dumpster dive more

the thrift store dumpster:

striped candles
mc escher coloring book
metallic creamy crayons
like-new queer eye for the straight guy book

spring park trash:
numerous clothes for my boyfriend, my mother and my father.
genial. ^ _ ^

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!

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~

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

I’ve been diving a lot more often lately, especially food, but not often enough!

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.

So, it’s all too true…no one should have to dig through “trash” to get something to eat, and yet that’s what many people do. We live in a throw-away society, everyday wasting valuable resources that could be put to use by others. There is no reason why a warm coat or blanket, or some slightly bruised fruit, should be thrown away, where it will take up space in a landfill somewhere. I live in Richmond, VA, home of VCU, a college infamous for it’s spoiled “artists”, boys and girls who throw away more valuable items then I’ve ever seen. My partner and I never buy anything, if we can help it. We make it a point to get what we need by recycling what others have gotten rid of. Our clothing, books, and yes, food…all comes from the dumpsters. More people need to band together, and see that items are put to use, so people don’t have to risk their safety to recover them. The amount of delicious food we find in the Food Lion dumpsters, daily, literally makes me cry sometimes. It’s more than we can carry, and indeed eat, and I hate leaving it behind,knowing how many hungry kids I could feed. But, not only to coroporations in this capitalist country not care about the amount of resources they are wasting, they go out of their way to make sure no one can get anything without paying for it. Everyother grocery store in the city uses trash compactors, the pizza joints I was scoring pizza from in my youth now pours bleach and other cleaners on their pizzas they throw away, just so we can’t eat them. If we get spotted in a dumspter somewhere, when we come back they’ve welded them shut! I’d be more than happy to help others learn to score from the trash, but I’d much rather meet people who want to do more than that, and try to make this “trash” more readily available to those in need of it.

Dumpster Diving should never have to become necessity for anyone. Food should be provided free for all. Unfortunately the world the way it is, with Capatilism being a detturent from a potential socialist existance in which people work towards equality and focus on each other, we are at a point where even attempting to retrieve discarded food is becoming a crime. So we take our stand. Creeping in the middle of the night to uproot what is considered like some of us, bad or rotten food. We fight the constant threat of compacators, bleach and night managers all so that we can put to use what others want to rot in a dump. Were going to share and show that there are better ways or just different ways.

I have gotten so much stuff from dumpster digging I don’t know where to begin. What I can’t use, I post on Freecycle for someone else who can use it! I have a lot of fun and have even made money from some of the things I’ve found.