Comments on: Trash for Christmas

By: Jim E.

Jim E. — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:20:37 +0000

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!

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:45:38 +0000

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.

By: Chuck in Detroit

Chuck in Detroit — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:20:51 +0000

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.

By: Tuffy

Tuffy — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:21:52 +0000

soccer: the hell?

trashcan pic: hilarious. I wonder what the idea was there?

By: Erica

Erica — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:27:34 +0000

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.

By: Tuffy

Tuffy — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:20:48 +0000

Hey Erica, great post! Is that really what your trash cans look like? It’s awfully fancy.

By: Beth Heatongrindel

Beth Heatongrindel — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:04:03 +0000

This is the COOLEST Blog!!

By: Scott T.

Scott T. — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:45:09 +0000

The Border’s dumpster around the corner from Arbor Vitae was great for magazines, if you didn’t mind waiting a week/month/quarter …