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12-23-13, 05:06 PM
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I don't dumpster dive for food but for consumer products like electrical and electronic products, the occasional bicycle, bags, etc. When a new family moves in, they usually toss out all the electrical items that they don't need. I have picked up fans, cookers, lamps, computers, radios, playstation, kitchen stuff, etc.
Electrical fans are either thrown out when they are not working or when the plastic blades have broken off. So if the motor is burnt, I salvage the other parts to fix on those that are working but with broken blades, rusted cages, or blown fuses. Some items like blenders and coffee makers just needed to be cleaned to be usable again. I found some table lamps that I replaced the bulbs from my recycled stash and it is working.
A laundry shop had recently tossed out 2 huge boxes of unclaimed clothes. They are cleaned and in the clear plastic with the hangers. Kept those that I can wear, gave some away, sold some away and will donate the unsold ones to Salvation Army. Among the tossed items are Emporio Armani jacket,DKNY pants, Columbia rain gear,a few Italian silk ties.
Got a free vacuum which is not sucking, cleaned out the clogged vents and it is as powerful as new. Now, I have more electrical items than I can use, so I sell them after i repaired them.
Found a laptop with cracked LCD display, it is working so I just hooked it up to an external monitor and I used it for more than 3 years. I once picked up a dusty Ortleib waterproof trunk bag that just needed a wash. Sometimes bags are tossed out with hidden treasures in the many pockets. Things like cash, Parker pens, calculators, watches have been found inside.
Some time back, I came across some old furniture that was left by the dump site. Thought of recycling the chest of drawers, so I started to look through the old papers and clothes inside and found dollars in 10's and 50's even a single $1,000 note, some old jewellery ... nice Christmas present.
So you see, one man's trash can be another man's treasure.
Electrical fans are either thrown out when they are not working or when the plastic blades have broken off. So if the motor is burnt, I salvage the other parts to fix on those that are working but with broken blades, rusted cages, or blown fuses. Some items like blenders and coffee makers just needed to be cleaned to be usable again. I found some table lamps that I replaced the bulbs from my recycled stash and it is working.
A laundry shop had recently tossed out 2 huge boxes of unclaimed clothes. They are cleaned and in the clear plastic with the hangers. Kept those that I can wear, gave some away, sold some away and will donate the unsold ones to Salvation Army. Among the tossed items are Emporio Armani jacket,DKNY pants, Columbia rain gear,a few Italian silk ties.
Got a free vacuum which is not sucking, cleaned out the clogged vents and it is as powerful as new. Now, I have more electrical items than I can use, so I sell them after i repaired them.
Found a laptop with cracked LCD display, it is working so I just hooked it up to an external monitor and I used it for more than 3 years. I once picked up a dusty Ortleib waterproof trunk bag that just needed a wash. Sometimes bags are tossed out with hidden treasures in the many pockets. Things like cash, Parker pens, calculators, watches have been found inside.
Some time back, I came across some old furniture that was left by the dump site. Thought of recycling the chest of drawers, so I started to look through the old papers and clothes inside and found dollars in 10's and 50's even a single $1,000 note, some old jewellery ... nice Christmas present.
So you see, one man's trash can be another man's treasure.
My son did scavenging with a friend in the guy's truck for several years. They went all over southern Michigan picking stuff. My son really enjoyed it and his cut was a nice supplement to his disability check. For the other guy, he actually made a decent living at it.
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I'll buy food out of the "Reduced for Quick Sale" bin in the grocery store ... where perishable food is half price or less ... but not out of a dumpster.
And I'll buy things at the Tip Shop. We came home with a wardrobe unit and a couple books the other day.
And I'll buy things at the Tip Shop. We came home with a wardrobe unit and a couple books the other day.
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12-24-13, 12:05 AM
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No need.
For one thing, I don't eat a whole lot of tinned food.
For one thing, I don't eat a whole lot of tinned food.
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12-24-13, 05:24 AM
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Ok I finally have to ask. What the heck is a tip shop?
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In Australia, we have tip shops ... no food, but a whole heap of other stuff.
https://www.resourcetipshop.com/index...urce&Itemid=61
https://www.resourcetipshop.com/index...urce&Itemid=61
A "tip shop" is a shop where usable stuff has been salvaged from the tip one way or another, and is up for sale, usually at quite reasonable prices, and usually negotiable.
So you might find a section with parts of houses ... old doors, window frames, bricks, etc. Another section might have sporting goods like bicycles, skis, golf clubs, etc. Another section will have furniture like shelves, wardrobes, etc. Then there will be quite a large section of smaller goods ... books, ornaments, electronics, etc. etc.
See the link above ... that's one tip shop in our area.
And here's another one, not too far away:
https://www.morningtonparkwaste.com.au/reuse_shop.htm
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12-24-13, 05:53 AM
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A "tip" is a ... what would you call it ... rubbish heap? landfill site? It's the place where a city puts all their rubbish.
A "tip shop" is a shop where usable stuff has been salvaged from the tip one way or another, and is up for sale, usually at quite reasonable prices, and usually negotiable.
So you might find a section with parts of houses ... old doors, window frames, bricks, etc. Another section might have sporting goods like bicycles, skis, golf clubs, etc. Another section will have furniture like shelves, wardrobes, etc. Then there will be quite a large section of smaller goods ... books, ornaments, electronics, etc. etc.
See the link above ... that's one tip shop in our area.
And here's another one, not too far away:
https://www.morningtonparkwaste.com.au/reuse_shop.htm
A "tip shop" is a shop where usable stuff has been salvaged from the tip one way or another, and is up for sale, usually at quite reasonable prices, and usually negotiable.
So you might find a section with parts of houses ... old doors, window frames, bricks, etc. Another section might have sporting goods like bicycles, skis, golf clubs, etc. Another section will have furniture like shelves, wardrobes, etc. Then there will be quite a large section of smaller goods ... books, ornaments, electronics, etc. etc.
See the link above ... that's one tip shop in our area.
And here's another one, not too far away:
https://www.morningtonparkwaste.com.au/reuse_shop.htm
BTW, what you call a tip used to be called a "dump" in this country. Nowadays it's usually called a land fill.
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That is an intriguing idea. Is it all outdoors, or is there an actual shop building? Does somebody make money from it? Is it basically last chance recycling, after thrift shops and municipal recycling take what they want out of the waste stream?
BTW, what you call a tip used to be called a "dump" in this country. Nowadays it's usually called a land fill.
BTW, what you call a tip used to be called a "dump" in this country. Nowadays it's usually called a land fill.
It depends on the tip shop. There used to be a small tip shop where we lived before, and if I recall correctly, it was all outdoors. The two I've been to here have quite large buildings (large sheds) and a fairly large outdoor area.
Here's what they say on the first site:
https://www.resourcetipshop.com/index...urce&Itemid=61
This is our primary retail outlet for selling reusable and recycled goods. It also serves as a base from where we salvage directly from the tip face (4-5 times each day), sort what is recovered, and accept donations.
We encourage customers and tip users to drop off their reusables before going to the tip face. Please see a Resource worker before leaving your reusables so they can assess what is suitable for resale.
So people have a choice of dropping stuff off at a thrift shop elsewhere in the city unrelated to the tip shop, or taking it up to the tip ... and swinging by the tip shop to see if anything can be salvaged.
And what happens to the money depends ... back to the city for the running of the tip, to charities ... different places do different things.
But of course the whole idea is to reduce the amount of waste going into the tip, and to recycle as much as possible.
You can get some good deals ... they don't charge much for anything, and if there is a sticker price, it's negotiable.
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We sort of have a "tip shop", the shop at the top of my road is the office/shop for a small garbage trucking company. He collects things from the trash and puts them in the shop, he also attends auctions and buys the leftovers. Makes very good money at it. He told me one day that the profit from the shop covers the cost of his entire overhead!
Unfortunately much of our trash hauling has been taken over by large contract carriers and everything they pick up goes straight to the tip/landfill/dump and they DO NOT ALLOW any sort of picking, in fact you can be arrested and charged with Criminal Tresspass if you get caught taking anything from the dump.
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Unfortunately much of our trash hauling has been taken over by large contract carriers and everything they pick up goes straight to the tip/landfill/dump and they DO NOT ALLOW any sort of picking, in fact you can be arrested and charged with Criminal Tresspass if you get caught taking anything from the dump.
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Rowan would like to pick up a couple bicycles we could use for beach riding. So we've been to both tip shops near us and have had a look. There are lots of bicycles (all used, of course), but we have certain specification ... something that fits (or close to it), something with a frame in decent shape, something with as many workable components as possible, something that isn't too heavy, something that can take wide tires ...
There have been a few which might work, but we haven't decided yet.
I don't know how much these bicycles are going for, but I wouldn't imagine it would be very much.
There have been a few which might work, but we haven't decided yet.
I don't know how much these bicycles are going for, but I wouldn't imagine it would be very much.
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12-24-13, 03:45 PM
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We sort of have a "tip shop", the shop at the top of my road is the office/shop for a small garbage trucking company. He collects things from the trash and puts them in the shop, he also attends auctions and buys the leftovers. Makes very good money at it. He told me one day that the profit from the shop covers the cost of his entire overhead!
Unfortunately much of our trash hauling has been taken over by large contract carriers and everything they pick up goes straight to the tip/landfill/dump and they DO NOT ALLOW any sort of picking, in fact you can be arrested and charged with Criminal Tresspass if you get caught taking anything from the dump.
Aaron
Unfortunately much of our trash hauling has been taken over by large contract carriers and everything they pick up goes straight to the tip/landfill/dump and they DO NOT ALLOW any sort of picking, in fact you can be arrested and charged with Criminal Tresspass if you get caught taking anything from the dump.
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It depends on the tip shop. There used to be a small tip shop where we lived before, and if I recall correctly, it was all outdoors. The two I've been to here have quite large buildings (large sheds) and a fairly large outdoor area.
Here's what they say on the first site:
https://www.resourcetipshop.com/index...urce&Itemid=61
This is our primary retail outlet for selling reusable and recycled goods. It also serves as a base from where we salvage directly from the tip face (4-5 times each day), sort what is recovered, and accept donations.
We encourage customers and tip users to drop off their reusables before going to the tip face. Please see a Resource worker before leaving your reusables so they can assess what is suitable for resale.
So people have a choice of dropping stuff off at a thrift shop elsewhere in the city unrelated to the tip shop, or taking it up to the tip ... and swinging by the tip shop to see if anything can be salvaged.
And what happens to the money depends ... back to the city for the running of the tip, to charities ... different places do different things.
But of course the whole idea is to reduce the amount of waste going into the tip, and to recycle as much as possible.
You can get some good deals ... they don't charge much for anything, and if there is a sticker price, it's negotiable.
Here's what they say on the first site:
https://www.resourcetipshop.com/index...urce&Itemid=61
This is our primary retail outlet for selling reusable and recycled goods. It also serves as a base from where we salvage directly from the tip face (4-5 times each day), sort what is recovered, and accept donations.
We encourage customers and tip users to drop off their reusables before going to the tip face. Please see a Resource worker before leaving your reusables so they can assess what is suitable for resale.
So people have a choice of dropping stuff off at a thrift shop elsewhere in the city unrelated to the tip shop, or taking it up to the tip ... and swinging by the tip shop to see if anything can be salvaged.
And what happens to the money depends ... back to the city for the running of the tip, to charities ... different places do different things.
But of course the whole idea is to reduce the amount of waste going into the tip, and to recycle as much as possible.
You can get some good deals ... they don't charge much for anything, and if there is a sticker price, it's negotiable.
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A "tip" is a ... what would you call it ... rubbish heap? landfill site? It's the place where a city puts all their rubbish.
A "tip shop" is a shop where usable stuff has been salvaged from the tip one way or another, and is up for sale, usually at quite reasonable prices, and usually negotiable.
A "tip shop" is a shop where usable stuff has been salvaged from the tip one way or another, and is up for sale, usually at quite reasonable prices, and usually negotiable.
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12-24-13, 04:32 PM
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Our equivalent is the thrift shop. Stuff there is usually donated by people rather than them throwing it away. Goodwill and the Salvation Army operate the biggest chain thrift stores. Just last weekend, I got a Dell computer monitor at the local Goodwill for $15.00. It works fine.
The trouble is, in my experience in both countries, thrift shops seem to have lost their way, and instead of presenting really cheap bargains as they used to, some of their prices have been adjusted upwards so much that they aren't much less than the cheapest retail (read Walmart).
When I went looking for serviceable boots to wear in Vancouver last winter, I was really surprised to find I would have been paying upwards of $30 for pairs with soles falling off. I did persist and found a pair for $25 that were good enough, but still...
The original concept of Goodwill and Salvation Army was the donated furniture and clothing would go on to the poor to help them directly. Somewhere along the line, the concept changed and now it is big business to raise money to pay for the overheads of fat administrators before the cash gets into the hands of the people who need it the most.
To paraphrase a biblical reference, give a needy person a dollar and they will spend it today, give a needy person a chair to sit in, and they will still be using it in a year from now.
I had some stuff that I had in storage in Perth, Western Australia for quite a time (as in over five years). Some of the furniture I had picked up at opportunity shops. I called up one of the Salvos-type places and suggested they might come and pick up some of the stuff. The first questions were along the lines that if it wasn't in pristine shape, they weren't interested. Inevitably, it went into a skip bin (dumpster) because I had no other way of disposing of it. I was really quite annoyed about it.
We found that the op shops out in the country were much, much better value for clothing and other stuff. And in our old town, we knew the money was going directly back into the community. And the poorest members of the community could afford to come in and buy stuff, rather than buy at 75% of retail.
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12-24-13, 05:09 PM
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Thrift shops operate here in Australia and Canada as well and they really aren't equivalent to tip shops...
The original concept of Goodwill and Salvation Army was the donated furniture and clothing would go on to the poor to help them directly. Somewhere along the line, the concept changed and now it is big business to raise money to pay for the overheads of fat administrators before the cash gets into the hands of the people who need it the most.
The original concept of Goodwill and Salvation Army was the donated furniture and clothing would go on to the poor to help them directly. Somewhere along the line, the concept changed and now it is big business to raise money to pay for the overheads of fat administrators before the cash gets into the hands of the people who need it the most.
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Edmonton has something sort of along the lines of a tip shop, where they take larger items like old building materials, furniture and appliances. (Most thrift shops I'm familiar with tend to shy away from the larger items like that).
The one in Edmonton is called ReStore and is associated with Habitat for Humanity.
https://www.habitat.ca/restore-p7376.php
The one in Edmonton is called ReStore and is associated with Habitat for Humanity.
https://www.habitat.ca/restore-p7376.php
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-h...b_1876905.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanada...abled-workers/
I don't think Goodwill is necessarily alone in overpaying executives, I couldn't find it when I Googled, but I remember a similar allegation made about the Thrift Store chain as well.
All of that said though, if you know how to refinish or repair furniture then dumpster diving, yard sales, curb finds, and the second hand stores are good sources for good, solid wood items. I put together two bed rooms and a living room for about $750 after I got out of the Army.
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We picked up a decent sized solid wood wardrobe at one of the tip shops for $40 the other day. It needs a bit of work, but has a lot of potential.
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Edmonton has something sort of along the lines of a tip shop, where they take larger items like old building materials, furniture and appliances. (Most thrift shops I'm familiar with tend to shy away from the larger items like that).
The one in Edmonton is called ReStore and is associated with Habitat for Humanity.
https://www.habitat.ca/restore-p7376.php
The one in Edmonton is called ReStore and is associated with Habitat for Humanity.
https://www.habitat.ca/restore-p7376.php
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My Dad donated an RV to them. He volunteers with them and they had someone who could get the RV going again after sitting for several years. He says he saw it in the ReStore parking lot.
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I also agree with Rowan that the pricing in many of them has become a bit exorbitant. We volunteer to work at a thrift store that is run by a church that we attend. I help with the pricing, the money raised goes to a variety of missions, ranging from the local soup kitchen to overseas missions. Things like clothing and kitchen items are priced very low, we usually try to price "collectible" items a bit higher to avoid the people that are looking to make a quick buck on something. We are in the process of setting up an eBay store to help sell some of the more unusual items. One recent donation that has us scratching our heads on the best way to sell it fairly is a complete set of fine china, crystal and sterling silver. Definitely not normal thrift store items.
One major issue for many thrift store operations is people will bring in stuff that should have gone to the dump. My criteria has always been, if it isn't good enough for me to wear it isn't good enough for the thrift store. It is a hard judgement call though, everybody has different standards.Aaron
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Goodwill exploits disabled workers. They don't even pay minimum wage.
Meanwhile, their CEOs rake in salaries that range from four hundred thousand to over one million dollars per annum.
https://investigations.nbcnews.com/_n...its-legal?lite
Meanwhile, their CEOs rake in salaries that range from four hundred thousand to over one million dollars per annum.
https://investigations.nbcnews.com/_n...its-legal?lite
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I wish I could dumpster dive. But I'm too germ phobic. I live in Houston, and there are too many roaches and rats in the dumpsters here.
