Monumental time of year for curb shopping!

I built a monument of scrap in my truck tonight..Tonight's curb shopping looked like a load of weeks of collecting going in to the yard. College is almost in session! That means the college kids who have no perception of value throw anything they can away so they don't have to move it and can get mommy and daddy to buy them a newer nicer one....It's move in/out time. Also families with kids are moving before the start of the new school year. This week has been crazy. I found a PERFECT working laptop with charger and recovery disc in the cd drive made in 2009 with pretty good specs in the garbage because it was loaded with virus and wouldn't connect to the internet... Tonight I found 3 grills, a washing machine, a safe, 5 ceiling fans, 6 bed frames, george forman, above ground pool pumps, stereos, tools,garden tools, enough cookware to fill a commercial kitchen, and every other odd and end you could believe. I filled the entire double cab of my truck and the bed up to 10 ft high. I literally left more scrap behind than I took because I just couldn't fit it all. I worked 15 hours today or else I would go back out.....I had to cut the cords off 20 TV and leave them behind. If you have a college near your town go check out the student housing areas NOW! I noticed 2 neighborhoods had way more than some of the others.

Great haul! Seek and you shall find.

Thx for the heads up..we talking universities or community colleges..there is an available cash difference


also dont safes have concrete or something in them where tou cant scrap em as shred

Heading to the local collage tomorrow thanks Scrapyaheards advice. Thanks alot.

Yep August is good. !

Originally Posted by rca987

It's not so much the college kids going back to school. It's the end of summer. Typically most households move during summer because the kids aren't in school.

I'd really have to disagree as I saw most of the people still moving when I was collecting. 90% of the piles were college kids. We have a university with 55,000 kids, two community colleges, and Full Sail Digital Arts school so we got about 70,000 college kids who move around within a 6 mile radius.

Used textbooks = Good Cash. Post ads on campus. My EMT book was $90 used (10 years ago) A friend from class got his for$70 from, you guessed it a scrapper who was picking up a stove at an off-campus apt.

Scarpyaherd and Dunemaul, you guys artn't going to have time for e-waste if you keep this up. LOL good haul, I get .02 per lb. for books and yes text books have a better resale value. You might even be able to take them to the collage book store and sell them.

Happy-after a busy month last month August is starting off slow, curb shopping fills the void.

sorry to hear about the slow down in e-waste but it sounds like your making up for it in other ways.