Whats your best find dumpster diving?

I went dumpster diving one night, I found a bunch of empty beer bottles that I took back for some cash...

I found some food too, but I just couldn't eat it...

 

My friend Jack found some fischer skis last week, that's a good find.

 

A cactus I was able to revive (Who can kill a cactus anyways? My cousin has a black thumb and hers is still going strong), a bag with three greatful dead plushies in it, a crapload of canned goods just a few days past sell by date, loaves of bread, once I found a huge bag of sweets, like a garbage bag full.

 

Led Zep Houses of the Holy album.
A stack of 45s, some worth keeping.
Porn posters, and mags.
A turn table, stereo, and speakers.
My lil bro found a crystal punch bowl, complete w/crystal cups he gave our mom for xmas.
A watch that worked.
Toys.
This was all when i was a kid in the 70s, and there was much more that i can't remember right now.

Apartment complexes are great because people move and throw good stuff out.

But the best finds are when people break up with a gf, or bf, and toss their ex's stuff out. My brother found a huge tv, and surround sound equip. Also an expensive stereo system, etc.

 

nice. any good music?

 

I've found far too many things to point out "the best find".
My most recent find were two of those pedipaws. Both work great and my dog loves them.

I'd also have to say clothing. Probably 90% of my clothing was either found in a dumpster or in a park where someone left them.

Actually with some of the things I've found I have a hard time forking over money for many things now.
Past two Saturday's I've gone to garage sales and haven't spent a penny, because usually on the Monday, most of the stuff the people are trying to sell is thrown into the garbage.

 

Porn..

 

Bag of 'shrooms, taped to the back of a desk drawer. The desk was put out of a student apartment after graduation.

 

perfectly working hardshell guitar case. I love dumpstering at college campuses at the end of the semester!

 

Well that is the best time to go..... I found my living room. Everything but the tv

 

Dead baby. No really a dead baby.

 

That's sad... in a sense... somewhat... now Disko Rick with Babies in Trash Cans pops in my head... I feel a sudden urge to rant on with dead baby jokes.

I've pulled too many good things out of dumpsters to even find a topper.. when I was on the west coast last year I found a spot where I could pull out 150-200$ a week worth of organic goods... plus it was right next to a sign flying spot where you could make 200$ in a few hours easy. Found a nice bag of trim one day over around those parts, but I quickly found that that was easy to find... man you California's have it easy when scoring green.

Other then that, half of most of the houses I stayed in were furnished by garbage finds.. tv's, computers, bicycle's... crap I didn't even want but I always wanted to give it a home.

My best find recently was my girlfriends kitty, Dumpster Kitty, err.. DK for short. I told her I was going to get her a cat before we hit the east coast, and there he was, a little black ally/siamese mix, sitting in the meat dumpster of some grocer in Tuscan, AZ.

 

A Samurai Sword. Not the fake ones that when you hit something they don't do shit. I cut through a tree no problem......Oh and a tie-dye bowling ball.

 

I once found a whole dumpster filled with Hummus. Everything was still in all the boxes and everything. I was just in awe. But also made me depressed that it reminded of how much we humans waste food. But I didnt let that go to waste. haha

 

Oh haha, I thought you said a whole dumpster filled with humans.

 

When i was a kid i went into an abandoned house full of creepy junk. I found an old trash can that was full of oily sawdust. I saw something that was poking out of the sawdust just a bit. It was a huge chunk of turquoise!

I dug through the sawdust and found a bunch of them. I thought i was rich! I took them home and my dad said that it was fake turquoise, so i threw them out.

I didn't know about costume jewelry at the time, and i wonder if i could have actually made some money from them now. Oh well..lol

 

that would of been a better thing to say.