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Dumpster diving, the thought of it brings back some fond memories from the time I was shacking up with a lady in downtown Seattle.

On Sunday evenings we'd be bored and broke as usual and canvassed the downtown Belltown area and all through Capitol Hill. We managed to furnish our apartment in a couple months, the things we would pull out of the dumpster had to be in good repair and also be something we wanted or needed, just having some value was not enough by itself.

Let's see if I can list the things we found from almost 20 years ago...

A 4-piece sectional sofa in good repair, a recliner that was less than a year old and had a $299 price tag on the bottom.

A white leopard collector plate, a nice Persian type rug worth maybe $150, a professional mop and bucket set we ended up selling for $25 to a downtown art gallery who was tired of having the janitor wring mops in the toilet, lol.

A graphite fishing pole, a set of black onyx china, a hexagonal fish tank with accessories. An antique book shelf for all the books we found and someone's collection of old radio programs on cassette tape, cost about $9 each and I had about 150 of them.

A working color TV, a nice end table for the sectional sofa, a large camp ax, a brand new coffee maker, two matching table lamps, a working box fan and an old sea chest that made a nice coffee table.

We toyed with the idea of setting up a second-hand store or putting an ad in the paper: "We'll clean out your attic, very reasonable rates..."

But we were desperately poor at the same time and were lucky to find what we needed.

But we had a lot of fun doing it and every dumpster was a potential treasure trove.

And I guess I'm a natural-born dumpster-diver. ::shy::

Thx :)
 
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Best score???? U-district in Seattle many many years ago a head-shop went out of business. Instead of taking all their shit with them, they threw it all away. Dozens of brand new Bongs, pipes, papers, salvia extract 20x (we smoked this in Wyoming at the Golden-eye wildlife refuge outside Casper", porn, porn, porn...i love porn, pretty much the whole store in the dumpster. We took everything to Folk Life and made hundreds and hundreds of dollars YAY!!! What a great time that was!!!
 
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Few weeks ago in Ontario my buddy and i had been talking for days about how much we wanted saurkraut and sure enough the next day we found 5 huge jars in a giant tiger dumpster, along with a fishing pole, a shitload of expensive lemonade, and like 10 6-packs of san pellegrino. A few days later in regina we found a shitload of charcuterie (fancy deli meat) that was mostly 100% fine. Proscuitto, corned beef, chorizo, all kinds of shit. It ruled!
 
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most recent "best" was in cookville tn. a quick stop at aldi supplied four boxes of produce and a couple loafs of squished bread. then we went to a dollar store and scored ~200 fresh eggs. went straight back to shut up and grow it and had monster omelettes the next morning with the 40 or so folks who were out there for the work party this past spring.
 
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My homie luke and I dumpstered seventeen 12 packs, 14 eighteen packs and 22 thirty packs of beer in NY. We worked together at a job I got fired from for selling dope to people while on the clock. After being fired he would throw away 75-count cases of frozen lobster tail which we would sell to Puerto Rican restaraunts on the west side at half of sticker price..although I guess that doesn't count since he was the one throwing it in the dumpster and I would come snipe that shit
 

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My homie luke and I dumpstered seventeen 12 packs, 14 eighteen packs and 22 thirty packs of beer in NY. We worked together at a job I got fired from for selling dope to people while on the clock. After being fired he would throw away 75-count cases of frozen lobster tail which we would sell to Puerto Rican restaraunts on the west side at half of sticker price..although I guess that doesn't count since he was the one throwing it in the dumpster and I would come snipe that shit


I would say that this doesn't really count, Lol.::eyepatch::
 
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me and my buddy carletto dumpster scored 10 gallons of still cold vitamin D milk and 2 and a half cartons of light and ultra light doral ciggerettes and a shit ton of steaks and pork and ribs and all kinds of dank meat...and it was all just tossed out

Me and my friend "Homie Matt" in Arizona hit a couple of training area dumpsters on Ft. Huachuca and came away with a couple of months worth of food and sundries. We also scored boots, clothing and toiletries....
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