Trash for Christmas
I’m back, and am the proud new owner of a headlamp! If anyone wants to go dumpstering with me this weekend, send an email. I’m well-equipped. If you think dumpster diving sounds horrible and gross, here’s a good, well thought-out discussion of the topic, along with some great examples of what you can find. Being filth-averse, I tend to stick to non-food dumpsters and recycle bins. Also, here’s a link to an interesting California legal precedent which might help with the police if you ever get caught. Librarians: this is a great way to aquire new books…as long as you aren’t picky about things like covers. .
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January 5th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
The Border’s dumpster around the corner from Arbor Vitae was great for magazines, if you didn’t mind waiting a week/month/quarter …
January 5th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
This is the COOLEST Blog!!
January 6th, 2006 at 5:20 am
Hey Erica, great post! Is that really what your trash cans look like? It’s awfully fancy.
January 6th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
Alas, no. I got that image from 800,000 images: The Big Box of Art, which I use at work for small projects.
Our trashcans tend to look more like this.
On a similar note, dumpster soccer.
January 6th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
soccer: the hell?
trashcan pic: hilarious. I wonder what the idea was there?
January 11th, 2006 at 12:20 am
When I was younger I used to dumpster dive on a regular basis. Not once, but TWICE I pulled out a fully functional police scanner.
My father still has one in his garage and uses it to listen in to Detroit police.
January 16th, 2006 at 10:45 am
Belated response to Tuffy’s comment – the pretentious trashcan is common on the streets of Englandland where we emblazon a borough’s coat of arms on Victoriana type street furniture for the full-on heritage experiece for our cultural tourists.
January 30th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
They closed the free-standing Barnes and Noble in town, where I used to get most of my paperback reading. All we have is the mall store. Can’t dumpster dive there because of the type of dumpster.
Major bummer!