One thing I do miss about apartment living is the opportunity to stroll by the dumpsters and see some treasures sticking out in the open.
While I won't go through the dumpsters of stores, I have found some cool stuff by my own dwellings.
I have found...
A nice pair of Logitech 2.1 speakers -- almost new and work great
A very small Pentium 200 machine that I used as a file server and MP3 player on my home theatre up until I moved from California.
A 486 computer that I gave to a friend at work
A beat-up dining table that works quite well as a work table in my garage at the moment.
A small shelf/bookcase-type-thing that is good for piling up misc stuff on.
Anybody else has similar success?
Any Dumpster Divers Here?
Any Dumpster Divers Here?
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CurulleanCat
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5 Super Nintendo Games
1 Sega Genesis 5 games (version 1)
Computer Chair.( it had bad stains.....really just some good bleaching and it was clean)
NES 20 games
Thats about it for now. I do plan on goin more often tho.
My brother went to a Cash Converters(local Pawn shop chain) and went diving and found a crap load of working car stereos and amps.
They were moving and decided not to carry them over to the next store I guess. he said he saw computers and other things too.
1 Sega Genesis 5 games (version 1)
Computer Chair.( it had bad stains.....really just some good bleaching and it was clean)
NES 20 games
Thats about it for now. I do plan on goin more often tho.
My brother went to a Cash Converters(local Pawn shop chain) and went diving and found a crap load of working car stereos and amps.
They were moving and decided not to carry them over to the next store I guess. he said he saw computers and other things too.
wtf someone threw out nes games ? unless these were 20 copies of Dr jeckyll and mr hide then i can understandCurulleanCat wrote:5 Super Nintendo Games
1 Sega Genesis 5 games (version 1)
Computer Chair.( it had bad stains.....really just some good bleaching and it was clean)
NES 20 games
Thats about it for now. I do plan on goin more often tho.
My brother went to a Cash Converters(local Pawn shop chain) and went diving and found a crap load of working car stereos and amps.
They were moving and decided not to carry them over to the next store I guess. he said he saw computers and other things too.
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Ramatut4001
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- Location: Halethorpe, Maryland, USA
Don't think I've ever found any electronics, but there was a time when most of my tables, shelves, etc came from alleys. My old neighborhood in Minneapolis was mostly apartments and right around the end of the month people would put stuff they didn't want to move out by the dumpsters. We used to trade up all the time when we found something better. Of course, now I live in the suburbs and I'm older. I don't do much alley walking nowadays.
not really dumpster diving, but at a breakers yard (car graveyard) i did help myself to a couple of snes games i found it one cars boot after i forced it open. Mario Kart, and Actraiser i belive they where (there where a couple of others but i dint fancy them), but the box's where sodden and the games didnt work as they must have had too much time left in the wet 
Ohh and a copy of ridge racer 5 on the ps2 from a bin behind the EB shop where I worked, not sure how it got there but it ended up coming home with me, I presume on of the other shops had taken it as a return and decided to bin it.... It had a nasty circular scratch (lense had hit the disk) and it didnt boot, after a good clean (an hour with some scratch remover) it booted and worked except one audio track refuesd to play, a top find i thought as the ps2 had only launched less than a month prior.
Ohh and a copy of ridge racer 5 on the ps2 from a bin behind the EB shop where I worked, not sure how it got there but it ended up coming home with me, I presume on of the other shops had taken it as a return and decided to bin it.... It had a nasty circular scratch (lense had hit the disk) and it didnt boot, after a good clean (an hour with some scratch remover) it booted and worked except one audio track refuesd to play, a top find i thought as the ps2 had only launched less than a month prior.
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lordofduct
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Computer monitors galore... all my monitors through out the years except one came from dumpsters.
An old 386 with what I presumed to be an ISA cable card... other funky things inside. It booted alright, but got tired of tinkering around with it and chucked it back in the garbage. Kept the monitor though!
Porno as a kid... oh glorious porno; when your 12 porno is worth more then pure freakin' gold!
At the same time as the porno we'd pull anything out of the dumpster. Big apartment complex (ghetto ass projects on top of that) with those huge 80 foot dumpsters. We'd all climb in and just pull all kinds of crap out of it. Couches, beds, tables, record players, you name it we had it. We set up a fort out in the woods to house all our treasures... we even dragged a really long extension cord (made of multiple short cords found in the dumpster) to power what we had.
I even found this really crappy lil' 8 inch TV from the 70s or something... ancient. I dragged that bugger home so I could play videogames in my room. The problem with the TV was 3 out of 4 times that you turned it on it wouldn't fill the entire screen. You'd get a squashed vertical picture in the middle... a severily letterboxed 2 inch picture in the center, sometimes even a white dot, or only black and white at times. So I'd have to spend 10 minutes turning it on and off until I got a picture worth looking at and I would leave it on until my mother bitched about the electric bill.
Hence why I decided to move into the walk-in closet (my siblings and I all shared the master bedroom... my mom got the small room). I got my own "room" (you could call it that) away from my multiple siblings and could play games until 2 in the morning.
Oh the memories of Kid Chameleon!!!!
An old 386 with what I presumed to be an ISA cable card... other funky things inside. It booted alright, but got tired of tinkering around with it and chucked it back in the garbage. Kept the monitor though!
Porno as a kid... oh glorious porno; when your 12 porno is worth more then pure freakin' gold!
At the same time as the porno we'd pull anything out of the dumpster. Big apartment complex (ghetto ass projects on top of that) with those huge 80 foot dumpsters. We'd all climb in and just pull all kinds of crap out of it. Couches, beds, tables, record players, you name it we had it. We set up a fort out in the woods to house all our treasures... we even dragged a really long extension cord (made of multiple short cords found in the dumpster) to power what we had.
I even found this really crappy lil' 8 inch TV from the 70s or something... ancient. I dragged that bugger home so I could play videogames in my room. The problem with the TV was 3 out of 4 times that you turned it on it wouldn't fill the entire screen. You'd get a squashed vertical picture in the middle... a severily letterboxed 2 inch picture in the center, sometimes even a white dot, or only black and white at times. So I'd have to spend 10 minutes turning it on and off until I got a picture worth looking at and I would leave it on until my mother bitched about the electric bill.
Hence why I decided to move into the walk-in closet (my siblings and I all shared the master bedroom... my mom got the small room). I got my own "room" (you could call it that) away from my multiple siblings and could play games until 2 in the morning.
Oh the memories of Kid Chameleon!!!!