Oh jesus, can I even begin to list the treasure that the Alley of Fecundity has yielded:

-Set of rollers (sold on CL for $50)
-Several bookshelves
-Desk
-Lots of nice Xmas decorations
-93 year old working sewing machine, beautiful piece of equipment, weighs as much as an obese 9 year old, I still have shoulder problems from picking it up with one hand thinking it was a wind instrument case. If you are in Chicago and you want this, PM me.
-HUGE old steamer trunk, like room for a threesome in this thing.
-1 year old PDR
-Sooooo many 70's pr0n novels
-Half of the minor furniture in my apartment (bathroom trash cans, door mirror, lamps, etc...)
-Really nice vintage lamps with marble bases
-Huge amounts of raw lumber that have become other things
-Other stuff I have sold on CL I can't even remember
-AMAZING chrome tractor seat looking thing that actually came off of an exercise bike, now bolted to a stool
-An old Samsonite ladies train case which is now my bike tools box (bet your toolbox doesn't have a mirror in the lid)
-A danish modern chair in great shape

If you live anywhere near a college, the last day of July or August (depending on the school's schedule) when everybody's lease is up is MONEY. Same for move out day near the dorms. I needed bookshelves last August, it took exactly 20 minutes of driving around and I had a solid wood set, plus another big one I put in the basement.

Still never found a bike, and the one bike shop around here I seriously don't think ever throws anything away, it's like Sanford and Sons in that place.

Also, if you have a Panera, ABP, or something like that that you know dumps a ton of food, talk to them about donating it to a homeless shelter. My friend set something like this up back in college, right after ABP closed he would load up huge garbage bags full of overpriced pastries and push a shopping cart of them down to the shelter. Less food for dirtbags I know, but most of us can eat other ways.