Friday OT #2 - Dumpster Diving

[madguy30]

I did have a small table that I used for a record player that I got from Madison's big 'moving day' in mid-August.

Not dumpster diving but when I lived in an apartment pretty much all furniture, TVs, etc. were hand me downs from various times in my life.

 

[somecyguy]

Maybe it's just me, but tables and such are perfectly valid grabs from the garbage. Refinish, etc and you have a nice piece. Anything with fabric though, pass.

 

[heitclone]

Picked up a drum set for the kids last year that was sitting out on the curb. I go back on forth on whether or not it was a great idea but they love it.

 

[Cycsk]

I'm glad that Ames is doing something proactive to deal with the waste related to turnover. Rummage Rampage is an easy way to get rid of things that still have value . . . and for those who need them to get them without having to dumpster dive.

Rummage RAMPage | City of Ames, IA

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Sunday morning I made a quick run to the store, I drove past a neighbor that just sold his house. He had some type of odd coffee table sitting at the end of the driveway. When I came home someone had already snagged it.

When my parents sold the house in Connecticut and moved to Virginia anything that didn't sell at the yard sale was piled up at the end of the driveway and it was a lot. Neighbor called that evening and said they must have some really good junk as it looked like about 4 families digging through it. Mom said over half was gone the next morning.

 

[BCClone]

Sunday morning I made a quick run to the store, I drove past a neighbor that just sold his house. He had some type of odd coffee table sitting at the end of the driveway. When I came home someone had already snagged it.

When my parents sold the house in Connecticut and moved to Virginia anything that didn't sell at the yard sale was piled up at the end of the driveway and it was a lot. Neighbor called that evening and said they must have some really good junk as it looked like about 4 families digging through it. Mom said over half was gone the next morning.

We just to have curb junk days. One ahole took whatever we had there and left a couple bricks and an old paint can, things they don’t take. Hey jackwagon, this ain’t the radio tradio type thing where we exchange. If you take, you dont leave.

 

[somecyguy]

We just to have curb junk days. One ahole took whatever we had there and left a couple bricks and an old paint can, things they don’t take. Hey jackwagon, this ain’t the radio tradio type thing where we exchange. If you take, you dont leave.

When Cedar Rapids first had their junk day, it was a nightmare. People woke up to find twice the garbage they had placed out before. Apparently people from outside CR all entered the city overnight and ditched their junk. I remember seeing one picture of someone's house that had 7 or 8 box springs piled up.

 

[BCClone]

When Cedar Rapids first had their junk day, it was a nightmare. People woke up to find twice the garbage they had placed out before. Apparently people from outside CR all entered the city overnight and ditched their junk. I remember seeing one picture of someone's house that had 7 or 8 box springs piled up.

It’s not that the wife would get a little crazy?

I think I’d justify new box springs if that was my situation.

 

[ScottyP]

Urbandale has a city wide spring clean up that is always interesting. The week before, you start seeing old beatup trucks, vans and SUVs with trailers piled high with junk that they are collecting from the curb. The bad part is most of the vehicles don't have mufflers so it would get noisy in our neighborhood. 80 percent of the stuff I placed out on the curb never made it to citywide cleanup day.

I did pick up a baby bouncer once that looked like new (still have it) and a little tikes outdoor playset. Once I was done with the playset, I started hauling it to the front yard to put it on the curb. Someone stopped and started to load it up before I even got all the pieces from the back yard.

 

[BCClone]

Urbandale has a city wide spring clean up that is always interesting. The week before, you start seeing old beatup trucks, vans and SUVs with trailers piled high with junk that they are collecting from the curb. The bad part is most of the vehicles don't have mufflers so it would get noisy in our neighborhood. 80 percent of the stuff I placed out on the curb never made it to citywide cleanup day.

I did pick up a baby bouncer once that looked like new (still have it) and a little tikes outdoor playset. Once I was done with the playset, I started hauling it to the front yard to put it on the curb. Someone stopped and started to load it up before I even got all the pieces from the back yard.

In the town I live, the numb nuts go out at night and wear black clothes. Like they are robbing you. Almost hit a couple at places on streets because they would just wander across from pile to pile.