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Originally Posted by beardedlady I've gotten lots of stuff dumpster diving. All sorts of equipment (magnetic stirring plates, microscope stuff), furniture, electronics. And then... bagels/bread! Panera bread throws their day old baked goods out every night. Half the time the employees just place it outside the dumpster in bags...never even hits the real trash! It's all good and safe. Try it! |
I used to live on a sailboat for a while and the homeless people out there were telling me how they go to the honey baked ham place every day and get hooked up. I personally would only do that if it was the only way to survive.
Dumpster diving can be very profitable because often employees from the store where your diving will steal things by throwing them into the trash and planning to go pick them up later when the place of business is closed. Years ago i used to go ddivin all the time because i was so successful in finding cool shit. Ive found graphics cards, computers, monitors, printers, usb hubs, wireless routers, network hubs ( one time i found a 500 port firewall/ networking hub that was worth 560$!)
That was just from a local computer stores trash.
Dumpster diving is legal unless posted otherwise or unless its a trash compactor unit. Its certainly frowned upon and you WILL be stopped by police if they see you simply because they dont want people rummaging through garbage.
Ive also come across tons of sensative information just thrown out in the trash. If i were someone who wanted to steal other peoples money i could easily do it with whats found in dumpsters behind places where they spend their money or get some services done. Always ask the place of business if they shred their paperwork trash or if they just throw it away. Social security numbers, credit card numbers, bank accounts, bills, checks these are all things found in dumpsters.
Dumpsters are smelly and now that im wealthy i have no need to dumpster dive, at one time it was fun and now its just a waste of time imo.