Hidden Jewls in dem boxes

So I had an excellent curb side picking night. I got home with a set of infinity home stereo speakers, some cinder blocks I had been needing for a project, and a working john deer weed eater, it was just missing the ez attachments which I happen to have an extra one of, up on Craigslist it goes! I also got 2 bbq grills, some alum patio furniture, etc. for scrap my truck was full. I was breaking things down when my neighbor, who is also a scrapper told me there was a house around the curb with tons of stuff on the curb, no metal but a big tv he couldn't lift since he just had surgery. I told him I like digging through those because it was like treasure and told him a few stories, said I'd go grab the tv when I was done, he grabbed his flashlight and jumped on his bike to go back and dig, he came back with a public enemy cd, the tv was gone by the time he went back, lol.

I got a shower and hopped on a longboard rode down with my flashlight and started digging, bam the personal box I find a bottle of KY jelly....eewwwwwwwwww gross. But then I find not one jewelry box but two...Inside a bunch of costume jewelry but I find an 8 gram 417 gold necklace if my calculation is right its 41.7% gold so gold value is around $187. I also found an Italian silver necklace, and a broken necklace and some earrings that may also be silver. I also found some serious identity theft potentials, even an un cashed check all of which I tried to shred up as best as I could by hand onsite.

I really think I'm going to start taking entire loads like this and looking for things like money hidden in shoes or clothing, etc. Then just disposing of it myself.

Sweet score! I think I'm going to start doing the same thing. I've dug stuff out of huge piles of boxes before and made a killing on some of it. It always makes me wonder what I left behind... so I'll just start taking it all. That way I can properly recycle everything that can be instead of it going to the landfill too!

Take what you want and the rest can be donated to Goodwill for a tax write off!

I've dug through boxes at the local dumpsite before, found alotta good stuff...tools, fasteners, power cords (those universal ones, you know the ones), stuff for rummage sales, toys, etc. If the whole box looks good I'll pitch it in the car, if it looks like it MIGHT have potential i'll dump it out and sift through it (mind you, DUMP site, NOT alleyway/roadside/etc) and some I just won't touch...you know the one that smells funny? Yea...no.

I've seen one guy around town in a reallllly big POS truck, always has something in the back...well anyway one time I saw the guy digging through legit garbage bags...seems to me he was going a bit too far...

same here, last month I scored a few rolls of communication wire, 4 aluminum base ball bats, a cpu, a monitor and 2 tvs..among other things from the remains of an eviction. The tennents had taken what they wanted and left the rest. I have also thought of grabbing it all but the potential critters always stop me. Sure you may find a bug or two in electronics, but I tremble to imagine what lurks in the cardboard boxes and damp clothing piled outside of a rental house.

I was dumpser diving at an appartmet complex once and found a .925 silver chain, $45 at a gold and cion shop could have gotten more on ebay or cl but I needed the cash at the time.

i picked up some boxes outside a condo complex, apparently someone was a bon jovi fan, several boxes of cds dvds, pictures, some silver necklaces/earings, 14K gold necklace.
i always check boxes, and suitcases, read other posts about suitcases.

Nice find brandon silver and gold is always good and when you find them together thats nice!!!

Nice work, im working on buying up boards around here right now. send me a pm when you got another stack. Last night was interesting afternoon i hit my normal routes and got a good bit of steel and 2 computers. went out in the morning and just drove and i found a trash utopia, i loaded up the car in 4 streets. when i got back out that far trash trucks were just wrapping up, but managed to grab 200lbs of steel on the way back out and happen to pass the scrap yard so i had a good breakfast and passed the hell out. Gonna be at the yard alot tommorow. I also have a lead on 100's of tvs but i need a truck lol if it interests u hit me up.