Sometimes dumpster diving is very profitable.

[NovaTerra]

I am writing this while sitting in my brand new office chair! It was one of 5 thrown away by the building manager where I work. One of the chairs had ripped cushions, two had a broken castor, and two had bent arms. I pulled out the chairs from the construction dumpster, and combined the parts to make two good chairs! These are the deluxe executive type office chairs, less than a couple of months old, that were damaged when we moved into a new building. The Building manager told our boss that he would cut a check for the chairs, took the chairs out of the office, and put them in a construction dumpster!

Our office catalog has these things listed at 299 bucks!

Sure am glad people do not know how to use simple tools...

 

[Bignate603]

My dad's company furnished their offices with what they salvaged from dumpsters forthe first few years. Saved them thousands...

 

[CuriousAndy]

you scrub..

good job

~mOo

 

[monk3y]

Just drop by college dorms at the end of a year and you'll be able to pick up furniture in pretty good condition too. Its funny what kids throw away when they have no place to store things.

 

[spamboy]

sometimes you even find good computer bits. my dad came home with like 20 8088 computers. those were the days.

 

[JohnnyKnoxville]

Yikes for a second I thought you wrote dumpster dining

 

[Bleep]

Dumpster diving!! I was in Omaha visiting my son who is a avid antique collector we were driving down the street by a building that was being renovated, he hammered on the brakes and stopped ran back to a dumpster and plucked out the ugliest lamp I ever saw. We cleaned it off with a towel that was in the car. Took it to a antique dealer he knows and his estimate was $800.00 it was some kind of Italian leaded glass (green)

Moral A sharp eye makes money
Bleep

 

[RedFox1]

Earlier in the year one of the head haunchos where I work decided to "throw out" four APS Back-UPS Pro 1400 uninterruptable power supplies because they were "beeping too much, must be broken." They were beeping because they were overloaded -- I tried to explain this to him, but to no avail.

Rather than watch them get canned, I got an OK from the administrative assistant and adopted them myself. I got four of them, and each retails for around $300 new.

My boss replaced them with a cheaper model. They're still overloaded, but they're not capable of beeping. I don't work there anymore.

-RedFox1

 

[Scrapster]

Send the other one to me!

 

[CromNogger]

"I am writing this while sitting in my brand new office chair! It was one of 5 thrown away by the building manager where I work. One of the chairs had ripped cushions, two had a broken castor, and two had bent arms. I pulled out the chairs from the construction dumpster, and combined the parts to make two good chairs! These are the deluxe executive type office chairs, less than a couple of months old, that were damaged when we moved into a new building. The Building manager told our boss that he would cut a check for the chairs, took the chairs out of the office, and put them in a construction dumpster!

Our office catalog has these things listed at 299 bucks!

Sure am glad people do not know how to use simple tools..."

lmao, that's awesome. No good "garbage" around here.

 

[Elledan]

LOL@RedFox1

That's the funniest story I've read in a long time

 

[CromNogger]

JohnnyKnoxville,

What if he had written dining? Maybe someone carefully placed a good meal *near* a dumpster.. Even then, would you eat it?

 

[PsychoAndy]

this should be in hot deals

 

[Pyro]

you lucky dog you.

well, I'm lucky too

some manager in my mom's company decided to upgrade to a better chair, so I'm gonna get like $500 (CDN) executive black leather chair that's not broken

ahh, hope I can make a nice ass grove