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[Jawbreaker]

Holy shit, what a haul. Where do you live, OP?

 

[Seirith]

I sell stuff on eBay, and while I haven't dumpster dived I have picked up stuff on the side of the road people set out. I recently saw a bunch of bucks so I stopped and in the pile was one of those state quarter books. I opened it up and sure enough it was completely full of all 50 state quarters. I popped them all out and used the money to buy other stuff.

They were literally throwing away cash money.

My parents gave me a $25 Goodwill gift card and they wrote a note on it saying it was to be turned into $1,000. I'm tracking that and so far I'm to over $300. I'll be there soon.

My favorite "trash" find was a ton of estate items from the legendary Kate Smith.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Smith

I have her official documents, signed items, social security and insurance cards, original photo negatives for old promotional photos, cards given to her, and much more. It was all pretty much in the garbage and I was able to save it all.

Are you or your family by any chance in any Facebook ebay groups?

This story sounds very familiar to one I read on a ebay group I am in,so thinking you might be in the same group as I am in!

 

[Uncle0wnage]

This is how the dumpster was loaded.

They had tossed the liquid on the bottom and there were piles of pristine cheese on top.

Holy shit, what a haul. Where do you live, OP?

midwest, it was like 38 degrees that day.

 

[blame space]

free sonki

 

[Downhome]

Are you or your family by any chance in any Facebook ebay groups?

This story sounds very familiar to one I read on a ebay group I am in,so thinking you might be in the same group as I am in!

Oh I'm sure that's me, haha. What a small world!

 

[entremet]

I'd be too paranoid. I'd spend several minutes examining each piece of cheese to make sure the plastic around it hasn't been broken or if theres a tiny hole somewhere. Not worth the time lol

Very hard to get sick off cheese. Cheese is a millennia old food that is way older than refrigeration itself.

The whole concept of cheese was a way to preserve milk in the first place.

More people get sick off raw veggies per year than cheese. Plus we ultrapastuerize tons of dairy products.

I'd obviously give it a good smell test. Millions of years of evolution is hard to fool.

Those guidelines are mostly estimates. Food isn't a computer program.

 

[blame space]

i am not above eating cheese out of the garbage.

 

[Eblo]

 

[Dipper145]

I've never gone dumpster diving before, seems like an interesting thing to do after power outages and such at stores where they are obligated to throw stuff away after one though.

Good find.

Nothing wrong with perfectly sealed dumpster cheese. It's probably been in less clean places before the store shelves anyway.

 

[chrisPjelly]

Oh I'm sure that's me, haha. What a small world!

This is how the dumpster was loaded.

They had tossed the liquid on the bottom and there were piles of pristine cheese on top.


midwest, it was like 38 degrees that day.

Were the bags of milk broken, and was there a puddle of rusty milk sitting at the bottom? I would hurl after getting a single whiff of that

 

[Timeaisis]

Mmm dumpster cheese.

 

[Icebergslim]

I found my first taste of pornography while dumpster diving as a kid. It was just a piece ripped out of a magazine but boy was it eye opening.

 

[sixteen-bit]

free sonki

 

[blame space]

over in Europe they do worse things to cheese than put it in the garbage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

 

[ZackieChan]

Paging Heulen, wherever you are...

Good on you, OP. Don't think I could do it.

 

[Transhuman]

 

[SunhiLegend]

 

[Speevy]

I'll let you know if I get this desperate about 6 years into Trump's administration.

 

[quesalupa]

No but you have the same stove as my dad.

 

[Uncle0wnage]

Thanks Sunhi. I loved that episode as a kid.

 

[ThatCrazyGuy]

Nice haul OP!

 

[R10Neymarfan]

Consumerism is very wasteful so you mine as well do your part for the planet. And to think all that food thrown away when we have hungry people out on the streets

 

[Uncle0wnage]

Consumerism is very wasteful so you mine as well do your part for the planet. And to think all that food thrown away when we have hungry people out on the streets

This was only a small fraction of what was in there too.

 

[GoldenDarkness]

I'm mostly worried that your dish washer is soaking wet, the water should be on the inside of it, not outside.

 

[How About No]

Fuck man you're working overtime today

 

[Redd]

No. No. Good for you though but no.

 

[Ban Puncher]

Why go to the effort of dumpster diving for cheese when your body produces smegma for free.

 

[Uncle0wnage]

Why go to the effort of dumpster diving for cheese when your body produces smegma for free.

Now that's gross.

 

[entremet]

Consumerism is very wasteful so you mine as well do your part for the planet. And to think all that food thrown away when we have hungry people out on the streets

To be fair, a lot this happens due to health and hygiene laws. Supermarkets can be fined for this stuff.

Food waste is a very sad reality. Forget about restuarants if you ever worked in them. It's insanity how much perfectly good stuff we tossed due to health laws.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Trader Joes throwing away all cheese after a night power outage suggests that they don't understand what cheese is

 

[Orbis Tabula]

I can't believe you'd eat a bunch of spoiled milk out of the garbage. That's gross, just buy some milk.

 

[Joyful]

why would anyone need that much cheese

 

[wamberz1]

Holy shit lol

and grats op, much better outcome than it going to waste.

 

[Risible]

Having grown up poor as shit, you better believe I'd eat some dumpster cheese. It was sealed and out in 38 degree weather? That's not dumpster cheese, that's just fucking cheese my man. You scored big.

 

[N.Domixis]

I found scrap electronic circuit boards a few days ago. I think I will be able to get atleast a gram of gold out of it.

 

[Kwixotik]

Dumpster diving I can understand. Dumpster diving for food when you don't have to do so to survive, particularly for cheese, I do not understand.

 

[wamberz1]

Dumpsters are great for finding old office computer stuff. Of my current 4 monitor setup 2 of them I found in the trash (and remodified them a bit duh). Just don't get caught hehehhehe

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

Perfectly good food gets thrown out all the time, I worked for a food service company we did all kinds of events and places. The amount of food that is perfectly edible get tossed out for various reasons, seen huge commercial cans of food tossed out cos it got dented and could end in a lawsuit. We got to keep the extra food as well, that was cool at least but seeing so much food thrown away was heart breaking.

Never dumpster dived for food but the conditions OP states was most likely fine, dumpsters smell and are gross as shit though.

 

[uncredited male]

Some homeless dudes would do this for expired meat at a place I used to work.

 

[n0razi]

When I was 14 or so... me and a buddy were playing hooky and decided to hide out in one of the large recycling bins (similar to the huge blue trash dumpsters but for recyclables only). We discovered someone had tossed an entire collection of Playboys and Penthouse magazines (this is back in the 90's before internet), im talking at least 2 or 3 years worth of issues. Needless to say, our minds were blown and we spent a good amount of time in there

 

[crazyprac]

and clean ya damn kitchen nasty

Hahahaahaha

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

Ahhh finding old porn, I thought that shit was obsolete in these days but I asked a gas clerk if anybody bought the magazines and he was like "shit they are our best seller". Lotta dudes with no internet connection I suppose.

 

[nullset2]

I don't know how to feel about OP. I mean 200 pounds of cheese is pretty fucking dope, but fuck it's 200 pounds of cheese man.

BTW I think this thread is gonna go right into the greatest hits.

 

[Cth]

A friend of mine dives at the local Ultas..

They toss a ton of make up, soaps, etc that they sell for insane amounts. Usually all it takes is some nail polish remover to clean things up.

Then she resells it for a hefty profit (at a much lower cost than Ulta does)

 

[CreepingFear]

I've watched videos of people that found perfectly good PC's dumpster diving and were able to fix them by putting in something like a new HDD or PSU. I've never been that lucky.

 

[One Eyed Willy]

I've watched videos of people that found perfectly good PC's dumpster diving and were able to fix them by putting in something like a new HDD or PSU. I've never been that lucky.

Over the last 20 years, I've probably thrown away 10 PCs in that condition. I just pulled the HDD and trash it. Time is money, I ain't got time trying to sell parts etc..

 

[milkham]

My parents gave me a $25 Goodwill gift card and they wrote a note on it saying it was to be turned into $1,000. I'm tracking that and so far I'm to over $300. I'll be there soon.

I don't understand what this means. They want you to turn 25 dollars of goodwill credit into 1000 dollars of goodwill credit?

 

[nailbombxx]

man this website

what are you even doing OP

 

[Easy_D]

All that's missing is the theme song

Amazing

 

[hipbabboom]

You're gonna eat food you found in the trash?

yup.