Post some great finds. I found a barely used sleeping bag the other day.
>>698742
I found some lovely filth in the bottom of one today, I rubbed it all over my face and buttocks
>>698742
went to a junkyard today got a few jacks for free, a strap or two, some shot rotors for a project, and i may be getting a motorcycle from there, everything today is free,, motorcycle will be under $100 i also may get a spare bumper for my truck etc
Yes I found several tin cans the other day and acquired a lovely crack rock.
There are guys from/ck/ that eat food from the dumpster like human rats.
>>698773
Are they MGTOWs?
So went to the grocery today.After watching some MCQ i was on the lookout for a old leather couch or chair to scrounge some leather bits. lo and behold theres a leather office chair beside a dumpster. pull out my razor blade i use for work and grab me a 2'x1' and 2 "3x"8 bits of nice brown leather. planning a belt bag and a leather cover for my mora.
>>698773
oh god i hate the fuckers that cook it up
its bad enough eating fuckin trash onions right away let alone carrying them to your fuckin moms house to fry up
spend 13 seconds smashing it down, not the next 3 hours just to fucking cook some shit you found in the trash
fuck /ck/
I have piles and piles of old dells that places were throwing out, a bunch of monitors that only needed new capacitors, a LED light that just needed a cover, which I made out of an old plastic container so I wouldn't go blind when I turn it on, several cables, a bunch of keyboards, a bunch of laptops, and enough components to fill up a few shelves and drawers. None of this counts stuff that I got off of people who were going to throw it out but hadn't yet.
Back in 2010 found 30 Pentium iv 3.0ghz machines. Most had 512mb ram some had 1gb. About 7 were fuked and used for parts. Sold for between $120 to $150 each.
Found one of my best friends in a dumpster.
>Factory district.
>Cold, like negative with windchill cold
>Hear noises, voices
>Start banging side of bin and saying I'm the cops
>Hear "sssshhhhh man, it's the cops"
>climb in and smoke up with them
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
>>698742
You are fucking messy pieces of shit. Every fucking homeless or retard that comes in my street makes a mess out of everyone's trash bags. I hope you get tetanus and die
>>698845
>>698773
>>698742
>mfw i dumper dive for food during the winter
>mfw my friends always ask my why since im pretty rich
Its pretty funny to out and dumpster dive for food. Once i found 11 bottles of wine and a wheel of cheese that costs $40
>>698773
That isn't so bad when it is outside a grocery store or restaurant. Many times those places toss out bulk food that is still in their original containers and still has a long shelf life ahead of them. They just can't legally sell it to the public for a variety of reasons, like dented cans for example. One store here ordered too much food a two times in a row and people were coming from miles around to pickup the free food.
But, people licking egg shells and banana peels for food just need some meds, someone to talk to, and a shelter.
Found a perfectly functioning antique manual typewriter in a dumpster at my sister's snobby hipster-filled college. Looks great in my office, makes everything I type look like a classified document.
Food-related, I once found an entire retail box of chocolate bars, one day past sell-by date at a gas station in England. Hitchhiking partner and I got so sick of eating them we left about 40 bars in the free food box at a hostel.
>human living trash
Make us all a favor and kill yourselves.
When I was a kid I found like this 3 feet tall unopened transformer toy, as well as some video gaming magazine with a lot of hot girls from before I owned a computer (so no sophisticated vidya and no porn)
>>698991
so indoctrinated, kill yourself plz
>>699013
dude you're the one eating trash to survive lel, no one will miss you. Later at night I'll eat a nice stake, if you pass near my house I'll throw you a bone with a few pieces of meat attached so you can enjoy it.
>>699026
I was working at a distribution center once. I was ordered to forklift 9 pallets of prime steak into a rubbish bin. I don't think you realise how much good stuff is wasted in society.
As other anon said. Indoctrinated so kill your self please :).
>>699026
no i don't, but i respect those who do. go suck on your stake, faggot
I've yet to do this, but am interested. One thing that really struck me was that bakeries will throw out fresh baked bagels as soon as they close, so dumpster bagels are actually fresher than than the stuff you'd buy at the grocer that sat on the shelves a couple days.
A childhood friend of mine had a legendary story about going dumpster diving behind a gamestop. He found that they threw away a bunch of used games they bought from people but couldn't sell. So he just piled them up in his hands, walked around to the front of the store, and sold them again claiming they were his.
They bought it. It was the funniest shit. Good times.
>>699221
Try Starbucks anon, they get an excess of things and almost every Starbucks dumpster will have unopened bagels and other starschmucks bullshit in it. I just checked one in this town I'm passing through, there was a ton.
I dumpster sporadically, it's more fun when you have a house or vehicle to put the things in imo. As a Vagabond I have everything I need, dumpstering is just something I do for fun now, unless it's for food in which case it's still usually for fun. I left the bagels I found earlier, but they were fresh and unopened.
Last year when I was in an RV with a girlfriend, we would regularly dumpster to furnish our tiny house. Of course she collected all sorts of other bullshit being a woman, but we found her a $400 pair of boots, a gold/silver ring with a diamond set in a blue lace agate, a bunch of other silver jewellery, tons of really expensive clothes, a few pounds of pot, and every night five nights a week I had the ladies at this Starbucks giving me the sweets they normally throw out, in a separate bag so I didn't have to go into the dumpster.
Don't even get me started on the two people I learned to dumpster from, they're God's own prototypes. The things they've found, or have found since the years ago that I met them, good fuck everyone would make a hobby of it.
>>699026
Cheeseburger detected
>>699441
Will do. There's a Starbucks nearby that gave me stuff they were throwing away a couple times just because my buddy and I would sit in there until they closed. I never really thought about what they'd do with it otherwise. I'll let y'all know how it went.
>>699473
You can tell a lot by the weights of the bags and the contents you can see on the outside. Not too light but not too heavy, clean and with kitchen trash like wax paper instead of lobby trash like cups. Almost always unexpired, too.
Its nice knowing of random dumpsters across the states.
In Seattle there's a famous organic chocolate dumpster at theo's chocolate, also a krispy kreme(I think?) that almost always has a dumpster full of trash bags full of glazed donuts of varying quality. Seattle is one of the silliest cities for dumpstering. College towns are almost always the best, alcoholic trash is hilarious.
A Paul Chen Practical Katana sans scabbard
Any one had any recent finds?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuD1oDth6es
>>698773
>witnessed
I used to dig up porn mags from the paper bin when I was a teen. Good times.
>>700425
No one here actually does this anon.
>>700563
I do. Last night i just got fresh breads and some vegetables. I might get something better tomorrow.
>>700563
The LL Bean store near me actually throws out gear and leaves the dumpsters unlocked. I've never gotten much besides shoes; I put 'em up for grabs to crustpunks who roll through a communal farm near me.
To this day, I have found:
1 PSP 9with final fantasy tactics inside)
3 pairs of shoes in usable condition
1 Sega Gamegear, with many games
3 bo staves, one of which was a present for my little sister afterward (she thought it was awesome)
4 nunchaku
6 lightsabers
1 copy of Spyro the dragon
1 box of kringle pastry (still sealed in package)
The rest escapes me at the moment. Point is, people throw away a lot of shit that is still perfectly good, for no reason other than "Well, I got a new one." For those of you making fun of something perfectly harmless that save space in landfill, shame. Shame on all you motherfuckers. You are helping contribute to the disposable culture as much as the fucks who leave solo cups at camp sites.
>>698936
I hope you get over yourself and have a nice day too.
How does one get started in this business? I don't have anyone who could show me the ropes and I'm going to keep this hobby to myself desu. Are there any good guides online? How do you find good hunting spots?
>>698742
Back when Blockbuster was still in business, we used to check their dumpsters all the time. Used to get tons of VHS's (and later DVD's) as well as a handful of videogames. When stuff became old and unpopular, they would try and sell it for a couple months and eventually just throw it out. Lots of shitty movies as well as Dreamcast and Playstation games.
Eventually they started putting deep scratches in all the discs so it ruined it. Too bad.
There was a bagel place next to the Blockbuster and we would get giant trash bags of bagels. Never ate them just threw them at people and cars. Best bet was always going to the Dunkin Donuts real late at night. Buy a dozen donuts and dude would give us 2-3 dozen for free.
>>698764
desu that would be a good day
>>700753
found 2 lamps today in the trash I don't have any real good dumpsters around here, unless they are construction dumpsters and lots of time are on private land. so I look for side of the road stuff. I love lamps mostly for the cable and the bit the bulb plugs into.. cause I like making my own lamps from trash [oh the irony] anyway this ugly ass generic lamp netted two bulb holders, about 1 meter of lamp cord. and these cool stainless steel tubes + a stainless base.
You can find knives and similar bladed weapons/tools that mothers/parents confiscate from their kids and throw out
Lots of cheap Chinese bowies and shit, sure
>>701108
Considering the "use by date" is usually a half-life type of deal, places that throw shit out as soon as the number on the packet is up, is good pickings.
>>701113
and almost always still packaged perfectly. they just don't want any law suits for 'bad food'
>>700713
What city you in anon?
I prefer walking, because I have a dog and she comes everywhere by default, but you can use a bike-Just be careful not to lose it while inna dumpster. You'll want a headlamp. Gloves if you want to flail through bags at light speed. I suggest a pair of boots too. A large backpack is useful for the long missions and big come ups. Always try to clean up after yourself.
The 'ropes' are as follows; college dorms, apartments, middle-upperclass trash cans, sometimes motels/hotels, places where they make/process a lot of fresh food every day if you need food, and industrial dumpsters of businesses pertaining to a thing you like ie fabric company for material/zippers to make your own bags, flooring showroom company for broken pieces of marble/granite to a counter out of.
Look into the dumpster and determine the kind of trash.
If the trash is what I call "trashy trash" ie generic household "take the garbage out honey" trash, you should leave it. It looks like your kitchen trash, usually with a smaller bag of bathroom trash in it. Rarely will you find things in these. Often you crack a dumpster and inside are bags containing nothing but trashy trash, but if you're hurting for food or consider yourself so thrifty you need something like a half finished peanut butter jar, by all means.
If the bag is relatively heavy and all there is otherwise is trashy trash, there might be the contents of a cleaned out cupboard or fridge in there. Cleaned out cupboard trashbags contain food, usually still good unopened food, and fridge trash bags contain smelly rotting food that you don't want to fux wit, but sometimes contain fresh fruit when just tossed. When dumpstering over time and collecting these, it gets to the point of actually having too much food yourself, you can only bring home so many bags of noodles or boxes of cereal before your cupboards are full too.
Will continue with the other kinds of trash momentarily
>>701345
If the trashbag is heavy and its just paper and files, it probably contains office trash. These bags can be skipped but you should check the bottoms, often people toss whole desk drawers without checking the smaller contents.
If the dumpster has things piled in it, you have to assess the dumpster and the situation before making the decision to send time digging through it. More on this in a moment.
If there a lot of trashytrash and cardboard visible, likely you have an alcoholic dumpster. Though you can dig through these dumpsters and they rarely have comeups, until you get good at discerning the bags and the situation, I'd suggest leaving these dumpsters until hippy christmas.
If the dumpster contains visible clothing, or furniture, or kitchenware like pots and pans, you've probably found yourself a winner. Make sure you won't be bothered and hop in if you need to. These dumpsters are usually the result of someone moving out. Check all the alike bags in the dumpster that contain the person who moved outs' stuff.
In college towns, we call the period at the end of the school year when kids all move away hippy Christmas. College kids, and Asians, and Asian college kids, throw out more shit than you could imagine. Spend your time going through the dumpsters when you find one that's good, and remember it for future reference. The end/beginning of the month is usually a decent time anywhere to dumpster, people moving out.
Other random tips off the top of my head..
Have fun with it, it's not so much finding things as it is the adventure. Take weird routes and alleyways you never knew, explore parts of town you've never been. Try to visualize something you'd like to find but don't stress on it. Be courteous to people who come to throw away trash while you're in the dumpster, and respect when people don't want you in the area of the dumpster if it's not on public property/very close to it/clearly accessible.
Cheers anon.
>>698937
Fuck dude that's actually pretty cool. Is alcohol a pretty typical find? Where did you find it? It would be awesome to find some nice wine or other shit for free. It's in a dumpster but it's sealed.
How do I do this safely? Is it illegal?
>>701378
Its not like everytime but it happens a lot. Normally one of the wines in a bundle is broken so they have to throw it out.
>>701345
>>701361
Thanks for the info. I think I would mostly stick to diving for food. Which I have some further questions about. From my understanding, most supermarkets have their garbage bins locked up with only the waste services companies having access to it. Or if the bins are outside I usually see them locked up with a chain. Is this not true for most places these days or am I just not seeing the whole picture?
>>701405
You are correct. The best food dumpster I've ever found is a catering company that makes packaged salads and sandwiches. Supermarkets/grocery stores are usually dead ends. Finding the cleaned out pantry trash bags I mentioned before is probably three or four times as lucrative.
>>701345
>"trashy trash"
is what you are if you go diggin inna dumpsta.
>>701591
>Trash
What you are when you so easily throw around the term in reference to a group of humans
Beat it, nerd.
>>701591
Who cares if someone wants to dig in the dumpster. is it affecting your life in any fucking way? Okay then. Grow the fuck up.
>>698964
I worked at Walmart once, they do through out food when its past expiration date. or when a worker on the line goofs and spills a pallet. Or they sell it at a "discounted'' price
>>701768
I worked at a supermarket distribution center once. I had to forklift 9 pallets of steak into the trash since it would be too close to the date by the time it made it to the supermarkets. The bins were guarded by security guards and there were cameras on the bins. I was pretty shocked at the amount of waste at the time. Whole cows killed and dumped for nothing.
>>702037
I know someone who picks up confiscated food at borders, airports, and sent via mail. So for example if the border guards are told to not let any milk in or chicken there would be $10,000+ worth of food just taken and thrown out. Sometimes they get expensive Italian cheeses, imagine 2 wheels worth of Parmiggiano being confiscated...
Worst is that sometimes food distributors order produce from abroad and the border agents say there's too much soil in the sample they've taken so they dump the whole container worth of bok choy or lettuce etc. Perfectly good food that can be washed, it's not like it's caked in mud.
When alcohol and cigarettes are taken they get escorted to the incinerator by 2 cop cars.
>>698934
that sounds incredibly dangerous wtf
>>701381
if it's to the curb or in a dumpster, it should be okay, I think, because it's abandoned property
don't ask me though I've never been dumpster diving before
>>698742
I threw a shitty old sleeping bag the other day that had been burned and had duct tape on it into the dumpster the other day
last year i found $20 and a perfectly good n64, 2 controllers, and 6 games in a drawer that was thrown out
