View Poll Results: Do you ever do Dumster Diving
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Thread: Dumster Diving
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02-14-2010, 08:27 AM #12Registered User
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I use to do this with some friends and we got tons of new stuff but now if your caught doing it here your gonna go to jail and alot of the dumpsters are locked..So they took all the fun away..I remember 1 Christmas we got so much beautiful Christmas things out of Franks Nurserys dumpster.OMG we were so loaded in the car.All the kids got alot of it for there homes and we gave alot to our Womans Shelter...I dont understand why they throw this away..This wasnt even after Christmas..It should of been in the store to be sold!!! It was a riot till they locked them and wont take a chance of going to jail...
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02-14-2010, 08:43 AM #13Registered User
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My husband was searching for empty boxes right before Christmas and found boxes and boxes full of new teddy bears, toy trucks and glass chess sets in one dumpster. He brought home enough for all of our grandkids and they loved it all.
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02-14-2010, 11:50 AM #14our lil Ruby
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I read a post ( I think here or maybe yahoo) where stores were cutting up brand new coats that were last years and throwing them in the dumpsters and homeless shelters were outraged. I think its just plain dump that they throw all this stuff out. Why not donate this stuff to charities etc. to sell or to hand out? Instead of taking up room in landfills (that are already fillling up or in some states full) and just plain going to waste!
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02-14-2010, 03:59 PM #15I made the Dean's List!
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I haven't dumpster dived for a long, long time. When I was a teenager my cousin took me to the dumpster behind a drug store and showed me all the brand new makeup they threw out and we hit that often. Now, I'm not above knocking on doors and asking if I can take something someone threw out, or at least checking it out to see if its in decent enough condition that I can use. In the town I used to live in they had a yearly thing they called Spring Cleaning. You would put your unwanted or unneeded or unusable stuff on the curb a few days before a specified date, the whole town would drive around and take what they wanted and on the date they picked up anything left over went to where ever they took it.
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02-15-2010, 12:06 PM #16*Mail 4 Kids* Valentines
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My mom and her sister and mother used to dumpster dive all the time when I was young. Me and my cousin have done it a few times. Behind RiteAid we found 4 brand new plastic yard chairs. My dad laughed at us when we brought them to him but we use em.
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02-15-2010, 09:06 PM #17Registered User
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I think the stores should take them to the VA, Salvation Army, or Goodwill and have them sell the left-overs. I like to shop those stores and Goodwill has some new things that was donated to them. Too much waste in our country.
My sister volunteers to take day old bread, etc from the grocery stores in her town to the shelters. She said they have so much it fills her car, plus. Some days she has a hard time giving it all away. She has also taken home some cakes and bread for herself and friends. They told her to take what she wanted. They also have some diary products but these things need to be used in a few days.
I would love to live near one of the stores like Big Lots. I could be looking for empty boxes everyday. LOL, at least I could say I was.
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02-17-2010, 12:58 PM #18Show me the freebies!!!
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Its awful what stores throw away, esp since if they donate it to the right place they can still write it off plus it helps a good cause.
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02-17-2010, 02:36 PM #19Registered User
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Thats what I was thinking donate it to charities and write it off as a tax deduction. It would help them and the charities.
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02-19-2010, 07:57 AM #20Doing time in NW PA
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Even if it's out of date and destroyed or discarded it's still a write off to them. There's not a lot of incentive to do anything but take the easy way out and toll it.
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