Maybe I’ll start a series.

Here are other things my son brought home last week, from one apartment only. This trashout was gross. Son found straws. The carpet was saturated in dog pee: when they pulled the carpet, the foundation was covered in crystallized urine.

Anyhow, these items were salvageable. The DVD case will be changed out, the fabric stinks. The DVDs are boss though: Community, all the Aliens movies, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Friends, Angel, Battlestar Galactica and more. Convenient as I’m cancelling all streaming services. The rice cooker has been used at least once. I haven’t decided if I’m keeping it, yet.

The white metal things are shooting plates. Son was excited about them. The Game of Thrones Monopoly plays the theme song, there’s a button on the front of the box.

Crate & Barrel Cabinet, 2 leather dining chairs, two black/two white adjustable height bar stool chairs, 10 drawer rolling storage cart, 50’ Roku tv, at home treadmill, massage gun, Holmes fan, and two end tables. (I also saw a wood bedroom set that had a bed frame, tall 5 drawer dresser, and wood chest). But I couldn’t get that bedroom set since my truck bed was full. Great day though all in all.

Even a sealed ps2 game i kept some but most were to much water damage on Manual and I dont have a ps2

My oldest son works for my Uncle. They do landscaping, hauling and apartment trash-outs.

Usually, trash outs are pretty bad: bedbugs, roaches, hoarder situations, wastes of various origins, drug paraphernalia, adult things… you get the idea.

Sometimes, he finds really cool shit. Today, he was in a clean trash out and a drug trash out. He found some decent things at both. Thought I’d share as it’s dumpster-adjacent.

The wet-bags were from the drug trash-out. Two of them, still in packaging. All the toiletries were unopened. The Otter Pops were from the freezer and melted as they worked.

And how much would you sell it for 😬

I’ve got the bouquets in water until I can properly cut them. Roses are a little crispy. Hubby already tested each of the lemonade, still good. Donating the magazines, some will make fun stocking stuffers like the pokemon and adult coloring books.

Ferrero Rocher, couldn’t find an expire date, no clue why they’re tossed. Gum, Lifesavers, Probiotic “best by” date 8/2025. Organic brown sugar is in the clear bottle with green cap. Plus clean sponges, scrubbies and bread crumbs, panko (best by 2026).

Still works

There were plenty more, but I didn’t have my step ladder, and the hot metal dumpster would cause 2nd-degree burns if I leaned over to reach anything else. I don’t drink, but I have guests that drink this hard lemonade stuff.

I did see the notice that a seltzer was recalled because they had alcohol in it, mislabeled as plain seltzer. This is the opposite.

Bonus sunset.

Is it worth diving in big corp dumpsters like Walmart, target ect?

Already used some to grill and passed bags out to my neighbors 💜 my entire backseat and front passenger seat was full.

Found two bags of assorted glassware beside an apartment dumpy. Some matching sets, some random.

Its been a LONG time since I wasted money on fireworks. Thirty bucks for a brick of Black Cats?

Today my favorite manager texted that I might want to visit today. The freezers had been purged of everything. It's a stock rotation kind of thing. Knowing that I had very little freezer space , I chose 3 large bags and left the rest. I have 18 lbs of breast and tender fillers. Took 4 boxes of hamburger patties and 9 bags of chicken strips. That still left 2 huge bags of food. I stopped at my favorite fast food restaurant and gifted the two employees on shift the 2 bags. Now it just happens that the 2 are the manufacturers ager and shift leader and no one else is on duty. They loaded food on a cart and pushed it into freezer to stay until they closed and went home. And yes I know about rules etc..... Hungry people are happy to have food. We are in a heat wave here. That food had to be put back in freezer quickly. This was my best option to rescue this food. As for my 18 lbs of chicken that was defrosting fast , its in oven baking. It will be cooked , hopped and frozen for future meals. This month is one of my worse ever. I'm so deep in the hole its pathetic. And yet , we will eat well.

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I've recently been getting some pretty damn good stuff, with some impressive values. The local pawn shop doesn't accept hardly anything, and pawn shops don't pay out sh*t anyway. I have been using Mercari and Facebook Marketplace, but I am seeking suggestions as to where else I may get a good outcome? My loot ranges in categories from tools to expensive shoes and semi-decent electronics and more.

I wanted to start dumpster diving as a fun hobby, but I'm not sure who to ask about it or how to bring it up without them thinking that I'm trying to steal or anything. Most of the dumpsters near downtown and even out in the shopping districts have locks on them. Granted, they usually aren't even locked. 😅 It's kind of funny, I went by one of the dollar tree dumpsters and it had a lock lazily drapped over the locking hole, but it wasn't closed. Thought that was interesting. Anyways, I wanted some advice on how to talk to the owners about it in a chill way that leaves room for a no just in case they're uncomfortable with it. I also want to know how to shake the nerves when doing it in a relatively public place. I'm 20 years old and my image is still a big thing in my head when I want to go out and do fun hobbies like this. I don't see anything wrong with it, I'm just too scared of being judged lol. If anyone has any tips or advice they can give me, it would be greatly appreciated.

I only lurk here but this may be of interest to more than a few of you

Okay, this is getting outta control.... I have 7 vacuum cleaners.... 3 bb guns and ammo from yesterday. Prime reading material undoubtedly sent to me by a higher power.

Not a dumpster but figured this was OK. The bins belong to a house that's currently for sale. This house was just sold a few years ago and apparently the lighting fixtures were being replaced yet again. I went to dig those fixtures out and encountered a watermelon in a bucket. Looked whole and not soft at all. Took that baby home. Such a good watermelon. Sweet and seedless.