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
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
