Bump
Will never forget Kramer’s dumpster diving prowess.
Not specifically dumpster diving, but while checking the coinstar machine at a local Wally World on Thursday, I found a 1942 Washington Quarter, and a 1964 Roosevelt Dime. I love people who don’t know what they have.
Sometimes you can find an eclair in a trash can.
Or bear claws in a dumpster.
They are probably breaking at least two laws.
For some really good stuff, hit a University Campus when school lets out for the Summer. I’m talking the ritzy Ivy League type of school.
Without unnecessary waste, what would these people do?
Remember, it is the liberals that won’t let the grocery stores and restaurants give out free food. It has to go through the dumpster first.......................
My mom preferred to call it early American curbside shopping.
Whenever it was bulk trash night, she would load us up in the station wagon and head over to the uber-rich side of town. We found lots of great toys, bikes, wooden furniture, etc.
She and my father were depression-era babies. Nothing good went to waste.
Not surprisingly, they had the money to help my one brother start his business, put four of us through private college, and my sister and I both went to private high schools, as well. Their medical care at the end of their lives was quite expensive, but all five of us still walked away with a six-figure inheritance each.
My sister and I are extremely frugal to this day. Freecycle, consignment shops, pawn shops, antique stores, if we can get it cheaper...why not?
I won’t dive into a dumpster, but I am not above stopping at a curbside heap if I see something interesting.
One man’s trash...
I lived in a town that had a lot of retired people.
When they died their relatives would vome and clean out the house.
Anything they couldnt use went to the dumpster.
I used t get brand new tires, TVs, microwaves, clothing
I had a relative who was a garbageman for a time. He knew who drank (and what), whose husband just died (all his golf, fishing, etc. gear was out), etc.
My kids had all the latest yard toys - he would take them back to the shop, steam clean them, and voila.
There are several folks who ride around on trash day - one goes for metal, another for housewares, etc. We even have a guy that rides around picking up Christmas trees after the holiday - mulches them.
This story is re-written every time we are in the beginning of a recession. I’ve seen the same article written time and time again throughout the past few decades. “Hey, go dumpster diving! You find some great deals! That’s the way to save money! You will be one of the cool kids if you grab stuff from the trash”.
That’s not to say that our society does not discard way too much perfectly good stuff. I have a couple of wooden shelves that I grabbed from the landfill. The items could have been given to Good Will, or been advertised as a “free, just come and get it” item. Instead, someone just tossed them into the landfill. What a waste!
However, stories such as this are presented as original, when they are just rewrites from a few years ago. Just like the stories about how to save money by cooking several meals as once and freezing them. What an epiphany! Why hasn’t anyone thought of that before?
Sounds like they’re hoarders to me.
...and 95% to 100% of these videos are staged...