Ever Considered Dumpster Diving?

I've done it a couple times, my grandmother lives in an apartment complex so furniture gets regularly thrown out when people move out so when I visit she used to take me to go find "treasures." I think the nicest thing we ever found was a lovely large metal seahorse table with the glass top perfectly intact without a crack on it. You would be surprised how many functioning lamps and appliances get tossed out!

Normally no, but my wife has spotted a few things left out for the garbage that we now own. In these few cases I am normally the ones that has to go and get the item that she wants picked up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyZiNpCznVo

Never dived into any actual dumpers (there have actually been a couple of people killed here accidentally in the past decade or so doing it ☹️) but I dare say when the council cleanups come round every 4 months I take a perusal of what everyone else in the area puts out for collection and have picked up a few of things over the years (no judgement please, it's actually encouraged by councils to help recycle and lessen the stuff taken to landfill, there are even some people who drive around with trucks in the collection week scooping up stuff, resellers I suspect mostly but DIY'ers in there certainly).

Cheers for the little dive and the treasures found within 😀, bump!

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Yeah, I've gotten some great scores right after grocery stores dump stuff at the end of the night. Often times it's perfectly good and still in it's packaging.

Before my time, when the economy in JP was booming people would put out perfectly working electronics, furniture in great shape and value for garbage collection... picking them is kind of grey zone (especially if tax sticker was put for oversized garbage). But economy is different place, reuse shops became popular, which is kind of reassuring. And many cities started to employ elderly people to renovate furniture, instruments and the like and resell it 👍 But putting stuff on curb and leaving note "please feel free to take" still happens.

Haven't done that, but I do the next best thing which is hunting down foodstuffs near their expiry dates! Here in Finland there's one store chain that puts -30% on stuff that's either on or close to its sell by date, on the last opening hour those stickers turn to -60%!

A lot of the protein/meat that I buy I get that way and put in the freezer.

Never considered, but considering supermarkets it should be legal in my country, alas it is not -.- People get arrested for saving good food which otherwise gets thrown away for profit

Nope, thankfully I've never had to.

I know it used to be popular years ago especially stores like gamestop. Sadly they realized what was happening and a lot of them started damaging the merchandise before tossing. I think a bunch of other stores do something similar.

Nice dumpster you got there. Bump :)

Never done it :)

technically we done this at school ... we had container inside for old electronics they parked there before it went into the trash. i still to this day use a monitor i repaired out of 2 broken monitors ... 1st had a broken panel, second leaky caps

bump

Considering how expensive living is becoming, I don't discard it

back in the gamestop days mabey

Sure I guess but it's generally frowned upon and I think charges can actually be pressed. I live pretty remote though no prime dumpsters within 20 miles. Some people put things out at the curb though and you never know what you might find. Old tv's , mattresses and even bed frames, baby beds, dog houses, all kinds of stuff. A lot of times if it might be worthwhile people will post it on social media to just come pick it up. Old appliances that even if they don't run you can get some money scrapping them. Building materials, "fertilizer" sometimes you can get a whole truckload or more to spread or use for compost.

Bump for dumpster diving!

Always a slippery slope!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6RWg6Rapv4

Bump :)