This is kind of inspired but have you ever found somthing/saved somthing from the garbage? becuase i know i have!

 

currantly i am siting watching a tv that was down by the garbage in my old apartment... it's a 1984 mitsubishi 40in rear projection big screen

 

all four of the doors in my house were found insomeone's garbage also all the trim in jack's room. we have 9 outside chairs and a table we saved.

 

this is going to turn into the MCF junk roadshow, but it has value to all of us atleast!

 

It's people like you and myself (along with probably almost every other member on MCF) that towns and cities have junk day. You can actually find some pretty decent and USEFUL stuff on junk day

 

ha thats when we got our chairs,table, doors and other stuff but i can't think of what all i know is we made 2 trips

 

We're usually the ones that leave stuff out at the road for "roadside shoppers" to pick up.

 

i love junk day! its the bushkill free yardsale! lol.
my stereo / turntable, tools, my desk, bookcases, probibly about 35 lawnmowers... put gas in em & use em for a season or more, then go "exchange" for another when the old one crapps out.... and TONS of bicycles! i actually used to rebuild & repair the nicer ones & sell em outta my gradge... 20-30 per bike, made some decent money for damn near no effort, most of the ones i found were like brand new! i STILL have a ton of parts laying around for bikes

this came outta the trashheap on junk day:


found this one day... it hangs over my bed:


this was my BEST find, by far! we were unloading some junk, and the guy next to me pulled this outta his truck & sat it in the pile... i asked, he said it sat in his renal propertys shed! it was compleate except for the side cover on the engine... i brought it home, cleaned it, and sold it the next week for $200!

 

Okay, I'm in, last year someone two streets away was throwing out a Schwinn Excersice bike, just like the one I bought used for $40 about a year before, I threw the truck in reverse and grabbed it.
When I got home that night my wife was like what are you going to do with two excersice bikes, about 3 weeks later I sold it for $65 on C-list.

Now before we throw anything away we put it on C list first, heck we sold some old pans for $40 that weren't worth anything to us the first night we posted.

 

I don't have a picture of it and sold it awhile ago but the best thing I ever found was a black leather couch. I thought the people were just setting it there to sit on or somethin but then I asked em about it and they said take it. It turns out it was like an $1800 couch that was brand new in 2006 (I got it in 07). It was in perfect condition, just a little dusty, so I cleaned it up and used for almost a year. One of my newly aquired friends (at that time, complete idiot by the way) asked me bout it so I said make me an offer. The next day he left with a couch and I filled my wallet with $1000 of his money. I felt kinda bad cuz it was ALL profit for me and I kinda screwed him but he offered that much and it was SO hard to say no. He still has it I think