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
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#2 Found This Little Guy In The Trash. Good News We Adopted The Trash Baby Say Hello To Jello
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#3 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.
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#4 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.
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#5 Found Castle Grayskull
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#6 Found A Telescope Next To The Dumpster After A Tenant Moved Out. It Works!
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#7 The Curb Gods Have Smiled Upon Me Today
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#8 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.
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#9 The New Kind Of Dumpster Diving
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#10 My Schools Dumpster
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#11 Surviving W Dumpster Food
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#12 Good Timing
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#13 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.
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#14 Who Would Throw This Away???
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#15 Rescued A Pile Of Late 90s/2000s Movie Posters
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#16 I Found A Baby Dumpster Diver When I Was Dropping Off At The Local Food Pantry
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#17 Super Old Books I Found In A Library Dumpster
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#18 Found In Its Box In The Trash, Was Shocked To Find It Worked
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#19 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
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#20 I’m In Disbelief- The Whole Cereal Aisle Got Thrown Out
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#21 Donut You Dare Throw These Donuts Away!
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#22 Concluding The Dumpster Dive Experience Of A Lifetime
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#23 Wow ! My Neighbor Threw These Out
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#24 I Found A $2000 Gaming Laptop Last Night
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#25 If You Throw Money Away, I’m Gonna Collect And Claim It! Just Saying
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#26 $200 Worth Of Candy!
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#27 Thanks For Never Cleaning This And Then Throwing It Out! <3
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#28 I Don’t Even Know
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#29 This Week’s Spread And A Dumpster Dinner
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#30 I Always Suspected The Grocery Near Me Knew People Were Diving There
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#31 Sorority Sister House Dumpster
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#32 Legendary Pull Today. Thousands Of Fruit Veg And Flower Seeds
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#33 Anyone Need Like 20 Chopped Kayaks?
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#34 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.
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#35 Someone Got Evicted. Dumpster Was Full Of His/Her Stuff
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#36 Saved Two Boxes Of These Cans
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#37 Found Under A Construction Dumpster Yesterday
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#38 First Big Score
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#39 An Exciting Afternoon For Dd’ing!
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#40 Score!
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#41 2nd Score!!
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#42 Technicaly In Front Of The Dumpster But Still
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#43 I Literally Scored A Bounce House At Sam’s
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#44 Last Nights Find
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#45 Weirdest Find Yet
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#46 Cops Pulled Up Last Night And Gave Me A Warning About Property Inside Being Owned By The Company That Owns The Dumpster
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#47 Skip Dive (With Permission From The Home Buyer) Jackpot! 18k Gold, Platinum And Diamond Edwardian Ring
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#48 I Did It! Finally Got My Nerve Up
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#49 Anyone Else Enjoy Diving For Treasures During The Rain? Toys For Tots Is About To Rainnnnn Gifts!!
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#50 Found These In The Dumpster
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#51 Food Insecurity Is A Real Thing And This Sub Has Saved My Family
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#52 Favorite Find!!!
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#53 One Of My Better Trash Finds
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#54 What The?
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#55 Second Haul Ever!
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#56 Got A Christmas Sweater For The Community Dog From The Ross Dumpster
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#57 A Year Supply Of Toilet Paper And Paper Towels. Dumpster Was Generous Yesterday
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#58 Over $1000 Haul After A Power Outage
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#59 Dumpster Mantle Turned Into Christmas Decoration!
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#60 Treasures Rescued From The Dump From The Other Night
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#61 My Best Find So Far
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#62 Wife And I Looked Out Our Window Tonight To See This 75″ Samsung Smart TV Resting By The Dumpster
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#63 Christmas Hams Hit The Dumpster Like Clockwork
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#64 Happy New Year
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#65 First Dive Success!!
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#66 Best Produce Haul Yet!
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#67 Maybe The Biggest Haul Yet
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#68 Well That’s A New One For Me… This Just Makes Me Wonder What They Throw Away! Diving Is Legal Where I Live And No ‘No Trespassing’ Signs
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#69 First Time Diving And I Hit The Jackpot
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#70 My Very First Night Major Score I Am Hooked!!!!!! Thank You Giys For Inspiring Me!!!!
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#71 Not Sure If This Counts But I Saved These Treasures From The Trash My Boss Was Throwing Away
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#72 It’s A Shame
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#73 This Is How A Millennial Can Afford Avocado Toast
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#74 Today’s Find Sweet
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#75 Crazy Finds Today But Also Soooo Much Waste🙄
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#76 Very Grateful For Found Food
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#77 I Rescued All The Squishmallows
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#78 Recently Started Diving. Cut Our Food Spending By 90%
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#79 Ive Pulled Over 400 Lbs Of Candle Wax
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#80 Epson Projector From School Dumpster
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#81 Always Look In Cigar Boxes (14k)
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#82 Found This Outside My Apartment
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#83 I Think The Truck Pulled Up And Just… Unloaded Directly Into The Dumpster
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#84 Candy Jackpot
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#85 This Week’s Aldi Collection
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#86 NYC Curb Score: $1500 Herman Miller Chair
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#87 Exciting Haul!
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#88 Success Rate About 10%
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#89 Top Shelf Finds!
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#90 Found This
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#91 It’s Been A Good Week
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#92 Intervened Before They Got Trashed
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#93 Did You Know The Dow Is 50,000?
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#94 I Turned Into The Wrong Apartment Complex At Just The Right Time ☺️
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#95 One Of My Best Dives To Date
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#96 My Miracle Baby
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#97 Valentine Dump
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#98 They Called It Trash, I Called It A Custom Project. Two Of My Dumpster Dive Stools Fully Restored
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#99 The Power Bestowed To Me By The Dumpster Gods Is Too Much To Bear For One Man Alone
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#100 My Favorite Dumpster Dive
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#101 Our TV Was Giving Up The Ghost, And Ended Up Finding A 4K TV Being Tossed Out (With Remote!)
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#102 Always Makes Me Sad To Find Homemade Items That Were Clearly Made With Love In The The Trash
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#103 Cool Dumpster Pants Are A Perfect Fit!
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#104 Found In A Thrift Dumpster
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#105 Blanket Haul
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