{"id":145,"date":"2004-06-04T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2004-06-04T17:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/06\/dumpster_diving.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:48:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:48:44","slug":"dumpster_diving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/06\/dumpster_diving.shtml","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dumpster Diving&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virusdoc.net\">Virusdoc<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virusdoc.net\/archives\/000152.html\">cool post today <\/a>about acquiring stuff that other folks throw out.  Although not as &#8216;active&#8217; as he, I too appreciate the joy of finding gems in other&#8217;s trash.  Some of my finds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Back in junior high school, a friend of mine had no bike, her family didn&#8217;t have the money to buy her one.  Well, our neighbor was throwing away a bike that needed some help.  I snatched it up and either I bought parts for it (not likely, how much $$ does a 6th grader have for that kind of thing?) or just patched it up with stuff I had and gave it to her.<\/li>\n<li>Right after we moved into our first apartment with a washer\/dryer hook up this avacado green washer and dryer showed up at the dumpster.  I quickly dragged them into our basement.  The washer turned out to be no good, but a $10 belt and and afternoon of work and the dryer was just fine.<\/li>\n<li>When we moved into that apartment mentioned above, the previous tenant had left a bunch of stuff behind.  They were moving out of state and there was no room on the truck I guess.  Unfortunately the guys painting the apartment got some of the better things like a CD boombox and microwave, but we got a stuffed chair and ottoman, office chair with casters, wire office cart and a large file sorting tray, sort of like a mega in and out box.<\/li>\n<li> The best one, however, was a few years ago.  I was delivering newspapers in the AM to bring in extra money to allow Maria to stay at home with our 2 kids.  I learned that a woman at church was about to junk her &#8217;88 Subaru wagon.  She got a new car and didn&#8217;t feel right about selling the old clunker and it&#8217;s troubles to anyone.  I offered her what the junkyard would give her ($30 &#8211; $50), but she said if I wanted it I could have it, but warned me it was always overheating.  I got it home, put in a <i>gallon<\/i> of water and drove it for over a year on the paper route, adding water every couple of weeks.  The only thing it needed during that time was a timing belt, which I changed myself for less than $50.  The belt broke a second time when I was done with the route and I donated it to charity.  It brought $75 at auction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I must admit, however, I am a little self conscious about riffling through stuff at the curb.  Most of my &#8216;finds&#8217;, like the car, haven&#8217;t been that public.  I&#8217;ve past by some stuff because I didn&#8217;t want to be seen out &#8216;dumpster diving&#8217;.  Still, it&#8217;s nice to get free stuff and give it a new life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Virusdoc has a cool post today about acquiring stuff that other folks throw out. 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