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Getting food from a dumpster squicks me, tho I would have no problem eating something "expired" just before it hits the can.

It's not as bad as one thinks. If the foodstuff is really mashed up/dirty/wet, I won't take it, but most of the time the food is in quite good condition. For example, all bio-waste must be put into specail bins, so it's not hard to find thrash bins full of nothing but bread.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 08:30 (twenty years ago) link

One time some friends and i stopped at a strip mall sandwich shop for a bite. The girl making our sandwiches asked if we liked movies and when we replied in the affirmative she told us to go behind the building, as the Blockbuster Video next door had dumped a sh*tload of VHS films in their (Blockbuster's) dumpster. We ended up climbing around in MOUNDS of tapes still in their cases and each one of us fished out around a trashbag full of tapes each. I got a bunch of Kurosawa, Bergman and 60's - 70's European films, which was sweet.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 19:30 (twenty years ago) link

A friend of mine recently moved into a warehouse. The old tenants had thrown away like, their entire highschool years in the dumpster. There was a definite progression of highschool art projects that were all GORGEOUSLY CHEESY (e.g. an exact reproduction of the Red Hot Chili Pepper's "Mother's Milk" album cover)... my friend hung up all the paintings.

― Mandee, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 19:41 (twenty years ago) link

That reminds me; I found an oil-painting of Jimi Hendrix in the dumpster behind my work like 6 years ago. It had one itty bitty tear in the top left corner of the canvas. It was really neat and had Jimi's face and guitar sorta fading to beautiful hippie rainbows and shit. I gave it to my buddy Ben who worshipped some Hendrix. I miss it now.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 19:46 (twenty years ago) link

My folks live in Spain and have furnished virtually their whole rented apartment with stuff that people have dumped - tables, chairs, a futon, lamps...I think a lot of expats just rent apartments over the winter then, when they leave, dump their stuff as it's cheaper than carting it back home with them or putting it in storage. And my mum seems to be a bit of an expert on finding it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 19:55 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

revive

awesome thread

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Saturday, 19 March 2005 07:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Various chairs and sofas. The best was this green vynil.. THING... that weight nine thousand pounds and rolled out into a bed. It was the ugliest, best sofa ever. I didn't want it in my room, though.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Saturday, 19 March 2005 08:03 (nineteen years ago) link

apparently there is great terra cotta moulds of turn of the century decorative ornaments in a dumpster outside of the flatiron building in manhattan.

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 19 March 2005 08:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Shortly after I moved into my second apartment, I was downstairs taking out the trash when I spotted a stack of records. I reached in and this is what I pwned:

all promo LPs, number of items in parentheses:

Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers (5)
2Pac - Until the End of Time (think that's the right title) (3)
8 Mile soundtrack (4)
5 Eminem 12" singles
5 2Pac 12" singles
3 J5 12" singles

I immediately took them to Amoeba and received a fair amount in credit. I'd look in the dumpster every few days thereafter but never saw another LP.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 19 March 2005 08:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers (5)

Someone's got taste...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 19 March 2005 11:37 (nineteen years ago) link

We feed homeless people out of the big commercial bakery dumpster. Nothing wrong with the bread. Even get some fancy turkish stuff every once in a while.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Saturday, 19 March 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't gone scavenging regularly in a while- house is packed. 2 trips this month yielded: 200 brand new books in sealed crates, $800 cash resale value (I deal books). Dozens of gallons of juice, fruity drink, and some 12packs of coke. Several hundred individually wrapped cookies, and several hundred tubes of toothpaste, in sealed cases. Nearby homeless & friends got everything I couldn't use.

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Saturday, 19 March 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

I'm reviving this thread (again) because I had a fruitful week at the dumpster (skip?).

Here's what I found:
*a suitcase full of shoes. women's 1950s-1960s high heeled shoes. clean, wearable, in my size. i salvaged three pairs. two of them have dainty bows on the toes. i've already worn two of them.

*a hanging lamp in the shape of a pilgrim hat. orange plastic. working.

ok. that's it.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

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