ANY DUMP PICKERS OUT THERE

[mikepmcs]

Scored 6 new dinner plates, an RCA stereo that everything works on and included a brand new AKON CD that was stuck in the carousel.  Two boxes of cassette tapes with some Duke Ellington, Cab, Elton John, Iron Butterfly, other rock stuff, lots of classical, and a Lawrence Welk.
Couple heavy duty paint buckets with lids(great to store 8-3/4 pigs in)
I quit right there but I could have had some track lights as well(good for the basement)
It had been a long time since I went to the dump cause I used to just throw my trash in the dumpster at the body shop.
Forgot how fun it was to pick through other peoples unwanted stuff.
I'm headed back tomorrow at some point because there was a nice antique looking pitcher in one of them dry sink bowl looking things. Looked real old but most likely not.  I'll have to check it out and it's a good chance to bring some stuff of mine that other people might find of interest.

So come on, out with it.  What good stuff have you found at the local transfer station?

[Ponch ®]

i can see looking for electronics, tools, etc...but DINNER PLATES?!?!?!

[WingCharger]

i can see looking for electronics, tools, etc...but DINNER PLATES?!?!?!

[mikepmcs]

You aren't the first person that has said that to me.  
They looked new so I brought them home and soaked them for a while and then washed them twice.  I don't see a problem with it actually.  

Do you ever go out to eat?  Do you think you are the only one that has eaten off that plate..... and what about the silverware and glasses you drink out of.  Are you sure the dishwasher is doing his/her job and making sure the dinnerware is sanitary?

Watch the movie "Waiting" you'll never go out to eat again.

One suggestion for sure though, don't ever drink from the glass without a straw.

By the way, I don't eat at restaurants any more.  Mostly high school kids doing everything.  How clean do you think they really are.  I'm very clean when I cook to the point I wear gloves when making certain things that I have to touch.  Ok, off on a tangent.

[KS71owner]

I found one of those old Magnavox TV cabinets, the kind that had the 45 player up top, speakers on the ends and the sliding doors over where the TV was. I took it home, repainted it, kicked out the speaker panels and put in glass and lights. Made a nice little display and storage cabinet for my models. I'm refinishing it yet again to put in my guest bedroom, possibly to do its original duty but with a flat screen tv on the wall above it and the DVD player and speakers inside.

[WingCharger]

you aren't the first person that has said that to me.  
they looked new so I brought them home and soaked them for a while and then washed them twice.  I don't see a problem with it actually.  

Do you ever go out to eat?  Do you think you are the only one that has eaten off that plate and what about the silverware and glasses you drink out of.  Are you sure the dishwasher is doing his/her job and making sure the dinnerware is sanitary?

Watch the movie "Waiting" you'll never go out to eat again.

One suggestion for sure though, don't ever drink from the glass without a straw.

By the way, I don't eat at restaurants any more.  Mostly high school kids doing everything.  How clean do you think they really are.  I'm very clean when I cook to the point I wear gloves when making certain things that I have to touch.  Ok, off on a tangent.

Yes, I love that movie. A second is being made.
Dude, do you freakin realize what could have been on those plates??
They could have cooked drugs on them dude!

[mikepmcs]

Don't call me Dude.
I'm pretty sure I washed all the crack off the plates.

[WingCharger]

Don't call me Dude.
I'm pretty sure I washed all the crack off the plates.

Sorry. I guess they're okay...

[69bronzeT5]

a brand new AKON CD

Can I smash it?

[mikepmcs]

I'll smash it for you.   It was just the fact that it was brand new was my point I guess.  I'll give it to my buddy's girls.

Gotta expand those musical horizons Cody, don't be musically shallow.

[69bronzeT5]

I can't stand his voice

[Magnumcharger]

I went to a dump near my parents place...and there was a box sitting on the edge of the excavation.
In it was a whole pile of MINT car brochures from 1930-1965.
Not to mention a complete set of vintage Canadian Tire catalogs from the 1930's and 40's.
I sold the catalogs to a collector for $300.

I figure some old guy must have passed away, and the (stupid) relatives cleaned out his attic.

[Cuda Hunter]

I have found two skateboards, a stack of car magazines, a large stack of hunting magazines.  A compressor that needed one little part.
  That's about it.  I would have taken those plates also, but for shooting practice!! 

[KS71owner]

I passed by a junkyard last week that had a Crown Vic that looked practically new, body-wise. I may go back next weekend to pull a few parts if I can.

[RAWPWR]

as far as eating out. I always order beer in a bottle! this way if the food or plate the food was on wasn't clean..the beer will cure it.
PS. My first job was at McDonald's, they would always make you wash your hands before starting your shift on the grill. We you know how "auto grease" stains your hands well by the end of the shift...no more grease stains   pickle juice, cleans it Right off. now you know why those burgers tasted sooooo goood!

[500hp_440]

You aren't the first person that has said that to me.  
They looked new so I brought them home and soaked them for a while and then washed them twice.  I don't see a problem with it actually.  

Do you ever go out to eat?  Do you think you are the only one that has eaten off that plate..... and what about the silverware and glasses you drink out of.  Are you sure the dishwasher is doing his/her job and making sure the dinnerware is sanitary?

Watch the movie "Waiting" you'll never go out to eat again.

One suggestion for sure though, don't ever drink from the glass without a straw.

By the way, I don't eat at restaurants any more.  Mostly high school kids doing everything.  How clean do you think they really are.  I'm very clean when I cook to the point I wear gloves when making certain things that I have to touch.  Ok, off on a tangent.

hey hey now bud, I'm in high school and well.... i really cant take offense to that, but my hands are coverd in grease and paint, its good for you, grows hair on your chest!

[RAWPWR]

oh, by the way it was good old Charger grease

[500hp_440]

oh, by the way it was good old Charger grease

now if anything its honda piss-oil i think they run like 1w-5 or something 

[RAWPWR]

sorry can't spell hornda
and I still have the car from back in the day. just watch out if you come to my house for a cookout and I'm cooking

[500hp_440]

sorry can't spell hornda
and I still have the car from back in the day. just watch out if you come to my house for a cookout and I'm cooking

ill come over for a cook out, but I'm making the potatoe salad... white lithium grease, that'll stop you up something fierce!
by now u shouldn't be doing that, your on old man you need to hand your keys over to a young buck... like me, your too old to drive, you should turn in your license, 47 is just too old              

[RAWPWR]

thanks..you sound like my 26 and 24 year old kids 

[500hp_440]

thanks..you sound like my 26 and 24 year old kids 

hey daady can i barrow the charger, pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?

[chargerkid01]

 

[Chad L. Magee]

The local dump watchs people to prevent theft of their stuff.    Guess there is a big market for trash in our area (rural Kansas).  Trust me, if it ends up in there, it is either broken or was not worth having in the first place.  Now, when I was in Columbia, Mo., that was a different story.  Alot of the college students would literally dump half of their stuff out when moving to different apartments.  I found so much stuff that way, I literally had to stop looking as I ran out of storage room.  I found two Atari 2600s, a Atari 5200, an Intelevision consule, and about 100 games for them (some still in the original wrappers) one day while walking back to my truck.  (This dates me, but I still have my original Atari 2600 that I paid $280 + tax for way back then.)  The systems and games were in two milk crates sitting by the side of the road on top of the trash bags, free for the picking.  .........

[500hp_440]

thanks..you sound like my 26 and 24 year old kids 

im just busting your chops, im sure you drive just fine and your not that old, but i would like to barrow your charger and it and the