check out your local big lots dumpster
2 weeks ago
i found a huge dresser with one LITTLE scratch on it, food galore, dog toys/collars… all sorts of stuff. definately worth a trip.
How to dumpster dive more
It made me
Score free stuff! 
"The smartest thing a college student can do: Recycle, Reduce, Reuse- close the loop!!"
How I did it: Dumpster diving is really popular among my friends and I. It began at the end of the spring semester of my Freshman year at SF State. A few of us stayed in the dorms over the summer time as summer students and RA's. There was so much 'trash' and things that the students who left didn't want, that the trash rooms and the halls were piled up so high, we could hardly walk through it. Among other things, I scored a free bike, a bunch of textbooks (which I sold later) and some useful household items like toaster ovens and teapots. I never spent a dime and still have most of the useful things three years later. Dumpster diving is fun and it will save you a heck of a lot of cash while being environmentally friendly all at once!
Lessons & tips:
- Be careful what you are sticking your hands in
- If it smells bad, proceed with caution
- hit up dorm buildings when the semesters change, especially last semester
- International community dorms leave more stuff
- also go for apartments- especially with lots of students
- after Christmas works great too
- You can even get great, unopened food from grocery stores
- If a dumpster is locked, invest some time and money into a simple lock picking kit. Most master locks are a piece of cake after practice.
- HAVE FUN!
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4 weeks ago
It’s both practical and generally fun, and yet these days I’m lucky if I go out even once every two weeks.
Lazy bastard
caca1822 feeling like pooo
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6 months ago
a good find for me was behind dominics. one time my friends and i litterally had a meal of perfectly decent bread, pineapple orange juice, and fritos/tortilla chips tossed in the dumster. the juice was not yet expired and among other things we found a fully packaged carton of mushrooms, brocolli, and LOTS of juice and skim milk in their original cartons not expired for another 2 days. we even found bouque’s of roses from valentines day!!!! people are SO fucking wasteful these days.
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20 months ago
the thrift store dumpster:
striped candles
mc escher coloring book
metallic creamy crayons
like-new queer eye for the straight guy book
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2 years ago
spring park trash:
numerous clothes for my boyfriend, my mother and my father.
genial. ^ _ ^
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2 years ago
you have to be seriously retarded to go hungry in this country with all the waste generated. i practically live off dumpstered food, but other than food you can find lots of other cool stuff too. like my friend jackson dumpstered a brand new pair of black carhartt bibs with the tags still on them. theres also a prostetics dumpster in seattle thats good for halloween decorations. also there are beer/wine dumpsters in almost every city, you just gotta search them out!
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2 years ago
Ok. At frist… this was kinda nasty. But when you do it, it’s a lot of fun.
You get a lot of neat stuff too as well!
I mean… you might get a little cut or something, but you only live once. Dumpsta dive~
stylish cute dumpster wardrobe
2 years ago
oh man. camp girls are my good luck charm. everytime one of them visits me we find amazing stuff. mainly clothes. when kelsey was here we found some sweet pants for me and her, some awesome red shoes, and what else?
in january i got this beautiful pink button down shirt, a tank top of the boston subway system, a tank top of a charming illustrated story about a cat,...
when kiimara was here she went dumpstering at brown and found, among other things, a sweet jacket with a monogrammed gothic “E” for me!! we found tons of fun clothes in the free box.
with all the supercute (and TOTALLY clean AND i washed them, so don’t worry) underwear that i found the other week, the bright green bra i found the other day, and the socks kelsey shared with me, and the mismatched ones that i found, i now frequently realize that i’m not wearing a thing that i payed for!
and i look fabulous doing it!
<3 dumpster love
Michael Kelso imagine peace
dumpster diving more
2 years ago
I’ve been diving a lot more often lately, especially food, but not often enough!
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3 years ago
oh man, i got the coolest clothes from my apartment complex dumpster last week. a stonewashed jean skirt, and the coolest patterned colored shirts… other than that, though, this summer has been kind of dry. i need to get out there more.
