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Curb piles are one of my favorite sources of inventory! As long as it looks like a move out or a clean out (and not a bedbug infestation or something), I’ll stop and look. I have actually gone dumpster diving quite a bit in the past, but now I just stick with curbs for the most part. My favorite dumpster was actually the dumpster at the junky thrift store near us. They put Walmart junk in the store but throw out the true vintage stuff. I found so much inventory in there! Unfortunately a heavy smoker started using that dumpster for his/her ashes and butts also, so I gave up looking. I guess my tips would be to look in the dumpsters of thrift stores and also to look around college areas during the move out weekend. Lots of valuable stuff gets tossed then.
I’m always amazed at the beautiful vintage items Martin saves from the landfill. I love his blog.
Yeah I totally should have gone back. The last bin I was looking through before the angry granny started watching me had box upon box of that Starbucks Via stuff on top and who knows what down below. It was like a Starbucks threw up on the curb. I still wonder what I missed lol.
I joined just so I could confess my scavenge that I can’t tell anyone else about. One day I was out driving around looking for boxes and packing material for Ebay when I happened on what must have been eviction stuff sitting on a curb for the trash truck. I stopped to look and I discovered an absolute treasure-trove of vacuum sealed bags of Starbucks whole bean coffee. I also found a couple of Starbucks aprons and hats (Ebayed those), but the real treasure was the coffee. I was loading up my car when some lady across the street started yelling at me. She was like “do you live here??” and stood there watching. I didn’t want an audience while I was curbside shopping so I left. I’ll never know what was in the rest of the boxes and bins. I ended up with an entire year’s worth of whole bean Starbucks coffee! It must have been the free bags the baristas can take home every week. I was so sad when it ran out and I had to start buying it again. I guess this counts as eating (drinking?) from the trash lol.
