You’ve probably seen someone rummaging through trash in your neighborhood, maybe hunting for bottles to recycle. But here’s the thing—sometimes, when people go dumpster diving, they find things so amazing, you’d think someone tossed out a treasure chest instead of garbage.
Over on r/DumpsterDiving, people are sharing their most unbelievable finds, and we’ve rounded up some of the coolest ones to show you, Pandas. Curious to see what gems might be hiding in the trash? Keep scrolling!
#1 Found In The Dumpster Tied In A Trash Bag. What A Sweet Soul As Well. Poor Thing
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#2 Live Animal In Petco Dumpster
I found this poor baby last night in the compactor at Petco in Alexandria, La!!! I really pray that they accidentally threw him out as there was bedding in a trash bag in the bin as well. If they did it on purpose, they’re disgusting.
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#3 Found On Top Of Someone’s Garbage
I was walking my dog with my fiance and we both stopped and said “what’s that?”. I realized it was an enameled cast iron and I love cast iron. Immediately knew this was a $150+ pan.
Maybe the thought they ruined it? Whatever was cooked on was very burned.
Two rounds of oven cleaner and some bleach to fix the discoloration and it’s good as new.
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#4 10 Days Ago, I Found A Schwinn Delmar Frame In A Dumpster, And Gave It To My Neighbor. Yesterday, He Showed Me His Little ‘Fix Up’
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#5 I Finished That Stool I Found
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#6 This Should Be Criminal…
Taking some to a group home & woman’s shelter tomorrow, keeping a few for care bags my daughter & I put together for homeless people we come across.
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#7 $200 All Going To My Local Shelter
All good through the next year, so sad to see it in the trash.
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#8 My Best Find Yet! Rural Area, State Park
We added a big stick so they could climb out.
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#9 I Saw A Box For A $2800 Espresso Machine On The Sidewalk In Trash Day… Kicked It, And Realized It Wasn’t Empty. And Inside Was A $1000 Espresso Machine Of The Same Brand
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#10 Found A Giant Nutcracker Head. Left It In The Bathroom For My Husband To Find When He Gets Up To Pee
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#11 This Wasn’t Even All Of The Plants
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#12 But Wait! There’sh More!
There’s 27 Nike and Under Armor bags here. All of them still have their tags. Most have random embroidery on the front but besides that, they’re clean and in perfect condition.
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#13 Update On Imac Find
I found this last week, what I thought was just a Mac display in the dumpster when I was moving. Plugged it in and it needed a mouse and keyboard to connect. Fast forward to this morning as I connected some that I ordered on Amazon and it popped right on and asked me to setup as new iMac, only had to connect with my Apple ID! Looked it up earlier this week and it’s a 2021 iMac, so crazy someone would just leave in the dumpster in recovery mode, but new iMac for me!
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#14 Found In Neighbor’s Bagster
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#15 Someone Threw Away This Huge Pack Of Toilet Paper!!!! Yes It’s The Cheapy Office Kind But I Literally Have None Right Now And It Is Such A Blessing 🤣
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#16 Totally Pristine Box Set Just Sitting In The Recycling Bin At My University. I’m Amazed
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#17 I’m Shaking Because I Feel Like I Did Something Illegal!
Got out the shower, looked out my balcony and saw someone had these by the curb. I’ve never run to my car faster!
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#18 Tonight’s Find
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#19 Found This While Dog Walking. I Have No Clue Why Somebody Would Throw Out A New Cast Iron Pan
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#20 Somebody Was Throwing Out A Bunch Of 1973 Looney Tunes Glasses. I Couldn’t Resist!
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#21 Found This Perfectly Working Mini Fridge In My College’s Dumpster
I have a brother going to collage soon that will probably appreciate not having to spend 150$ for a new one.
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#22 1970s Togo Sofa Set Found On “Large Items” Garbage Pick Up Day
Still can’t believe it, especially because it’s super clean with no rips, discoloration, tears and most importantly, it has no bed bugs haha! I left them outside for a close inspection and I vacuumed them, steam cleaned all the creases and folds and then did a preventive treatment with a product I got from a local exterminator!
For those who are not familiar, Togo sofas were launched by Ligne Roset in 1973 but are still produced and are in high demand.. a new set like this would cost north of $15 000cad with a long waitlist. It’s definitely my best find ever!
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#23 Over 330 Bars 😋😋
Only about 4 dozen are “expired” but who cares. I believe the worker or manager prob saw a couple exp in front and just dumped the whole row full assuming they were all out of date.
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#24 1960s Viscol Bedroom Set Before And After I Found Them On The Side Of The Road!
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#25 I Got 7 Kids So This Was A Score
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#26 Would You Believe Me If I Said I Found All These Items Being Thrown Away On Trash Day In Rich Neighborhoods?
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#27 Follow Up On The Lil Pig That Followed Me Home And Knocked On My Door
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#28 Found This 65” TV In The Dumpster In My Neighborhood
It wouldn’t power on. Took the motherboard out and baked it @ 400°F for 10 minutes. Works perfect now. Apparently this model has a solder issue that is solved by reflowing the solder in an over.
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#29 Feeling Lucky Tonight…
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#30 Gigantic Food Haul On One Of My First Dives! I Can’t Believe My Luck, But Is It Safe To Eat The Meat, Milk, And Eggs?
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#31 Sorry, Can’t Type Much About Photo, Fingers Are Covered With Cheetos® Cheese
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#32 Always Check Your Cards
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#33 Laundry Detergent Score!!!
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#34 A Year Ago I Found This 1950 Gm Frigidaire At The Dump
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#35 Tonight’s Jackpot! 💸
5x 2x 200g Ribeyes from Free-Range Cattle, 8x Entrecôte from Free-Range Cattle, 3x 750g Buffalo Wings, 1x Pågen Loaf, & 10x BFree Gluten-Free and Dairy Free Bread! 🤩
I live in Denmark 🇩🇰, and it’s crazy that this kind of stuff gets thrown out! I’m a student, and I don’t have the money for that kind of meat, but the dumpster shouted for me, I went, and I looted!
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#36 Brought This Home Last Night!
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#37 Was Happy To See It Works! College Move Out Is Wild
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#38 We Have Public Access “Convenience Centers” In My Town Where People Can Drop Off Whatever Garbage/Junk They Need To. Some Of The Things People Leave Behind Is Ridiculous Though
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#39 $8,500 Meat & Cheese Haul
Entire car was filled to the brim with steaks, cheese, deli meats, and more. I could only haul about a 1/4 of what was there…
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#40 Built The Kids A Village Of Playhouses, All Found On The Curbside, And Those Light Up Foam Batons Were Found Dumpster Diving :)
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#41 Biggest Find I’ve Found To Date
Little back story/ I find things people are throwing out, clean them, and flip it for profit, we were moving out of our apartment and the last day I saw this and asked my girlfriend if she knew what a SNOO was she flipped when I told her what I had found. We picked it up took it home, got some swaddles to go with it to be able to test it and it worked perfect!! I took the entire thing apart cleaned it head to toe very thoroughly since I knew I could flip it for a big amount I’ve never made before on a single sell, I have it listed now and should sell between $600-$800.
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#42 Found A Whole Bunch Of Old Fantastic Four Comics And Thousands Of Baseball Cards At My Local Malls Dumpster
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#43 Before And After- All From The 99 Going Out Of Business
Also filled and rolled over a shopping cart of instant noodle soups to the Motel 6 many houseless people live in and stay near with a free sign.
There’s also another 2×3 box of coffee and cookie mix to fill the LFP again.
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#44 About $1,000 Worth Of Electric Toothbrushes
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#45 Found Two Wii’s, About 8 Controllers, Sleeves And A Bunch Of Other Wii Related Stuff At My Local Library
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#46 Cats Eat For Free This Month
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#47 𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄: 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐩𝐨𝐭 𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐥
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#48 Found $534.93 Worth Of Food!
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#49 Found A Bunch Of USB, Sd Cards And Micro Sd Cards. Any Idea What To Do With Them?
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#50 My Schadenfreude Is Doom Scrolling Reddit Posts About How Expensive Food Has Become While Feasting Like A King Off America’s Corporate Waste
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