If you're a FREEGAN or Dumpster Diver...

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  1. RetardedMonkey

    RetardedMonkey Active Member Silver Stacker

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    We went dumpster diving through exhaust shop bins to look for a couple of bits for my friends car.
    Mostly just because he needed something from the dump pipe under the car so it could dump out the side of the car.

    You can find some awesome bits of scrap metal offcuts in the industrial bins though - heaps of use if you know how to weld stuff.
     
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    Im a total diver. Being in construction I find a lot of free copper lying around due to messy plumbers and electricians leaving wire and pipe offcuts behind.
    I hit the dump once a week and have got some good finds lots of wire and pipes and also cut off the cords of broken appliances. In the last couple months I found a nice aluminum strong box that I sold the same day for 50 bucks and a couple weeks ago an antique wood-cast iron garden bench. the woods rotted out but Im in the process of rrfinishing it into a nice piece. I aldo check the recycle depot after hrs sometimes people leave old hard drives which are money for gold recovery.
     
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    Years ago my sister was mgr of a doughnut king and every night she filled a large green bag with doughnuts. Sounds great, but i got over them very fast!

    She would bring them home and place them in the freezer and a lady who ran a church Sunday school would come and take them on Sunday morning. Kids were happy and saved money for the church and also meant she felt good about not throwing them all out.

    If one of the staff members had a party or something they could help themselves at the end of the shift too.

    I see it as being fair. I don't get it.

    When I worked at Grace Bros and things were broughht back as faulty and were written off... Think towel that has a pull in it, or a frying pan that was dinged... Nothing that would bother me anyway... They were DESTROYED and then chucked. Had to put the scissors to the towel and ding the pan beyond recognition before i would chuck it.

    I always thought... Why not just give to staff as a thank you for working hard for the company?

    It is wrong.

    Shiny.
     
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    Caput Lupinum Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    I just bumped this thread as I felt the need to say that I find dumpster diving really greasy. I'm not into thread necrophilia
     
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    Similar to people who go dumpster diving for cans and bottles getting the 10c refund...

    Like the Seinfeld episode...one should collect bags full of cans and bottles and do a run to Mt Gambier (South Australia) to cash them all in haha...

    Cheers, HAPPY STACKING :)
     
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    Caput Lupinum Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    What about muffin stumps?
     
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    My local aldi has tons of edible food in it, Wednesday and Saturday. :)
     
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    Is the good stuff down among the garbage juice?
     
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    just saw an episode of "extreme cheapskates" on foxtel.

    get this... a bloke dumpster dived for a bag of half eaten lobsters from a seafood restaurant... then he charges people for a cooking course he teaches and then cooks them up after eating the left over bits of lobster left in the tails... and makes a faux lobster but getting cheapmtuna (cat food) and cooking the tuna in the stock, to make people THINK that it was lobster.

    the wine that he served at his course was from "bin diving" along a popular beach and getting the bits left in wine bottles and he has a funnel/tube that went into a goonbag and he would blend it up for drinking. no joke. it was foul... but compelling to watch. it was a lifestyle. his bed was made of 4x2 into a rectangle, infilled with foam packing chips and covered over with bubble wrap. i kid you not.

    sorry about no caps...ipad.

    shiny
     
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    I actually took a photo of the bin one day I will post when not on my phone, aldi tends to bag vegetables up in packets for purchase, so it's fine,
    leeks, capsicum, asparagus, avocados, tomatoes, sanitary napkins.. you name it they throw it out by date not quality.
    Also bread is a big one..
     
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    That would make you a muff-diver. ;)
     
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    PrettyPrettyShinyShiny - Your OP

    Try to capitalise further

    Bread baited on a floating Rat trap = Duck for dinner.

    Bread baited on a fish-hook and line = Pigeon for lunch.

    Bread in the worm farm > Hook > Line = A fish for Dinner.

    Convert carbs to protein. :D
     
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    $5 on a hook - homeless for dinner
     
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    I needed an airtight storage solution for my shed, I went dumpster diving at the local fruit & veg shop and picked up some foam broccoli boxes (with lids) in almost perfect condition - dimensions are approx 60cm x 40cm x 30cm.

    A quick rinse out on the lawn and they're good to go. They're stackable, lightweight, airtight and insulated (bonus feature)

    I also found a smaller brussel sprout box that I couldn't leave there which I haven't found a use for yet. :D
     
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    When I used to work in fruit and veg, the local bottleshop would give me a longneck for every broccoli box I brought over at the end of the day. Nice little fringe benefit.
     
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    Brocolli boxes make excellent & effective (and cheap FTW) wine storage boxes - the polystyrene helps to insulate the wine against temperature fluctuations in your house, which can ruin your wine.
     
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    Now tell me you wouldn't eat these things??

    If not when SHTF your going to have some problems
     
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    oooh I hope you got those mushrooms :)
     
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    I've done very limited food dumpster diving (and only completely sealed, virtually perfect condition food items did I take).

    I've done dumpster diving in my old job as a superintendent of some residential buildings....it was actually more like going through the items that were disposed of when people moved out of their apt. Sofas were searched for money, dressers for items of value, paintings and pictures in frames for condition and quality, and so on and so forth. There was always something of some value to find. One of the other supers in one of the buildings he maintained once found wads of cash in an old sofa that was thrown away.

    Nothing wrong with dumpster diving / rummaging.



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