[QBFimi]

<<Chalk it all up to the demise of the town dump. I’m seri[ous].<<

Dump recycling was done in by our friends the trial lawyers. Get hurt on Gumm’nt property = $$. Big $$. I had two college buddies (schoolteachers) who were pulling in over $10,000/yr (cash) diving in a Connecticut dump for antiques - in the late 1970s. The town lawyer eventually stopped them, even though they, unsolicited, submitted notarized release of liability statements.

[basil]

I wish someone would come “dumpster dive” in my closet. It sure needs cleaning out-—LOL!

[ravingnutter]

I made oodles of extra money as a single mother dumpster diving in my spare time. The two kids and I would hit the apartment building dumpsters at the end of the month when people were moving out. We would clean up salvageable items and sell them at the flea market on the weekends, along with items we got from our evening job cleaning out VA and HUD repossessed homes for a Realtor. The Realtor also gave us the appliances which we sold to a mobile home park for their rental homes. The kids had a blast doing it and shared in the profits. They are grown and gone now and I am in middle management so I no longer need to do such things, but we all have fond memories of it.

[Red in Blue PA]

There was a story about 10 years ago about people who did this for computers. They did it for the gold on the chips/boards in the computer. Not a whole lot in one computer, but get a few dozen and it added up.

And that was before the price of gold hit 4 digits!