Main > Everything Else
Dumpster Diving
ChadTower:
It amazes me that so many people crap on Freecycle but love to talk about jumping headfirst into a dumpster that might contain something useful. :dizzy:
Well Fed Games:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 24, 2012, 12:35:07 pm ---
It amazes me that so many people crap on Freecycle but love to talk about jumping headfirst into a dumpster that might contain something useful. :dizzy:
--- End quote ---
Hmm... the one time I checked freecycle locally there wasn't much of value, but I wouldn't dismiss it outright. I think the main difference is CL and Freecycle involve interacting with someone else... trash picking involves no dependance on a stranger keeping their word or being in a certain place at a certain time.
Vigo:
I recently got an almost new window air conditioner (used for about 2 months) and a nice PC speaker set (for putting in an arcade cab). Both on Freecycle. Just drove to their house and picked it off their porch. All my expensive baby stuff that I need is pretty much from freecycle as well. I think the only major baby item I really bought was a crib mattress, for cleanliness reasons.
I'm not saying I never dumpster dived though...college move out days are the best time for real dumpster diving. An ocean of cool stuff to be had. Hunt down where the rich foreign students live at. The tend to buy a ton of stuff for themselves but cannot haul it all back home. They often just dump everything. I have hauled in a couple barely used video game consoles that way. (Not to mention bought a car from a moving foreign student that had lasted me 7 years without having to take it in to the shop once...only for $700 cash).
Vigo:
Saw one the other day asking for unused recliner chair and working Flat screen TV above 32" to furnish dorm. :laugh2:
hypernova:
Funny story at work.
Another guy found a 360, box and all contents inside our trash compactor. It had been compacted, but was still visible. All was relatively undamaged. Hooked it up on the tv at work, and it works. DVD drive doesn't work though. Then we look at the profile names. Recognize about two of them.
Call up the guy whom I think it belongs to, he says it isn't his. So I call up a guy whose brother's name is on it (also works at our company), he says it sounds like the first guy's that I called. I call him back, and he still says it isn't his, then I talk about the profile names, and he starts changing his story by more or less going through his morning actions. "Well, I threw some stuff away, but I don't think that was in there. I'm sure of it."
He got lucky. Like I said, the trash had been compacted, but the 360 box managed to survive with little damage, and the console itself was unscathed. He just brought it in to have another guy look at it who's dealt with broken 360s check it out and possibly fix it. He threw some other stuff away, and in his haste didn't realize he left the 360 inside the bigger box that he meant to trash.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version