My wife and I pick up tons of goodies off the neighborhood streets. After the hurricane last month we scored loads of stuff. One example, someone tossed a sweet grill. The part that holds the coal was mostly rusted through so I laid a piece of old grill (which I found kayaking!) over it. Perfect fit. After 30-minutes of clean up, I have the nicest grill I’ve ever had. Also scored 3 above-ground pool ladders! Kids were climbing in and out the hard way.
Sometimes we’ll weave through the hood hunting trash. Had a coworker do that with her husband. They lived on the edge of a bougie hood and they’d go out on trash days and load his little truck, then make an average $400 on her Saturday garage sales. “We take our neighbor’s trash and sell it back to them on the weekend.” They didn’t even keep the leftovers! Just gave it away and reloaded every week.
We’ve had people load us up at the flea market after we close our tables and look around. By 2PM everyone wants to leave and dump their stuff. One dude loaded my truck, TWICE, with shitloads of tools and goods for free. My kid was looking at a new gamer chair. “Hey man! You can have that for $1!” Wife: “I think he’s kidding.” Me, after piling up some stuff for myself at outrageous prices, “No he’s not.” She’s in the back room working in it now.
After the hurricane I powered 5 of my neighbor’s refrigerators. Hundreds and hundreds of feet of extension cords. Never paid a dime for them but for the occasional $2 replacement fitting.
Now I’m thinking of getting into dumpster diving full time. This area isn’t nearly as large or affluent as Nashville, but I bet I’d make more than being unemployed.
My wife and I pick up tons of goodies off the neighborhood streets. After the hurricane last month we scored loads of stuff. One example, someone tossed a sweet grill. The part that holds the coal was mostly rusted through so I laid a piece of old grill (which I found kayaking!) over it. Perfect fit. After 30-minutes of clean up, I have the nicest grill I’ve ever had. Also scored 3 above-ground pool ladders! Kids were climbing in and out the hard way.
Sometimes we’ll weave through the hood hunting trash. Had a coworker do that with her husband. They lived on the edge of a bougie hood and they’d go out on trash days and load his little truck, then make an average $400 on her Saturday garage sales. “We take our neighbor’s trash and sell it back to them on the weekend.” They didn’t even keep the leftovers! Just gave it away and reloaded every week.
We’ve had people load us up at the flea market after we close our tables and look around. By 2PM everyone wants to leave and dump their stuff. One dude loaded my truck, TWICE, with shitloads of tools and goods for free. My kid was looking at a new gamer chair. “Hey man! You can have that for $1!” Wife: “I think he’s kidding.” Me, after piling up some stuff for myself at outrageous prices, “No he’s not.” She’s in the back room working in it now.
After the hurricane I powered 5 of my neighbor’s refrigerators. Hundreds and hundreds of feet of extension cords. Never paid a dime for them but for the occasional $2 replacement fitting.
Now I’m thinking of getting into dumpster diving full time. This area isn’t nearly as large or affluent as Nashville, but I bet I’d make more than being unemployed.