Scavenging general - Junk men of the farms, unite!

[Alex Hogendorp]

The Farmers Market and Antique Store would often catalogue many interesting things such as Vinyl's and Banknotes as well as crystals and hot sauces and such. I own around 30 Vinyl's and hundreds of banknotes and coins from over 30 countries. Venezuela Banknotes and Zimbabwe Banknotes are usually my favorite because of the weird values and how colorful they are. You could also get bars and coins of gold and silver in the currency shop there, though priced slightly higher than Albern's Coins. There is also a section where you could buy used vinyl's for a Canadian dollar each.

 

[eatler]

Oh man I didn’t know that this board existed. Yeah garbage day in my town is my night you would be amazed at what people just throw away. I also run an antique store with my mom, so what I usually find I clean up and sell off. I don’t remember everything but some things I enjoy finding was a maglite flashlight. Side note if you find one but it isn’t turning on but a piece of foil at the end of the battery pile its probably corroded. I’ve found odd and end furniture. I’ve found an entire Yamaha keyboard. And surprisingly a bunch of dvds and cds. I live nearby a few old rich people neighborhoods, they are the worst at just throwing things away that people could use. But I won’t complain it helps keep food on the table.

This isn’t garbage picking but if you ever want to make money by buying cheap. Go to a bun place, there’s these places where there’s giant capitalists junk troughs that are filled to the brim with items these people obtain from clean outs and things that don’t sell on Amazon. The idea is each day has a price amount per item. So if it starts Wednesday everything is priced 8 the last day would have everything priced at 1 buck. I usually lick out on 3 buck day, I’ve found things that I’ve resold for pretty ok money. Just recently I found a beaded lamp that was 80 dollars and sold it for 70.

 

[Surfin' Biiird]

People know this about me and bring me their old computers and stuff, and I can't even say no.

This is my favorite part about being the resident computer guy. I have so many old shitty laptops and hard drives laying around that I didn't pay a dime for, just because my friends/family gave them to me. I've used them for email servers, Minecraft servers, and even a shoddy music streaming server. I've been trying to find some old recycling centers around my area that I could buy from, but, despite seeing videos online, I can't find any lmao.

 

[eatler]

I have so many old shitty laptops and hard drives laying around that I didn't pay a dime for, just because my friends/family gave them to me.

How old are we talking? Do you have any super old hardware

 

[TheRedChair]

How old are we talking? Do you have any super old hardware

Conner Hard Drive I have.

 

[Free the Pedos]

When I lived in a bougier neighborhood I found a great mid century modern desk thrown out like trash with just some minor scuffing. I reverse imaged searched it and found out it was by a known designer and sold it for $600, I think.
Not quite the same, but I've grown to really appreciate what good stuff you can get for pennies at thrift stores if you're persistent and show up at the right time.

 

[Rock hard as a Flintstone]

Found an off brand CRT TV with RGB SCART inputs roadside recently. Aside from some intermittent arcing which was fixed with some dielectric grease it works perfectly. Didn't need it but considering it'd been out in the rain for at least a few days I wasn't going to leave it there.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

We used to drive around the back of techy office buildings two days before pickup - fun stuff in the dumpsters including entire working computers. And leaving the extra day gap means there’s often not yet the bags of shit trash.

Campus areas are also great on move out day.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

When I was a young guy I was a big time picker. One of my cars had an exhaust welded up entirely from scraps pulled from the garbage, some was fence pipe and no nobody ever told me not to weld that but luckily I was welding outside with fluxcore. I had all kinds of tools and furniture I'd picked. Until last year my best junk find ever was a big two channel oscilloscope and a function generator in someone's trash pile but then I found a lathe at the dump when I went to get rid of some home renovation and yard debris. I had one of the garbage men help me load it onto my trailer with his loader (the scales said I left almost 600lbs heavier than I went in). It's a fairly small one, and the ways were rusty, but still: free lathe. The best places to garbage pick were always middle class neighborhoods and office building dumpsters.

 

[Nice Comoesta]

Go on over to the app store and search Freebie Alert. Do it.
It compiles free listings from like 7 diffrent sites and links you to them.
Got myself all my automotive interior decorations, an arcade cabinet, a MSI Motherboard, power supply, a big ass 3D printer, a Meccano Spider, and Im about to grab some old computers to see if I can pull parts off them. Shit is my drug.