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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;antidiem, post: 96033, member: 30&quot;]I&#039;ve found a ton of good stuff in trash piles! </p><p><br /></p><p>One very early morning while out garage saleing, I took a wrong turn and wound up having to turn around in the parking lot of an apartment complex. A man appeared with a stunning orange and gold aventurine glass lamp nearly 3&#039; tall and he was headed towards the dumpster. I called out to him, &quot;Are you going to throw that away?&quot; and he would have crashed it. I got it instead and still have it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Once when going to an estate sale with my husband, I saw what looked to be a &quot;dead baby&quot; laying at the curb! We stopped and it was a 4&#039; tall African warrior statue near some construction debris. I asked the worker if they were throwing it away and he said, &quot;Yes, take anything you want.&quot; Of course I still have him, he&#039;s made of very heavy wood. </p><p><br /></p><p>I got my (deceased) hubby into looking at stuff in trash piles. He was hooked when he found a pool table light &quot;Coors&quot; out of mcm plastic. We sold it years later. </p><p><br /></p><p>Often people will place usable items next to their trash, with the thought that someone who needs that item can easier find it. I found a pipe clamp when on my way to a construction job where I needed exactly that thing. </p><p><br /></p><p>Back in the days of dot-matrix printers, I needed to make invoices for my work. I didn&#039;t know why (at that moment) but I turned my car down a different street - to find about a dozen big boxes of 2-part and 3-part paper to use with my feed printer! </p><p><br /></p><p>Just after Hurricane Katrina, we sold our home within only a couple of weeks. We SUDDENLY needed packing materials. We were pulling away from the front of our old home, wondering what to do about getting our stuff OUT quick, and our neighbor two doors down had placed over a hundred brand new moving boxes still bundled along with hundreds of pounds of white butcher paper - all new! Of course he said we should take it! </p><p><br /></p><p>I was quite the huntress back in the day!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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