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Dumpster Diving!

DRJ1014 said:
i have this new saying if you get caught while DD. its no longer dumpster diver its dumbster diving. see if you can get catch it
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what are you talking about? Does getting caught make oneself dumb? I'm confused.
 
I don't ever go Dumpster Diving. I've seen it on TV, but I didn't realize so many people do this. I do have 2 semi-dumpster diving stories. First one... my father works at a department store (i'm not going to name which one.. just because), anyway they had been bought out by another company and the new company was getting rid of all their stuff. So anyway, back by the dumpsters behind the store there was turns of "display" type furniture out there. My dad asked if they were just throwing it away and they said yes. Me, my brother, and my dad decided to take several of this stuff home with us. A lot of it made great desks, home entertainment stands, cofee tables, 2 REALLY interesting book shelves (i should take picture, because I still have one in my room), and i'm sure it could have been used for other stuff. All of the wood for these peices was solid wood, and in great condition (well there was some gum we had to scrape off the bottom of like 3 things. Anyway, we sold most of the furniture and ended up making well over $1,000.. probably closer to $2,000... and still kept some of it for ourselves. And wow I didn't mean to make this story so long.

2nd one isn't as good as that one. I went by this summer to visit my old highschool and my computer-tech teacher gave me 2 monitors that the school was going to throw away. They're just 15" crts.. but they work fine and are great for spare monitors to work on other computers with (rather than taking my monitor off my computer to work on other people's)... and i can probably sell them on ebay too. He told me if I went back by he'd give me some dell computers.. I think they were like PIIIs w/ 10GB Hd's and 64 MB ram.. pretty decent for FREE.. but I didn't have time to go back.
 
jpmkm said:
what are you talking about? Does getting caught make oneself dumb? I'm confused.
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Well, I don't know about you.. but i'd feel pretty dumb if I got caught digging through someone's trash. :p
 
iha said:
Well, I don't know about you.. but i'd feel pretty dumb if I got caught digging through someone's trash. :p
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If you would feel dumb then dumpster diving isn't for you. If you are always paranoid about someone seeing you then you will miss a lot.
 
jpmkm said:
If you would feel dumb then dumpster diving isn't for you. If you are always paranoid about someone seeing you then you will miss a lot.
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I know it's not for me, that's why I don't do it. :)
 
no i mean if you get caught like they have you in there custidy
 
Thermite Paste said:
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1x HUGE ASS monitor (22" i think) that has a weird input (like four different coaxial cables, someone know what this is? it has a cable that converts it to vga)
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Sounds like it's BNC
 
yea thats it, except i just realized one of teh connectors is broken :( ill have to see if i can fix it
 
Went DD for the first time tonight after spending some hours reading the entire thread. Most of the big names in town have Ramjets so a no go there. Office Max is the only one that doesn't but apparently trash pickup was tonight so I'll go there tommorow.

Didn't come home with much, six boxes of computer mounting brackets (from Bed Bath and Beyond, don't know what to do with them yet). A Four foot length of Cat3 and the big find was behind Radio Shack. They had thrown away three outdoor antenna's. UHF/VHF/FM. I snagged one because the box was too big to put in my car so I just held it down through the sunroof with my left hand while operating the stick and wheel with my right. It was great, I spent the drive home laughing at myself. I'll definatly go again.

Also does anyone know a way to interface the antenna with my computer so I could frequency scan with it? Pretty much all I've thought of for it. Any recommendations would be appretiated.

Edit: The antenna's I found are 160" Long Dual Boom, 57 Element Antenna from radio shack! 3 x $100.00 a peice = $300! I'm hooked.
 
Went dumpster diving the last two nights in a row. The first night we didn't have too much time, so we just hit up a Staples near my house:

- 48 Sony/Maxell DVD-Rs each in own jewel case :)

Last night we hit up a place that I passed by with my girlfriend one night and thought, "Hey, that would be a sweet place to DD." That place was our local Frito Lay station. So we pull in, the whole place is surrounded by a barbed wire fence, but the front gate was wide open.... :confused: . Looked real quick for any No Tresspassing signs, then proceeded to drive around the back of the building. One dumpster was filled with cardboard, the other...... :eek: . It was at least half filled with every kind of frito lay chip, cookie, beef jerky you could think of.

Now I know some of you are like "Gross, food from dumpsters?!" Believe me, I thought this was gross when I heard it too. But all of it was in boxes and all of the bags were sealed tight. One quick check of the expiration date....showed that most were only a few days over the date...oh well. Needless to say, I filled my trunk... :D .
 
Fucking Mother Load

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What's all here, coming soon... :D :D :D
 
Lets see...
I've got
9x Tourque
8x Something's gotta give
5x Big fish
8x Gothika
6x 50 first dates
4x Eurotrip unrated
2x The order
3x Last samuria
12x Cody banks 2
2x radio
2x red siren
5x along came polly
3x Perfect score
and like 15 more without retail cases

and the kid that found them with me has take abot 15 already, he sold 16 to a pawn shop, got 30 dollars out of it... i said hey... i have the internet... lets do it that way

FS Thread soming soon if you want some...
 
Man I'd throw those movies away too. Awesome find, though. I can find empty dvd cases just fine, but I've never found any with the dvds still in them.
 
Falls Included said:
Lets see...
I've got
9x Tourque
8x Something's gotta give
5x Big fish
8x Gothika
6x 50 first dates
4x Eurotrip unrated
2x The order
3x Last samuria
12x Cody banks 2
2x radio
2x red siren
5x along came polly
3x Perfect score
and like 15 more without retail cases

and the kid that found them with me has take abot 15 already, he sold 16 to a pawn shop, got 30 dollars out of it... i said hey... i have the internet... lets do it that way

FS Thread soming soon if you want some...
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ill take one of those copies of eurotrip :D
 
Finally got pics of our find from 2 weeks ago.... :D.

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This is my trunk, the night of....everything we found except that pack of water :).

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This is my backseat

Yes everything you see here was sealed and mostly all in boxes, just a few days over the "Freshness date"

Score...:D.
 
i found a dog in a dump area one time. i dont know if he fell in or someone put him there.
 
if you have your lisence you can be a sober driver and you wont get introuble because your not drunk or had anything to drink
 
They just finished renovating at my mom's work, I got:
about 200 feet of audio cable (various types)
Rauland Amplifier (broke)
6 channel automatic mixer (works good)
3 channel audio delay (gutted and used case for other stuff)
2 SoundSphere ceiling speakers (work well)
some other misc. junk, electrical boxes
 
omg...

me and my friend were skateboarding behind a local plaza, and i spotted a dumpster with square shapes in it :D so we went over to take a look.

inside were two dvd players, a cdrom player, a tape player (all hte console type thingy) and a usb cd burner.

what i kept was the better dvd player and the usb cd burner, because thats all i could use. my friend got the other dvd player, the cdrom player, and the tape player, all so he could blow the last two items up :eek:

btw, they ALL worked perfectly.

the dvd player i got is the Phillips DVD 751, and the usb cd burner is some addonics brand.
 
Whew! I just read this whole freaking thing!!

Several months ago there was a hlaf-dozen computer cases outside this house (no doubt for the trash) now I did ask if I could take them and was told I could. Mostly stripped, dead 486s and P-120s but one was a Gateway Mobo was dead but the Athlon 950 processor works perfect! :D The gateway also has a Win-Me licence sticker on the side. I hope to eventually fix it up and sell it.
 
Anyone know if you can get in trouble for doing this? i have no idea, but anyways, i found some *cough* pron magz once.
 
Krypto said:
Anyone know if you can get in trouble for doing this? i have no idea, but anyways, i found some *cough* pron magz once.
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I hope you didn't keep porn you found in a dumpster. That's just beyond creepy...
 
CuE0079 said:
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JaiQuest Crew
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man the quality of these forums has gone down hill


:rolleyes:


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Next time do me a favor and don't quote the offending material, that way I don't have to go thru everyone's posts and delete it several times. People will start to think I'm a Nazi with all the censorship.
 
thanks scubasteve. by the way have you played in a cgc server?
 
Damn...I didn't know dding was so common....and potentially lucrative! I'll have to check out the staples, london drugs, winners, and real canadian superstore that are all in a nice big line :)
 
Peale said:
First, PC parts have to be in the weather for a while to ruin. Second, not everyone goes DDing for just PC parts. Third, you *never* know what you're going to find, so it pays to dive often.
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Yeah .. I go DDing for anything, if I happen to find PC parts, it may be a good dive, depending on the age, I'm pretty picky .. no old junk, ie pre-ATX .. I don't need more computer junk laying around my house :)

I found a 48U rack, one day .. unfortunatly, I don't have space for it... maybe I should get a storage unit for my junk.
 
decap said:
can someone explain to me how to dumpster dive
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Step 1: Look in the dumpster.
Step 2: Get shit out of dumpster.

That is how to dumpster dive. For more tips, check the dumpster diving FAQ in the free stuff forum, or search the world wide web for information.
 
OMG guys i just found a computer with a p4 2ghz and 512 mb ram on the side of the road.
 
Thermite Paste said:
OMG guys i just found a computer with a p4 2ghz and 512 mb ram on the side of the road.
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HOLY SHIT where was this?? and were there any more????
 
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