Originally Posted by live311

This will make you feel better.

Last winter I got a nice sweater and some gym clothes, about $50 worth of stuff total. I got home and threw some trash into the big shopping bag I brought home and threw it in the compactor. A few hours later i realize i can't find any of the new clothes I bought! You guessed, it, they were in the big shopping bag. I was kicking myself all night! Fifty bucks literally in the garbage!

The next morning, on my way to work, I noticed the garbage room was open and the dumpster was pulled away from the cute. I casually walked over and saw the bag sticking out from all of the compacted garbage, so I dove right in, in my work clothes and winter jacket, and pulled everything out. I threw the stuff in my trunk and went to work smelling like hell, but I still held my head high in victory