My first dumpster dive (legal)

When it rains it pours, literally and figuratively!



Was on my way to dads today to get ready to pick up the load from the call last week when my aunt calls me as I'm driving through a downpour and can hardly see.

Apparently, my deceased great uncles son who is still friendly with my aunt had gotten word of my scrapping from her. Well, he and his brother (one does tvs, the other does computers) moved their business to a new place and when she told him about me he said when it happens it will be fast and last minute. He called her this morning, she called me and said they cleared out last night at midnight and there are 4 dumpsters I can go through but I have to get it today because the garbage man is picking up tomorrow. Four???? holy cow I'm panicking and drooling at the same time lol almost drove off the road!

Most of the stuff was around ONE dumpster that belonged to them.

my aunt went with me and I handed stuff to her from inside the dumpster and she'd put it on the ground or in bins.

I filled my truck with boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of loose boards from tv's and computers, I think I got 10 flat screen monitors, 3 regular monitors, printers, flat screen tvs whole and in pieces all different sizes, wire, mice up the wazoo, dish tv eyes(?) that have the boards in them, boxes of other things I haven't any idea what they are yet, a huge big screen tv, towers, office chairs, keyboards, and tons of stuff that just got dumped into bins. Oh, and one christmas tree too. Whew! Thank god for those new sides on my truck or I'd have never been able to get it all in one load like i was able to with them on it and stacking boxes and bins as high as I could.

I'd be down at the bottom of the dumpster moving stuff and finding more good stuff going ''oh my god, oh my god'' and she would start laughing at how excited i was!

Well, lemme tell you, between the rain, the dumpster and sweating I can smell myself and it aint pretty!!

I almost drove off with 2 bins I had set on the top of my cab for room when I was stacking everything in my truck before I noticed them!!! LMAO!!!

So, one more contact made through word of mouth and who knows, maybe I will hear from them again sometime when they have another load of ''useless stuff'' lying around!!

Between the two calls I'm lucky I got any regular scrapping in tonight but I managed!

Here's a smackling of what I got, the line is about the same behind what you can see plus I've got monitors and boxes on the other side of the garage plus outside. this is going to be a full day of just breaking this stuff down, I dont even know what some of the items I got are yet. its so dark, I'll get a better picture tomorrow

Good things happen to good people!

That is awesome, the only thing better would have been for them to let you know when they were doing it and let you toss it right in your truck v/s you having to jump in a dumpster to get the stuff.

Originally Posted by brandon

That is awesome, the only thing better would have been for them to let you know when they were doing it and let you toss it right in your truck v/s you having to jump in a dumpster to get the stuff.

Yes, Yes , Yes. Mike

Started going through the misc bins tonight and found a couple unopened packages of hard drives - Quantum Fireball 3.5 series 1280 MB

and these things:

Terk - BMS-58 - 5 x 8 Multiswitch


I have no idea what the TERK things do or how to check if its good and sellable.

AND, I talked to the business owner again today and he said he definitely call me again in the future. he was happy I took the stuff and happy I left the area cleaned up.