>>1682694>>1682882Walk behind strip malls and business plazas checking dumpsters. Doughnut shops almost always throw their freshly made doughnuts away every night, some put them into a clean bag or box, I've seen them stuffed into the buckets the filling comes in. I found $250 of personally wearable shoes(5 pair, the ones in the above pictures) the other night behind a Sketchers, plus a few dozen other pair or left foot displays that I didn't bother grabbing. A few weeks ago while doing laundry parked behind a strip mall, I observed someone back up to a dumpster down the alley, when I checked they'd thrown out three trashbags of nice, clean clothes.
As far as digging through the dumpster itself, it's usually better to hop in instead of leaning on your stomach or pulling bags out off the top. If it's an entire apartment in a dumpster, work fast but calculated. Go through things into one corner until youve finished and then move all that shit you just went through back so you can dig through the rest and pile it on what you've already gone through. Be wary of broken glass, bathroom trashbags and where you jump in. Other than that, flail all you want in the dumpster in the art of working quickly. In college towns other people will probably come up while you're going through things. I once saw an entire set of appliances stacked next to the rest of the shit you'd normally see being tossed in a move. A microwave, toaster oven, toaster, griddle press, coffee maker and blender all stacked next to a mattress/box springs with metal frame, those plastic file cabinets and a bunch of clothes.
Theres a ton more but I should get to sleep, most important is that you simply get /out/ and cover a lot of ground doing it. Use it to exercise in my opinion, that way you're still self improving when you come up with nothing. Remember to clean up if you set anything outside or knock anything out, respect the hobo code.
