dumpster diver's disease

It's risky just crossing the street and breathing.



I wear gloves, the purel is in the glove box.

I pick in the evening and the morning when it's still light and I can see what I'm picking. I'm never in a hurry to bring anything inside until I've gone over it first. Furniture gets sniff tested before it's even thrown in the truck and then cleaned carefully or steam cleaned and gone over outside before it comes in the house, electronics get opened checked and blown out with a compressor.

Clothes are shook out and checked and go directly to the HOT washer and a HOT dryer...or they are sealed in a black bag to sit in the summer sun and bake for a day before they go in the washer if I'm pressed on time.

I've been picking for years and so far, so good...the worst that's happened is that I've drug something back out to the curb. I've picked a lot of things that I would have never even had if I had to buy them. I thank the trash gods all the time.