/diy/ - Do It Yourself

a case of PBR once

A perfectly good bose subwoofer (not even kidding), a Microsoft audio suite control module that I gave to a friend who wanted to mod it into a preamp and a couple of really neat ceramic mason jars.

God, where do I start

A3 photoprinter (needed waste ink tank reset)
Propane tank
Gas cylinder trolly (on a separate occasion)
About a dozen computers (best was a P4 when P4's were new, the HDD had died)
Gigabit switch with PoE
A big brass hand pump
Assorted tools
A kango hammer

and about 10000 other things that are either less exciting or I can't remember.

Where do you guys go to find this stuff? Where are the best dumpsters to dive in?

Are there rules like a pool's diving area?

last time i went divin, i got

two pop up canopies 8x8 10x8
12 plates
a fucking truck load of cereal. a. fucking. truckload. literally
where does everyone go dumpster diving at? do you guys hit stores or just random dumpsters?

I used to work at gas station (Shell), where dumpster diving was part of the job description (owner want to save money on garbage bags). I found 3 $100 bills in an envelope (which I kept for myself), a bag of what I suspected was weed (didn't chance smoking it), and a bag of lingerie (o_0).

Could any of you kind chaps tell me the legality of this in the U.K? I assume if the bin doesn't have a lock on it, contents is free for the taking ?

>>182036
even in the UK it is (almost 100 percent) legal.

3 big rules.
Dont make a mess.
>it is not just rude, it could be enough for a ticket from a bored cop.
Leave if asked.
>Just leave. If you are on private property (which you almost certainly are) then staying after being directed to leave Could be trespassing, again if there is a bored cop.
No Breaking/Tresspassing.
>this one can be bent a bit in a worthwhile situation, but simply.. dont cut locks, bend fencing or smash covers.
>These quickly become a ticketable offense, and the damages are just the kind of thing that gets attention and security cameras and increased patrols.

Lets see
2 pairs of vans shoes exactly my size
A sub woofer not sure if it works haven't test
2 bright color pants
A desk
A couch
A bike that works

I go to school at long beach ca so I'm pretty much
A beach bum

>>181835
>Are there rules like a pool's diving area?

>have a super cool girl
>we dumpster dove
found
>50 vinyl records not all great but it had some well known names
>a fucking mini palm tree that was living
>a skateboard
>fucking paint UN-OPENED!
>and primer as well as a matter of fact
>bunch of boxes were gonna use later for some shit
>countless paintings

it was a nice day

my ex-wife

>>182633
wut.

>torn photographs
>fully intact banking information along with full name and address
>receipts for purchases at zara and other clothing stores
>dented harddrive
>an old daily planner with names, phone numbers, and addresses
>loads of metal junk

Gonna see if i can sell the metal as scrap

Check dumpsters behind dry cleaners periodically, lots of people never pick their clothes and they just toss em out, still in the bags and on hangers.

Got a few nice shirts that way, but it's usually dresses for some reason.

>>182820
I didn't know that, thank you!

Totally suitable garden plants when they don't look pretty in kmart dumpsters. garden tools, cookbooks, and philosophy books in trashcans at fleamarkets.

>>182820
Neat!

>>182050
>even in the UK it is (almost 100 percent) legal.

no it isnt, taking from a skip or bin without owners permission is theft, prosecution rates vary massively.

>>182907
This. As idiotic as it may be, taking trash from designated bins is either considered stealing from the business or the city, depending upon where you live.

It's almost never legal, but it's abhorrent not to.

Does anyone have any info on getting healthy food regularly by dumpster diving?

Is such a thing very likely at all?

>>182848
As a bookseller, I'd caution you against getting books out of the trash. They're likely contaminated with silver fish.

>>183377
Those guys can freak someone out, but they're medically harmless.

I'd caution a dumpster diver to man up and knock a silverfish off his prize.

bread and stuff

I found a pair of headphones once, someone threw them away cause they were missing the padding

>>183380

It's not that, they'll eat the shit out of all your other books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverfish

>>183402
put the books in a bag with a couple house spiders?

motherfucking beats headphones

cant use them atm, only one side makes sound... trying to find a place to take them to get them fixed.

>>183413
Oh, why would anyone want to throw away reference grade headphones?

Haven't dived much lately, but I recently found a shit-ton of padded mailers that were unused and in perfect condition. I kept them isolated in the garage for a while, to make sure they didn't have any bugs or anything. They were clean, so I brought them in the house. I'm saving a lot of money, not having to buy mailers for a long time.

I've also found lots of perfectly good magazines of all types. I read them, and the ones I don't want to keep get donated to the library.

If you're careful not to be seen, another good place to look for stuff is in garbage cans at the post office. I've found calendars, shipping boxes, BIG styrofoam coolers that were used for shipping perishables, greeting cards, magazines, newspapers, even the occasional book. Why the hell you'd order a book from Amazon and then toss it in the trash is a mystery to me, but I've seen the proof right there in the trash.

a wrench. also lots of cardboard

One day, some guy died, family threw out everything
>300$ leather coat
>palm pilot
>20 camera memory cards
>signed football memorabilia
>working treadmill
>computers
>television

Shit was SO cash

Can anyone post pictures of shit they've gotten?

I find it hard to believe people would throw out half the shit people on here say

>>183454

Fathers is doing this diving, usually the good stuff is throwed out by rich people lawyers etc. he found 3 working set-top boxes that lawyer threw out, than neighbors took from dumpster 2 office chairs etc. we got the community container once a month right beside our house .

dont go through peoples home bins

i dont need to tell you why

>>183454
You should know most people are very stupid
And will throw out pretty much anything that isn't the latest and greatest
I've found a lot of old vidya stuff most of it working perfectly fine

>>181796
Last month's haul.
Quality keyboard with 1 broken key
Still seal Baking machine
Table dishwasher
Wide assortment of makeup, beauty-products, expensive magnetized spice-rack, salt and pepper grinders (Gotta love messy breakups, especially when they just dump everything including Christmas presents into the box)

>>183470
still sealed*

needles

I live in Greece and I doubt people throw out that much stuff like in the us. I have found some decent furniture though next to some bins while walking.

Right now I am collecting soda cans to melt them and make aluminium bars or cast something. I need a few hundreds so I am going dumpster diving next week.

A bike, worked 15min on it and now I can ride it. (old city bike)

And then at worked they got rid of old obsolete stuff, so I got a video projector (broken but lamp still works) and an overhead projector.

Now I'm looking for an old computer screen, trying to make my own video projector.

Last month I got a big ass box of lego, all the genuine brand stuff, in a plastic storage tub.

I worked at a park. People throw the strangest things out in park garbage cans.

Kitchen Sink - didn't keep (was damn heavy to throw out)
65 and Older Porn Mag - showed my co-workers. laughed. cried
bunch of old frank sinatra records - kept
garden gnome - we keep this at the garage
santa clause lawn ornaments - keeps the gnome company
$150 dollar sunglasses (brand new) - gave to my mother
nice old tennis racket from the 30s - kept
...so many other things I can't think atm

>>183491
> Oh yeah a whole roll of unprinted lotto tickets once hah!
> plenty of books and magazines but I didn't keep any, other workers did
> plenty of nice sunglasses

>>183377
lol. No.

>>183377
Never had this problem gotten heaps of books from dumpster and curbs

>>183491
>strangest things out in park garbage cans
>$150 dollar sunglasses (brand new) - gave to my mother
I've never dumpster dived but if I did, I sure as hell wouldn't give something I found as a gift, especially to my mother. I hope most of you don't do this, I would not want to receive a gift from a dumpster, fuck, at least where I come from, it's considered bad manners to re-gift, let alone trash gift.

Some fluoro tubes
All of the lumber I've ever used
Washing machine motor
American Pie Unrated on VHS
A Steel Kotex Dispenser you might find in the ladies' room

Pallets. I live on the edge of an industrial area so at 3 or 4 in the morning I'll go on a walk to inhale some pipe smoke and usually there will be pallets in one of the many garbage bins. There's other stuff such as scrap aluminium and steel, sometimes even copper for some reason, but I don't have the tools to work with metal so I don't bother.

In the mall I used to work at I once found a mannequin in perfect condition. I use it to display whatever I just made costume wise (mostly chainmail).

Can't wait for the day after father's day, I hear that's a dumpster diver holiday. hopefully I can flesh out my tool collection with some power tools.

Maybe one of my greates finds:
A complete 30-volume Animal Encyclopedia.
Nothing wrong with it at all, but it is from the 70s, which I guess might be why it got chucked.

>>183572
Pallets in the garbage bin ?
They're refundable!

There's a good 30$ in one of those.

>>183573

Or maybe no-one had opened it in the last decade or two and there was better use for the shelf space. Afaik second-hand bookshops pay pretty much nothing for old encyclopedias.

>>183576
I know, I was equally surprised. Usually I'd see them stacked behind the buildings and taking those is stealing, but if they're in the bin then why not.

As it turns out, some companies don't bother with returning them. Quite a few small workshops in my industrial area.

>>183577
Man, I ain't selling it, it's awesome!

Hmmm... recently, a wireless mouse. Which it turned out the receiver dongle had been damaged, so a free AA battery. About 6 1/2 square feet of thin (upholstery) leather off a new chair still in it's box that had it's legs broken. And a desk still in it's box.

Where I live, people don't really throw away things in good condition. They leave them in piles at the edge of the street and anyone who wants to can take whatever they like.

I've gotten chairs this way, picture frames, jewelry, an antique book I had appraised at over $200, dishes, and all sorts of other things.

>>181796
In town there's a window outlet. I get windows from their dumpster or beside it that have damage tot he frame, but the glass isn't broken enough to be a problem. I have enough to make a couple greenhouses now. :)

That's the tip of the iceberg.

>>183402
Use boric acid powder everywhere. A week later, no problem.

the only thing i really found were some cool books, a nice wooden chair and a coffee table

also I found a really cool painting once and was walking home with it when some random guy offered to buy it from me for 40 bucks

>>183572
commonsense for most people but if you find old copper or brass pipes or tubing you don't "Use it" you sell it to a recycling center they are worth there weight in quarters or like 20$ a pound... you mite get less if it has solder on it connecting some of the fittings but still very worth it.

>>183373
No info on this?

last night I found a small dish washer and some stainless steel scrap.

I didn't take any of it yet because it isn't picked by other people and the shit was too heavy to do on my own.

In that same dumpster I have found 2 working computer monitors and some other working electronics.

Office buildings ftw

I'm moving out from from the place, so i get all the packing materials from the recycling bins out of the supermarket.

>boxes
>plastic bubbled wrappers
>newspapers

In the plastic bin i found some gift wrapping paper still in the package (wtf? why would you buy it just to throw it out?).

Next to them i found a bike. It had the tires worn out and was missing brakes, but i found it just the day after my bike's frame bent so good one.


In the non-recycleable bin i found A FUCKING 0.5m*0.5*0.5 BOX OF STRAWBERRIES.

Perfectly good, like they were just bought. They were still packed and cool, i think they threw them out less than an hour before i found them.

I just washed them carefully, but they didn't come in contact with the other trash anyway since they were in their packages.

>>183542
to be fair I actually found this on a park table. I cleaned it, and told her where I found it anyway. I woulda sold it but she wanted it. they're fucking 150 buck sunglasses, that's a damn good gift. I would never give someone something i found and not tell them i found it,

>>183661

Yeah, that's why I said "for some reason," couldn't figure out why someone working with copper wouldn't recycle it, but it wasn't enough to warrant taking it to a recycler.

Not only that, but as a mid-twenties scruffy looking white guy, I fit the bill for copper thief. Don't wanna have to explain myself to anyone.

>>184282
I would feel odd even saying where I got it from, I didn't know this was socially acceptable at all not that I don't condone it myself.

Where do you diyers find tools? In the future I want to try to find as much as possible in the trash.

>>182050
in uk.
everyone keeps their dumpsters in their yards which are seemingly only accesible through their buildings so I'm shit outta luck

>>183643
you just sold a lost master piece worth TEN BILLION DOLLARS

>>184427


fucking hell, you go out the night before bins get emptied

I'm way too bothered by social stigma to bin-dive. Fucking shame.. I do check huge piles of stacked stuff when it's time for house-clearance in some downtown districts. I found three L. Ron. Hubbar books last month. Laughed and tossed them into the closest bin, just to be sure they are removed from society.

A 300 peice poker chip set, all in a broken alimunium 'suitcase' that those things come in. 13g chips, but oh well, let's not be picky over free stuff. It's worth the equivalent of $70 but in Eastern European monopoly money.

How do you guys carry all this stuff home? I have a pick up but I don't think parking by dumpster would be very inconspicuous

>>182036
They'll probably sure your ass off with that ASBO bullshit.

I got a writing desk once. Not real furniture, but shitty, incredibly cheaply-made office furniture. But a desk nonetheless, and in perfect condition. Someone probably got a new desk in their office and just rolled that one out to the street (it had wheels on).

so much food from grocery store dumpsters. raley's, trader joe's, whole foods, little caesars(around closing). some places lock their dumpsters here (reno) but often is the lock not actually 'locked.' i suppose they dont like dealing with unlocking them?

It makes me sad to now how much gets thrown out :(

The only place I ever dumpster dove was in highschool, for food.

Always poor and hungry, and pisses me off that people throw away perfectly good shit.

Question
I know of a place that sometimes throws out wire. I know I can sell it but, what are the legal issues of the way I obtained it?
Just say I found it at the dump laying in a pile?

i collect quirky stuff from the 20's through very early 60's, tech, furniture odds and ends it doesnt matter. some of the stuff ive scavenged....
1.early 50's kelvinator magic cycle refrigerator with a compressor that was only a year old.
2.ive lost count of how many tube radios ive salvaged. one was an old console radio/record player that i gutted and turned into an entertainment center by my bed.
3.cool looking old shadowbox with light up panels of viking longboats on the sides. only problem is a broken mirror section on the right side
4.an old moe bros. desk lamp from the early 50's that i picked up at a funeral homes garage sale.
5.2 old blue marble samsonite suitcases, one with an early 50's msu spartan sticker on it.
6. the craziest one was about 8 years ago when the home depot bought a bunch of land to build their new store on there were several places that they bought, 5 houses,the eagles lodge and an old motel. they had a tear down auction so people could buy the stuff they wanted to salvage before the buildings were demolished. my mother bought all of the wrot iron from the motel. after the auction had ended i snuck in one night and took some items that were left over. including a checkout reminder with 2 dials on it off the wall made out of red marble bakalite, a information pamphlet from beside the bed and an ashtray with the motels logo on it. the picture is of the motel. the little checkout reminder i got is located right next to the door. it tells you what time you need to be out by and where to leave the key.

>>be in 5th grade
>>dumpster diving with friend along side of road
>>mattress
>>lug that shit home, jump on it

Same day

>>find 2 cocktail shakers new in box
>>friend and I both take one, don't know what they are
>>get home, mom makes cocktails
Back in the day

Hepatitis

where do you guys find computer monitors and the like? im in need of a working CRT monitor, i always read in these threads about how people found great working condition computer monitors.

>>185800
If your city is anything like mine, the 'free' section on Craigslist will be full of people trying to get rid of their old shitty monitors that nobody wants.

An Amiga 500, complete except for THE GODDAMN WORKBENCH AND KICKSTART DISKS. So it's inert. Buying the disks online is HELL NO and copying them... is near impossible. Can't really be done unless you have a working Amiga already.

Found a couple guns in the park, but I didn't mess with them, only because if they get reported stolen, and the serials are run when you say, get pulled over while carrying, FELONYYYYYY. In hindsight, I should have stripped them for parts and melted down the receivers. Or just kept them. Oh well.

Found several computers that were about 4-5 years old when I found them, and most had failing motherboards or other critical problems. I have a 1999 Watchtower Library reference CD from one. THE SECRETS OF THE JEHOVA'S WITNESSES ARE MINE!

Image is what the display of one of the found computers looked like. The GPU was shitting the bed.

A friend and I dived a few times at the dumpsters outside the dorms of a local university during the last days to move out. The kids usually toss stuff rather than haul it home or to their new place.
Most of the time we just parked near the dumpster and asked people leaving stuff if we could have whatever they are tossing.
Ended up with working small microwaves, little fridges, a ton of unused cleaning supplies (mops, brooms, wipes, sprays, etc.), bicycles and bicycle parts, and plenty of furmiture but we didnt bother since we didnt need any at the time.
We avoided the food unless it was still packaged.
And since it was dorm kruft, we bug bombed everything immediately.
Campus police does not endorse such behavior but if you are low key enough they dont bother you.

I found so much stuff I started keeping a journal/log=
FOOD HAUL
19/03/12
SEVERAL KILOS OF AUBERGINES, SOME A BIT MANKY,MOSTLY OK
TOOK 8 OR SO, LEFT THE REST
BOLOGNESE RAVIOLI
LOTS OF BREAD AS ALWAYS
PORK LUNCHEON MEAT X 6 PACKS (200G EACH)
BACON 200G PACK
ORGANIC VEGAN RICE PUDDING (FRESH)

20/03/12
3 X CANS OF STELLA ARTOIS CIDRE (PREMIUM CIDER 4 PACK,ONE WAS LEAKING,REST PERFECT)
LARGE MULTIPACK (6-8 BAGS) TYRELL'S GOURMET POTATO & ROOT VEG CRISPS
2 X BOXES FROOT LOOPS
DOUBLE CREAM 200ML

21/03/12
-working dynamo torch
-150 cigarette papers & 150 filters
-8 x teatowels (new and sealed)
-taramasalata x 4 tubs
-polish sunflower seed bread x 4 loaves
-granary bread x 4 loaves
-organic hummus
-peppers
-bag of spinach
-yoghurt x 6 tubs

23/03/12
-garlic sausage x 4 packs
-cheddar cheese 300g slab
-olive feta cheese stuffed peppers;large deli/meze box
-bagels x 2 packs
-halal beef sausages
-pork luncheon meat
-bag of oats
-basmati rice 300g

24/03/12-
danish pastry x 3
box of 100 teabags
organic espresso coffee
marble cake
custard doughnuts
lemon and ginger cookies

26/03/12
-Irish whiskey & buttercream cake
-innocent fruit smoothies x 3
-beef grillsteaks
-bag of 50 sherbet lollipops
-6 x 1 litre jugs of goats milk

tl:dr i'm eating better than ever for free.
and I have a job and home.

hit me up for protips if you're a novice

>>185951
Would love to hear some tips if not too much trouble.

>>185951
Manky? You from Ireland?

>>185957
what do you wanna know?

>>185970
nah, londonfag

I've found a good amount of valuables in the dumpster.
For example, just today, I found a really good looking Asus PC. Havent had time to really look at it yet though.

>>182695
if you sell recyclable it won't go on your taxes. All profit

Why do you dumpster dive? (I'm not ragging on you, I'm considering doing it myself.)

How do you stand the smell?

Is there any 'optimum area' to dumpster dive(specific stores/store types)?

>>186064
i rarely have problems with smell. I don't dive for food, so i am always steering clear of serious food-waste dumpsters. (and much worse then dumpsters, compactors. Not only do they smash everything into a rotting slurry, they sit around for weeks, maybe months, percolating and infecting the entire zone with rancid horror)

The dumpster for an office or non-food business will be mainly paper, materials and a few lunch wrappers and junk like that. The lunch wrappers or bathroom paper waste are usually in their own bags, nicely sealed because the person who chucked them into the dumpster was not interested in getting them all over herself.

>>186070
Thanks
Any way to tell if there's a higher likelyhood something will have good stuff in it?

>>186075
Practice, i suppose.

I don't keep a logbook, but i do try to do my "poking around" on different nights. This is how you stumble on to useful information, like "the dumpster used by that store is usually emptied some time monday, and it seems they toss out old display components on thursdays"

So if i was poking around on thursday or sunday evening, i might go around that way. Thursday for the "these displays were replaced" stuff, Sunday for the "i didn't want scavengers picking through this, i will toss it when we close and it will be trucked out in the morning.

Another thing to look for is large roll-back "construction" dumpsters. Maybe a business closed in this strip mall and the spot is being gutted and refurbished. That means a chance for shelves, display stuff, leftover merch that no one cared to sell or truck away (you never know..) along with stripped-out metal conduit, wire, sometimes reusable lumber from false walls knocked out. I don't need much of this stuff, but i pass on the data to people who do when i can.

These dumpsters also attract other debris. Someone taking out revenge on their boyfriend/girlfriend and dumping all the stuff that scumbag/slutbag left at their house? Instead of leaving it out in front perhaps they saw the rollback and decided it would be even better revenge to toss it there!

Or middle-aged man is cleaning out his dead father's apartment. He does not really know the apartment complex, but he knows where that dumpster is parked a block over. Just shove all of the things no-one wants to keep in the back of the ol' pickup and dump them over there (without realizing what little treasures are tucked away here or there)

>>185951
From where?!

>>186086
Is it better to untie bags so you can retie them, or just rip them open?
do you wear gloves or anything?

>>186093
I am reluctant to ever open a bag if i think there is a Chance it is food-waste. Anything else? Just tear it open (well, a small razor knife stroke).

Why retie ever? the bag is In a dumpster already.
Even if i grabbed a bag that seemed to be full of perfect-condition -anything i want-, i would still open it and retrieve the things directly. That way i would find the leaking battery/incidental lunchbag at the bottom of the bag immediately and be able to quarantine the surviving -things i want- instead of leaving them packed up to be contaminated and/or wrecked.

And i most always have a pair of rubber-surfaced gloves in the bottom of my bag. Not meant to go elbow-deep in filth, just to protect the hand for a good grip on a glass sheet that i am rescuing, for example.

>>186090
various places, in London.
back of supermarkets.
where you based?
UK? London?

>this thread

>>183373
>>183807
dont know if youre still here or reading this, but there's this thing called freegaism. It's kinda big in California, you can google it up. Alot of those people eat food from the dumpster and clean it up

I found a hundred feet of nice rope once, and a ton of scrap metal I've used for various things. But my best haul was parts of an old organ, which included over 80 vacuum tubes, crossbar-type relays, lotsa resistors/capacitors/connectors, and the best part, the heavy iron power supply. It had huge transformers for 300v, 14v, and 6v, and the 6v transformers put out over 300 amps each. I made a spot welder with the two of them. To this day I still use parts I got from that organ.
One time, I got a bunch of surplus electronic equipment from a local college. They were hauling it away, I asked what they were going to do with it all. when they said they were throwing it away, I asked if I could go through it and they let me. Got some nice stuff.
Dumpster diving: definitely worth it.

>>186090
Londonfags have it easy for bin diving.

Outside Lond and the home counties all supermarkets (or all the ones I've seen) have huge gated compounds where they store there bins.
Tesco Express and there competitors equivalents mainly keep there bins in a variety of compounds too.
Out of town shopping estates often don't seem to have the dreaded compound but they often have very active security who will either move you on or just call the police
In fact the best place I've seen is in town shops but then your in competition with junkies and alchies who I'd rather avoid altogether.

London and surrounding areas have such expensive land they dont seem to have compounds and consequently is a better hunting ground.
Yes I am jealous

a baby

A cement mixer with a fractured wheel axle, a set of extendable floodlights with a frayed power cable and slightly bent support leg, expired pain medication, a 10kg freezer bag of frozen chips, around 40m of elastic surgical tubing, a 2mx4m frosted glass window, African shipping companies stencil template, a rack of about 24 perfectly good dirt bike tires, 40kg of scrap metal and a large bulk case of orange juice.

What I usually do when I go diving is just walk to the places I go to, take things that can fit into my backpack, pockets or just carry them if it's not too much trouble.
While out I if I happen to find big items like dressers and etc, I just investigate for bugs and whatnot, walk back home, bring the truck and bam. New dresser, bookshelf or the very least, wood.

My latest find is a suitcase with a dvd player inside.

Also, what time do you folks usually go out diving? 1-4am is best for me because little traffic, people out and dark. Though I'm mindful about the noise I make so I pop my head out and round every time I make remote volume.

I found a dead man once...

> I found a dead man once...

you lucky lucky bastard! all I usually see is hookers or strippers arriving home from work at 3am. funny how they always start fumbling in their purse when they see me, getting that pepper spray out just in case. in truth, I'm more afraid of them, being a bit of a germaphobe.

I started out DDing in the dark, but it felt too shady, as if I was committing genocide or something. So I've started doing it at about 5AM-6:30AM. It's light, there's less worry of noise due to traffic, wildlife and what-not. Also, the light makes it easier to use both hands instead of using a torch too.

I start work at 9AM, so I head out about 6, spend an hour or so DDing, go home, sort through everything, then shower and get ready for work.

I got beat up and called atalented /diy/eronce while DDing.

>>183141
Not so.
"Salvage laws" in the US usually allow people to take anything that has been discarded or abandon.

At the apartment building in downtown St. Louis MO where the baseball Cardinals I got a bunch of stuff that used to belong to Vince Coleman (holds stolen base records, rookie of the year, a few other things) some nice luggage, a few jackets and coats and a hand written note to Ozzie Smith (another member of the same team) apologizing for not making a party Smith had.
I got $500 from a baseball card dealer for the letter and used the rest of the stuff myself. Still have the luggage.

Canadian here:

Any good places to go? residential? Commercial? I want to start, but am at a loss.

> Canadian here: Any good places to go?

do you guys have garbage up in Canada? or do the polar bears eat it all? if not, I'd say the best place to pick up garbage is wherever they put it. so if you see a dumpster behind the Canadian Tire, heh, and the coast is clear of polar bears, that's the place to go, heh.

On my list for tomorrow are two lamps, and a chair.

i recommend dorm room clean out week at your local university