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Are there any good places in Des Moines to dumpster dive tight shit? Actual items, not food. It's for my art class...

Or Ames. I don't care. Somewhere in the Ames/Des Moines area is fine.

The only time I really hit it is when the seasons switch. You can get hooked up with anything in this town with as many kids that move. In general I'd say stick to the higher end dorms i.e. Eaton or Freddy. Otherwise if you want something you know a business might be throwing out, I'd just go and ask them for it.

there are but i dont really wanna post em' on a public forum...bunch o' places though

xkristyx wrote:Are there any good places in Des Moines to dumpster dive tight shit? Actual items, not food. It's for my art class...

find a store, jump in its dumpster.. that's the only way of knowing of any cool things.
i've found some neat things at some west side stores. one time, went to a chain bookstore, jumped in their dumpster, first thing i pick up, porn. the rest was nothing of any interest at all.

If ya don't wanna post it then PM me! It's sort of an inconvenient time to be assigned this project... because yeah the dorm/close to campus dumpsters are chock full of goodies.

I've found plenty o porn in a certain "chain bookstore" dumpster.

Is there stuff in like, goodwill and salvation army dumpsters? I guess I just want a general idea of what to hit and what is a waste of time.

i don't really know of any specific places. i've just driven around and went in random dumpsters.

"Salvo" and "GW" dumpsters kill it, best place to get a giant selection of whatever, watch yourself though you can catch some gnarly tetnis from those bad boys

Captain Caveman wrote:"Salvo" and "GW" dumpsters kill it, best place to get a giant selection of whatever, watch yourself though you can catch some gnarly tetnis from those bad boys

Cool. I got my tet shot pupdated 2 years ago so I should be good.

You people don't wear gloves or protective clothing doing this? That's relatively pretty fucking scary to me.

the dumpster in the parking lot of sweet bee. they have some weird shit sometimes. jerry that runs the building & was a vending machine salesman. now he sells "antiques" mostly oddball furniture and machines. trevor used to get some weird fucked up shit from there. and the bands throw away some random stuff. and jerry never seemed to care when we were going thru it. as long as we werent throwing shit all over his parking lot.

do grocery stores throw away beer? just curious.

Hank Fist wrote:do grocery stores throw away beer? just curious.

nope. neither do liquor distributors. the employees usually get to keep all the damaged.... goods.

Cool I'll definitely peep that one. Thanks!!

Uhm, I worked at Goodwill.
We only threw away broken shit.

Not worth it.

-Joe.

Joe wrote:Uhm, I worked at Goodwill.
We only threw away broken shit.

Not worth it.

-Joe.

my brother got fired from there for throwing away a garbage bag of broken dishes.

dude when i worked at goodwill i threw out all types of ill shit. thing was we had an enclosed compactor.