Dumpster Diving/ Curbside Shopping

RNS0504 · Post by **RNS0504** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 11:21 am

Hey,
Has anyone ever done either of these but me? Its really not that bad..

My best trash finds:
2x Golf bags w/ clubs
19" TV/VCR
Box of Cd's
About 20 Computers w/ speeds from 25 mhz to 1.2 Ghz
Monitors from 15" to 23"
VCR's
Tables/Chairs
Stereos

My best Dumpster Finds:
New golf bag

There's a bunch of stuff i forget too...

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:02 pm

my city does this curbside pickup thing every year. People throw out their TV's, computers, furniture, scrap wood, etc... come to think of it, my section was picked up this morning. Now that I have my lisence, I can now go to another area that gets picked up next week

My best finds at that were a few NES games and a broken Sega CD console. My uncle was even luckier: his neighbor was throwing out some old video game stuff. Inside the box (which he have to me

) was 3 NESs, 2 working, one boxed. One thing lead to another, and I found Ben's old site, which is why I'm here today

Post by **gannon** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:40 pm

argh! I just got a postcard from the city saying that curbside pickup is cancelled this year!
I was really looking forward to running around looking for stuff too

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:58 pm

gannon wrote:argh! I just got a postcard from the city saying that curbside pickup is cancelled this year!
I was really looking forward to running around looking for stuff too

WHAT? No city has the right to cancel Christmas

Post by **gannon** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 1:00 pm

lol, yeah!
*starts training MGS style so he can sneak into the local dump*

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:52 pm

Wow its been a long time sence I've done anything like that. But I live within the are of two townships and the city I live in so I have two nights next to each other if I want to go around.

You know this reminds of the mischive me and my friends did during the black out of 2003.

Niku-Sama · Post by **Niku-Sama** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:43 pm

the town i live in doesent do any thing like this...

once every year though a teeny tiny town has a huge garage sale but you dont ever find any thing.

i got 2 dreamcasts out of a dumpster though

Nes Man · Post by **Nes Man** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:09 pm

I got a computer and a VCR once.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:23 pm

that's right, I need to go to a game store near me and go dumpster diving. The one problem is that it's right next to a chinese buffet, and I wouldn't be surprised if they share a dumpster

this-is-me · Post by **this-is-me** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:35 pm

I got a 3 stereo systems (at different times) that still work to this day, a Game Gear, a lot of golf balls I couldn't use, a Super Soaker, etc....

Post by **bicostp** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:59 pm

At school I pulled:

a shopping cart
3 wooden baseball bats
2 soccer balls
4 volleyballs
8 baseballs
a lamp
a table
and an overhead projector
out of a scrap dumpster while I was helping pack and move a couple rooms accross the building to another wing.

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:23 pm

Various working 486es and Pentiums, a Pentium II, a VCR, I THINK an NES, and various other things.

Unidentified Assilant · Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:58 am

I got some electric tape

Niku-Sama · Post by **Niku-Sama** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:02 am

bicostp wrote:At school I pulled:

a shopping cart
3 wooden baseball bats
2 soccer balls
4 volleyballs
8 baseballs
a lamp
a table
and an overhead projector
out of a scrap dumpster while I was helping pack and move a couple rooms accross the building to another wing.

use the over head projector to mabe a big screen tv or computer monitor

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:33 am

Best find has to be a box of 50 some-odd SNES and Genesis games, and the actual consoles.