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Greta Jaruševičiūtė

105 Times People Couldn’t Believe Their Luck While Dumpster Diving (New Pics)

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There’s a stereotype that dumpster diving is only for people who are financially struggling and have no other choice. But in reality, many do it as a way to reduce waste, help the environment, and give perfectly good items a second life instead of letting them end up in a landfill.

Below, we’ve gathered some amazing finds shared on the Dumpster Diving subreddit. From beautiful furniture to pricey electronics and untouched food, these discoveries show that one person’s trash really can be another’s treasure. Scroll down to see them.

#1 Pizza Owner Found Out That People Are Eating From The Shop's Garbage. This Is What He Did

#2 Found This Little Guy In The Trash. Good News We Adopted The Trash Baby Say Hello To Jello

#3 Was Not Expecting To Find These 😢

I’ve been trash picking for a couple years now, just for fun because I love finding cool things. Never in a million years would I have imagined finding something so heartbreaking. Last night, I found 5 kittens abandoned with no food or water. They were left in a box sitting beside a clothes and shoes donation bin.

#4 Super Old Books I Found In A Library Dumpster

#5 Found A Telescope Next To The Dumpster After A Tenant Moved Out. It Works!

#6 Legendary Pull Today. Thousands Of Fruit Veg And Flower Seeds

#7 My Schools Dumpster

#8 My Work Threw It Away

My boss threw this in the rear of the store for storage ( to never use again). I asked him about taking it home and he let me. As far as I know, there is still quarters in it.

#9 Found Under A Construction Dumpster Yesterday

#10 Not Sure If This Counts But I Saved These Treasures From The Trash My Boss Was Throwing Away

#11 I Turned Into The Wrong Apartment Complex At Just The Right Time ☺️

#12 My Biggest Find Yet

I’ll go in order from least to most exciting: Pretty banged up Samsung monitor, the Xbox steering wheel controller, Corsair keyboard, Xbox 360 with a 120gb HDD, a ton of baseball cards, and obviously the holy grail of this pull, the pc. I wish I knew more about computers but from what I can say is it has: Msi GeForce Rtx 3060, two stick of Corsair ram, DDR4 boost motherboard.

#13 I Really Needed This Moral Boost

I recently lost everything so my dog and I are homeless. I really needed something to go right. I've been at a friend's house cleaning and testing everything. Everything was very well taken care of and almost all the games are complete in box.

#14 Found In Its Box In The Trash, Was Shocked To Find It Worked

#15 Technicaly In Front Of The Dumpster But Still

#16 My Late Husband Were Curb Picking And We Found A $100 Gift Card To Some Fancy Restaurant And We Enjoyed A Free Steak Lunch After Church

#17 Favorite Find!!!

#18 My Favorite Dumpster Dive

#19 It's Been A Good Week

#20 The Curb Gods Have Smiled Upon Me Today

#21 Rescued A Pile Of Late 90s/2000s Movie Posters

#22 I Found A Baby Dumpster Diver When I Was Dropping Off At The Local Food Pantry

#23 I Found A $2000 Gaming Laptop Last Night

#24 Today's Find Sweet

#25 Thanks For Never Cleaning This And Then Throwing It Out! <3

#26 Good Timing

#27 Who Would Throw This Away???

#28 Concluding The Dumpster Dive Experience Of A Lifetime

#29 Wow ! My Neighbor Threw These Out

#30 One Of My Better Trash Finds

#31 If You Throw Money Away, I'm Gonna Collect And Claim It! Just Saying

#32 Second Haul Ever!

#33 Dumpster Mantle Turned Into Christmas Decoration!

#34 First Time Diving And I Hit The Jackpot

#35 Epson Projector From School Dumpster

#36 Always Look In Cigar Boxes (14k)

#37 Found This

#38 I Don’t Even Know

#39 One Of My Best Dives To Date

#40 They Called It Trash, I Called It A Custom Project. Two Of My Dumpster Dive Stools Fully Restored

#41 Sorority Sister House Dumpster

#42 The New Kind Of Dumpster Diving

#43 Surviving W Dumpster Food

#44 Area Wide Yard Sales

Maybe this will help some having conflict on selling things they find. Participated in a community wide yard sale this weekend and made a decent amount in a day. Get that stuff out there and make that money. The economy is a mess.