As if we needed another place to hang out on the internet...

Dumpster Diving Forum

http://dumpsterworld.com/

Via MAKE - http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/05/dumpsterworld_-_social_network_for.html

So I go to this site, click on the "dumpster diving finds" forum, and click on a random thread expecting to see that someone found a cool chair, or tools or something, but what do I find?

"Came across

7 packs of Reese's pieces mini cookie dough 4 packs of phily cream cheese 4 jars of roasted red peppers

Kids are now enjoying the cookies.

Not too big of a fan of bagels, but I made a cheesecake out of the creamcheese."

Found Food

That person is hard-core.

Bob

I enjoyed the post, "How to deal with shiny happy people" in their off-topic section.

My buddy and I were standing on a corner shootin the s&*t when a truck came flying around the corner and a white box came flying out the back.

It was 50 lbs of hamburger, 5 ten pound tubes. My buddy and I split the case and and it made the best burgers we ever ate.

LOL. I haven't had a chance to browse thru the forums yet, just saw the article on MAKE and thought it would be appreciated here.

Dumpster Diving + Food = Gross! sorry...

Gross and awesome!

Yeah dumpster diving food, um no. However, I live near a college town and it is amazing what you can find at the end of the school year.

Those dudes are giving us a lesson in Grassroots.....bleah

I used to live near an Entenmann's outlet store.

Was at a high school friend's house for a DOOM party and there were maybe 200 boxes of baked goods on a table in his back porch. Free for taking, if we wanted any. I grabbed about 10 boxes...

A month later, he asked if he could borrow the hearse to pick up some Entenmann's at about 11pm. Uh, sure.

Yep - it was 100% dumpster-dived. They threw stock out on a time basis, and he'd grab the ones from the trash that weren't moldy. He'd then, like Arthur Dent, let them sit and see if they grew anything. If they weren't fuzzy, he'd declare them to be food.

While the recycling aspect of dumpster diving is neat, the last thing I need is more E36 M3. Also, I would love to eat dumpster dairy, if I wanted to kill myself. A few days of baking in a 100 degree dumpster is just is not appealing.

Knurled wrote: A month later, he asked if he could borrow the hearse to pick up some Entenmann's at about 11pm. Uh, sure.

Wait a second...you have a hearse?

I've trampled upon a few dumpsters in my time, usually I kick them out before I go to sleep.

And on a lighter note, I used to work at a pizza place delivering pizzas. The pizza place was located right next door to a Staples I think or Office Max...well they used to trash their perfectly good display units in a dumpster with no lock. The current computer chair I'm sitting in, the computer desk, and white board in the garage are all thanks to some dumpster diving.

DirtyBird222 wrote: And on a lighter note, I used to work at a pizza place delivering pizzas. The pizza place was located right next door to a Staples I think or Office Max...well they used to trash their perfectly good display units in a dumpster with no lock. The current computer chair I'm sitting in, the computer desk, and white board in the garage are all thanks to some dumpster diving.

This is the ideal of dumpster diving. Rock on.

I'm all for dumpster diving for electronics and stuff, but some of the guys on that forum eat food out of the garbage call me a prude but I'm not into that stuff.

If you're hungry, you'll eat dumpster quinine.

If it's sealed, who cares what the outside looks like. I've been "convinced" to try worms and crickets, so I can't say that a dumpster would be to bad in a time of need.

i'm not sure this thread is going in a good direction.

"man dies of food poisoning after car forum convinces him to eat mayo on ham from a dumpster."

That's not mayo

bluej wrote: i'm not sure this thread is going in a good direction. "man dies of food poisoning after car forum convinces him to eat mayo on ham from a dumpster."

At my old office there was a packet of mayo floating around that was so old it had turned brown and almost clear! It would get put on someones desk randomly to gross them out....no one ever threw it out.

Speaking of "mayo", hopefully this isn't covered on that site.

I used to hang out at a camera store. One guy used to come in after his regular "hobby" of dumpster diving at a porn store that had private movie viewing booths.

He was an ultra conservative anti porn guy that would take pictures of any names or addresses that he would find so that he could harass them.

This guy was SO anti-porn that he climbed through a dumpster of "used tissues". Or he was using the anti-porn thing to hide the fact that he enjoyed being surrounded by...

my brother makes a killing at dumpster diving. the better items were a s/s BBQ grill and a ton of Christmas decorations.

he got a fisher price display kid doll house that got recalled and he took it back. they gave him store credit for more toys.

I picked three good lawnmowers from the garbage and a battery powered jeep that my daughter loves.

We have a huge dumpster here at work where old electronics go for recycling. Lots of last year's high end computers and scientific equipment. Unfortunately most of it is trashed as people just toss things in there with no regard to whether or not anyone else wants it. Sometimes there are some good finds though...

I currently have speakers from there and a big 19" LCD monitor hooked up to my laptop, and a friend of mine got a sweet vintage boom box that was in perfect condition. I found an aluminum & steel rack for something or other that I've been using pieces from for ages. Never know when you need a solid piece of metal.

I also grab those four-wire power connectors for CD-ROM drives whenever I can find both ends, they're a godsend doing car wiring. I use them if I have something hard-wired in (electronic gauges, stereo, etc.) and I want to make it easily removable. There are some in the Lotus now and pretty much every car I've had I've put them in at some point.

A while ago my boss called me up and asked, "do you need any ten-wire serial cable? There's a E36 M3-ton of it down in the dumpster." I went down there and probably hauled away 200 meters of it and I only took three rolls from a FULL bin. Hehehe, I use that stuff building professional scientific equipment. If you're ever in Indonesia and the our warning system saves your butt from giant tsunami, just remember that it was built with parts I scavenged from the bin.

Have loads of other diving stories... I do draw the line at food products though. I did once find a sealed bottle of Bacardi on "student move-out day", but unopened booze is a lot different from stuff that's supposed to be refridgerated.

Hocrest wrote: Speaking of "mayo", hopefully this isn't covered on that site. I used to hang out at a camera store. One guy used to come in after his regular "hobby" of dumpster diving at a porn store that had private movie viewing booths. He was an ultra conservative anti porn guy that would take pictures of any names or addresses that he would find so that he could harass them. This guy was SO anti-porn that he climbed through a dumpster of "used tissues". Or he was using the anti-porn thing to hide the fact that he enjoyed being surrounded by...

Wow that guy's batE36 M3-crazy (or maybe more accurately, stranger-spunk crazy?)

Thread hijack. How does dumpster diving effect the cost of a Challenge car? Is anything you find free?