfectly good baby swing that we then passed on to neighbors, we also set things out front and people pick them up in minutes - we live in a very 'use and re-use' kind of community!
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