DD: The Official "Post What You've Found" Thread (pics!!)

[antoniohawk]

Please no comments, just a list of what you've managed to pull from the depths of a dumpster and even pictures if possible.

Apt Complex
[4] 1" binders someone had used for biochemistry class
white fan (working!)
blue fleece blanket (threw it in the wash and it was as good as new)
radio/cassette player (working with only a broken window on the cassette area)
small popcorn tin
discover card thingy that they bring you your bill in at a restaurant

[Streyeder]

No pics for now, maybe later. Let me see...

OfficeMax:
L-Corner Desk (Just like Steve's)
Long Folding Table

Books-A-Million:
Bar Chair

Hastings:
Books
Magazines (woohoo for pr0n night!)
Cases
Wireless XBOX Controller

Pier 1:
(2) Grill basting sets
$100 Clay Vase
Countless sconces<sp>, glasses, plates, etc.
Vinegar jars
Chair base to one of the half-sphere chairs (forgot name)
(4) Wicker Cushioned Dining room chairs
Wrought iron night stand
(12) Hangie things with candle holder. (Right before X-mas too!)
10gal Wooden tub

Apt Complex:
(2) Tall Halogen Lamps
(4) New Poster Frames
Posters (New): Godfather, Eminem, (2) Resivoir Dogs
(Posters and frame were new in bag w/ reciept...bought 2 years previous)
Night stand
15in HP Computer Monitor (red-gun misfires)
MiniFridge

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[eL c0L0mb1aNo]

Apt. Complex

Three 15" Trinitron Monitors (one needed some soldering done on the circuit board that attaches to the electron gun)
Working Celeron 366 MHz Computer (only needed video card and hard drive)

Kind of weak yes but I don't really have time to dive.

[gymboy689]

i've never really "dove" but back in 2000 in the apartment building i lived in, i was taking my trash down and found a desk nex to the compactor! it was missing a screw, making the leg loose, so i put in a new screw and made it good as new!

[MATTRESS]

my cool leopard print lamp:
http://www.iupload.net/062004/Image009.jpg
and a huuuuuge old 17" monitor ... looks like it was from a shop, grease fingerprints all over it, cleaned up nice :)

[Smititty]

a ton of gateway pins
a couple dead psu's with nice 80mm sunon fans that worked great
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/7036/fan.jpg


a coupld big shoe and random displays that were too big to fit in my car


tons of boxes of books with ripped off covers (didn't really take them seeing they were novels that didn't interest me)
"magazines" aka pr0n (sry no pics lol)


a random assortment of probably about 100 cds and 40 movies
2 dreamcast VMU's (broken but fun to tinker with)
a steering wheel for dreamcast (don't kow if it works)
a couple random playstation and dreamcast games
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/456/DC.jpg

(tons......probably forgot most of it)
2 webcams (no pics....gave to friends)
a lamp (mattress's lamp blows mine away lol)
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3591/lamp.jpg

2 HUGE cd books that hold ~250 cds in perfect condition
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3234/cdbook.jpg

about 1 and a half leather chairs (i have 2 seats and a back plus the arms and bases-a couple casters so i need the pneumatic shaft dealy and some screws to get it together)(if you know where i could buy the pnuematic shaft for a chair pm me)
a couple notefolios with slightly chipped corners (gave to my mom)
2 plastic rolling carts with a couple chips on the drawers but in perfect working order (also gave to my mom)
a toad(no joke, my friends hopped into an almost empty dumpster at the time and found a toad)
a ton of random software that didn't interest us
i know there's more just can't think of it now.....
sry bout the craptastic pics.....

Edit: removed store names is requested

[randyc]

Tons of fans
a few working older no name computers

[mtbaird]

(2) 386 computers , no HD
(1) Pentium 1 computer , no HD

[222 1/3 evil]

1 NES with light gun and 2 controllors and 5 games. AS of now that;s it.

[DR_K13]

so far I found an old apple II that was gutted, and an old rubber boot :rolleyes:

[Peale]

I found a DVD burner the other day. Works just fine.

[tmarshall]

Local "mom and pop" PC shops:

2 ATX cases
1 stick 128mb Pc100

Local non-profit Computer Literacy Foundation:
2 Dell P3's complete
70 Hard drives (most 2gb)
9 Lappy's - most complete, no pawer cords

[novaflare]

No pics and nothing recent. But last year and year before last.
Monitors all working some with cracked cases mostly 15 inch and one 17 inch.
A dozen dead psu good for the fans in them and a few working at psus great for powering extra fans and the like kept 2 gave other 3 or 4 away. % or 6 identical computer case all damaged in dif ways sorry office max you need to do better next time.
Use to love finding 64 pin sims in edo back when it was worth 50 cents to a buck a meg (little more than a year ago) I made alot of money off that old ram. Now with p2s and 3s being converted over to firewall boxes the old 64 pin sims are near worthless o well fun while it lasted. Also not just dumpsters this was road side finds to.
I think the best road side find was at some rich guys house found a 36 inch big screen tv standard crt that was seemingly doa untill i pulled the back off and it had a fuse that was cracked and burnt. Sold the tv for about 350. Should have asked more thing wasnt fun to get home. Imagine this guy rideing on the trunk of a little k car holding on to a big screan tv on the roof going about 10 mph for about 18 miles :\ But wasnt no way we was leaving a big screen tv there.

[ninethreeeleven]

A friend and I got (a few years ago) an old Dodge Van rear seat. Its a full bench with an ashtray in the arm. We kept it forever, I'll get pics if he still has it. Boy that ashtray came in handy.

[MD_Willington]

Everything I found so far...I update every few days...
http://www.dumpsterworld.com/index.php?topic=1126.0

LINK IS DEAD, Board has magically disappeared :mad:

Later

MD

[Kevlarman]

Just last week I found a Gateway computer with matching 17" monitor next to the dumpster of my apartment complex. The computer is a 1.7GHz Celeron w/256MB RAM and 40GB hard drive. It would not boot into Windows when I retrieved it but a quick session with the recovery console and CHKDSK fixed that problem. The previous owner had left all his data (school reports, pr0n, etc) on it too!
Asides from being stained yellow and smelling of tobacco, the system was perfect. A few minutes with a Mr. Clean magic eraser got rid of the yellow tobacco stains!

Also, the monitor was working perfectly and it's always good to have a spare one lying around.

Besides the computer, the best thing I ever found whilst DD was a woking Panasonic VCR.

[Daemia]

Across the street a buncha college kids were moving out so me and Great Milenko went over there and found

P166 Compy w/ monitor
Stero Reciever
RCA Sterero Speaker wire
Miller lite "Its Miller Time" Sign

Some Questionable material :eek:

And Scarface both VHSs! :D

[ati_azn]

i went bike riding a few weeks ago and i found a old stripped P3 comp without the cpu, cd-drives. i took my screwdriver set out of my handy bike nike pouch and took out the P3 heatsink and fan(still works but scratched up), sound card which is a working turtle beach(no drivers though), harddrive 15 gb i think(put it on my comp and found out it was a slave drive with rap mp3s(mostly 50cent and emenim) and about a gig of prOn!!!, the psu (non working took out the 80mm fan and threw it away), (working)floppy drive, i left the mobo there and it had an igp. and last week while i was riding my bike i saw a scratched up nice samsung 19inch flat screen moniter, but i didnt have the balls to take it since it was on someones stairs and i also saw a 13inch crappy moniter next to it

[JaiQuest]

Picture Frames
Cd Racks
Magazines

http://www.photodump.com/direct/jaiquest/P8280112.jpg http://www.photodump.com/direct/jaiquest/P8280115.jpg http://www.photodump.com/direct/jaiquest/P8280116.jpg http://www.photodump.com/direct/jaiquest/P8280117.jpg http://www.photodump.com/direct/jaiquest/P8280119.jpg http://www.photodump.com/direct/jaiquest/P8280113.jpg

We also found a couch which we gave someone and I'll post a pic later

JaiQuest Crew

[ScreamingBroccoli]

These were more Garbage Picking then Dumpster Diving finds but here it goes:

1 atari (2800 or something)
1 old skool stero system w/ giant speaker I put in my room (complete w/ 8 track!)
3 Tenis raquets
All kinds of Displays and Tables

I'll have to remember the other stuff I found. You guys have inspired me to to some more frequent searching =)

[elfletcho]

I found a APC SmartUPS 600 LS in the trash here on campus. All it had was bad batteries (they were like 10 years old) so I went to stores and got some new batteries, good as new. Not sure how much this baby is worth, but it is a great find if you ask me.

[vbrtrmn]

OC48 Card
4.1 Acer Speakers (broken connector, easily fixed)
Working VCR with Remote Control
some rack-mountable shelves

don't rember what else, right now.

[Marklar]

Found this in dallas in one of those big trash bins on a jobsite, I have no idea why they threw this away its in perfect shape and the even threw out the blower for it its one of those carpet dryer blowers. My dad wants to repaint it to look like an electriction and put him in front of our shop, I told him it looks like a girl (it has camel toe) and nipple rings lol

http://www.hommie.net/forum/airman.jpg

[SJetski71]

LoL at the hippie shorts and other references :D

[Beave]

thats awesome i wish i could find somethin koo like that :D

[umbra]

that thing is just friggin creapy good find though

[furiousfords89]

lol, i managed to get a free keyboard from my engineering class teacher in school today. he had a whole box full of old keyboards and encouraged everyone to take one :eek:

[SpasticTeapot]

I need to do more heavy-duty dumpster diving. I would KILL for a free 1.7Ghz Celeron box-yes, I'm that desperate. Interested in trading?
Stuff I have found or yoinked out of "broken" computers in the Psych Lab:
2 SB Live! sound cards, most likely working, w/ S/PDIF
3 keyboards, all in okay shape
1 P2/400 system with a 8gb hard drive
1 Celly/400 system that needs a new Mobo
1 PowerMac 7100 upgraded to G3/240 and 136mb, after 3 months of use needs new HDD (I'll get to it someday)
2 750mb hard drives, the motors for which may find their way into an RC airplane
1 Celeron/500 system with a 10GB hard drive, perfect condition.
1 BIG roll of Mylar, taken from Art Dept. Curbside
1 Small Jade Bhudda, which I fixed and now lives on my stereo
1 Airbrush Compressor, needs cleaning

[appatula]

I found 2 Oldschoo K6 Comps the other day with 4 gig HD's in each (2 total), various other PCI cards, also 2 PSU's and some nice Prosessor heatsinks with fans.....Who0o0ooo!!
-BBC

[SpasticTeapot]

Although this might be more appropriate for another topic, where are the best places to go dumpster diving? I'm perhaps the world's biggest cheapskate, so free PCI soundcards sound darn nice to me.

[Great_Melinko]

Although this might be more appropriate for another topic, where are the best places to go dumpster diving? I'm perhaps the world's biggest cheapskate, so free PCI soundcards sound darn nice to me.mom and pop stores, majoe retailers that dont have compactors. So many of them have to destroy anything they throw out :(


on another note:

ive found:
atx case with no sides
k6-2 450 system, just motherboard and cpu, works
p75 HP system, 1.2 gig hard drive with much questionable material and the original napster. It overcloked to 133 :eek: :cool:

[Peale]

I found a couple of DVD players the other night. One was a DVD/VHS combo, the other just a regular player. The regular didn't work, until I opened it up and found the disc jammed inside. Removed it, it works just fine.

[DR_K13]

http://www.hommie.net/forum/airman.jpg[/QUOTE]

1337!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tech_Pro]

i found a grip of stuff:
found a cali king bed from four seasons, great double pillow top it was in back of a Best mattress store with the box springs, just a little shampoo and the asfault came right off
found 4 black barstools retail at 75$ each, these one people got kicked out so i grabed the stuff. it was on the curb.
found a old school jetski, no joke had lots of after stock parts, was in the garbage cause the people got kicked out waiting to file a lost title.
found a whole testors painting paints, atlest 30$ worth of paint, along with 2 car models a lambo and a viper.


thats about it i plan on going next week end for some real diving


read the first post!!!! this is only to post what you've found we do not want feed back!!!

[Thermite Paste]

let me see, ive found:

1 dvd player
1 usb cd burner
3 17"crts
1 20"crt
some older computers
a p4 2.0 ghz pc :D
ethernet cables and a router
some speakers

[gymboy689]

i found a printer the other day..old lexmark, no power cable, empty cartridges, but i'll use the USB cable

[onewheeldoin200]

Thought I hit the jackpot today....but no. I found a shitload of Windows XP cd's and boxs that look like they were used to install on machines in the store....but the fuckers didn't even give whoever they're selling these computers to the cd's, they just used snippers or something to cut one side so they are unusable and then threw everything in the trash :mad: The foldouts even have the product keys and everything still on them, not blanked out. I checked but try as I might I couldn't find a cd that wasn't destroyed :( I did find some plastic wire shrouding (usefull for engine bay stuff) and a sample pack of hp photo paper though, so it wasn't a complete waste.

http://tinypic.com/c6ozt
http://tinypic.com/c6p03
http://tinypic.com/c6p05
http://tinypic.com/c6p08

[Great_Melinko]

My friend and i scored 2 complete HP Netserver LH pro's all they are missing are the memory. they still have all the 9 and 18 gb scsi drives :eek:

ill get pics for those who want them or dont believe me umpon request.

[dagger]

This is what my uncle found. He found it a local Game Crazy gaming store. I don't understand why anyone would trow away such a good xbox with Halo, a control, a demo disk , and all of the cords. As you can see the controller has a broken Joy stick and for some reason while I am trying to play Halo the guy dose not stop jumping. Other than that all it needs is a new controller.

Oh by the way, instead of throwing away the controller I am willing to give it away. Sorry but I will only give you the controller and not the other cable that connects to the xbox (I promised that to a good friend). 1st PM gets the controller.
Sorry, It's been taken.


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[Scorpionjwp]

Lets see what I have got.

Neighbor next door throwing away patio furiture set of: 4 wrought iron chairs and table.
I repainted and is on the back porch. A 10,000 rpm compaq 9.2gb hotswap hd found in garbage can, not tested. All I got so far.

[ya cha cha]

me and my friend found a Tascamm Reel to Reel recorder next to a dumpster, we sold it on ebay for over $400.

[Great_Melinko]

2 complete except for memory hp netservers, just being thrown away :eek:

[nochay]

Thought I hit the jackpot today....but no. I found a shitload of Windows XP cd's and boxs that look like they were used to install on machines in the store....but the fuckers didn't even give whoever they're selling these computers to the cd's, they just used snippers or something to cut one side so they are unusable and then threw everything in the trash :mad: The foldouts even have the product keys and everything still on them, not blanked out. I checked but try as I might I couldn't find a cd that wasn't destroyed :( I did find some plastic wire shrouding (usefull for engine bay stuff) and a sample pack of hp photo paper though, so it wasn't a complete waste.

http://tinypic.com/c6ozt
http://tinypic.com/c6p03
http://tinypic.com/c6p05
http://tinypic.com/c6p08

do not toss the windows xp stuff yet! You have a barcode scanner? The serial number *may* be encoded in the barcode!

Dane

[Great_Melinko]

do not toss the windows xp stuff yet! You have a barcode scanner? The serial number *may* be encoded in the barcode!

Dane
he said the cdkeys are there....

[Nate1492]

Hey give me one of those 'useless' CD keys... Like you REALLY need the CD to do what you need...

nate1493@hotmail.com if you care to part with one ;-)

[WesM63]

Last thursday was the big DD day here in town. The computer store I work for did the recylcing center thing and I managed to pick up the following:

7x17" CRT Monitors (working)
2x Oki Laser printers (one has bad drum, other works fine)
1x HP Ink-jet

I ended up giving it all away to friends as I didn't have a use for any of it. Someone swipped the 19" CRT I had hidden away for myself :(

[r_shortt]

I wasn't DD persay today but I managed to score a over head projector (Elmo-L355) ! :D

It was in a pile to be tossed out where i work/go to school and I grabed it before it went else where. And the sweet thing about it, The glass is mint, and it works!!!
The only thing I can find wrong with it is the adjustable feet in the front are missing (no biggie).

I'm sure some are you probbaly wondering why I'm excited about a overhead projector.. Well I have a Sharp overhead tablet at home :D Time to make a big ass TV for FREEEEEE
I'll post picks later if I remmeber too

[Destonomos]

I wasn't DD persay today but I managed to score a over head projector (Elmo-L355) ! :D

It was in a pile to be tossed out where i work/go to school and I grabed it before it went else where. And the sweet thing about it, The glass is mint, and it works!!!
The only thing I can find wrong with it is the adjustable feet in the front are missing (no biggie).

I'm sure some are you probbaly wondering why I'm excited about a overhead projector.. Well I have a Sharp overhead tablet at home :D Time to make a big ass TV for FREEEEEE
I'll post picks later if I remmeber too

thats the ghettoest thing i've ever herd...

[umbra]

I have no idea what that implies but it sounds sweet :D

[miro]

Found 11 XMODS RC cars, half a dozen of which were completely functional. No upgrades though, can't ask for everything :p

[Sesheron]

What he means is that he can take apart his tablet pc so the the back light is gone and just the lcd can be seen from both sides, lay it over the overhead and voila an easy 3000+ lumons projector...

There was a guide to doing it properly on tom's hardware, basically use blocks to keep the screen from touching anything and place a fan to blow air between the overhead glass and lcd, otherwise the heat from the overhead would ruin the lcd.

[DevilDoc]

What he means is that he can take apart his tablet pc so the the back light is gone and just the lcd can be seen from both sides, lay it over the overhead and voila an easy 3000+ lumons projector...

There was a guide to doing it properly on tom's hardware, basically use blocks to keep the screen from touching anything and place a fan to blow air between the overhead glass and lcd, otherwise the heat from the overhead would ruin the lcd.

Wow, I don't think he's going to take apart a tablet PC for this...
I think the "LCD Tablet" he's referring to is actually called a Transparecy Panel like those listed HERE (http://www.rentcom.com/catalog/LCD_Transparency_Panels.html)
He's not going to get the best performance out of the display, but it is cheap.

[ScubaSteve]

ATTENTION:

I'm trying not to be a Nazi by going thru here deleting everyone's posts, but try to keep this thread to posting what you've found and discussion to the other thread plz.

Thanks :)

[Asazman]

I got a self inflating king sized matress (with no leaks), a full set of dishes with one broken cup handle, a heated comforter, and a back massager.

[Irishllama]

You still want that heated Blanket? I got some ideas for that :cool:

[DaCoOlNeSs]

me and my brother went dumpster diving a few years ago after a wedding and found a plate with about 5 diamonds on it http://hardforum.com/images/smilies/eek.gif real too, we sold it for about $3000! http://hardforum.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

[Asazman]

me and my brother went dumpster diving a few years ago after a wedding and found a plate with about 5 diamonds on it http://hardforum.com/images/smilies/eek.gif real too, we sold it for about $3000! http://hardforum.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

diamonds in a plate???

[JaiQuest]

You are full of shit. Where the hell would you find something like that?

JaiQuest Crew

[Scorpionjwp]

Hey it is surprising what people throw away these days.

[eL c0L0mb1aNo]

Left school today and passed by a recently closed cell phone store. Found this, plus three others:

http://www.daocplace.com/tng/uploader/uploads/withflash.jpghttp://www.daocplace.com/tng/uploader/uploads/withoutflash.jpg

Other signs were for T-Mobile, Cingular, and Nextel. Didn't have time to rummage through the rest of the trash but this was still a good find.

[abhatia]

Left school today and passed by a recently closed cell phone store. Found this, plus three others:

http://www.daocplace.com/tng/uploader/uploads/withflash.jpghttp://www.daocplace.com/tng/uploader/uploads/withoutflash.jpg

Other signs were for T-Mobile, Cingular, and Nextel. Didn't have time to rummage through the rest of the trash but this was still a good find.Awesome find...


Uhm, what are you going to do with it?

[eL c0L0mb1aNo]

Right now i'm using it as a light for my room, mostly at night since I don't need that much light. It's good though. Might sell the Nextel sign. If anyone's interested in the NYC area (since I don't want to ship), let me know through PM, do not post here.

[The Cardinal]

15" Monitor, speakers, keyboard, and mouse in the dumpster for my apartment complex. No computer to be seen though.

I've intercepted alot of stuff before it makes it into a dumpster. A nice 48" drawing board, 14" TV/VCR combo (broken VCR that was easily fixed), floor lamp, and 4 LCD screens (still need to wire one up to my parallel port)..

[cmstar]

So far I've found an HP printer demo unit, some double-cd jewel cases, and lots of unused bubble wrap.

eh, it's a start.

[LoveTheBass]

Had my first dd the other day. Sadly, it was a dissapointment. Just found some boxes, a giant spool (which isn't too bad actually), some books, slides for a projector, and a switch box that I have yet to figure out what it is. I'll have to post a pic later and someone might be able to help me with that. I'll have to make a venture out when it gets a little warmer, like above freezing.

[appatula]

well i posted in the Dumpster diving thread but i figure that what i found belongs in here as well, the 2 threads seem almost the same? anyhow heres a link (scroll down theres a ton of pics) http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1027178840#post1027178840
-Appatula

[Deathjester]

Roar. I was at circuit city so I decided to check the dumpster. Well, I peeked in and found a 19" color TV that still works and a working scanner, Some BIG aluminium posters, and a PS/2 mouse. Pretty good for my second time dumpster diving. :p

[mason_msw]

After reading this thread I was inspired to do this myself, only place I could find was a staples but I eneded up finding 4 dvd-rws, a nice leather organizer, a few other things and two office chairs (one with massager) that I regretably had to leave behind since i was in my moms car. The chairs were slashed on the seat but other than that were in perfect shape! I should be going again very soon...

[appatula]

mason you did pretty well, make shure you keep it secretive and sneaky as if others see you pulling goodies out of the dumpster they eventually will too, and then employes know and then you know, because the dumpsta is locked :rolleyes: anyhow congratz on your new spot! Good Luck! :cool:
-Appatula

[mason_msw]

Thanks- and yep our hastings has theirs locked I hear because so many people would go get the old pr0n mags.

[jpmkm]

Thanks- and yep our hastings has theirs locked I hear because so many people would go get the old pr0n mags.
Haha that's awesome. I actually got a nice stack of porn mags from the hastings around here a couple years ago. :D Haven't come across any since, though. :( About a month ago they started putting a bar across the dumpster lids and locking it, but it seems they have since given up on that.

Anyway, to keep this post on topic, here are a few of the things I've found recently:
4 book MCSE training guides
MCSE networking essentials book
couple random cables

That's about it for the last couple weeks. Nothing good lately. My roommate just sold some piece of shit old keyboard he found on the side of the road for $120 on ebay! Crazy shit.

[Thermite Paste]

My roommate just sold some piece of shit old keyboard he found on the side of the road for $120 on ebay! Crazy shit.
lol! How did he do that?

[jpmkm]

lol! How did he do that?
Beats the hell out of me. It was sitting at $.99 with 0 bids up until just before the auction ended. I've sold a few items I've found for > $100, but never anything as shitty as an old keyboard. Here it is:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=51085&item=5159919996

[mason_msw]

just saw that... what the heck!

[Thermite Paste]

haha, thats awesome, i have an old keyboard that fits the bigger plug and has sf(#) keys (sf1, sf2, sf3, ...sf10, etc.) im gonna try to sell that on ebay, lol. on a related note to this thread, me and my friend found bob the builder and spongebob umbrellas in a dumpster, which we beat the shit out of and chucked back in.

[mason_msw]

I went back this past weekend and found about 60 CD-Rs and 10 DVD-RW's, there was another office chair bit this one was really messed up, a filing cabinet, and two laptop bags that were too messed up to take. I did get a crapload of free Cds/Dvd's though!

[appatula]

Haha nice mason, have a crapload of CD cases (pics in my link above) to go with that :p
-Appatula

[bento]

At my apartment (didn't have to dive, I was taking out the trash already! :p ):

Sony Trinitron 17" CRT. Made in 1994 but works great! Some of the anti-glare is rubbed off but once I figure out how I'll just take the rest of it off.

Yamaha MIDI Keyboard - Saw one on eBay with missing battery cover go for >$100, so I'll probably try to clean it up and sell it.

PS2 Keyboard/Mouse - Ended up throwing these back away as I seem to have too many and didn't want to take the effort to clean them up.

2 Power Cables - Regular PC power cables. They're not worth much, but it's always nice to have a spare. These were brand new in baggies.

Nice finds for no effort. Turns out someone was moving so they were clearing stuff out that they didn't want to move.

[PSYKOMANTIS]

http://www.psykomantis.com/img/becky1.jpg

Sorry it's the only picture I got... (yes that's my GF ;) )
I found that 3' x 3' Playstation Sign behind an Orland Park Gamestop peeping out of the dumpster!!!!

I literally STUFFED it in my Prelude and got it home.
The other side says "Nintendo 64"
Luckily I have a drop ceiling otherwise I would not know how to hang it. I would say it weighs a solid 50 pounds!!!! :eek:

It was the best "find" I've ever found in a long time!

[mason_msw]

I would kill to have some signs like that in my room!

[CptTrips]

huge poster behind a theater

http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~jrb03j/movieposter.jpg

[PSYKOMANTIS]

Another log for the fire.

http://www.psykomantis.com/img/room.jpg

[CptTrips]

PSYKOMANTIS, what in the picture did you find?

[PSYKOMANTIS]

Xbox Live sign behind Gamestop in the dumpster unopened.

Gear Grip banner umm... taken from an undisclosed location *cough*Quakecon*cough*

That green plastic plant stolen from a hotel LAN party bathroom cause it was soo cool.

[MoFo]

delete

[vbrtrmn]

Xbox Live sign behind Gamestop in the dumpster unopened.
Gear Grip banner umm... taken from an undisclosed location *cough*Quakecon*cough*
That green plastic plant stolen from a hotel LAN party bathroom cause it was soo cool.

PSYKOMANTIS, don't sh*t where you eat. If you go to a convention, which you enjoy, why would you steal something? The convention has the privledge of paying for what you stole, so the money, which you paid them to attend was paid back to the hotel for some stupid prank you pulled. Sure that plant probably seemed like a cheap POS, but the hotel probably charged the convention at least $50 for it.

Very uncool!

[MoFo]

delete

[Thermite Paste]

i doubt they even noticed the plant was missing.

[umbra]

i doubt they even noticed the plant was missing.
no really the point title say post what you found not swiped

[ppandemic]

is there a date yet for quakecon? cause the site is down.

[MoFo]

no date..site will be back soon

thanx

[MoFo]

how about a new pic of the room :)

[PSYKOMANTIS]

Hi Nash,

We are always bummed to see people stealing our stuff
at the events. That banner cost us $100. I know that it was just a party
favor to this guy but $100 is real money to a small company and it can
really add up. Even more than the money it is the insult that hurts. I
hope he didn't win any of the prizes we were dishing out, that would sting
extra hard.

If you have a chance pass along my comments, let him
know that this is totally not cool.

Regards,
Alan Payne
CaseAce Products, LLC
geargrip.com

I was not the one who physically "lifted" the item.
It was given to me by a friend months after the trip. (whom mind you got me kicked out of my hotel in QC 04)
This is good because I will personally ship the item back to Gear Grip because you guys clearly pointed it out to me that it is wrong to have this.
Thanks for the heads up, and in no way did I mean to piss anybody off. :D

Pm.

[ScHpAnKy]

I was not the one who physically "lifted" the item.
It was given to me by a friend months after the trip. (whom mind you got me kicked out of my hotel in QC 04)
This is good because I will personally ship the item back to Gear Grip because you guys clearly pointed it out to me that it is wrong to have this.
Thanks for the heads up, and in no way did I mean to piss anybody off. :D

Pm.


hehe, owned, hehe

[honkee]

if you guys want movie posters, i can get u rolls of em for like20 bukcs here in chicago.

and im talking about 15-25 movie posters per tube

[MoFo]

if you guys want movie posters, i can get u rolls of em for like20 bukcs here in chicago.

and im talking about 15-25 movie posters per tube


PM sent

thanx

[Kaiga]

Went into two dumpsters, and went through a neighbors stuff.

2 full working Mobos one just needs a battery for CMOS. (ones a skct 754 & another is a PII mobo. (they were each boxed)
a 16" monitor w/powercable
keyboard/Logitech mouse/mouse pad
a good perfect case with 350W ps with screw found in a card case, power cable.
A Lexmark Printer (it still even has ink...)
20GB HD / 32X24X32X CD-RW / Some IDE cables (even a shorty!)
2 floppy drives
A set of 20W speakers
A working old school PS (lid doesn't shut properly but it still works!
A car jack set that is in perfect condition. (found this in the dumpster of a supermarket)
a perfectly nice clipboard, and an ACT booklet College book

pics:
http://www.MyOnlineImages.com/Members/Kaiga/images/P1010063.jpg
http://www.MyOnlineImages.com/Members/Kaiga/images/P1010061.jpg
http://www.MyOnlineImages.com/Members/Kaiga/images/P1010062.jpg
http://www.MyOnlineImages.com/Members/Kaiga/images/P1010059.jpg
http://www.MyOnlineImages.com/Members/Kaiga/images/P1010060.jpg
http://www.MyOnlineImages.com/Members/Kaiga/images/P1010068.jpg
http://www.MyOnlineImages.com/Members/Kaiga/images/P1010067.jpg
http://www.MyOnlineImages.com/Members/Kaiga/images/P1010065.jpg
http://www.MyOnlineImages.com/Members/Kaiga/images/P1010064.jpghttp://www.MyOnlineImages.com/Members/Kaiga/images/P1010066.jpg

[GTPoompt]

no one has posted in this for a while, so I will continue :)

about 2 years ago I found a nightstand for my bed. had a semi broken wheel that is now fixed

Last week found a womens wallet with $4 in it. There were also some bugs (large and black, much bigger than ants, probably smal roaches), came back with huge garden gloves and the $4 was mine :)

[umbra]

that's not 754

[Oldie]

I'm guessing someones girlfriend got really ticked, but about 4 years ago I found a two large boxes of playboy's. Almost every mag from 83-92. I could really care less about them so I stuck em on ebay and got some decent $$.

http://www.mentallyretired.com/h3/index.cfm/u_115159 (http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?u=115159)

[captinsassypants]

That's sad cause about 5 years ago I found a large collection from 83 to 99 in some box's with someones trash and just recently threw them away in spring cleaniing! didnt use my brain I guess!!!

[EGGO]

Went behind a Blockbuster nearby and found a whole bunch of empty, looks to be unused, DVD covers. Perfect if I lose a cover for a PS2 game or something.

[RGMBill]

I don't consider myself a Dumpster Diver but.......

~20 years ago: Complete Honda 850cc Motorcycle. Required complete teardown and rebuild, but.... (Ditched and abandoned in a National Parkland... park ranger gave me permission to take it). Eventually sold it for ~$1200, but there was a lot of sweat equity put into it (and some real repair parts).

~15 years ago, but FOR WORK: Scrounged three working 286 machines, COMPLETE, out of castoffs from the base I worked on; computerized our entire office to prove WHY we needed them to buy us some REAL computers (about 1 year later). Boss told me to find 'em, so I did..... These were abandoned OUTSIDE in the weather, beside the trash, but I >DID< get a property pass to take them to our area. Don't know if this one counts....

~12 years ago: Garden Rake, Shovel (Neighborhood Garbage).

~11 years ago: Coffee table... needed some repairs, but only finally fell apart last year.

~10 years ago: Complete Craftsman Tool set of deep sockets, ~10 screwdrivers, driver, a few odd other sockets, one monkey wrench. (Neighborhood garbage). Nice, nice score, since Craftsman handtools are warrented forever.

~10 years ago: 3 bar stools (behind bar). Needed to be shimmed and tightened, one needed reglueing.

~6 years ago: Working Fan, Desklamp. (Behind office).

~5 years ago: "Cats and Dogs" poster (Regal Cinema).

~5 years ago: NEARLY perfect hardwood oak chair (missing one slat, but otherwise not a scratch)... VERY comfortable, use it for one of my computers (in family room). (Neighborhood garbage)

~4 years ago: SGI IRIX Minicomputer... not functional, but one HELL of a place to put a drink, and a nice end table for a Techno-Geek family... it's one of those heirloom pieces, I guess... this is the same kind that was used to make Jurassic Park. (Military Garbage).

~3 years ago: "The Blue Bomber", giant wooden desk, slightly damaged, ugly as sin, but works well for holding my son's computer, while giving him enough space to do homework, too (don't know WHERE my wife found that... she brought that home).

~3 years ago: Cat, female, mixed breed (American Longhair/Himilayan mix, we think), nearly newborn, abandoned. She's the stangest one of our animals, and was NOT weaned when we found her, but her mom was long gone. We had to feed her with an eyedropper for the first week. Good mouser, loves to live dangerous (she's small, we have two BIG dogs.... she likes to jump onto the bed off their backs at night, using the claws for "extra leverage"). Well beloved family pet, now neutered.

~2 years ago: Long bedroom dresser w/Mirror, mint condition. Tall Boy dresser, matches, mint condition. Two end table/night stands, match, mint condition. Head Board for King Size bed... was taking it away, guy came out of house (he was a cop). Asked ME if he could help me take it away, rather than have to call to have it towed away. Couldn't fit it in my car, so he >LOADED IT INTO HIS SUBURBAN AND BROUGHT IT TO MY HOUSE!<, free. Two weeks later, picked up a nice lamp, and nice trash can (small, blue), from his house, too. (Neighborhood Garbage). My 15 year old son's bedroom suite. Major score, obviously.

~2 years ago: One Dozen Compaq 486-PII machines (various, but the 486s were upgraded with Overdrive chips). Almost all were working, all COULD work, but some were missing harddrives. Harddrives ranged up to 20Gb. The best was a PIII-500 with a 256Mb of Ram and the 20GB HDD, two CDRWs and a CD (and Win98 still on the HDD... they didn't wipe these guys!). It's my 4 year olds computer, works fine with, but I'm going to add more memory, and a better Vidcard (I've got both). It's hooked into our wireless network, and sits in our Family room (see the wooden chair mentioned earlier....) Office Garbage. Oh, and we found a fully functional 486 Compaq Laptop, complete with docking station in that mix, too.

~1 year ago: Nearly perfect Barbie Dolllhouse (missing one piece of furniture, but sells for ~$100). My 4 year old daughter loves this.

While I look at this (which is only partial, as I'm not mentioning all the Bikes, card tables, etc.), I don't see but a few big "Scores", yet I realize I've done well, considering I don't "Dumpster Dive".... BTW, I passed up diving on some computers just last week (three, including monitors, printers, etc) as my wife was saying "No More old computers!)"

[EGGO]

Went behind a Staples not expecting much. It was daylight and everything. But hey, I actually DID find something when I wasn't really looking.

http://eggo.us/images/exit.jpg

So I put it on my window
http://eggo.us/images/exitwindow.jpg

[SouthernComfort]

Not exactly dumpster diving, but about three years ago I found roughly 30 P233-MMX machines, plus a few other machines, at a scrap metal recycler. Apparantly, the University HSC in Lubbock, TX decided to throw away a few of their old warehoused office computers. I wound up trading a few hundred pounds of scrap steel for them, as they were in the "tin" pile (which usually consists of bicycles, old appliances, sheet metal, water heaters, and whatever else that the scrap yard had decided wasn't worth salvaging for worthwhile metals).

I found enough good parts to build ten machines that I sold for roughly $125 apiece to locals who wanted a cheap machine for internet use. I also found enough parts to build my old machine (old BX mobo, P3 Katmai 450, 128mb PC100, Intel i740 video, although it didn't stick to those specs for long).

The three best places I've found to get hardware - maybe not worth much in a new machine, but good enough to use in an older machine you'd sell on the cheap, or fold with, or give to your grandparents - are school sales, scrap metal yards, and, suprisingly, your local Goodwill or Salvation Army. My current 22" CRT I bought from the Goodwill in Lawton, OK. All it needed was the focus and brightness gain adjusted a hair to make it look clear again, and a good wax job on the screen to fill in a few small scratches.

[Vexorg]

This one's not dumpster diving either, but just today I managed to come up with a free HP Deskjet 970Cxi printer from a garage sale, and I did need to get a cable and replace the color ink cartridge on it (fortunately, it uses the same 45/78 combination as my other one) but it so far appears to be perfectly functional. Not bad for free, especially because I've been having trouble finding a new HP with a duplexer on the current models.

[andy71600]

Last night a friend and I hit the jackpot. We found a perfectly functional Epson Stylus Color 3000. This printer is HUGE. All I had to do is run the head cleaning utility like 9 times to get them working properly. Now I've got a $1000 printer going up on amazon.com and ebay shortly :)

http://imageserver1.textamerica.com/user.images.x/86/IMG_414186/_0514/T520050514222603933.jpg

[KodiakStar]

http://home.comcast.net/~th_sua/pimp/free.jpg

Free bike ^_^

needs a new headset, and will probably replace the fork too (looks like it saw a lot of use..) but good deall... and teh price is right!

[ScHpAnKy]

http://home.comcast.net/~th_sua/pimp/free.jpg

Free bike ^_^

needs a new headset, and will probably replace the fork too (looks like it saw a lot of use..) but good deall... and teh price is right!

Damn, sweet bike, wish I owned something like that

[cobalt]

Got like ~100 DVD cases today.

EDIT: From Blockbuster :P

[dayamdave]

past experience, when i was 12 i found 5 bucks in the trash at Stop and Shop in the lil rest corner. dont ask why i was looking in the trash can...i was 12. but hey, i got candy from it! :cool:

[KodiakStar]

Damn, sweet bike, wish I owned something like that


Well for a freebie its good :)

I am plugging money into ebay for XTR parts to upgrade it...

My other bike is a Specialized Enduro FSR rig...
and my old one was a Spec Stumpjumper FSR Comp
- Fold [H]ard - http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/285.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&id=285) - Or go [H]ome -

[Veeb0rg]

Got like ~100 DVD cases today.

EDIT: From Blockbuster :P

i wish the local block busters did that.. i'd love to get some of them dvd cases..

[Oh4Sh0]

i wish the local block busters did that.. i'd love to get some of them dvd cases..

http://intensecs.com/DSCF0011.JPG :D

[rabiddawgs]

well i have been pretty lucky so far

i have found 3 high back office chairs, about 300 blank dvd (+ - r rw) about the same if not more in cdr's. a dl dvd burner, 2 dvd drives, surge protectors, cd/dvd racks, 80gb 8mbcache wd hdd, portable stereos, misc software, cd/dvd cases, a paper shredder that was worth $150, crap loads of pens, pencils, paper, binders, storage totes.

i found all this in a 6 months time. the bad part is i changed jobs and no longer in the area where i found this stuff.

[Veeb0rg]

well i have been pretty lucky so far

i have found 3 high back office chairs, about 300 blank dvd (+ - r rw) about the same if not more in cdr's. a dl dvd burner, 2 dvd drives, surge protectors, cd/dvd racks, 80gb 8mbcache wd hdd, portable stereos, misc software, cd/dvd cases, a paper shredder that was worth $150, crap loads of pens, pencils, paper, binders, storage totes.

i found all this in a 6 months time. the bad part is i changed jobs and no longer in the area where i found this stuff.

sounds like its almost worth the drive back there every so often thou

[DaCoOlNeSs]

Free bike ^_^

needs a new headset, and will probably replace the fork too (looks like it saw a lot of use..) but good deall... and teh price is right! me and my brother went to the landfill and found a bike just like that, just needed a new tube for the back and some greasing :)

[solidsnake31990]

not really dumpster diving but at a garage sale i found a giant santa cause for 2 bucks.

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/1018/im0029101di.th.jpg (http://img132.imageshack.us/my.php?image=im0029101di.jpg)

[Everfalling]

http://www.MyOnlineImages.com/Members/Kaiga/images/P1010066.jpg


dude, i have those speakers XD

[Asazman]

Homedics leather back massager, in box. Nothing wrong with it at all. Works great. I've got it running right now :)

Retails for $100+. found it at bed bath & beyond

[coolie_d]

2 full working Mobos one just needs a battery for CMOS. (ones a skct 754 & another is a PII mobo. (they were each boxed)Uhhh..... looks like an old Socket7 to me, def. not 754.......

[jpmkm]

Uhhh..... looks like an old Socket7 to me, def. not 754.......
Wow. That was five months ago. I hope he's figured that out by now. :D

[nobrainer]

Well here are my finds from yesterday and the day before :)

two 21" sony built sun crts sitting happily on my desk.
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9031/18cq1.th.jpg (http://img217.imageshack.us/my.php?image=18cq1.jpg)

3 17" crts (one on the top is my original) along side the 3rd 21" Sun
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/8393/22en.th.jpg (http://img217.imageshack.us/my.php?image=22en.jpg)

An old Dell desktop with 333mhz PII, 124mb ram, 4GB HDD, CD-Rom and Floppy.
5 x 4GB HDD (Pulled from identical Dell Desktops) 5 Floppy Drives and CD-Roms
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/276/30fj.th.jpg (http://img217.imageshack.us/my.php?image=30fj.jpg)

A PIII 800mhz Celeron :D I have plenty of ram i pulled from other Dells, and those HDD and Roms so I'm building it up for fun. Might just run 2 17"s on it for fun :P
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8144/43mz.th.jpg (http://img89.imageshack.us/my.php?image=43mz.jpg)

Those are my finds

[Borgschulze]

Visiting a friend in Ottawa, found this:
P2 300mhz Slot 1
Asus board with AGP to go with the P2
3com Network Card
Voodoo 2 PCI :D
Sunpower 250 watt PSU (Tons of amps)

http://home.cogeco.ca/~borgschulze/DD/Picture%20001.jpg
http://home.cogeco.ca/~borgschulze/DD/Picture%20002.jpg
http://home.cogeco.ca/~borgschulze/DD/Picture%20003.jpg
http://home.cogeco.ca/~borgschulze/DD/Picture%20004.jpg
http://home.cogeco.ca/~borgschulze/DD/Picture%20005.jpg

[0mega]

this is going to be a LOOOOOOOONG list :D

2 bikes, 1 almost identical to the red one posted a little earlier, needed a chain, im getting it soon :P
533mhz celery (just cpu)
2x366mhz celery
400Mhz celery
450mhz k6-2 :eek:
a full HP system from a hospital :D (350mhz p2, 384mb of ram ( :eek: ) 6.4gb HDD 17"mon (my current monitor) )
BIG RCA mini system, sounds WONDERFUL (cd player dont work but its for my comp so bleh )
2.1 kit i screwed my friends b!tch of a mom over... it was actually a personal favor by said friend :P she made him move out sooooo... :D
lexmark x1150 All-In-One (no carts, ive got an epson for prints :P ) stupid lady didnt know jack all about cartridges and couldnt replace em :D
a shat load of CD's from this guy who was a discorved software pirate back in the windows 98 days lol
a few 15" monitors
a few other complete systems
2 asus p3b-f's i nicked from my school (grade 8 2 years ago :P ) (matchin processors and slocket cards aswell :D (one mobo is dead though... sibling abuse )
amd duron 1.3ghz (not sure if the mobo is dead or if its the cpu, im leaning towards mobo though)
128mb pc2100ddr
256mb pc3200ddr
over 2gigs of sdram (pc66-133)
a few powersupplys, all dead easy fans though :P
a PSX with a memory card and a borked controller and ALL cables ( if i can talk to the friend whos mom is a bitch i can get the steering wheels n shit back too :P one was mine anyway heheh
a bushnell telescope, missing a pin to keep the focus tube on, works quite well :D
nice working Pioneer DVD player :D
a technics amp that i burnt out years ago due to stupidity lol


i cant think of much else but im sure there is more..

[nihonjon]

In Japan after New Years alot of older electronic devices get tossed for newer stuff they get. People then set these things out on the curb or outside apartment doors for the trashman to pickup (with stickers sometimes for scheduled pickups-they're trash nazi's..)

Things I have picked up for free:

Pannasonic Rice Cooker (missing pot to cook-bought one for 1500yen~$14)
Sega Saturn (no accessories or controllers-worked)
Japanese Comic Books (these get thrown out all the time, good to catch before it rains lol)
Vacuum (broken hose-duct taped it good)
Back Massager (worked fine, rubber massager thing was scuffed, so now i just use with a socker over it)
Onkyo MD Stereo (no speakers, just used to play it on my own speakers, was nice when I had a NetMD portable)
Huge Red Lantern (no lightbulb, the mounting circle at top was broke, so I replaced with a small metal bar painted black)
http://nihonjon.com/chouchin.jpg

Yeah, its good stuff, if you ever go overseas lookout for nice things you can grab!

[Vulcanworlds]

hmm well on my brothers way out from college he saw a 17 crt and a gateway p4 1.8ghz in the trash so he picked them up. and i had to just install windows and get the drivers and now look my current computer!

um someone in my neighborhood threw out a 3 piece leather sofa that my bro and i took back to our house. the thing was fine and i have 1 peice in my room other's in garage!

[iowastate1980]

This was not exactly in the dumpster but was on the curb waiting for the garbage man. I found a box of about 150 Plastic hangers and a brand new bisell little green machine carpet spot cleaner.

[c0ex]

http://img15.imgspot.com/u/05/272/23/1002354Medium1128137111.JPG
from staples

[k1114]

Snagged one of these (http://www.officedepot.com/products/Shredder-Capacity/811608/) from Office Depot, the cord was cut but I repaired it :D

http://www.k1114.com/upload/in/shred1.jpg

http://www.k1114.com/upload/in/shred11.jpg

[chaostic]

http://www.k1114.com/upload/in/shred11.jpg

Now you know it would look better if you just open the shredder and soldered the connections on the inside. or atleast place the splice inside the case.

[k1114]

Now you know it would look better if you just open the shredder and soldered the connections on the inside. or atleast place the splice inside the case.

I will probably get around to it later, it's ok for now :)

[MONSOON]

Now you know it would look better if you just open the shredder and soldered the connections on the inside. or atleast place the splice inside the case.

Of course since it will possibly sit up against a wall who the hell would care or know. And anyone who would say anything neednt let the door hit them in the ass on the way out.
;)

[kush]

My contribution to the thread..Found a couple of old ass desktops, one Dell, one Compaq sitting out on the street for garbage day tomorrow...No HDD's in either one :(. So, I'd have to find one of those CD based Linux distros or something to see if any of this stuff works.

The group of goodies scavenged from the 2 boxes so far... Not including a CDRom and combo CD/DVD reader (one of them being some LG model), floppies, cables and perhaps a few other goodies that I havent pulled yet. Clockwise from top-left..
1) Adaptec UW SCSI card #AHA-2940W/2940UW
2) 2x64MB EDO sticks #SEC KMM374F803AK-6U (for/from the dell)
3) AMD K6 266 #A 9819BPBW
4) P2/300 SL2HA
5) SB Live! 5.1 card - maybe this can go in my backup box?...pos Philips I have in it now has never really worked due to useless drivers that barely even worked with Win2K, let alone XP.
6) ATI PCI Mach 64 VT
7) JMC/DA-TECH 80x25mm fan #0825-12HBTL (has thermo sensor)

http://img15.imgspot.com/u/05/279/04/group1128672549.jpg
<<The heatsink from the the K6/266, sitting on top of the 80x25mm fan>>
http://img15.imgspot.com/u/05/279/03/k6heatsink1128669982.jpg

I'm thinking of maybe drilling a couple holes and slapping it on my NB - assuming it clears board mounted ICs/etc..I figure it must cool better than the Vantec Iceberq (copper) Ive got on it now, or a spare Zalaman NB32J that used to be superglued/AS5'd to the SB..Plenty of airflow in the area due to the overhang from my SLK900A..

[SiathLinux]

My daughter is always draggin stuff home...get pics once I grab another pack of batteries...

[k1114]

Of course since it will possibly sit up against a wall who the hell would care or know. And anyone who would say anything neednt let the door hit them in the ass on the way out.
;)

I proudly tell people that I pulled it right out of a dumpster :D

[c0ex]

here are the photos of the desks
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/649/1002371small3fw.th.jpg (http://img394.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1002371small3fw.jpg)
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/8448/1002372small6fp.th.jpg (http://img394.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1002372small6fp.jpg)
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/4854/1002373small4to.th.jpg (http://img394.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1002373small4to.jpg)

[Krig]

Just last night some friends and I got a tip to check out the local ACE hardware store, turned out to be a ton of floor lamps, mostly broken/torn apart, but buried behind it all I found a still shrink-wrapped new one, gave it to one of the guys.

I also found a variable foot pedal switch, perfect item for one of the guys.

One other guy found a nice toolbox that didnt have anything wrong with it, and a whole strip (15') of velcro.

[SpiderJohn23]

Just kidding.

Last week I read all of the DD threads, (took quite a while, you guys and gals are insane!!).

On Thursday, I left for work a little late and while driving past my apt. complex dumpster, I spy a computer sitting there.

Hmmm, says I. Snagged it and put it in my backseat thinking I might have struck gold!!! At work, I take a look and it is labeled as a UNIX server. Awesome, I think, there's gotta be some hd's in there.

Get home, looked it over and opened her up.

It turns out it was an AOpen server case (big and kinda nice) but inside was an old AOpen MB (almost as big as half the case) with a PII still attached. It came with a floppy and cd rom installed (both old). Inside was an Adaptec SCSI card and an old Trident video card. There were a couple of decent IDE cables also. Finally, there was a 300w power supply.

No hard drives, no high end video cards, no Opterons.

So, all in all, not much there, but, I think I am going to experiment with some case modding and possibly use it for a future build.

sj

[lacintol]

I found myself 2 6foot black office desks. While bringing the desks home one of the draws fell out of the desk and was lost somewhere on the highway. Oh well, still serve their purpose.

[Thermite Paste]

I found myself 2 6foot black office desks. While bringing the desks home one of the draws fell out of the desk and was lost somewhere on the highway. Oh well, still serve their purpose.
Your black draw fell out and smashed through my windshield.

want it back?

















...... :p

[kernodle]

So Steve (bobsaget) and I went to the Staples dump last night and found 2 computer chairs and a desk. Steve's chair wasnt all intact but it still worked. I dont know about the desk yet, if the parts are all there but I'll check it out later. My chair on the other hand was brand new 'Lane" genuine leather chair with everything. Here is a pic.

http://images.dr3vil.com/upload2/My Chair.JPG

[bobsaget]

I need 4 bolts from the hardware store to get mine working. Pics up soon!

[Crimson Tear]

Sweet Jesus, nice find. I really need to try this some time, but I always get screwed when I try things like this.

[monster.under.thebed]

i worked at blockbuster and decided to take this after seeing it in the "trash pile" in the back room..

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/h0tsauce4thesoul/Picture424.jpg
AND ITS HANGING RIGHT ABOVE MY BED!!!!! OOOOOOOOO :rolleyes:

[c0ex]

i worked at blockbuster and decided to take this after seeing it in the "trash pile" in the back room..

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/h0tsauce4thesoul/Picture424.jpg
AND ITS HANGING RIGHT ABOVE MY BED!!!!! OOOOOOOOO :rolleyes:


nice

[nosoup4you718]

got a nice swingline 3 hole punch today :cool:

[Constanople]

Went right after all the xmas returns and did pretty damn good.

Everything i got was in working order. Each chair needed parts to be ordered, but they all have 15 year warranties and the warranty dept was happy to assist me :)

Chair 1 (http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?prodCatType=2&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&productId=137284)
Had a small tear on the bottom side in the leather, dab of super glue and cant even tell its there.


Chair 2 (http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?prodCatType=2&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&productId=93221)
Armrest had a small crack in it. Warranty place shipped a new arm rest.

Chair 3 (http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?prodCatType=2&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&productId=138054)
Needed a hardware kit, the warranty place shipped it out and it arrived in 3 days :)


Chair 4 (http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?prodCatType=2&storeId=10001&noredir=true&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&productId=90335&cmArea=spotlight)
Nothing wrong, was NIB

Laptop Case 1 (http://www.ebags.com/compucase/aluminum_attache_computer_case/product_detail/index.cfm?modelid=46516)
Was NIB nothing wrong at all, no defects. Cant find it at staples store

Laptop Case 2 (http://www.wengerna.com/browse/product.jsp?prod_id=9838&cat_id=14&cat_name=Wenger%20Gear&sub_cat_id=63)
Brand new, still had tags. Cant find product at staples store.

Got 2 wireless desktops. Both seem to work fine. They are lower quality, but free :)

About 30 AA batteries. Bunch of Norton software, few pc games (Just CD's, no manuals)
Couple other misc things.

Took about 1.5 hrs to get all the stuff out and into my van :)

<3 staples

[daevud]

So sense I was a kid I've always really dug finding things for free on the net and ordering them- then I found this and HECK YES! But honestly I've gotten practlically nothing for free in the end. I got the new egg package but have litterly signed up for like 25-30 other things with out a single one working out. SO thats my rant. This is cool but IT NEVER WORKS!

[MONSOON]

So sense I was a kid I've always really dug finding things for free on the net and ordering them- then I found this and HECK YES! But honestly I've gotten practlically nothing for free in the end. I got the new egg package but have litterly signed up for like 25-30 other things with out a single one working out. SO thats my rant. This is cool but IT NEVER WORKS!
ERR UMM?!? What exactly does this rant of yours have to do with Dumpster Diving? Or more appropriately what does it have to do with posting pics of what youve found on one of your Dumpster Dives? :confused:

[V-e-l-o-c-i-t-Y]

No pics but a while ago i got a sweet score, i live right up the street from a dell call center, and a friend of mine is an employee, and they have this test room where they get the newest products, etc to test them. well my friend said that they threw out 6 working 6800ultras when the 7800 was released, and 2 dell pocket pc's, so i set my alarm for 2 o'clock and we woke up and drove down there opened up the dumpster, and sure enough there are 6 brand new 6800s 4 of which were still sealed in static bags, and 2 dell pocket pc's EBAY BABY lol i got 3 6800s one of which is in my backup computer, and 1 pocket pc, sold 2 of the 6800s and made a great profit. :P

[l0cke]

no pics but today at school I found a heater/fa ncombo in the dumster! Still works too! I think they threw it out because it was old abd voilated some government safety thingy.

[arkaoss]

Ok, my biggest dumpster diving find, about 2 yrs ago, (well it was "side of the road")

52 inch projection TV with JVC surround cabinet.
It was like 4feet high, and nearly six feet across.
I got it down the back entry into my basement apartment by myself.
The coaxial F connecter input was Shot. It had 2 sets of RCA inputs & they worked fine. I connected it to my surround sound amp & it was Home theatre luving for the next 6 month's. Abso-freakinlutly the greatest find ever.


Then the Guns died.
I pulled the electronics out of it, then broke the cabinet to pieces. I use the old mirror in my room now though.
May it rest in Peace.. it was an awsome FIND...

[ne1wantaride]

In the last month.... at my apartment complex... I've scored a 17" E-Machines (KDS) monitor (newer than the same one I had by over a year). A 27-inch black Panasonic Television with one shiny wear spot on the top. And just now less than 15 minutes ago a 22 inch black samsung tv. So now I contemplate what to do with these this new tv. I already had two including the one I scored earlier this month. And I live in a one bedroom apartment. My girlfriend said to put it in the bathroom in front of the toilet... I love her :)

[__hollywood|meow]

No pics but a while ago i got a sweet score, i live right up the street from a dell call center, and a friend of mine is an employee, and they have this test room where they get the newest products, etc to test them. well my friend said that they threw out 6 working 6800ultras when the 7800 was released, and 2 dell pocket pc's, so i set my alarm for 2 o'clock and we woke up and drove down there opened up the dumpster, and sure enough there are 6 brand new 6800s 4 of which were still sealed in static bags, and 2 dell pocket pc's EBAY BABY lol i got 3 6800s one of which is in my backup computer, and 1 pocket pc, sold 2 of the 6800s and made a great profit. :P

HOLY mother of god are you serious?? oh man.



that (and the tv stories) makes me actually want to try this sometime soon. are best buys any good for this kind of thing...? there's an officemax i think right by it, too.. they're semi-close, never shop there cos PC components are way overpriced @BB

[amd ati FO SHO]

HOLY mother of god are you serious?? oh man.



that (and the tv stories) makes me actually want to try this sometime soon. are best buys any good for this kind of thing...? there's an officemax i think right by it, too.. they're semi-close, never shop there cos PC components are way overpriced @BB

i believe best buy locks their dumpsters

[c0ex]

i believe best buy locks their dumpsters


acuatlly they use compactors which are locked. NEVER GO INTO A COMPACTOR AND NEVER BREAK A LOCK(ITS ILLEGAL ;) )and its locked for a reason, for your safety

[MONSOON]

And they never put the good stuff in there anyways. It gets put on a pallet wrapped and sent back to the warehouse for disposal. Actually I think they sell the stuff to people or companies who in turn resell it on Ebay. If you were even able to get into a BB compactor and found anything of value in it. Then someone in that store is scamming them.

[CrazyDwarf]

I don't know if you would call this dumpster diving, as I snagged stuff BEFORE it hit the dumpster. My company moved offices. All the old furniture was headed for the dumpster, so I snagged a desk for my daughter, with a pc, 3 17-inch monitors and 1 19-inch monitor.
I'm not sure how to attach pics, but it was all in great shape. the 19 inch monitor was the one I had been using in the office, so I know it was well taken care of.

Okay... here goes my attempt at posting the images.
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7215/class0019ut.th.jpg (http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?image=class0019ut.jpg)
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/6699/class0035ex.th.jpg (http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?image=class0035ex.jpg)

[c0ex]

I don't know if you would call this dumpster diving, as I snagged stuff BEFORE it hit the dumpster. My company moved offices. All the old furniture was headed for the dumpster, so I snagged a desk for my daughter, with a pc, 3 17-inch monitors and 1 19-inch monitor.
I'm not sure how to attach pics, but it was all in great shape. the 19 inch monitor was the one I had been using in the office, so I know it was well taken care of.

to attach pictures, go to imageshack.us and upload your pics and copy the link and paste it in the post! :)

[asiancowboy]

Me and a friend went Dumpster Diving today. Greatest trip yet. Found a 27 inch TV and 2 stereo systems without speakers. I let my friend have the TV and i took the stereos. TV ended up being broken, stereos ended up working fine, so we took the speakers out of the TV, assembled them onto a cardboard box and saudered it to fit into the back of the stereo. It's beautiful, funny, and might i say rather sexy. The volume button got smashed in, but you can still adjust it. It works great, the speakers are actually decent, and for about 30 minutes of work i got myself a brand new stereo system. Here's a pic of my glorious find/build.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/Asian_Cowboy85/IMG_2897.jpg

[AJG199]

Me and a friend went Dumpster Diving today. Greatest trip yet. Found a 27 inch TV and 2 stereo systems without speakers. I let my friend have the TV and i took the stereos. TV ended up being broken, stereos ended up working fine, so we took the speakers out of the TV, assembled them onto a cardboard box and saudered it to fit into the back of the stereo. It's beautiful, funny, and might i say rather sexy. The volume button got smashed in, but you can still adjust it. It works great, the speakers are actually decent, and for about 30 minutes of work i got myself a brand new stereo system. Here's a pic of my glorious find/build.



gotta love it! nice work

[synaps3]

My local Wal-Mart had a "computer recycle day" (TOTAL BULLSHIT-- the workers there would not let me take a monitor, found out later that they sell everything they get to either recyclers or companies). After they turned me away from the semitruck-trailers I went back at 2am, when no one was there. The parking lot has cameras, so I drove in, headlights off, in my black car, at an angle the cameras were blocked from (by the trailers, there were at least 5 of them). The trailers were not fully loaded. I filled my car, with mostly old Dells and such, but I got a TON of decent stuff. Several working monitors, a bunch of P2/P3s and one P4. Also salvaged an AMD 2000 system and removed an AMD 1400+ from another computer. I threw away all the P2s and P3s, after taking all the parts worth anything (most of the computers had dead mobos, or were too old for me to care about). Now I have a shelf full of small hard drives, cd drives, TONS of floppy drives (threw out all but 10, no one needs like 50 floppy drives), fans, a few decent PSUs, etc from the whole incident. Since the AMD 1400+ system was entirely toasted, I will probably be ordering a new mobo for it to use with a GeForce4 TNT2 that I had lying around. Next time they have one of these, I am renting a van and parking nearby. I think I will also go sooner, as I think most of the good systems were already taken (or maybe locked up). It is amazing how many computers soccer moms in a rich area will throw away...

[c0ex]

nice

[amd ati FO SHO]

My local Wal-Mart had a "computer recycle day" (TOTAL BULLSHIT-- the workers there would not let me take a monitor, found out later that they sell everything they get to either recyclers or companies). After they turned me away from the semitruck-trailers I went back at 2am, when no one was there. The parking lot has cameras, so I drove in, headlights off, in my black car, at an angle the cameras were blocked from (by the trailers, there were at least 5 of them). The trailers were not fully loaded. I filled my car, with mostly old Dells and such, but I got a TON of decent stuff. Several working monitors, a bunch of P2/P3s and one P4. Also salvaged an AMD 2000 system and removed an AMD 1400+ from another computer. I threw away all the P2s and P3s, after taking all the parts worth anything (most of the computers had dead mobos, or were too old for me to care about). Now I have a shelf full of small hard drives, cd drives, TONS of floppy drives (threw out all but 10, no one needs like 50 floppy drives), fans, a few decent PSUs, etc from the whole incident. Since the AMD 1400+ system was entirely toasted, I will probably be ordering a new mobo for it to use with a GeForce4 TNT2 that I had lying around. Next time they have one of these, I am renting a van and parking nearby. I think I will also go sooner, as I think most of the good systems were already taken (or maybe locked up). It is amazing how many computers soccer moms in a rich area will throw away...

wow great find!

[modding_JunKy]

i caint dumpster dive in our city :-( i called to police and they said it was illegal

im sad now

[goldspire]

I've often browsed this forum but until recently didn't have a chance to post.
I've gotten two big hauls in my time.
1st I went to ABC warehouse and got probably 100 or so 25 foot RCA cables all brand new as well as a monitor. Next door at a gaming spot I tracked down several gameboys, cases and games as well as an old nintendo gameshark all in great condition. There was more but I had to stop when the cops were called... yikes.

Last week I had an amazing haul while diving at a local university's dumpsters. Behind the science building I found all sorts of nifty glassware, new glass vials (in an unopened box), brand new electronic pH meters (each had a connection broken inside which took seconds to fix), 2 electronic precision balances (worth several thousand each) and a 50 ft roll of metal screen (which replaced my broken window screen this afternoon).

[m00nraker]

First dive was tonight. Went to a small PC repair shop. There were about 8+ monitors out back, so we did what anyone would do - Grab the biggest one! :p 21" NEC Multisync 6FGp. Sucker is HUGE! Only thing, damn thing doesnt work :mad:

Also grabbed a nice HP printer, Photosmart 940 i think, its still in my car. There were quite a few PC's still lying around, but we couldnt fit any morein the car with that huge monitor. Not bad for a first dive, too bad the monitor doesnt work tho.

[zetachi]

newest find.. Walking down lexington Ave in NYC and found this by a trash can on the street.

Compaq Deskpro ENM P667 128 MB Rambus, HP cd Burner, cd drive. Not in the best condition. No front bezel or side cover and power switch seems not to work. But seems pretty good to run linux on.

[CardiaK]

The office occasionally does massive tosses of old computer stuff.

I mostly stay away (wicked old servers, 15" monitors, other miscellaneous crap), but I do poke around and see if there are any gems hidden among the wreckage.

Besides the occasional small accessory (MS Intellimouse, Dell keyboards, USB Cables, etc.) here and there, sometimes I hit the motherload.

#1 best pickup was an Infocus LCD projector (800x600), only problem with it was the multi-input dongle that went to a little pod that allowed hookup of a PC, mouse/pointer, and audio was busted.

The other inputs (the non-multi) worked fine, (Audio, S-Video, Composite), and the projector bulb had plenty of life, so I just went to Infocus's website and ordered a $9 cable that was the multi-input on one end, and VGA on the other. Worked like a charm; up until I bought my 37" LCD and X360 this past winter, the projector served me well as a giant 480p setup for my original Xbox.

Now it's going to serve a new role as a D&D map projector (http://www.d20srd.org/extras/mapProjection.htm).

[haadij404]

So I came across this section of the site just a couple of hours ago and I thought, why not go diving - tonite! So i got my brother and we went to a bunch of stores. First place we hit up was Sports Authority. It a big find, for our first time. Peeked into the dumpster and whaddya know, A brand New Bike (still with tags and warranty :D), a slightly used Trampoline and a crap load of socks and some magnetic massage gloves. The other stores we went to (comper, staps, the city ) were either locked or were compacters. No luck there. So for the last place, we went to Peir Uno and found some very nice candle/speaker stands. I will post pictures below of the finds.

[Lukeman]

At Sears(where I work) they keep alot of bigger "trash" items that they can't compact outside until they can be taken to the junkyard. You can find tv's(can't compact due to some poisonous gas), appliances and some excercise equipment(just too big for the compactor). I picked myself up a 32" Sony Trinitron television w/ remote, made in 1995. This thing is a beast, 180lbs. It was missing a 3"x8" piece of plastic casing near the speaker, otherwise was in perfect shape. It has picture-in-picture, 2 tuner, and everything else that makes Sony the best in televisions.

I keep my eyes open for other items. I'm waiting for them to trash a 27" Sony Trinitron next. It's been sitting in their back room just collecting dust, so I'm sure they will get rid of it soon.

Many times they will trash water heaters and refrigerators if they are dented and in 1 case they trashed a returned side-by-side fridge with nothing wrong just because it stunk of rotting fish, lol.

[miro]

Some of my friends in college actually make some money once or twice a year dumpster diving. Yo'd be amazed what students (especially freshmen) will throw out at the end of the semester, just because they don't want to take it home. For our yard sale this weekend, we have a small stack of tvs, half a dozen dvd players, a futon, three or four mini fridges, several tables, and a bunch of smaller stuff. Not counting stuff we're keeping ourselves, like a handful of window fans, a beer pong table, a couple table lamps, or my new 5.1 surround system. All of it in near-new condition. And all this is at a small school, maybe 3k students in the dorms.
Anyone with a college in the area letting out this week, it's worth a look.

[synaps3]

today we found

hundreds of feet of light rope things
an OLD compaq
perfectly good rolling office chair
wireless optical logitech mouse (mx 700), good shape, works fine, a bit dirty
tons of brand-new good hardback books
2 cases of cds
decent epson photo printer
and some other random crap

[synaps3]

i caint dumpster dive in our city :-( i called to police and they said it was illegal

im sad now
If you are in the USA, it is legal. The law is called Public Domain," google it...

[soulman76]

I've been dumpster diving the past few weeks and have been too lazy to post pics but here's some of the highlights

slot load pioneer dvd drive (works great)
40 gig seagate ide (works great)
60 gig ibm deathstar (works fine so far)
several floppy drives
4 assorted power supplies 250-320 watt (some working some not)
a MESS of Thermaltake heatsink/fan combos for 754 and 939 (I grabbed the copper ones, I have maybe 6-8 of the 40+ in the dumpster)
Windows XP w/sp2 OEM install cd
20 gig toshiba laptop drive (untested, rattles... not a good sign)
40 gig toshiba laptop drive (untested, rattles... not a good sign)


and some other stuff I can't remember right now.

All from local pc store dumpsters




http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/161313 (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&tm=33&id=161313)

[JaYp146]

I've been dumpster diving the past few weeks and have been too lazy to post pics but here's some of the highlights

slot load pioneer dvd drive (works great)
40 gig seagate ide (works great)
60 gig ibm deathstar (works fine so far)
several floppy drives
4 assorted power supplies 250-320 watt (some working some not)
a MESS of Thermaltake heatsink/fan combos for 754 and 939 (I grabbed the copper ones, I have maybe 6-8 of the 40+ in the dumpster)
Windows XP w/sp2 OEM install cd
20 gig toshiba laptop drive (untested, rattles... not a good sign)
40 gig toshiba laptop drive (untested, rattles... not a good sign)


and some other stuff I can't remember right now.

All from local pc store dumpsters




http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/161313 (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&tm=33&id=161313)



...crikey, mate.

Where do you live/dive?

[soulman76]

Bellevue, Wa. about a mile from Microsoft

http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/161313 (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&tm=33&id=161313)

[Llyd]

found these art posters

The Monet and Munch ones are framed and huge! They're probably about 3.5'x5' or so (can't find my tape measure). The MC Escheresque one is about 2'x3'.
Monet and Munch found by apt dumpster down the street; MC wannabe found 2 houses down at the curb.

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/4947/img19016kf.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Tramonto a Venezia by Claude Monet

http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/810/img19020rd.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
The Scream (or The Cry) by Edvard Munch

http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/1848/img19030xx.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
not sure of the artist... looks like MC Escher, but i'm pretty sure it's not

[theyangster]

:eek: those are so cool!

what if they are real ? :D

[mutazx]

That last piece is really cool

[ipam45]

one day couple of friends and i are walking around in out local mall. we started to walk towards the exit when the mall was about to close. on out way we passed this verizon cell phone dealership and they were giving out free frisbee the whole day. when we went past there, the dude just handed us the whole bag. it was literally a huge black trash full of frisbees. we counted about 150+ frisbees!!! the next day we had a really good time at the shooting range.

[Hupo]

anyone live in central jersey? I dont wanna go alone. and my friends think there to good to go dumpster diving

[tpfaff]

hehe just went last night, might post pics later, got a bunch of books, a world map,giant bottle of protein powder(which I just found out is expired) cordless phone,some type of rubber band gun or something,ipod nano box, and a back massager :p

[The Cardinal]

1GHZ PIII Dell Optiplex system sans Hard Drive. I guess somebody upgraded and decided to throw it out, poor thing.

[Stuey83]

The artist of that third print is: Irvine Peacock/Meiklejohn Graphics.
I have a poster of it, and this is what is says on the bottom under artist information.

[c.d.e]

Stale-ples throws out alot of stuff. Always see complete chair kits and file cabinets, sometimes full size bookcases (Don't need another one [yet]). Lately, I found a half size, stackable, foldable bookcase. Nice cherry red finish. No assemblly needed. Best part of all was that the thing was still SEALED IN ITS BOX. Looks like someone in the back spilt some coffee on it and out it went. Too bad they didn't spill coffee on both things. All in all a nice 49.99 (0.00) bookcase :D

Item: 502507
Situations Solid Wood Bookcases, 3-Shelf , Sonoma Cherry

http://pics.gawthicpic.com/bookcase.jpg

[Bowhuntr11]

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/9443/p1010644wy3.th.jpg (http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1010644wy3.jpg)

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/4427/p1010647fe1.th.jpg (http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1010647fe1.jpg)

Found this dumpster diving, GARAGE SALE!! :D We go twice a week haha

[buschman31]

I guess u would call this a trash find. Decided to walk in another direction to the store and found a hp photosmart p1000 w/ black ink cartridge. The color cartridge was empty. And its still working. Find it earlier this yr and just gave to the kids. I already have a P1115 but stopped using it and used the P1000 instead. Also someone on craigslist mailed to me free 4 hp ink cartridges-2 blk/2 color. Now that is really a find considering how much the ink is costing now.

[Stuey83]

Not bad. Don't forget that Office Depot and Staples will give you $3 coupons for each ink cartridge.

[c.d.e]

Staples around me tend to throw those empty ink tanks you take to them other then use the free recycling program that is already postage paid for them... Find them along with the rest of their stuff in their dumpster, even in the recycling baggies.

[buschman31]

Speaking of ink cartridges, has anyone heard anything on the HP ink cartridge lawsuit? or is it still in litigation?

[umbra]

i was at the local dump a while back throwing out construction debris with a friend and I see a 2x10 sub box sitting in the pile. I pulled it out. It's fine with the exception of some of the rug pealing off. I went back the next week and I see a samsung dvd/vcr sitting on the top and my friends like it's broken just leave it. Well I took it home and it plays both dvds and vhs tapes just fine. :cool: will add pics tonight

[bball0076]

anybody live in ct who wants to dumpster dive?

[Jarod888]

I found a bunch of brand new carpet remnents at a construction site, It is a neutral color and great for using to make my cats scratching posts and "jungle gyms".

My dad once found a socket set on the side of the road, it had apparently fallen off a truck and scatered all over the road, but he managed to gather up all the sockets and wrenches.

I also found a brand new air nailer, probably a finishing nailer once when i was going with my mom and uncle to buy my mom a new car. But my uncle claimed that, and I havn't seen it since then.

[TheLordsServant]

The guy I work for gave me a DVD-ROM (Phillips) a Apple DVD-RAM Drive, and a new in box Lite-on CDRW. No pics, the DVD-ROM is in my new Powermac, I sold the Liteon on ebay for $15 and the DVD-RAM I gave to my brother, I'll try to get some pics of the DVD-RAM

[MONSOON]

^^^^^^ Dude your sig is too long!^^^^^^
(22) No active links, graphics, code, profanity or advertising allowed in the SIGNATURE. Sig line is limited to 10 lines total as viewed @ 800 x 600 resolution or no more that 15 words per line.
And I dont think that someone giving you some stuff really counts as Dumpster Diving. :rolleyes:

[Stormscape]

I picked up a Pentium 1 (not sure of the speed yet) today, Would have scored 2 CD-ROM and 4 5 1/4 floppy drives if I had a screwdriver. Such is life.

[Star Fox]

If you are in the USA, it is legal. The law is called Public Domain," google it...
Wrong.

Stores lease/own their dumpsters, which makes them private property.

[TheLordsServant]

All right, thanks for telling me Monsoon, and dude I already changed it, one of the mods sent me a PM. And sorry, I thought this thread could be just about anything you got for free, not just stuff you got out of a dumpster :D

[l337*g0at]

well, first night ever dumpster diving, and we get stopped by the fuzz..
luckly, i have a masters degree at bullshit which got us out of any trouble we could have gotten into by telling the truth.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v419/jaz-z0r/DSCF0482.jpg
There were probably 30-40 more of those huge pillows in the dumpster, all encased in plastic, but I didnt need that many, so i took a nice suade blue/purple one and a white one.. oh, you can also see the fuzzy mice cat toys i got from a petsmart

[c.d.e]

well, first night ever dumpster diving, and we get stopped by the fuzz..
luckly, i have a masters degree at bullshit which got us out of any trouble we could have gotten into by telling the truth.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v419/jaz-z0r/DSCF0482.jpg
There were probably 30-40 more of those huge pillows in the dumpster, all encased in plastic, but I didnt need that many, so i took a nice suade blue/purple one and a white one.. oh, you can also see the fuzzy mice cat toys i got from a petsmart

Nice find. where were those pillows? What area (gives his crappy pillows an evil look)

[l337*g0at]

NW Houston, in the dumpster behind Mattress Firm..

There must have been 20 more white ones, and almost 10 different shades of the blue-ish purple ones.

[lillimon04]

went diving while on vacation and i found a slot loading cd rom, very old! but nice! 5.1 creative sound blast live! and a hard drive, unknown gb! i reallly badly needed a soundcard and the motherworked!! i almost pissed my pants, i actually wanted to go home early so i could install the sound card!

[equate975]

I have been going out for a few months now and last night was an AWESOME score!

Staples:

This chair:

http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10051&partNumber=615402

It was thrown out because it was "missing bolts" everything was still new in packaging just didn't have the bolts. $2.17 at the hardware store fixed that issue.

This really ugly laptop bag, brand new I don't know why they chucked it other than the fact its hideous.

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h242/equate975/800x600_IMG_0958.jpg

And this which works fine (its just really stupid over USB):

http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?prodCatType=1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&productId=151316&cmArea=SEARCH

We also got tons of new pens in boxes (nice for school), New desk lamp, New leather PDA case, Leather laptop case (slashed on the front from a box cutter I'm assuming), Automatic stapler, 50pk of DVD+R, 50pk CD-R, and an "OPEN" sign.


From Office Max:

My prize!

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h242/equate975/800x600_IMG_0957.jpg

$200 Epson photo printer! It said "broken" and I guess by being "broken" they ment that someone didn't push the ink cartridge lock thing down all the way... I pushed it down all the way and it works perfectly fine!

1 brand new paper shredder, thrown for "missing UPC"

1 Paper shredder that "does't stay on" haven't tested it yet.

There was a ton more stuff but it wasn't that great, our car was full so we called it a night.

DD FTW!!

[133]

wow thats a sweet printer, your lucky :p

[dj_2004]

well, first night ever dumpster diving, and we get stopped by the fuzz..
luckly, i have a masters degree at bullshit which got us out of any trouble we could have gotten into by telling the truth.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v419/jaz-z0r/DSCF0482.jpg
There were probably 30-40 more of those huge pillows in the dumpster, all encased in plastic, but I didnt need that many, so i took a nice suade blue/purple one and a white one.. oh, you can also see the fuzzy mice cat toys i got from a petsmart

Those are some sweet pillows.

[sonofwang]

This is my first DD post. I've read this thread many months ago and wished I was lucky enough to find some of this good loot I've been reading about . Well yesterday I looked down the drive at my apartment complex and noticed a computer chair sitting by the trash along with some other junk. As I got closer, I saw that the chair was missing a wheel but decided to go further and examine everything. Lo and behold, there was a HP 7850 desktop computer. P3 933mhz, 1 stick 128 mb pc100 and 40 gig drive according to the stickers on the case.
I took it home and plugged it in and it said "no operating system found."
I took the drive out of the case and saw that it was in fact a 80gb WD drive. I put it in my machine, the bios recognized it but windows would not. I downloaded some diagnostic tool from western digital website and ran it and now I have an 80gb drive whereas previously I only had a 30gb drive. Not to mention the other working parts.

I was freaking out happy. I had been wanting a new hard drive for months but im poor.

[Lazarey]

This is my first DD post. I've read this thread many months ago and wished I was lucky enough to find some of this good loot I've been reading about . Well yesterday I looked down the drive at my apartment complex and noticed a computer chair sitting by the trash along with some other junk. As I got closer, I saw that the chair was missing a wheel but decided to go further and examine everything. Lo and behold, there was a HP 7850 desktop computer. P3 933mhz, 1 stick 128 mb pc100 and 40 gig drive according to the stickers on the case.
I took it home and plugged it in and it said "no operating system found."
I took the drive out of the case and saw that it was in fact a 80gb WD drive. I put it in my machine, the bios recognized it but windows would not. I downloaded some diagnostic tool from western digital website and ran it and now I have an 80gb drive whereas previously I only had a 30gb drive. Not to mention the other working parts.

I was freaking out happy. I had been wanting a new hard drive for months but im poor.

Good for you man! You never know what you're going to find...:D

[JBavousett]

Found some hella nice small round Xeon fog lamps, just the housing and bulbs, no extra wiring...but I've got plenty of that. Way bright.

[Lazarey]

Found some hella nice small round Xeon fog lamps, just the housing and bulbs, no extra wiring...but I've got plenty of that. Way bright.

Nice, I want some of those :D

[Qui Gon-Jinn]

Not really a DD.. but.. if I had waited a few hours it would have been

IT guy at work was swapping out PC's..

I grabbed 6.. 4 are P3 800's that will be NAS box's for myself and friends

1 P4 unkown speed and stats.. that is yet to be looked at

the best one.. P4 2.8ghz 512DDR 40gb Sata working PC.. and the CPU is a Socket 775.. Prescott..

that is the GF's new PC.. I am formating and reloading it now.. I had to agree to format it so the IT guy would let me take it..

[MONSOON]

Not really a DD.. but.. if I had waited a few hours it would have been

IT guy at work was swapping out PC's..

I grabbed 6.. 4 are P3 800's that will be NAS box's for myself and friends

1 P4 unkown speed and stats.. that is yet to be looked at

the best one.. P4 2.8ghz 512DDR 40gb Sata working PC.. and the CPU is a Socket 775.. Prescott..

that is the GF's new PC.. I am formating and reloading it now.. I had to agree to format it so the IT guy would let me take it..

They may have ended up in the dumpster. So to quote Mills Lane "I'll allow it!":D
Nice find!

[GTA3mobster]

76 pages of credit card numbers, gift card numbers, checking account numbers... at CompUSA :eek:
They don't have the CSV codes. I threw them back in the dumpster once I actually read them. Someone should get fired. They weren't even shredded!

Aside from that I found 2 large printers (don't look too old, Epson) and like every single cable you could ever need for a computer.