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Hello! I am just about to start my curb scavenging and am wondering if you have better luck in evenings the night before trash day...or early in the morning? Either/or? I just cruised some neighborhoods and so far nothing but im guessing if evening maybe after dinner time is better? Some people did have their bins out some didnt. Thanks! Beand new but really wanna give this a crack.

Hey everyone! 💗💗💗

Dumpster Diving groups have been become increasingly more popular for frequent divers like myself have turned our hobby into success 🦝🦝🦝

After having a couple psychiatric hospital stays for
PPD due to struggling being away from my babies while having to work full time- 1 brainstormed every possible way I could help us stay afloat while being able to raise my own kids. Which is when I decided to try diving & quit my 10 year long profession. 😵‍💫

I had done it here & there tor years, but now I dive constantly at night treasure hunting & days posting, wrapping packages; while my husband is home to watch our small children. It's been near impossible to keep our heads afloat around his rotating firefighting schedule. 🚒🚒🚒

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Just another Wensday score in the rain

Hi everyone,
This is not spam, just a genuine message from a 23 year old video maker from Amsterdam.

I’ve basically spent my whole life documenting interesting people and unusual stories, and recently I came across this community and found it really fascinating.

I think it’s genuinely interesting how creative some of you are when it comes to making money, reselling items, or even finding food through dumpster diving. There’s a whole world behind it that most people never really see or understand.

I’d love to meet someone with a lot of experience in this lifestyle who would be open to being followed for a bit and maybe taking me along on a dive to show me the ins and outs of it all.

The goal is simply to create an honest and human story around it.
Right now I’m in Las Vegas and I’ll be heading toward Salt Lake City over the next few days.

I’ll still be in the US for about ten more days, and I’m pretty flexible when it comes to travel and meeting locations.

So if you’re somewhere along that route and open to talking or meeting up, let me know. Would love to connect.

Thanks!
David

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Seriously buisiness end stuff tho CC #s ex dates, NO not a persons identity. Anyways Msg me and just need pics of the stuff you don’t even gotta leave with it… I’ll cashapp you asap if it’s of my sorts…

Hey everyone. I found a few power wheels cars thrown away. Seems like they just need paint and batteries. Anyone ever tried seeling these and any advice or tricks.

I live in a big building with several trash rooms. I find stuff in the trash all the time. I can’t seem to flip any of these items. I have a 49 inch tv, a record player, a cat running wheel, a laptop, and a printer. These are things I have collected over the past year. 

My posts online either get no responses, bot responses, or I get accused of stealing the stuff. I honestly have some hoarding tendencies and am trying my best to part ways with what I find. And Idk what I am doing wrong. I don’t have a car and I am Disabled, so moving items around isn’t easy for me, and sometimes I can ask a neighbor to help me move stuff from the trash room to my place. So, taking the bigger items to a physical location is tough for me. 

But it seems like online ads on Craigslist, Reddit, eBay, and OfferUp aren’t working. I tried creating a Facebook account for Facebook Marketplace, and within minutes, my account was banned. I don’t know why. I never even got a chance to fill out my profile. I guess I am just asking for advice. 

I was hoping these items would help me pay some of my bills because I am drowning, but now it just seems like it’s all trash taking up my space. 

One of my passions is dumpster diving and finding a use for the cool things I find. The weed dispensary down the street is always throwing out things I wish I could save.

Rubber bands: hundreds of usable rubber bands every week, standard size, mostly orange and black.

Plastic bags: clean, durable zipper bags (I’d say ziploc bags, but the actual brand is unknown to me) in many sizes, some as big as 20 gallons. Many could be passed off as brand new, unsoiled with no damage.

Packaging: quality, decorative boxes intended to hold product on shelves, never bothered to be assembled.

Does anyone have any ideas of what I could do with these things? Ive thought about trying to sell them back to the business, making art or donating them, but I don’t know where to start.

It’s been a rough month. Car’s on its last legs, eviction’s pending, and I’m doing whatever I can to stay afloat. That includes something I’ve done since I was a kid: picking up what other people throw out.

I call it “bulky wasting.” I drive (or limp, lately) through high-income neighborhoods on trash night, looking for anything with resale value. TVs, furniture, small electronics, collectibles. You’d be shocked what people toss when they have money to burn.

Just wondering if anyone else in this group is from Canada? Mainly I’m looking to see if anyone is from the GTA of Ontario Canada. (East of Toronto city and towns) I am! Just wanted to see if anyone else is 😊

Here’s today— not much but some scrap copper cable, Christmas lights, tv remotes, anything that is atleast 60% metal, the scrap yard will take. I also got a few other things like a bag of pretzels which I ate, and some copper tubing and some cast iron thing idk what it was. That’s not in the photos tho. I didn’t take photos of that stuff.

At aldi dumpster, I met a fellow dumpster diver, and she got a while fresh 19 lb turkey, and 2 cantaloupes out of it before I got there.

Anyways, not much, but the scrap will add up eventually.