Dumpster Diving

[Anonymous No.398603]

Planning on trying it for the first time tonight
Any good tips for having a successful run and avoiding being caught?
Also dumpster diving general

[Anonymous No.398610]

>>398603
I've never done it but I figure a short stick, some leather work gloves, and pants would be good. You don't want to get jabbed and no sense in rummaging with your hands if a stick will do.

[Anonymous No.398616]

>>398610
yeah ive already got all that kind of gear prepared
what i worry most about though is cops and employees

[Anonymous No.398618]

>>398616

If employees come out, just say you were looking for some boxes to use while moving.

In fact, bring some cardboard boxes to put beside the dumpster just in case cops roll thru.

[Anonymous No.398620]

I've done it, don't be a pussy like these guys you don't need gloves.

Go for a walk at about 3am, bring a bookbag with some plastic bags in it. Hit up places like aldi, sweetbay, and publix since they all close early.

You'll more than likely always find produce - they through that out a few days before it goes bad. I've been lucky enough to find 6 20 lb butter ball turkeys the night they got tossed out. Stuck them in my freezer and ate turkey sandwiches at work for about 6 weeks.

You'll usually just find veggies and meats. Be smart about what you eat and wash it. rule of thumb is if it looks gross, it is gross. You're evolved enough to tell the difference.

If a cop stops you for walking around at night tell him you just got into an argument about kids or something big like that with your girlfriend and you needed some time to your. No questions asked ever.

[Anonymous No.398622]

>>398618
diving is illegal where i live, even if its just for boxes
>>398620
thanks thats good idea

[Anonymous No.398645]

There's a book named "Art & science of dumpster diving".

You can find a PDF somewhere...IIRC it had plenty of useful tips.

[Anonymous No.398648]

Dumpster diving inst illegal (assuming you're in the usa) cops wont stop you, big businesses have cool computer stuff, hastings has porn mags, residential areas tend to have cool knick-nacks.

[Anonymous No.398659]

>>398648
yes it is and yes they will.

[Anonymous No.398678]

>>398648
>trespassing
>breaking and entering
>theft
>destruction of property

It is extremely illegal if you do not have explicit permission from the property's owner assuming it's a private dumpster. It's even more illegal if it's a government owned dumpster.

Cops might leave you alone because they are worthless/corrupt fucks who only care about making their ticket quota or nigger quota. Most areas have overcrowding in their jails so they dont dick around with shit covered dumpster divers. The assumption is if you are so poor that you are digging in the trash, then the popo aint gonna get it's fines from your broke ass so they leave you alone. But if a local business owner or employee sees you and reports you, you are going for a ride in the cop car.

[Anonymous No.398682]

Step 1: look in dumpster
Step 2: Is there anything good in the dumpster?
Step 3: Drag that shit home
Step 4: Scrub yourself in the shower to get rid of that hobo stank
Step 5: Contemplate if there is anything better you could have used your time for

It isn't fucking rocket science. You don't need to discuss it.

[Anonymous No.398689]

>>398678
> extremely illegal

Cops don't care if your in a dumpster ya dramatic dummy. they'll just tell you to get out.

[Anonymous No.398692]

>>398678
If you have to bypass a lock or jump a fence or something, that's illegal. But taking stuff from dumpsters isn't illegal on its own. There's case law on this, it's not illegal to take things that people are throwing away, unless the city you're in has made a special law to that effect.

Also in practice most cops don't give a shit if you're not making a mess or scaring the neighbors.

[Anonymous No.398703]

>>398648
It's illegal in my state, Pennsylvania and the law is really specifically for big businesses
>>398645
i actually read the whole thing yesterday which is what inspired me

[Anonymous No.398705]

>>398682
saving money by finding free food and other cool shit seems like a good use of time rather than sitting on here and bitching about what others talk about. besides what else am i gonna do in the middle of the night? its a cheap thrill and better than being at some bar imo

[Anonymous No.398709]

>>398705
>dumpster diving
>a cheap thrill
>better than being at some bar imo
>what else am i gonna do in the middle of the night?

u..umm
wat?

[Anonymous No.398728]

Do you work at an office or something? Does the place you work at have a specific container for electric trash? If it does, you should definitively check it out, I have found 2 working PC screens, and there are always a lot of useful cables there.

[Anonymous No.398764]

got a pro dumpster diver in town here that has a bicycle with a trailer (built from old bike parts and some plywood) that he cruises down alleys all over town (covering lots of area) probably right before garbage pickup (and randomly during the week) and just gets whatever is good, tosses it on the trailer and moves on. its pretty killer. wear shitty clothes, get GOOD THICK GLOVES, bring some sanitizer just in case, lol

[Anonymous No.398772]

>>398764
thanks luckily i have a car so i can gtfo when i need to
>>398728
i work at a drugstore and we throw out a lot of food that doesn't expire for another week or month but id imagine its hard finding those bags from the bags of other trash

[Anonymous No.399445]

If you drive, park far away
Bring a box or one of those folding karts you see old women and hobos pushing around
Alternatively, dive and place your shit next to the dumpster. Then come back in your car to pick it up with the quickness
Gloves are nice, but not required
Dont wear your sunday best, grab some grubby clothes
Scope out what night each dumpster gets emptied
Close the gate if the dumpster has one
Be respectful and tidy up afterwards
Be quiet
If you get pulled out of a dumpster, be courteous to the officer and answer everything in a yes sir, no sir fashion
I personally stay away from restaurants, those are disgusting
Grocers are okay if you find the stuff right as it was thrown out.
Big box stores without a compactor are the best.
Favorites:
Sporting goods stores
Office supply stores
Toy stores
Bike shops
Gas stations and Convenience stores (usually find expired beer and the like)

Never open a compactor, you go from a trespassing ticket that the officer will probably just tell you to go home. To a breaking and entering charge that unless you have some good connections (and if your dumpster diving you probably don't) will be more than the haul I have gotten in the last year from diving.

Stay safe, use common sense, and If you don't have a use for it, leave it for the next diver.

[Anonymous No.401062]

>>398603
oh geez don't be a filthy nigger/filthy hippie who goes through people's trash, it's filthy, it's dangerous, it's low-class, and it's usually illegal for one reason or another.

[Anonymous No.401073]

>>399445
>Favorites:
>Sporting goods stores
>Office supply stores
>Toy stores
What are sporting goods stores and toy stores throwing out?

[Anonymous No.401105]

Pfft, not using your pickup truck to dumpster dive is fucking clownshoes. I guess I do dive a lot of industrial areas for scrap aluminum and shit. You'd be surprised how great aluminum is for making heatsinks.

Anyways, gloves are imperative if you want to DIG, I've been cut through gloves before, and it would have been wayyyyyyy worse without them. A lot of times you can just glance in and catch the eye of something. I pulled 20+ full on working Dell computers from the county school works office dumpster. 14 of them were in working order. I donated all but two of them to people I knew without computers. I use the other two computers to run my CnC mill, and router.

Just be respectful. Don't make a shitload of noise, don't react if the cops pull up. If you act like you are doing something illegal, they will give you a lot of shit. If you act like it's something you do everyday, and it's normal, they'll usually just allow you to carry on. I usually tell them I'll be out doing this until a certain time, in a certain area and they just said "Cool, be careful."

Florida has SOME perks, I guess.

[Anonymous No.401108]

>>401105

full on working parts Dell computers**

[Anonymous No.401113]

I just got information from a target employee that if a bike has even a simple scratch on the paint they are forced to throw it in the trash, they can not sell it on clearance or anything like that.
We're talking 300$ bikes here
I say,
>go in
>scratch the bike
>ask if they have one that isn't scratched because you're looking to buy
>tell them you'll come back later, maybe they can keep the new bike on hold or sumthin
>dont come back
>later that night dumpster dive behind store
>find perfect bike with only minimal paint scratch
>new fucking bicycle

[Anonymous No.401115]

>>401113

Yeah, considering every Target, and every Wal Mart has a compactor, that's a waste of fucking time. Just so you know.

Stores to dive: Staples, Bealls, Petsmart/Petco (I've saved thousands on dog food,) Lowes and Home Depot, Office Depot, any electronic store without a compactor, etc.

[Anonymous No.401124]

I'd try diving at a Guitar Center or a Sam Ash if I had one within 25 miles of me.

[Anonymous No.401127]

>>401124

haha, I worked out a deal with the local GC. I harvest parts from all the shit they don't send back to manufacturers

[Anonymous No.401133]

>>401105
>pulled 20+ full on working Dell computers

Funny you mention this .. where I work we are on a 3/4 year PC lifecycle .. after that it gets thrown away (perfectly good PCs .. lastest batch are Core2Duo/4GB ram with Nvidia graphics cards). Because it's more expensive to pay somebody to wipe/format them the drives are removed (good 500gb-1tb drives) and cut with a bandsaw .. then entire PCs are put on pallets and sent to a shredder.

We PAY THEM to do this .. something like 10 cents a pound.

[Anonymous No.401137]

>>401113
yea No, they hold the bikes as long as possible, they wont riskt to have another one new to get scratched. They know that most of the merchandise that is on floor is going to the dumpster.

Also another guy can come and buy the scratched bicycle not giving a fuck. They wont try to sell it but if it sells, it sells.

[LordLolland No.401180]

>>401133
Its a terrible waste of perfectly good computers, isn't it?
I work in the local municipal IT deparment, we are currently replacing a metric fuckton of computers and they are all destroyed, just because its a little bit cheaper to destroy them than it is to wipe them and give them away.
We have 5 EUR-pallets with computers stacked on them, and the computers are about 5 years old and all work perfectly... If it wasn't for my face in the employee registry, I would be all over those machines.

[Anonymous No.401188]

>>401180

If you petition for donation, you can tell them it's a sizable tax write off if they claim full value on the machines. I tried that once when my buddy was in charge of disposal at a local uni. They ate that shit up.

[Anonymous No.401191]

A guy called Lars Eighner wrote a good piece on dumpster diving called "On Dumpster Diving" that pretty much outlines everything there is to know about it. It's really well-written.

[Anonymous No.401192]

>>401188
i think that after 5 years you cant deduce taxes from computers. cars are like 10 years or so, i may be wrong since im in another country but some shit like this applies here.

[Anonymous No.401196]

>>401192

You can claim fair market value to a charity, I'm sure. 50$ is 50$, plus good PR for your company.

[LordLolland No.401199]

>>401188
>>401192
>>401196
We are a municipal institution, as in owned by the public, we don't pay taxes so a tax write off is not possible.

But a good idea, I'll keep it in mind if I ever end up working in the private sector.

[Anonymous No.401210]

>>401073
Sporting goods and toys.

[Anonymous No.401246]

What are the laws about this like in the UK?

There's a high street in my town that has all sorts of shops around, probably chucking loads of stuff out.

[Anonymous No.401268]

>>401192
What you're talking about is called depreciation. Essentially measuring the drop in worth of something over time.

[Anonymous No.401427]

>>401210
Wait, so they just throw out perfectly good product just because it's not in perfect condition?

[Anonymous No.401431]

>>401427
Every business does this

[Anonymous No.401433]

>>398659
Not everywhere. I've been stopped plenty of times, and not once have I gotten into any trouble. The biggest thing though is that you refrain from being an idiot and clean up after yourself. don't leave shit sprawled out around the dumpster. Don't leave a mess and you'll be fine.

[Anonymous No.401437]

>Reads thread/actually considers dumpster diving
thanks 4chan!

[Anonymous No.401504]

>>398620
Nice one.

[Anonymous No.401505]

>>398692
>But taking stuff from dumpsters isn't illegal on its own. There's case law on this,
Cite.

This is deffo not accurate for some places - you need EXPLICIT agreement from the owner of the dumpster for it not to be theft, even if the dumpster is on a public thoroughfare.

[Anonymous No.401506]

>>401246
It's illegal, but you'd probably get away with it much of the time if caught. So there's some risk. You can read more on some UK-based freegan/foraging sites.

[Anonymous No.401512]

>eating food out of a dumpster

jesus christ what is wrong with you.
i would understand finding like electronics or clothes or something because they can be fixed and cleaned but..
food?!

that is disgusting

[Anonymous No.401518]

>>401512
Stop being 12. Alot of food is thrown out because of regulations, not because it is bad.

[Anonymous No.401560]

>>401518
What this guy said. Dates are now 'best before' not 'use by'. Thousands of tonnes of wasted, prepacked foods including drygoods.

[Anonymous No.401583]

>>401518
Again, what he said.

Some produce is thrown away because the next delivery of whatever arrives as scheduled and they can't store it, they need to put it out. So the old stuff, NO MATTER WHAT CONDITION IT'S IN, gets chucked.

[Anonymous No.401584]

>>399445
Some good tips there, thanks dude.

[Anonymous No.401621]

>>401518
>>401560
>>401583
As someone who works in a resturaunt and regularly takes the bins out i would just like to say that you are filth and inhuman. enjoy explaining to your doctor that you eat food out of the garbage which is why youve been pissing and shitting blood an puss for the past week. i hope you die soon

[Anonymous No.401629]

>>401621
pleb as fuck

[Anonymous No.401683]

>>401621
you will never make sense to someone who hasn't worked in food service. The only time they may get it is when they have to be treated for intestinal parasites like a 3rd worlder.

[Anonymous No.401705]

>>401621
Yeah, whatever. It's like you've never heard of WASHING.

I just know I've seen full bags of perfectly good, unbruised apples, iceberg lettuces (which come neatly wrapped in their own protective layers) about two *weeks* from being inedible, tomatoes without a blemish on them, unopened nets of onions all thrown out just because the label said they were past their best or they had to make room for fresh stock.

[Anonymous No.401714]

We also throw out food products that were flagged as a 'quiet' recall for really good reasons. Let Darwin be Darwin, i guess. Enjoy. *Hyvee*

[Anonymous No.401718]

Make sure you're up to date on your shots.

[Anonymous No.401737]

>>401705
all righty. Sounds like you know everything. I'm glad we're finally getting a health care program to make sure I don't have to foot your emergency visit.

[Anonymous No.401745]

>>401115
What the fuck is a compactor?

[Anonymous No.401764]

>>401745
in OP or that other guy's defense, my wife worked in a coffee cafe in a mall for a little while, and they didn't use a compactor. They threw their garbage in a food garbage that was shared by them, the chinese fast food place and other food court places. I remember the chinese food place specifically because the dumpster had the odor of leaked and rotten asian sauces. It was enough to gag a person from a distance, really.

But hey, whatever floats your boat. Some people like eating shit from other people's assholes.

[Anonymous No.401769]

>>401246
argos is a good place to go most returns end up n the dumpsters i've seen a good few finds come from my local argos with just a couple of scratches

[Anonymous No.401778]

>>401764
i wouldnt eat food which has already been cooked and thrown away
fresh produce and canned stuff should be ok

[Anonymous No.401790]

>>398689
I really hate stupid niggers like you.
>LOL COP JUST TELLS U 2 GET OUT ITS NOT ILLEGAL IM A STUPID HIPPY FIGHT THE POWER

The police dont arrest you because they dont want their squad car smelling like garbage just because some dumbtalented /diy/eror meth head is playing in a pile of shit at 3 am at night. But it is illegal and if I ever catch you in my dumpster I will have you arrested. You stupid pseduoniggers need to stop encouraging people to break the law and put their health at risk. Not a single one of you is so destitute that you need to steal things from a dumster. You are online, using a computer, browsing a fucking "dick around and waste time" kind of website.

[Anonymous No.401793]

>>401737
Dude, you might want to make more of an effort to not sound like a prima donna. Just sayin'.

You clearly have no idea how many people now get the bulk of their veggies from stuff thrown away by grocers and yes even in restaurant garbage. And they're not dropping like flies I can assure you. Why's that? I'm glad you asked, because the point is THE FOOD IS PERFECTLY OKAY, once cleaned if necessary.

>>401778
>i wouldnt eat food which has already been cooked and thrown away
fresh produce and canned stuff should be ok
Roger that.

[Anonymous No.401799]

post pics of stuff you found
i snagged a dead router that was sitting in a bin at uni
regulator was dead, after fixing it it was still working and now a friend of mine is using it

[Anonymous No.401811]

>>401790
yea but in reality, the vast majority of people aren't azzholes like you. People have real things to worry about. Next time someone is in your dumpster, call the cops and see what happens , they'll :
A. not show up
B. Laugh at you and not show up
C.Show up 2 hours later and the guy will be gone
D. they'll actually have a slow night, show up tell the guy to get out and leave.

I'm not a hippy nor do I dumpster dive (combined, my wife and I net over 120k/yr.)but I have a pretty decent grasp of reality.

>I really hate stupid niggers like you.

Also,You're exactly whats wrong with the world and I feel sorry for you.

[Anonymous No.401861]

>>401811
The last time a cop stopped for me, he simply drove up with the window down and said "you divin'?" I said yeah, he took about two seconds to look at me and saw that I was telling the truth, nodded and drove on. He just wanted to make sure I wasn't a burglar. No fucks were given beyond that.

My friends got caught once too and the cop was like "looks like we got some illegal dumping going on here, eh boys?". They said no, they were taking out, not putting in.

As long as you don't leave a mess, the majority of property owners couldn't give a fuck if you take things they have already thrown away.

[Anonymous No.401863]

>>401861
exaclty

[Anonymous No.401869]

Alright guys. I never really post on 4chan, but I feel like sharing my experience with you.

I was reminded about dumpster diving when I came across this thread a few days ago. I read 'The Art & Science of dumpster diving', and browsed the web for a lot of personal experiences. I was in slight disbelief over the profit of this activity, and the wastefulness of society.

I wanted to investigate this personally, but I live in a small town, in a 1'st world socialistic country that prides itself with its ecologically friendlyness.
I didn't expect to find anyting other than rotten tomatoes, but I needed an excuse for a walk. I can't sleep anyway.

We have two grocery stores here. One is just 40 seconds from home, but its dumpsters is behind closed gates. I went to the other one.

It was sometime after 5 on Monday morning, but the back is lit up well at night. I found the place where the organic stuff is thrown, and immediately regretted not bringing my bag. It looked like someone had neatly left a buffét just for me.
Cherry tomatoes in a plastic container, one tomato looking bruised and the rest impeccable. Cheeses not even moldy yet(even if they were, you can safely trim it off). Lots of(plastic wrapped) lettuce with a bruise or two each. Bags of onions and garlic. One large honey melon with localized rot on one end(90% salvagable), and much more.
I stuffed my pockets with onions and scurried home to get my bag and return. Sadly, at that point the delivery truck had arrived and I didn't want to risk confrontation.

Part 2 coming up.

[Anonymous No.401872]

>>401869
>It looked like someone had neatly left a buffét just for me.

Employees literally do this at some stores, if they know that people are going through their trash regularly. They'll leave it all in a nice clean box or something for you to find.

[Anonymous No.401874]

>>401869
Same day, Monday, everything was emptied by the garbage truck. I returned at night and found yet again another buffét waiting for me. This time I brought my bag and crammed it with potato salad, cheese, ruccola salad, sausage, and more. Most edibles were left behind, since I couldn't carry it all. Nothing had expired or starting to rot or get moldy. All the food was in plastic bins or bags, and so had not physically touched the inside of the trash bin. And about those bins, they are of the small variety(width/depth I'm guessing 2'x2' or 60x60cm). I didn't have to jump into some large metal container and dig around. I left the place in the same condition I found it.
My only regret is not getting into this years ago. And of course that melon *sigh*. The melon that got away...

That's all for me right now. I'm heading out again in quest for wealth and glory.
Any questions? And haters, please explain why this is wrong or unhealthy.

[Anonymous No.401876]

>>401874
I recommend getting to know the schedules of stores. A store might clear out its deli on Monday evenings for example, so all the goodies from that department will be tossed that night.

Also your first pic made me imagine Gollum inside a bin looking for treats:

> what is it precious?
> is it TASTY?
> is it NICE?

[Anonymous No.401877]

>>401872
I don't think this was the case here, but that's awesome! I've also heard of employees pouring shampoo and stuff over it to discourage diving. I hope that's mostly in cases where people DO leave a mess.

[Anonymous No.401881]

>>401877
Usually the managers are doing that though and not the wageslaves. I've had to cross at least one dumpster off the list in the past because there was always bleach in it. To be fair though they often aren't thinking about humans going through their trash, its because they have rats or pigeons.

Actually at that one place, they often left an empty bleach bottle in as plain of view as possible right on top, like a warning.

[Anonymous No.401884]

>>401874
Don't be a douche and take everything just because. The store might be doing it because they know homeless people go through it.

[Anonymous No.401889]

>>401884
As a general rule, it ISN'T homeless people though. There are a few that do but mostly they really on shelters and missions and food banks for food. Mostly the people who dive for food are people intentionally living some kind of fringe or alternative lifestyle as a choice.

In Chinatown in Toronto there were these crazy asian grandmas who went through the trash every night. There weren't dumpsters there, just boxes of garbage that got picked up off the curb every night (they have municipal compost bins there since then though). They were awful clean looking if they were homeless. They would direct us to where the good finds were and were generally delightful, crazy old ladies.

[Anonymous No.401890]

>>401889
>really
^ rely

how did that happen

[Anonymous No.401904]

Found some ds games a while ago

[Anonymous No.401905]

>>401904

Get some of that advanced wars nigga?

[Anonymous No.401912]

>>401869
>Cheeses not even moldy yet(even if they were, you can safely trim it off)
Only hard cheeses. Mold spores can completely penetrate soft cheeses.

[Anonymous No.401913]

>>401905
No sadly i did get a dragon ball z card game thought

[Anonymous No.401918]

>>401913
The videogame equivalent of getting listeria.

[Anonymous No.401922]

>>401918
Ended up selling them online made some mad dosh

[Anonymous No.401955]

>>401922
your eBay item, "trash can video game that smells like a greasy fart" did not sell for $mad.dosh. Would you like to repost?

[Anonymous No.401959]

>>401955
lel rastle my jammies for sure XD

[Anonymous No.401998]

>>401869
I've returned. I executed the nightly raid with increased speed, precision, and righteous fury!

...Anyone got crackers?

>>401876
Thank you, I'll consider keeping notes of when I find unusual amounts of a certain thing.
And yes, pic quite related!

>>401881
That's too bad. Check your local laws, maybe it's illegal and you can get them to stop doing it. Say, an anonymous tip to the police.

>>401884
Nah. The bottom tier citizens we have in my town are a few parkbench alcoholics, and in worst case they get rent and food paid for by the state anyway.

>>401912
Ah. Thank you for pointing that out for me!

[Anonymous No.402001]

>>401998
Svennejävel, socialen ger dig pengar om du har stukat din tå, vadfan gräver du i sopor för?

[Anonymous No.402010]

>>401998
Broccoli looks sketchy... the onions and peppers look great though. I can hardly afford peppers in the winter, too expensive here.

You have truly arrived when you can say you've successfully dumpstered booze. Some places have laws stating that if a single bottle in a case breaks, the lot has to be thrown out because of the glass. So just bring it home and hose off the glass. I found a boxed wine once... the kind that maybe you shouldn't drink even if its on the shelf, you know? Other than the fact that it was piss wine to begin with, there was nothing wrong with it.

[Anonymous No.402012]

>>402001
This rude and ignorant person is asking me why I don't just apply for welfare, but fuck answering these type of people. They'd understand why if they had the slightest open mind and the correct number of chromosomes.

[Anonymous No.402013]

>>402012
Jag äter iaf inte sopor

[Anonymous No.402015]

>>402013
This rude and ignorant person just said something unsavory about all of your mothers. They wouldn't say these things if they had the slightest open mind and the correct number of chromosomes.

[Anonymous No.402016]

>>402012
besides, your parents make too much money for you to go on welfare. I'm betting that they're hoping this phase you're going through replaces the gay phase. I'm betting they're concurrent. You can only hang out around dumpsters so long before you start sucking dicks.

[Anonymous No.402019]

>>402015
Haha, du är alltför tokig du. Tror inte någon bryr sig. Läs vad han här skrev:
>>402016
Han har rätt. Det är sorgligt. Har du ingen värdighet? Vad är det för ignorant att kritisera folk som äter sopor? De kastas väl ändå av en anledning?

Får man fråga varför du ens gör det? Är det inte lite väl hippie?

[Anonymous No.402020]

>>402016
You're only proving my point further. Please stop embarrassing yourself.

>>402010
I'm hoping it's superficial, but I'll trim generously even if it is.
I don't drink personally, but I'd make sure it would be put to "good use" ;)

[Anonymous No.402024]

>>401714
this, i worked for a company that made a recall for a certain product because it was contaminated with fiberglass, so they had to throw it all that batch.

[Anonymous No.402028]

I suggest you to pay attention to the mozzarella. Look for the DOP\DOC marks on it, search on internet if the brand is legit. I'm telling you this because I live in italy and last year some mozzarellas containing high level of dioxin where sold in foreign countries... also, they go bad pretty quickly

[Anonymous No.402029]

>>402019
To clarify, neither >>402015 nor >>402016 is the dumpster diver, me that is.

>"De kastas väl ändå av en anledning?"
(Eng: It IS after all discarded for a reason?)

Yep, there are reasons. People pick the better-looking produce where there are options. Therefore, anything with a dent will never be bought and is discarded, because even if the consumer didn't have an option, they grew up believing that anything that doesn't look like commercials will kill you. A bad apple could be removed from a bag of apples, but it's not worth the paid labor to do so.
I won't be your teacher or your translator. This is an English-speaking board.

[Anonymous No.402030]

>>401505
Ask yourself, if someone leaves something out on the curb to be taken away with their other trash, is it illegal to take it?

Dumpsters are the same thing, brah.

[Anonymous No.402033]

>>402028
also, galbani is ok, it's a good brand.

To be more in topic, in Italy stores producing food have to discard everything unsold the night they produce it. I think it's a truly stupid law. Are there any laws like this in your countries anons?

[Anonymous No.402034]

>>402029
Also they overproduce or over-order certain things and then have a surplus. They may have gotten one crate of produce too many and its just simpler to dispose of it than store it because they know it'll never sell in time before it goes off. There's nothing wrong with it YET but they know it'll never all be sold so why bother keeping it.

As for overproduction, pretty much every bakery in existence does this. Its cheaper for the business in the long run to make too much bread but be known as a place that never runs out of key items. So even if they throw stuff away every single day, its better for them as a business than to make not enough and have people disappointed that their favorite product isn't there sometimes. Hence there is always bread in dumpsters and lining the shelves of the food banks.

[Anonymous No.402035]

Leave it to Swedes to really fag something up.

[Anonymous No.402036]

>>402033
>Are there any laws like this in your countries anons?

Canada here and no. Bakeries sometimes mark bread at half price the second day though.

[Anonymous No.402038]

>>402034
Thank you for chiming in, I was feeling lonely in here.

>>402028
Thank you, I'll be vigilant. Do you know any good recipes?

>>402033
I only know that the laws are without logic.

[Anonymous No.402052]

>>402020
remove the watermark you fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.402054]

>>402038
You can use it pretty much on everything. You can melt mozzarella on everything you want, be it pasta or toasts, you can use it in the salad with vinegar... just be creative! It is also one of the key elements of pizza margherita.

>>402036
That's how it should be. In my town we're giving that food to clochard.

[Anonymous No.402055]

>>398603
go into it like you own it. that simple. if anyone says anything and isnt the cops just act crazy and they will just walk away.

Also the kids around here use a towel on the sides of the trash bin and gloves.

[Anonymous No.402056]

>>398622
>diving is illegal where i live, even if its just for boxes

post your law proving this sir. because anything that is thrown away is considered public domain.

[Anonymous No.402060]

>>402052
Did you seriously just let a watermark rustle your jim-jims?

[Anonymous No.402061]

>>402055
Yeah and unless a store has a specific policy about dumpster diving, the staff are rarely going to care. Sometimes they challenge you but nine times out of ten you can tell that they haven't thought about what they're doing and are just reacting. Responding to them in a calm and articulate manner is usual enough to put them at ease.

One time a guy came out for a smoke and found me and was like "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING..." then looked around sheepishly when he saw exactly what that was, and then he mumbled "er, not that I care or anything" and had his smoke. Another guy confronted me and he had a stick or something in his hand. I simply told him that wasn't necessary and I think he felt kind of foolish all of a sudden.

[Anonymous No.402095]

>>402055
Genius. Just dress up like a homeless guy. You'll get away with anything.

[Anonymous No.402117]

Protip: check dumpsters near college dorms at the end of each year/semester. Students throw out TONS of great shit when they leave on break.

One year I literally took three truckloads of stuff in one day, totaling well over $1000 in value. Half of the furniture in my apartment was rescued from those dumpsters. It's crazy.

[Anonymous No.402125]

>>402117
Seconding this as hard as humanly possible. Its amazing what dumb rich kids will accumulate and subsequently throw away when living away from home for the first time. Furniture, appliances, nice winter coats (lol just buy another one next year amirite), jars of fucking change even... anything you can think of.

[Flaregun No.402132]

>>402125
>>401433
Thirding. I live near the biggest art school in america. Holy fucking shit, the treasures you see every 9 weeks. Sadly all i have is a moto and duffel bag.

[Anonymous No.402155]

>>402054
>You can use it pretty much on everything. You can melt mozzarella on everything you want, be it pasta or toasts, you can use it in the salad with vinegar... just be creative! It is also one of the key elements of pizza margherita.

Interesting! Thank you, dear Itali-anon.

>>402117
>Protip: check dumpsters near college dorms at the end of each year/semester. Students throw out TONS of great shit when they leave on break.

Fourth'd, but I've never had the opportunity. My heart yearns to live near a university. One day, one day...

[sage No.402199]

>>402155
>>>/red-dit/

[Anonymous No.402423]

>>401105
954 here,

Can't begin to recall all the glorious bounty from dives in the past. That and Bulk Trash days. My god people throw away the greatest things.

[Anonymous No.402424]

>>401764
>But hey, whatever floats your boat. Some people like eating shit from other people's assholes.
Hope you've been paying attention and feel suitably stupid now. You should.

[Anonymous No.402426]

>>402030
>Ask yourself, if someone leaves something out on the curb to be taken away with their other trash, is it illegal to take it?
>Dumpsters are the same thing, brah.
No actually they're not. [in some places] it's exactly the same principle as something left on the seat of a convertible.

Like I say, this is for some places. I know the law for the UK, don't know about where you are.

[Anonymous No.402428]

>>402095
dafuq mang

you know how much shit homeless people get? just think, they have no: name, address, loved ones, home, expectation to live to tomorrow. Easy target for any punks, other homeless, pigs, gangs/etc

Last thing you want is some asshole who wants to be sadistic on you.

3guys1hammer?

Not saying that this is super common, but avoid it please.

I'll look for the .pdf on diving. It's outdated but the info should still be fine

[Anonymous No.402432]

>>402424
Eating garbage doesn't make you cool.

[Anonymous No.402436]

Dumpster food is a healthier choice than Big Mac with Fries and a Coke. And that's cool.

My dumpster diving tip is to concentrate on office buildings; it's where I got a two big professional laser printers, one of them color. They both have minor hiccups from time to time (for example, one fails the RAM startup test once in a while, so I just restart it) which is why they were junked, but otherwise they're fine printers each worth over $1000. I've also found fax machines, monitors, video surveillance equipment, etc.

Nice thing about office junk is it's pretty clean.

[Anonymous No.402462]

>>402056
>anything that is thrown away is considered public domain.

Where did you get this idea?
Dumpster diving is illegal, as well as taking garbage from the dump,
unless you're given permission beforehand.

[Anonymous No.402487]

I do scrap metal and e-waste processing, collecting loads of stuff from businesses that have to dispose of these waste materials in an environmentally friendly manner.
Computers are cleaned up, tested, repaired, upgraded etc, and sold locally, or on ebay. Other office equipment as well.

In addition to these commercial, and industrial accounts, we have scales where we buy from the public, and offer free drop off for various items.
A lot of these customers are dumpster divers.

Truckloads of stuff comes through, you never know what people will be getting rid of. As they say "one man's trash, is another man's treasure" turned a 7million dollar profit in 2007. Not bad for a non-profit organization.

[Anonymous No.402556]

>>402428
>3guys1hammer
those guys kill a lot of people, not just homeless. just saying

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs

[Anonymous No.402563]

>>402030
No it's called public domain, therefore a free item to the next person. Dur

[Anonymous No.402744]

Hey, this thread encouraged me to give it a go.

I'm not keen on eating food from a bin, but I collect shit from bulk rubbish (furniture mostly) so I figured there's not much difference taking shit from a skip/dumpster provided it's clean.

I found pic related.

A Calvin Klein satchel bag,
A spare strap for a satchel bag (have one with a broken strap at home)
2 sets of boxing gloves
A multi colour hanging storage thing

All were in black bin bags within a dumpster which had a stack of women's clothes, women's underwear, stuffed toys, paper work etc.

I also found in another one
Stackable in/out trays (one broken, I can glue it back together though.)
Some clip boards (only took the one, for uni)
A couple of ring binders (Only took the one, for uni again)
A heap of dividers and plastic sleeves for the ring binders (Collected them from various binders and put them all into the one I kept)

Pretty happy with it.

I also saw some car wheels next to a bin, but I don't think they were actually rubbish so I left them.

[Anonymous No.402746]

>>398603
It's /diy/ not /hobo/

[Anonymous No.402768]

>>402095
No! Dress in orange overalls.
No one ever bothers a guy in orange overalls who is digging through shit and has the expression of a man who wants to be home in bed with a beer.

[Anonymous No.402771]

>>402768
dress as a cop, that will really mindfuck with people..

[Anonymous No.402772]

>>402771
and is also very illegal certain places.
Dress like a priest!
Or a clown!
NO WAIT...
Dress like a bunnygirl.

[Anonymous No.402786]

>>401431
We just burn them, then toss out so the homeless people won't scatter our rejects around the streets.

[Anonymous No.402923]

>>401998
Today I made dinner from what I already had at home. It started out purely experimental, but ended up as something similar to risotto. I'm extremely pleased with how it turned out!

My nightly dive yeilded a lot of produce, yoghurt, and grapes. LOTS of grapes. I blendered and filtered it into juice, and holy shit was that delicious.


Did OP die?

[Anonymous No.402931]

Diving for food doesn't interest me. I dive to find good stuff that can be used in the home. I've found sheets, rugs, a throw pillow, etc. Of course, I leave the stuff several feet from the house for a while, examining it for evidence of bedbugs or shit like that. I also found bags of perfectly new padded envelopes once. I may never have to buy one again, which is a jackpot for me since I sell on eBay.

[Anonymous No.402936]

I've never understood what you can get from dumpster diving? Can someone fill me in on why digging around in the trash is worth it? Best/most valuable thing you've found.

[Anonymous No.402952]

>>402936
d.did u not read the thread?

[Anonymous No.402961]

>>402936
i dont go for food, clothes, or furniture with any fabric.

But so far i have score
-boiler
-desk
-PC (kind of old but good)
-speakers
-car amp

I dont dive, but sometimes you can see stuff just outside of the dumpster waiting to be picked, some cities even have this "tradition" once a year where you put everything you dont want in the curb and other people go and pick it up, at the end of the day those things that stays, go to the dumpster.

[Anonymous No.402966]

>>402556
noted. sagefag

>>402744
nice haul
>>402961
my two 12"s are jbl odd model but they make a smooth steady sound. found outside an insurance building leaned up against the dumpster

[Anonymous No.403387]

I found a fully functioning digital camera once like 8 mgps I think. I think some girl got mad at bf and threw his stuff out. but there is no end to the possibilities as to what you might find also found good food before like the 8 dollar health shakes only 2 days out of date and still cold

[Anonymous No.403401]

Big box computer store near where I live is great. Any non-functional returns on their service plans that get replacements they just throw out. Free laptops all the time. Usually something wrong with harddrive or screen. Replace parts/repair and sell for double the parts cost on Craigslist. Isnt something I could make any real money on but it helps with repair skills and pays for snacks while I'm working.

I would never dive for food unless it was sealed in package and within a few days of expiry. Friend of mine will eat anything out of the trash that still looks ok. Makes me shudder.

[Anonymous No.403404]

Ive always though eating food out of a bin is fucking disgusting, especially the people saying meats and cheeses. Then I realised you probably live in cold places where being outside is the same a being in a fridge. Please tell me you live somewhere cold.

[Anonymous No.403512]

>>402744
Congrats on your nice finds! In what type of areas were these dumpsters?

>>402768
I've read about photographers that dress so overly noticeable(say orange reflex vests), that they become invisible to people instead and don't get hustled, or is assumed to be doing some sort of job for the city. I don't need to do this because I don't live in Fearland, but the idea is brilliant in its simplicity.

>>403401
Do companies not have to recycle electronics where you live? Where DO you live?

>>403404
Me, Sweden. It's a few degrees below freezing right now.

[Anonymous No.403682]

>>402923
>Did OP die?
Looks like! One of the best threads in ages and he doesn't bother his ass to come back and thank people for the adds.

[Anonymous No.403764]

>>402923
Tonight I got two large shopping bags full of Angry Birds wine gums(there was more), and some other stuff. They actually thought that shit would sell like hotcakes.

"Sweet! I wouldn't buy this normally, but since I think Angry Birds is an awesome game, any product with its name should logically be equally awesome, and not just trying to mooch off the popularity of the franchise. I must have it. Lots of it."
-No one ever

[Anonymous No.403781]

>>402744
you took the underwear too right?

[Anonymous No.404023]

>>402936
Not me but a friend of mine found some old man's war medals once

[Anonymous No.404024]

>>403404
I've taken packaged food before like sausage and shit, but I live in the UP of Michigan and it's right around 6 degrees right now.

[Anonymous No.404665]

Bumping so a good thread doesn't die.

[Anonymous No.404693]

>>401196
>You can claim fair market value to a charity, I'm sure. 50$ is 50$, plus good PR for your company.

good pr yes, fair market is incorrect.
businesses depreciate the cost of a computer over 5 years. if they upgrade and replace the computer after only one year, they would write off the 80% regardless.
If the computer is 5 years old, and fully depreciated, selling it would be income taxed at 43% and costs more in accounting than its worth.

[Anonymous No.404791]

>>398622
>diving is illegal where i live, even if its just for boxes

America, land of the free

[Anonymous No.404808]

>>404023

In Australia? Because my great grandfather was awarded many medals. Until someone broke in and stole them all about 13/14 years ago.

[Anonymous No.404811]

>>398620
>If a cop stops you for walking around at night tell him you just got into an argument about kids or something big like that with your girlfriend and you needed some time to your. No questions asked ever.


And what do you say if your carrying >6 20 lb butter ball turkeys

[Anonymous No.404825]

>>404811
that you are about to end the argument *wink *wink

[Anonymous No.404827]

I've always been interested in diving, but I've never actually done it. The closest I've ever been was taking shit that people put on the curb on bulk days.

What I got:
>hockey net with a small rip in the corner
>working tall lamp with a dent in the pole
>chair frames
>tires

I was pretty lucky with the lamp because that week I wanted to get one and on garbage day the drunk down the street put it on the curb. It just had a dent in it so it was leaning slightly to the right. Grabbed that shit and bent it back and it looks good as new and still works. I could've taken the tires somewhere to get cash but instead I gave them to my uncle who is even worse off than me to get cash, but still, people are just lazy and would rather throw perfectly good items away and buy new ones than put in the time to fix them. ffs people are so fucking wasteful.

[Anonymous No.404871]

>>402786
>We just burn them

What do you use to do such and act? What kind of store do you work at?

[Rozwell No.404882]

Alright, /mu/ here, saw this thread and thought I'd semi-contribute. I have no real interest in dumpster diving myself but I see nothing wrong with snagging some free shit others have thrown out. However, as someone who has worked at multiple grocery stores and knows how the trash situation works, let me drop some nuggets.

Recently a lot of stores, particularly the Giant chain, have adopted this retardo fucking ordering system that automatically (i.e., without human input) orders a new crate of X whenever a crate's worth of X have been bought. I don't know why but this leads to cartoonishly large amounts of X a lot of the time, so yeah, sometimes we're throwing out full crates/boxes of fruits and veggies.

Grocery stores, at least all the ones I've worked at, use trash compactors, though. Nothing survives these things. All those poor unwanted veggies are mixed in with the fucking foul outside/front end/(where applicable) gas station trash, which is basically a light-brown slurry of half-eaten fast food, coffee, soda, piss, shit, barf, beer, and sometimes dead animals. Keep that in mind.

(cont.)

[Rozwell No.404885]

>>404882
Furthermore, yes, it's illegal, at least in most U.S. states, to dumpster dive/otherwise go digging through the trash. Peoples' identities get stolen that way, and frequently people will steal discarded receipts and try and return what's on them. That law's not ever changing. Managers of stores don't want to get in trouble so they WILL lock the trash up and call the cops on you if they see you trying to get in. Very few cops are the "oh, it's cool, he's just trying to score a chair" kind. In my experience most cops hate homeless people with a barely-contained passion, especially in bigger cities. Store managers hate homeless people because they sleep in the store and sometimes drive away customers. Sometalented /diy/erdigging through the trash is NOT distinguishable from a homeless dude in their minds, and if you're well-dressed then that will probably just piss them off even more, or make them think you're looking for pharmacy records or receipts. You will get detained, you'll probably get locked up if you mouth off even once, and, shit, charged might even be pressed. So, yeah, be careful.

Also, as stated above, most retail places that sell good shit (computers and whatnot) will either destroy unsold merch after a certain date, or return it for a refund from the manufacturer.

Again, I'm neutral on the whole thing, but others aren't. Please be careful and don't go into it with the attitude that cops are your buddies.

[Anonymous No.404901]

are you a danish fag

[Anonymous No.404925]

>>401877
Yeah, they used to just dump rat poison on top of the piles of produce & meats where I worked because they thought we had raccoons.

[Anonymous No.404931]

I am an electronics student i norway.
Every thursday those who are not stationed in a workplace (for experience), go down to the two electronics stores in town.
We politely ask if we can go through their dumpster and discarded cellphone box.
We then repair what is broken or just use what is usable.
Everyone wants to help students.

What i have got:
- 2 multidevice remotes
- 1 42" flatscreen
- 1 "new" refigerator and microwave placed in the classroom
- 2 wireless bluetooth earplugs
- 11 pc's. 2-5years old
- five pc screens
- a fuckload of cellphones with personal info and pctures

We usually rig all of this up in the classroom. its godlike.

[Anonymous No.404932]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zXMiYcODuI

[Anonymous No.405202]

>>404808
No he is american saw some liberal bitch dump them out in the trash because guns and war are evil

[Anonymous No.405206]

>>404931
Ever found any nudes on the cellphones ?

[Anonymous No.405240]

>>404931
That's because you go on Thor's day.

[Anonymous No.405474]

Been wanting to try this for a while...thanks for inspiration, OP
What's the best place to get stuff? Publix? Lowe's? Krispy Kreme?

[not OP No.405831]

Bumping for more info, is there anybody from the Orlando FL area that dives on here? Also I want to know more about what kind of non-food treasures there are to be found.

[Anonymous No.405853]

>>404925
is that even legal? considering humans handling the garbage (garbage men, hobos, divers) and any other animal that's not a racoon could get fucked up, no?

[Anonymous No.405857]

>>402199
>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.405858]

>>405853

pretty sure it isn't

[Anonymous No.405926]

>>405206
Found naked pictures of a 13-14 year old girl, a 35+ woman, and some fat old guy, as im not dumb i deleted it.
If it got out that we actually looked over information or pictures from harddrives/cellphones we would not get access to this shit anymore.
The most interesting thing though is going into harddrives and finding peoples porn. I've seen some shit

>reading through messages/pictures that people would normally die of shame if someone saw.

moral: ALWAYS delete everything!

[Anonymous No.407574]

not letting this die

[Anonymous No.407595]

>>402001
>implying all dumpster divers are poor.

I have a relatively comfortable government job, car provided and all, and I still dive. Why waste money on food one day that you know will be free around the back the next day.

BTW posting this from a Nexus 7 I got from a skip (box was completely ruined but everything else fine)

[Anonymous No.407599]

>>402030
Not here in Australia. All suburbs have verge collections twice a year for large good.

Drove around a 'rich' suburb and came home with a 42" plasma, 4 working laptops and a $1200 road bike needing nothing more than a new chain.

[Anonymous No.407622]

Some of you sounds knowledgeable from an experience point of view. Could some of you share photos of the treasures you have stumbled upon on your dumpster diving quest?

[Anonymous No.407632]

>>401113
I work at Target as well. Ours don't really give a shit if its scratched. Best thing we can give you is a damaged price discount

[Anonymous No.407672]

Recipes for Disaster has a good enough section on diving, especially for nutritional needs. The best time to dive from a grocery store is right after a power outage. They have to throw out all the perishable and frozen foods that are still good even if the power was down for less than 24 hours.

[Anonymous No.407697]

What fucking stores and dumpsters are you guys going to? I thought about doing this, even tried it a few times, but every single place I've thought about dumpster diving either has the dumpster behind locked fences, even McDonalds has a protected dumpsters, not saying I want to dumpster dive McD's, just pointing them out as an example of how common it is, and the rest had trash compactors. Especially supermarkets. I've never seen a supermarket with a dumpster. Ever.

[Anonymous No.407720]

never considered dumpster diving before reading this thread tonight. I just finished high school and moved out of home, but now just think of all the money ill save doing this!

Now i can start buying an ounce a week!

[Anonymous No.407935]

>>401874
be careful with meat

[Anonymous No.408163]

Great thread. I usually don't dive, but every Sunday night in my city is trash night in the nicer sections. A friend and I usually go out to pick, especially in the spring, and have come out with some great stuff. Found a vintage Schwinn bike we sold for $150, a brass coffee table, a jet-ski that needed engine repair, many easy fix lawn mowers and a full living room set in impeccable condition.

Never take vacuum cleaners off the curb (unless for parts), they're usually nasty inside beyond cleaning.

Another good spot to check is apartment complex dumpsters around the first of the month. Just like college dumpsters, people moving out throw good items away so they don't have to move them.

If you plan to take a couch but need to wait for a truck, take a cushion(s) with you to claim it. Don't be a dick though, make sure you go back and get it.

[Anonymous No.408394]

>>401127
Have you found anything cool?

[Anonymous No.408523]

any other useful info?

[Anonymous No.408917]

have never dived before, see this thread- why the fuck not
start scouting out local shops for their dumpster locations and security, will be diving some point in the next week and will post pics of any treasure i find
wish me luck guys

[Anonymous No.409408]

>Diving
>I Found 4 quad core processors
>A title to a Ferrari and a house
>A million dollar worth of diamonds
>about three Swiss Watch
>59 inch TV
>A ton load of free unused debit cards around $300 each
>A ticket to see the MBA and a place ticket to South America
>I found five Russia chicks and a puppy

[Anonymous No.409416]

>>401793
>You clearly have no idea how many people now get the bulk of their veggies from stuff thrown away by grocers
Wow, the delusional hippie in his natural environment.

[Anonymous No.409419]

>>409408
>went diving
>didn't even find universal enlightenment

get on my level.

[Anonymous No.409551]

local school was throwing away all their old computers, and technology. so much stuff, basically emptied the dumpster, seperated it into 3 piles,
>stuff im keeping for me
> eBay stuff
>stuff that's to old, but i might try eBay anyway.

from those i managed to get 2 working PC's good laptop, old ipod (worked fine) lots of cables. bulk amounts of accessories (headphone, keyboard, etc.)
sold almost everything else, with that money i was able to upgrade the stuff i kept and make any improvements needed, and still had 800$ left over.
burnt everything else

[Anonymous No.409580]

>first time on board
>I want to live in a tent
>Shipping container homes
>Dumpster diving general

...

[Anonymous No.409585]

>>409580
Yeah it seems crazy, but if you could do any one or even all of these, it's ultimate freedom. Imagine never again being slave to a job, never having to pay bills, answer to a boss, get up early for work when you'd rather sleep in, drive in traffic even though you don't feel well to go work with a bunch of fuckheads you really hate. How great would it be to escape all that and spend everyday basically going where you want and doing what you want.

[Anonymous No.409674]

>>401133
This makes me super mad

[Anonymous No.409701]

Enjoy getting cancer.

[Anonymous No.409708]

>>405926
This is why I delete, then smash

[Anonymous No.409707]

>>398620
Why would a cop stop you for walking around at night?
Where do you live?

[Anonymous No.409730]

This one has saved my ass twice already. Depending on how old you are/look, you can say something along the lines of "I'm doing a project for my class about what businesses throw out". With a little tweaking, you can make this argument seem totally legitimate.

[Anonymous No.409765]

Around where I live there are shit tons of businesses that throw out heaps of useful stuff, I live with a few other artists and we go diving pretty regularly. Stuff we have found:

>several brand new woolen cardigans
>mass amounts of 1.5x1.2m panels (for painting)
>a massive canvas "FOR RENT" sign (going to use as a projector screen)
>all manner of storage containers
>Australian History books

also on council pickup days I have found tons of cool stuff, like a fully functional M-Audio midi keyboard controller. Dumpster diving's pretty sweet, man

[Anonymous No.409767]

>>398678
Look up the US Supreme Court ruling on California v. Greenwood. It's technically not illegal under certain conditions.

[Anonymous No.409799]

>>401427
>perfectly good
>not in perfect condition
uhh no
they throw out damaged items, the extent of the damage may be negligible though

[Anonymous No.409900]

>>401105
352 reporting in, nice to see a fellow FL diver.

College campuses, near the dorms, right around graduation time. OMFG the glory of those hauls. My buddy and I hit up either USF or UF every year and spend a week doing nothing but loading up our trucks and hauling it home to pick through. Our collective haul from last year:

>3 slightly damaged, less than a year old laptops. Spent $400 repairing them, sold them for $1200 total.
> 2 pefectly good laptops, kept one and sold the other for $400
> 23 digicams, all in perfect working order, including 5 dSLR's I kept one and flipped the rest for a total of $1600.
> 25 thirty gallon trashbags full of big label clothes (Aero, AmEagle, Hollister, Ed Hardy, Affliction, etc... Even some designer shit) Let our friends pick through that and just outright take whatever they wanted, sold the rest to Plato's Closet for a total of $2200
> A shitload of small electronics (iCrap products, cell phones, etc.) that we're still working on getting rid of, total count now is at $2900.

And that's just the shit we can sell easily, not including all the drugs and alcohol. We only keep weed, but we find enough pills, X and coke to keep the entire population of a small country high for a year. I still have about four gallons of vodka left over from last years haul.

College kids don't want to haul all their stuff home at the end of the year, especially the stuff that might make mommy and/or daddy upset, so they junk it. Electronics end up in the trash cause they lose something, buy a new one and find the old one when they clean out their dorm.

GodI love stupid people...

[Anonymous No.409939]

>>404023
That is one of the saddest things I ever read.

[Anonymous No.409959]

>>398603

$260K + bonus / annum dual degree ChemEn + CompSci graduate reporting in.
Dive in to where you belong you trash if you have a computer but can't make money off of it.

[Anonymous No.409971]

>>409959
>this butt devastation

[Anonymous No.410008]

>all the places nearby use compactors

all I want is broken tech stuff from best buy, staples, office max, etc to tinker with.

any tips /diy/?

[Tawm Bwady !!EtTFwK1V7aB No.410015]

>>409959
>ME SPECIAL
>NO SPEAK GOODLY

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[Anonymous No.410046]

Thought i'd try diving out, found a dumpster for newsagents and 2 for a shoe store, But all i could see were cardboard boxes :/

[Anonymous No.410095]

This could come in handy if its dark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH3n7sUTZ3U

[Anonymous No.410104]

This whole thread reminds me of a time when my cousin and I stole 10 laptops over the period of one month from a Bestbuy.

We simply found a trashcan in-store and placed the item in. We retrieved it from the dumpster later that night.

We stole other things too.

[Anonymous No.410121]

>>398705
um idk? maybe SLEEP?!

[Anonymous No.410133]

>>403781

[Anonymous No.410135]

I like to play with foolish dumpster divers. I love to chew on their bones.

[Anonymous No.410197]

>>398764
dude what area does he live in, i think i know him?

[Anonymous No.410234]

OP here found my thread by some miracle on the second page and Im glad to see all the people my thread has seem to have inspired. Also lately I've hauled a shitload of magazines

[Anonymous No.410248]

>>410234
Are they nudie magazines you can beat off too?

[Anonymous No.410261]

>>410234
This actually inspired me to do some soft core diving myself. I found a really nice suitcase/bag thing that was empty and wasn't even dirty.
I took the trash out to the apartment dumpster and found a decent leather bag that had to be cleaned. I've also found some clothes (most of the time I can't fit them or they look dirty beyond cleaning) and furniture that I can't take. The coolest thing was a silk bathrobe that just needed a good washing.
I can upload pics, but my haul isn't very impressive.

[Anonymous No.410271]

This thread inspired me to try some dumpster diving too. I got a heroin needle through my hand and a scary man made me suck him off. I tried running to the police for help but they just tazed me because I was wearing dirty clothes to try and blend in.

[Anonymous No.410276]

>>410104
This is awesome but definitely much less legal than dumpster diving.
Right out of high school I worked at a local beverage store and every now and then when I was taking out the trash (mostly cardboard boxes) I would stick a 6-pack or something in a box, leave it in the dumpster, and pick it up after work. So much fun came out of that.

[Anonymous No.410318]

>>398603
Just steal stuff, it's free and you get the fresh stuff.

[Anonymous No.410332]

>>403764
I haven't updated for a while, but last night I found a whole lot of huge strawberries. I wish these genetical freaks would taste as yummy as they look, but I'm not complaining.

>>410234
It's not your thread anymore. You had your chance.
Don't make it weird, just go.

[Anonymous No.410339]

>>398689
copfag here. we really don't give a shit. but in case its an asshole cop, don't be drunk and don't have drugs/paraphernalia on you and you'll be fine 100% of the time

[Anonymous No.410344]

In my country à major part of the almost bad food goes to charity.

>corporate murrica

[Anonymous No.410373]

I live in an apartment complex that routinely throws out perfectly usable items. I've found loads of new or gently used clothing for children and adults, shoes, housewares, toys, furniture, electronics, and lots of TV's. Whenever someone has been evicted, or just skipped town, and left all their stuff in the apartment maintenance has to clear everything out and it usually just gets chucked in the dumpster. And around Black Friday when everyone wants to up-grade their TV/sound system/computer/whatever, their older models end up on the curb by the dumpster.

I've scavenged a lot of useful items from the dumpster over the years. And what I have no use for I take to a donation center.

I hate the wastefulness of this disposable society.

[Anonymous No.410581]

>>410339
Will it cause issues if I'm utilizing my LTCF?

[Anonymous No.410684]

>>410373
After the school year ends, look in the dumpsters for out of towners who arent taking their big shit with them

Furniture galore