The Dumpster Diving Thread!

[sk8er6]

Dumpster diving for graffiti:
as writen by sk8er6 & smooth nuts (formerly GHOST 2-5-2)

You don’t like the idea of stealing, you’re a tree hugger, or just bored as hell, dumpster diving is always an option for getting supplies. Here are a few basic rules of thumb.

Wear some clothes that you don’t give a fuck about. Nothing too out there, maybe an old shirt and some beat up shoes.

Make sure you have an idea of what people throw out in wherever you’re jumping into. For example, if jumping somewhere behind a school, prepare for food, paper, bottles, etc.

Latex gloves are a must.

If you see or feel a bag that’s full of paper towels, do not open it! Most likely they came from the restrooms.

Don’t use any foreign objects (crates, boxes, stools, etc) to hop into a dumpster. If you couldn’t get it on your own, how are you supposed to get out?

Usually, I pick through half of the promising bags from the outside, and then get the other half from the inside.

If you see shredded bags in the dumpster before you got there, chances are someone beat you to it. So don’t expect much.

For major stores the best time to go is at the end of the month thats when they get new shit in so they throw out the old.

Know when they pick up garbage in the area.

Don’t go while people are working.

Where to get your shit at:

Art schools, or behind an art department at a campus. I’ve heard of people getting legit supplies (half tube of oil paints, bucket paint, spray adhesive, etc.)

Personally, the art department where I go is a little too close to the cafeteria. But I have managed to get a good bit of bucket paint.

Did you get chased by a cop and lost your mop? Need a new mop? You can get one with a screw top. No need to shop, just get up and drop into a dumpster behind a bingo hall. Yup, quite a few bingo dabbers/markers in the dumpsters behind bingo halls. Get at ‘em. Watch out for drinks and nachos!

Elementary schools. Now, I know the sketchiness of this, and I will admit, I have never been inside one. Whenever I pass a particular one, there is always glue sticks, glue pens, glue bottles, acetate, crayons, and dry erase markers next to the dumpster. Why, I’m not exactly sure, but they’re there.

Behind specialty paint stores.

Where to get shit to sell:

Blockbuster throws out dvds(they also throw out mags but you cant really sell those) at the end of the month in yellow envelopes,you will have to go through every one to find good dvds. Some say transfer and dystory on the front go throught it any ways some time worker get lazy and throw them out with out running it through the machine that fucks it up.

I have always been able to find cell phones race cars dvds blank cds in radio shack dumpsters (pretty much any thing in the store).

Dollar store always throw out small radios tapes fire works boom boxxes(again pretty much any thing in the store.

Rite aid throws out cartons of cigs and most pawn shops buy them so go for it.

Hardware stores always throw out saws drills bult cutter and shit like that.

You can get small ladders at Sherman Williams. They also throw out "toner", paint pigment,really good for your mop mixes or roller pieces.

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[buffadds]

Sick, that's being resourceful AND economic! Not to mention, ECO-friendly.
one companies trash is another mans gold mine. One time I found a working but beat up old bike in a dumpster, fixed it up n still ride it today. theres no shame in realizing people throw out some pretty usable stuff.
Anyone else got some good finds to share?

[ILuvHoodRats]

yo ive been trying to dumpster dive anndd it was a failure i went on the back of a hardware store and it was locked , and all the shit that was inside was like broken glass and shit like that.

[Slushi]

What a fucking joke. Garbage pickers are fucking ghey.

[acereborn]

I tried to dumpster dive too, and I got nothin ! My local staples was just full of random paperwork ,etc. My walmart was locked up and we have no art store really.... This sucks and now I have to go back to buying shit :(

[RaZoR123]

Pretty good.....you should mention, at the end of every single day after close, Dunkin Donuts throws away all their muffins, donuts, etc. in one huge bag....:D

[bOxcaR]

you guys.............sound like hobos
but i dunno

[sk8er6]

says the man named 'boxcar'. lol :)

[RaZoR123]

you guys.............sound like hobos
but i dunno

If we were hobos.....explain the computers and internet access haha...


says the man named 'boxcar'. lol :)

Co-Signed....!

[G-Fat]

oh sk8er6 <3

[INDEPENDENT]

says the man named 'boxcar'. lol :)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y108/313eminem313/sickburn.gif

[*VOLT*]

lol dumpster divins' the shit

[RaZoR123]

lol dumpster divins' the shit

It is....:D

[bOxcaR]

hey its just a name i randomly came up with
and i said "but i dunno" cuz i never tried it
cause their isnt shit here
so i guess keep roxing on with dumpster diving

[silentchaos14]

that first link is a dead one

[whahappen?]

theres this encolsed little space where theres dumpsters near me
but theres also a decomposed animal in it..

[smooth_nuts]

glad to seee this got aproved i went diving today i got 2 cans of kils white primer 9 bingo dabbers and 1 kiwi shoe polish mop it was a slow day

[sk8er6]

that first link is a dead one
fixed...

feel free to add your own techniques, advice, spots, etc.

[tuckfoys]

foo i opened this dumpster behind a rite aid to hit up a tall spot and there was 2 guess purses inside. i cudda slanged dem shits to some women

[killtheugly]

since im not a fucking scrub ill just either steal it or buy it if i feel its worth the money. fuck diving in a dumpster and catching some mystery rash.

[ILuvHoodRats]

yo we maybe look like hobos and shit but yo we save money and yo , we are already knowned as fuckers that fucks up society when doing graffiti , it doesnt bother me looking like a hobo. its a good camouflage too , at 2 am your all lookin in trash and shit police wont disturb you.

[.jug.]

maybee an art store but never somewhere with a public bathroom you might as well wipe your ass with your hands

[smooth_nuts]

dont knock it till you try it

[sk8er6]

maybee an art store but never somewhere with a public bathroom you might as well wipe your ass with your hands
thats why you dont open the bags full of paper towels and wear gloves..

[INDEPENDENT]

never tried but donuts sounds TASTEY!

[ZOT]

Go to a bakery like 10 min before they close, they puth all their bread, .. in big fucking bags in the garbage.. I worked there they crazy, you could feed whole africa after a month of their garbage

[FuGu]

Thanks for the advice!
Heres a list of some of the stuff I found.

Wallmart:
-6 cans of spray (2 diddnt work, if the cap is cracked the kids just throw out the whole thing)
-1 bucket of ugly ass paint
-bunch of old magaziens

Art store:
-some graff art on canvase (some 75% there:( )
-canvase
-frames
-1 cigarette


All the other places locked there dumpsters, how I got here was by scaring away the workers whial unloading.

[sk8er6]

walmart, huh? hmmm...
what color cans did you get? and the bucket paint? its funny because specialty paint stores and home depot sell there mis mixed paint. there was a shitload of aluminum rusto(spray, may not have been aluminum, but it was silverish) and all the caps were fucked up and the and the tops were fucked up too. they said they were sending them back to rustoleum to "repackage" them. shiet, same for some other stores. wish i could just look somewhere and find a load of spray...
except for colorplace whites. fuck colorplace whites.

[b-townbomb]

dd is nasty yo.

[acereborn]

fuck yeah I got 3 good cans today :) stupid art stores... and also I got some of those form fitting gloves from my IDA

[acereborn]

Oh, and I forgot to post before... That dumpster diving is really stupid, considering I spent the whole day getting that ^^^ I could have worked like 2 hours and had what I got in like 10 hours... RETARDED

[smooth_nuts]

dumb ass you have to go on the right day and know all lot about the store you cant just walk up behind a dumpster and think your going to find every thing in the store on any given day

[FuGu]

The bucket paint was a green/brown colour
the spray was yellow,grey,black,brown,flat black,and a reddish textured one.Sadly both of the blacks diddnt work:(

I found a few empty cans too.

[BEREDA]

i got 7 buckets today from sherwin williams and like 6 cans of clear

[harry]

ha fuck would safe way have any thing good in there dumpsters thats all i got in my piece of shit town

[acereborn]

dumb ass you have to go on the right day and know all lot about the store you cant just walk up behind a dumpster and think your going to find every thing in the store on any given day

NO FUCKIN SHIT!!! what you think you walk up to a mcdonalds and expect to find some spraypaint in their dumpsters???? Everyone has at least read the first post on where and how to get it dumbass

[smooth_nuts]

hahaha o shit it seems the tables have been turned

[*VOLT*]

man i used to think dumpster diving was fun i just tried it out this wat i got canadain tire:3 cans of paint that looked like they went through world war 3 (if you could still call them cans),i think i got rabys from the raccoon that bit my ass,a whole bunch of liquid grimy shyt on me. Michaels arts and crafts:a ...NOTHING BUT SOME GRIMY SHIT THAT MADE ME SMELL BAD! worst night ever and it was planned!><>

[iwritebasic]

damn i jus wanna get the cigs

[anarchy]

Dumpster diving is sick. Just get some strong cleaning gloves and wear long pants. I usually don't fuck with grimey dumpsters. (Anything with food scraps ect.) Another spot to check is in those long dumpsters they put next to the sidewalk. Lots of times they are put there by scrap companies that clean out/ gut buildings. I found six cans of flat black krylon. With like 2 being used. And you can find some furniture and shit too that with a little cleaning can be nice. I found a desk in one that was stocked with all kinds of nice pens and sticker paper and shit.

[GAUGE]

ye same happened to me fuck dumpster diving it's a hobos job not a writers...THOUGHT ABOUT IT IM NOT DESPERATE FOR SCRAPS!!!

nethier am i but i just love the slimy crap rubbing agenst my bondy and even seeing that special crack whore lokking for sigs to sell for her drug problem oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhyyyeeeaaa lol jk

[Bombsquad13]

nethier am i but i just love the slimy crap rubbing agenst my bondy and even seeing that special crack whore lokking for sigs to sell for her drug problem oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhyyyeeeaaa lol jk


What The FUCCKK hahahahahaha that shits funny i love dumpster diving i am going to go right now actully just around my neighborhood there bulding houses around me never know what i'll find??:p

[sk8er6]

oh, tip for the rollers or mop paint makers...
look behind contractors warehouses... ;)

[k 126]

I can see if you said to get labels.Like behind a label making warehouse.Where
they through away messed up labels for recycling.Any dumpster where food and shit goes,guess what you also find rats to racoons.

[sk8er6]

very possible. i personally havent seen any. must depend where you live at.

[ODonthesetrees]

...you might as well wipe your ass with your handsive done that before:D

[souper-soker]

garbage picking is where its at jumping ina dumpster is for squares.

[tuckfoys]

i wish i could come up on som bolt clippers in a dumpster..or anywhere else aslong as i dont have to pay for um

[DECO ONE]

walk into lowes...and walk out with thewm in your pants.thats what i did

[tuckfoys]

wut if i get chased and it sum how opens and chops my dik off

[7thIncision]

Lol. Thats a sick idea, deffo. trying it.
Look for printing press places or office supply places and sometimes you can just find huge pieces of sticker paper not even cut do you can make them whatever size you need.

[spit_in_your_face]

bingo markers... why didnt i think of that.

[Steez]

damn i jus wanna get the cigs

dittoo !

[Indeed]

Of course youre not gonna have much luck the first couple of times; youve got to learn the routine...

My favorite places are sign making and screenprinting shops; they throw away tons of vinyl for stickers, acetate for stencils and acrylic plastic for painting on. If youre not an illiterate fuck and enjoy reading, some bookstores have decent dumpsters.

[smooth_nuts]

i love the plases that make the stickers for the sides of trucks you can get huge ass sheets of stickker paper

[GAUGE]

ummm is uni mart (convienit store),exerxed or some kind of paint store good?

[toke_wdc]

just find an art school with no alarms and break in if you can't find shit in dumpsters.

[Roolete]

i went to the back of a screenprinting shop and got LOADS of vinyls. and it was clean.

what the hell do they use bingo dabbers for in bingo??? i thought it was just the company name

[k 126]

to mark the numbers.just go to a bingo hall,play they might give one and win some money in the process.

[Atom1er]

anybody got a place called big lots
aroundthere cities?
or anything similar
its like a more expensive dollar store
i might check around there
and my micheals and ac moore are surrounded by hobos
and its scary
how do you get into ones that are locked?

[7thIncision]

just find an art school with no alarms and break in if you can't find shit in dumpsters.


....Art school with no alarms. Haha, yeah fucking right.

[sk8er6]

how do you get into ones that are locked?
check the bottom of the first post. ;)

Oh, and for bucket paint, most of the time, you don't have to jump into it (if its enamel/oil based) by law its hazardous(flammable) so they cant toss it in there. They just leave it by the dumpster. I almost have enough to make some drippy ass black mop paint just from dumpster diving, but I need thinner. I found a dark grey enamel base, and then found black color pigment/toner/colorant, and I turned My ghetto krink gold. Haha, I doubt anyone can find a place to rack paint pigment without jumping behind the counter.

[Atom1er]

i checked the padlock one and thats helpful
might break into a few lockers at school sometime
but i need something for like
a TT type bar on the dumpster
anybody else know what i am talking about?

[g3zt]

I dumpster dived once behind one of those sex stores...

never...

again..

:P ive been mentally scarred..

all the porn people dont like and the little toys that dont sell....

guess who was takin them home that night...


:/

[sk8er6]

oh fuck! thats too fucking funny. hahahahahaha:p:p

[g3zt]

oh fuck! thats too fucking funny. hahahahahaha:p:p

Funny is when I got home my lil brother went through my bag and started playin with one of the toys...

damn this society..

:/

[smooth_nuts]

i checked the padlock one and thats helpful
might break into a few lockers at school sometime
but i need something for like
a TT type bar on the dumpster
anybody else know what i am talking about?

hell no

[Atom1er]

wow ok nvrmnd then
i dont think i ve ever seen dumpsters with padlocks
on em around my town

[tuckfoys]

anybody got a place called big lots
aroundthere cities?
or anything similar
its like a more expensive dollar store
i might check around there
and my micheals and ac moore are surrounded by hobos
and its scary
how do you get into ones that are locked?
yea thers a biglots a few miles from me. i dont think theyd have shit there. just a bunch of broken junk i bet.

[smooth_nuts]

atom did you mean the bar that holds the lids shut

[Atom1er]

YES!
that thing
i can never get em open
but they are only on small ones
about waist high

[smooth_nuts]

now i know what you mean on the left side of where it bolted on at theres a latch pull tords you hold it and pull the bar back it should come right open

[ODonthesetrees]

i went to the back of a screenprinting shop and got LOADS of vinyls. and it was clean.

what the hell do they use bingo dabbers for in bingo??? i thought it was just the company name

yhey have ink in them and you "dab" opr make a dot on the square that was called, that way they dont need 80000000000 chips at the old people home

[©Ø®Ë]

I went dumpster diving once. And I found tons of bucket paint and a green can of rusto full... Cap works and everything.

[toke_wdc]

i went dumpster diving at a construction site once. found lots of green, pink, orange rusto, bucket paint, a used respirator and new but dirty roller covers.

[GAUGE]

i dont know if this place is good but its called sternburgs or sumthin its in carrick/castleshannon its just a paint store comments

[acereborn]

^^^^ never heard of it... And i might try going to a construction site, getting a respirator would be nice.

[toke_wdc]

the best time to go to one is when they start touching up the walls of the building. that's when the spraypaint that was used to mark the lumber is thrown away and same with the respirators used to shave down wood and shit.

[sk8er6]

thats knowledge right there.

[Atom1er]

true that
now to find construction sites
what kind
industrial
or housing?
cuz i can find tons of housing not so many commercial ones

[toke_wdc]

thats knowledge right there.haha thanks


true that
now to find construction sites
what kind
industrial
or housing?
cuz i can find tons of housing not so many commercial ones
the ones i found mine at were housing, so you got good deals....

[Drakula]

Just another little tip I found.

Look for any local sticker or printing stores,they often throw out rejected sticker designs that are just asking to be drawn on.

[Atom1er]

hmmm
coolness
they have giant rich neighborhoods being developed around my area
and i could get around there late night
itd be a bitch though
the area has a curfew for anyone under 18
if your under 18 you cant be out after like 11 or 12
it totally blows
but building dumpsters
used spray/ bucket paint and respirators?
anything else thats useful?

[toke_wdc]

umm...i don't think so...you can also try looking around the unfinished houses, i found a fucking nice boom box that the workers used in one once.

[Atom1er]

whoa
nice toke
and what kind of stores should i look for vinyls?
like KINKOS
fedex kinkos i think is the new name
but yeah
a photo copy place?
and is it true that places like best buy radio shack staples circuit city etc would throw out old electronics that dont sell in dumpsters?

[smooth_nuts]

printing places but vinyls stickys are hard as fuck to draw on

[smooth_nuts]

high schools are good to find comps and shit like that and if you find a teck school that has an auto shop dig in the dumpster closest to it you can find all kinds of stuff a few weeks ago i found 2 printers and a box of small and large sized grind stones

[Atom1er]

my mom works at a tech school....
and i go to an art school
i know the visual artist have a cabinet full of rusto
and they can get vinyl type stuff
idk about my moms school
but i ll try that out

hurray for wastefull countries!

[smooth_nuts]

you take visual art??? commerical art is way better

[Atom1er]

nah
i sing
lol
i wish i was a visual artist

[toke_wdc]

high schools are good to find comps and shit like that and if you find a teck school that has an auto shop dig in the dumpster closest to it you can find all kinds of stuff a few weeks ago i found 2 printers and a box of small and large sized grind stones
yeah when my school gets new computers they just stack the old ones up in front of the computer lab.....a crack head got arrested for stealing them...the guy left fingerprints on the other computers....

[Atom1er]

damn
where they stash all our computers
its locked
but its a fucking huge room
full of like every computer theyve ever had.....
the old macs and dells
my friends steal the mouses and keyboards sometimes
and i fuck around with the keyboards
to rearrange the letters

[toke_wdc]

haha. schools in hawaii are so fucking poor, we can't even afford to have room to stash our computers...

[Atom1er]

dude
you live in hawaii???
nice man you surf or skate or anything???

[chief]

i know someone that was just in hawaii they said everything was bombed

[Dome27]

best find ever for me was 2 cases of Painters Touch spray paint...
brand new just thrown away after an apartment building was remodelled
only downside was it was Flat Gray and Off-White

[Atom1er]

just tried dumpster diving at best buy near me
NOTHING
at all
cept some nasty fish smel that wont leave me and my friends...
bunch of good tagging
and skating

[toke_wdc]

dude
you live in hawaii???
nice man you surf or skate or anything???
i bodyboard and sumetimes surf...i live by the north shore where all the best waves are so yeah...i get sick of it sometimes....

[Atom1er]

damn nice man
any big cities near you to bomb?

[toke_wdc]

not really but i go out a lot and i crash at my cousins house a lot who lives in the city, i always meet up with my friend that lives near him to go bomb.

[Seek38]

Meh dupster diving does pay off sometimes, like some of the other people said if you go to the right stores at the right times u can make some cash..go to your local skateshop, if they dont have a lock on the dumpster you can find tons of valuable things..

[2facedkillah]

most places have a compactor now a days

[sk8er6]

just got a couple bingo dabbers.

[acereborn]

LOL those bingo dabbers are funny. I grabbed a bunch from canadian tire lol

[Atom1er]

yeah so that night i put up my poster
me and my friends looked around best buy
for anything of use to us
and we didnt find one damn thing
cept a really bad smell....
we checked on hte 31st
end of the month
should we check on a different day
or do they not throw out there stuff?

[acereborn]

Best buy wont throw out much stuff i bet

[Atom1er]

eh i talked to razor bout it and he gets stuff from there soemtimes
i was gonna check block buster too for some dvds
but i got distracted
me and my homies went skating around shopping centers and shit
its so fun with no one there

[acereborn]

lol bet it is... i still haven't checked blockbuster for some movies or somthing.. I highly doubt that they'd just throw it out...

[toke_wdc]

they probably throw out all the clearance dvd's that no one buys.

[acereborn]

Why wouldn't they just save them? If they do throw it out, I'm not complaining, but they are complete dumb fucks if they throw stuff like that out

[Atom1er]

dude think about it
if you were a business
and you get new stock of stuff
new cd players
new movies
your gonna wanna throw out all the old
cd players that arent as good
or old movies no one wants
would you rather store them in a warehouse to never see the light of day again
and waste your money doing that?
or just chuck em?

[smooth_nuts]

they probably throw out all the clearance dvd's that no one buys.

no man though dont they throw out ant dvds i already got copys of hairspray because of block buster but i havent watched it yet um ya block buster learn the garbage day for that block then go the day befor the last garbage day of that month for that block mkay atom

[Kayone707]

no man though dont they throw out ant dvds i already got copys of hairspray because of block buster

you got the old copy, the movie came out a while back.

[smooth_nuts]

it might be now i have to watch it ....

[Kayone707]

god speed... god speed...

[smooth_nuts]

hahaya it was the old one it was ok i didnt realy watch all of it

[Atom1er]

lololololol
graff writers watching hairspray....
but yeah i ll have to check for their garbage day
and doesnt block buster/ vdeo places just send the dvds through like a thing that messes em up
but they are to slack to do all of em
so they just throw them out?

[smooth_nuts]

it matter how lazy the workers are there supposed to put them through a shredder but ost workers are to lazy and toss them the way they are

[©Ø®Ë]

I was walking around yesterday and got some ill looking green bucket paint. That was cool...

[acereborn]

it matter how lazy the workers are there supposed to put them through a shredder but ost workers are to lazy and toss them the way they are

they should just give them to people, i'm sure everybody would want some of the movies... its just plain stupid to throw it out when some one else could want it..

[smooth_nuts]

not really man if they did that they wouldnt make a prophet think about it what they should do is sell they shit super low that way the still make a prophet and they dont have to worry about shredding them so its a win win sorta thing

[tuckfoys]

its illegal to dumpstr dive tho isnt it? Thats sum dum shit theyre throwin it out anyway

[smooth_nuts]

ya it is illegal

[Roolete]

got two huge pieces of tagboard today, good practice board.

also, i wandered around a constuction site and got 3 half full cans of neon orange paint. and a pink hardhat :D

[toke_wdc]

nice to find that someone else found shit at a construction site.

[Soeffinblack]

I went to a art store to go dumpster diving. Went around back and hopped right in. all I did was jump into a big pile of needles and wierd doctor looking stuff. Turns out it was VD clinic dumpster next door and all I snagged out of the dumpster that day was aids. :(


















hahaha definitely not true by any means haha....

[Atom1er]

me and my friends found this abandoned auto shop
and there was a shit load of car parts
starters engine parts
spark plugs other tools hardhats
radios etc etc
but it was full of wasps
so we hauled ass
i am gonna back with some long sleeves and jeans and get that shit

[kurug3n]

Atom1er that shit sounds like a chop shop then an abandoned auto shop man lol

[Atom1er]

lol
probably
it looked legit though
they had a sign up for a regular shop
but u never know
we looked around on one of the side buildings
and it looked like a hobo lived there
there was shit load of clothes furniture
and needles lighters spoons and shit
it was mad freaky
and there is an abandonded construction crane

[kurug3n]

damn if i were you dude i would go in the day than at night

[xUNDEDx]

what about food

i know it sounds crazy but

i heard some doughnut shops throw there day old stuff away in bags.

and if this is true i guess its cool if you dont have any money and hungry on the go, or if your a cheap ass.

:D

[tuckfoys]

Be careful around construction places foreal. If they see u taking shit from the site like tools or cans theyll chase your ass. Trust me i worked in construction for a few summers and a lot of those guys hav bad attitudes from workin in the sun for 9 hours. Just a heads up.

[Mange]

i was with a friend yesterday, and we decided to check out micheals, but it was closed. I remembered this topic and went behind the store and found these items:

a pack of sharpie paint markers that had been opened and one missing.
2 canvases
2 mini gold krylon cans :)
frames
t-shirt marker with no tip
and a 4 pack of puff paint

[##sable##]

this thread is awesome. i just got a new microwave today. well a new old one. it still works.

[2facedkillah]

most dumpsters are compactors now or are locked....weakk

[Brian Peppers]

Mother fucking Dunkin Donuts at 1 am. They throw out all the donuts no one ate in the previous day. They throw them out in a garbage bag just full of donuts and JUST donuts. If you feel paper inside of the bag, no good. Feel for a bag thats mushy and warm and smells great. Every graff writer needs a huge fucking bag of donuts. Feed em to the cops if you get busted.

[sex without condoms]

i got my new bike in a dumpster.
12 speed mountain bike all it needed was some new tires

[Atom1er]

dude i always hear about people finding cool shit
i havent found shit!!
cept some smells that i didnt know existed....
bwahhhhhhhhhhhh

[smooth_nuts]

what stores have to checked out man

[Dome27]

found a carton of Marlboro Menthols three nights ago...
i woulda been happy if they weren't menthols.
i sold em to some bum for $20 today.
i will be picking up some Sailor Jerry, a pack of smokes and a red bull when i head out tomorrow. so it was alright to me.

[Atom1er]

dude
how does everyone find shit like cigs
ID KILL TO FIND A CARTON OF CIGS
not really kill but
CMON!!!!
gaH!!!!!!!!!!!
where do you check for shit like that?
gas stations?

[Atom1er]

what stores have to checked out man

best buy, random shopping ceneter with office depot, hobby town, blockbuster, ice cream place, clothes place, barns and nobles

sorry for 2 posts:cool:

[smooth_nuts]

your checking in the wrong places man thats why your not finding shit

ps places like office max staples pretty much any office supply store only trow shit out if the product or what ever its in(box,plastic wrapping that kinda shit) is fucked so.....

[Tode]

hmm i usually got behind them italian and mexican resturants and jump in the grease dumpster then get out all greazzziee and walk the city streets looking like swamp thing

[smooth_nuts]

hahaha

[Atom1er]

allright what kinda places shoulda i be searching?
just for useful stuff ingeneral
my micheals and AC moore are in really really bad parts of my city
and are really far away
the one time i ever went behind there
it was like a wee little hobo village
and they sorta looked at me like death to you....
sooo yeah what kinda places should i check?

[smooth_nuts]

cigs-rite aid
paint-surman willams
dabbers-any bingo hall
mags-rite aid,cvs and blockbuster
dvds-blockbuster throws dumpsters ful away every month so cash bitch
chain stores(walmart,target,kmart)places like that wont have shit so stop looking there um most hobos i have ever met are nice unless you fuck with what little they have then they go fucking crazy so dont dive if they are near um learn the garbage night for the block the store is on know what time the workers leave now how often the pigs go around that block um thats about as much as i can help really

[Atom1er]

dude
who the fuck throws out cartons of cigs????
and idk about rite aids around here
what about a walgreens CVS or ekerds?

[smooth_nuts]

idk check em out but i know rite aids do throw out cigs

[Atom1er]

what dumbasses
gahhhh
what about autoparts places or gasstations?
anything good there?

[*VOLT*]

where could i get ink or leather dye ??

[smooth_nuts]

nowhere your better off racking it

[*VOLT*]

where could i rack it then?

[Atom1er]

and what about gas stations and autopart stores?

[smooth_nuts]

never checked them man but i dout you would find any thing

[Atom1er]

alright
cool cool
and where can me and voltage rack some leather dye
i found some kiwi leather dye
its so so
i mixed it with some other black inks i got
and its pretty solid

[Atom1er]

my inks all water based though
its 3 or 4 different types of india
kiwi black leather dye
black zig ink
some type of permanent ink higgins shit
little bit of black sharpie
little bit of black acrylic paint (yes i know waterbased paint)
some crushed charcoal mixed with alcohol
and last but not least some dot 3
really good mixed
opaque as fuckabllness

[smooth_nuts]

get leather dye at(not in the fucking dumpster)walgreens rite aid cvs places like that
edit*and as for the quote in your sig will smith didnt take a cab from phillt to bel air if you ever seen the first fresh prince episode you would know that he took a plane to bel air drank some motha fucking orange juice and then got a cab

[##sable##]

who cares what will smith did. i took a plane to bel air, drank some purple drank and then took a cab to the first bank of mommas to get some sperm samples.

[smooth_nuts]

haha idk no i was bored

[Atom1er]

get leather dye at(not in the fucking dumpster)walgreens rite aid cvs places like that
edit*and as for the quote in your sig will smith didnt take a cab from phillt to bel air if you ever seen the first fresh prince episode you would know that he took a plane to bel air drank some motha fucking orange juice and then got a cab

dude that quote is by some dude in the PHILOSPHY thread
by someone else
bwaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh

[smooth_nuts]

i know i was just really really fucking bored

[From the Ground Up]

the smoothest and drippiest shit i've seen to date is the dye that paint dpeartments put into the paint to give it the colour, mixed with a couple drops of brake fluid.....if u know sumone in the paint dept, or see it unattended, u can put it in a waterbottle n walk out the store :D

thats my advice, hope it helps some

[Atom1er]

never seen that shit
but i think i am going to go to a home depot or walmart
and sit around the paint sect for a while

[sk8er6]

Or you could take the paint, and toss it into a trash can, and come back later that night...

[*VOLT*]

this is such a bullshit thread i went to 2 bingo halls didn't even get a dabber all the shit said on here is bullshit...dumpster diving isn't worth it!

[sk8er6]

sucks to be you bud. how many days before trash day was it? i usually go the night before.

[##sable##]

yea yeu will find shit there. i used to work at one believe it or not and we were instructed to throw out the dabbers wen teh ink ran out. they dont refil them. i used to take hom about 50 dabbers a month. they still good, just empty.

[tuckfoys]

you worked at a bingo joint? lmao i bet you had some fun there..

[Atom1er]

dude at the bingo joints near my house
its a non stop party
in fact
the fuzz raided their last week
74 arrests
2 cops and 4 civillians were killed
100 Kilos of columbian blow
couple hundred rolls of x
they also discovered
an illegal prostitution ring
and several dog and cock fighting rings

[-GEKS-]

lol til abowt halfway throgh i thoght yoo were serios hahahaha

[cerex89]

yea yeu will find shit there. i used to work at one believe it or not and we were instructed to throw out the dabbers wen teh ink ran out. they dont refil them. i used to take hom about 50 dabbers a month. they still good, just empty.
i fucken hate u i wish i have 50 free dabbers lucky

[SKAB_himself]

found a carton of Marlboro Menthols three nights ago...
i woulda been happy if they weren't menthols.
i sold em to some bum for $20 today.
i will be picking up some Sailor Jerry, a pack of smokes and a red bull when i head out tomorrow. so it was alright to me.

i found smokes once on the sub way

[tha boy in da corner]

am i the only one not getting all hot about free 1$ bingo dabbers or what?

[*VOLT*]

same here...chek yur pm's!!

[sk8er6]

its not all about bingo dabbers, but there one of the easies shit to get.

me and smooth posted only a few possibilites in the first post.

im sure that yall can find shit to suit.

[wont]

i got this paint sprayer http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z191/poppy_097/sdghdhufsd.jpg

[Atom1er]

is there a plain straight up racking thread????

[Dome27]

dude how does everyone find shit like cigs ID KILL TO FIND A CARTON OF CIGS not really kill but CMON!!!! gaH!!!!!!!!!!! where do you check for shit like that? gas stations?
i found that carton in a Savemart recycling dumpster (i wasnt dumpster diving, i saw a bag full of empty cartons and opened it to see if they missed a pack, or had a damaged pack that they threw out... they missed an entire carton)...


dude who the fuck throws out cartons of cigs???? and idk about rite aids around here what about a walgreens CVS or ekerds?
i just got lucky, but i have heard of Rite Aid throwing them out (which i plan on following up on


idk check em out but i know rite aids do throw out cigs
i plan to check... i can't afford $5+ a day anymore (today i smoked 2 packs, it gets expensive)


i found smokes once on the sub way
i just usually buy them, or "find" them in friends packs of cigarettes... :D

[toxus]

Fucking Lol @ This Thread

[C-money fresh!]

i whent dumpster diving in a riteaid dumpster.

i found alot of broken glass and a huge roll of magnetic rite aid stickers that set off those security things you walk throiugh by the front door of stores.

you stick them on peoples bags, and thiers backs and what not, and when they walk out of the store the alarms go off.

[Dome27]

i whent dumpster diving in a riteaid dumpster.

i found alot of broken glass and a huge roll of magnetic rite aid stickers that set off those security things you walk throiugh by the front door of stores.

you stick them on peoples bags, and thiers backs and what not, and when they walk out of the store the alarms go off.

im gonna have to hit up the rite aid over by me, or at least figure out when trash day is for them, and go the night before...

[dajam410]

i whent dumpster diving in a riteaid dumpster.

i found alot of broken glass and a huge roll of magnetic rite aid stickers that set off those security things you walk throiugh by the front door of stores.

you stick them on peoples bags, and thiers backs and what not, and when they walk out of the store the alarms go off.



Go into a mall and expose the adhesive on them, and stick them on the ground with the adhesive sticking up. People would step on them and walk into stores. Trust me, it works great.

[Atom1er]

dude
next time i go to the mall
i am gonna be lookin at the ground
and run into some big ass gangsta
and get my ass beat...
thanks guys...

[CRN-one]

Best buy wont throw out much stuff i bet

I used to work at a BestBuy, they don't throw out shit. If it's broken, it goes back to the manufacturer. If it's out of date or old product, it goes to corporate to be sold online at an auction they hold a couple times a year.

All you'll find it shit from the trashcans (bathroom bullshit mostly) and a lot of packing materials. Nothing worth keeping.

I'd suggest lookin elsewhere.

[KASE2]

ey u think michales throws away tha old stock of paint wen then get new orders? or if places lyk lowes throw away old respirators?

[Oprah]

Why don't you go into the store and find out when they throw stuff out and ask if you can arrive at the store during that time and make a deal where you can take what you want and you'll throw the rest in the dumpster so they don't have to walk out back. And if they say no just tag up the store

[nero122]

because stealings cooler

[nero122]

dude at the bingo joints near my house
its a non stop party
in fact
the fuzz raided their last week
74 arrests
2 cops and 4 civillians were killed
100 Kilos of columbian blow
couple hundred rolls of x
they also discovered
an illegal prostitution ring
and several dog and cock fighting rings

wow thought you were serious but then with the 100 k of cocke lol that'd be worth 500 mll $ lol

[Atom1er]

yeah man
stealings cooler
and you wanna be cool
dontcha?

[_Slur_]

wow thought you were serious but then with the 100 k of cocke lol that'd be worth 500 mll $ lol

Yea 100 kilos is insane, you can make a million on only like 2 or 3 kilos.

Its mostly sold in grams so... Even if there were 100 kilos, the cops wouldn't raid it, the FBI would do a big stack out and shit probably.

I thought of Scarface when I heard kilos of coke XD

[cerex89]

this thread went from dumpster diving to cocaine...............wierd

[toke_wdc]

shut the fuck up...that was only 3 posts about it...and its related to dumpster diving....

[cerex89]

damn do u need a tampon for that pussy it was a joke

[PaintThaStreets P.T.S]

is there a plain straight up racking thread????

yes.....

[PaintThaStreets P.T.S]

damn do u need a tampon for that pussy it was a joke


dont get me started with dumpster and tampons..... bloody bag memorys:(

[_Slur_]

dont get me started with dumpster and tampons..... bloody bag memorys:(

*Shutters* I can relate to that, and now I find the coke talk in this thread relavent to my sig XD

[cerex89]

i knew there was someting wrong with him funny shit

[intaout]

me and my friend went dumpeter diving and founf a nice golfbag some golfballs and just under 50$ in cash

[MontanaPainter]

me and my friend went dumpeter diving and founf a nice golfbag some golfballs and just under 50$ in cash
thats awesome..... i found a electric scooter and like 10 rolls of duct tape. not bad hehe

[duke101]

me an sum friends went behind a store called de ja vu disks. this store buys cd's off of people an sends them to there main store to refurbish them an we found a box of cd's grabbed it an ran off got atleast 300 dollers worth

[sk8er6]

well, i got some big ass candles and sand paper sheets.
sand papers, making markers n shit.
candle, i make skatewax biatch!

not that great of a haul, especially since the spot i go to for bucket paint had no paint but a bunch of stained little girls clothing...

[0lick]

just wonderin. do you reallly have to go dumpster diving...like..cant you just ask the manager if you can go threw the stuff hes gonna throw away before they throw it away...i mean its not like thier gonna go "NO this is my trash...myne myne!.".........just a thought....cuz i dont wanna jump in a dumpster and be covered in shit when i just ask them if i can take it...

[smooth_nuts]

it may sound stupid but the do act like that and most the time if the see you digging in their dumpsters thet're al like"rabble rabble rabble police buttsex rabble rabble" ya dig

[CRN-one]

yeah most retail chains are required by corporate policy to discard shit, and not give it away.

at best buy, trash pickin was considered theft, even if the shit was broken or worthless (eg video game cardboard signs, etc)

teh ghey.

[0lick]

thats fuckin gay lol. its economical, but they would rather have it thrown to a land fill.

[smooth_nuts]

yeah if you look most dumpsters have signs on them them telling you all this legal shit like how you can get arested for dumpster diving ect.

[0lick]

ima dress like a hobo...they wouldnt arrest a 15 year old hobo would they? *tilts head to side*

[Atom1er]

yes
dude
they can arrest u for stupider stuff than that


but 15 yrs old???
where do you live man??

[0lick]

in cali. the suburbs too =[ people here prolly never even seen a hobo. lol

[_Slur_]

Just to add he lock trick only works on master locks that go to number 35, I should know I've been using it for along time so just thought I'd put that out there if any of you didn't know.

[Atom1er]

dude i still wanna make one for my school so i can break in to lockers and shit
someone needs to find a way to open the regular key locks
bolt cutters?

[0lick]

maby u should learn how to pick locks? google that shit. ull learn in like 10 minutes how to do it "worked for me" for my school we use the blue masterlocks for our gym lockers. in the coaches office they have a big ass stack of papers that tell you what ALL the locker combos are. what hapens is that you give them the lock code or whatever "its on the back of the lock". bring it to them. they fucken throw this big stack of papers in front and they find the code. maby ur school has that. go check it out

[Atom1er]

no
my schools not that organized
litterally
the teachers say
find a locker
put ur stuff in it
put a lock on it
its yours

[_Slur_]

I should be going to my grandfathers old shop, supposably he could unlock any lock... I hope its genetic.

Also bolt cutters are big and hard to carry and take alot of room in your bag, also there hard to cut with you might not even be able to cut the lock if you brought them.

[0lick]

yeah at my school whenever someone uses a different lock "different color masterlock" they dont have the code. so they get sum big buff dude and those heavy duty bolt cutter and he cuts it off. he struggles with it too. so if your scrawny or whatever i suggest goin to picklocks or find another way inside

[_Slur_]

Or if its a chain link fence get some wire cutters go through it or hop it, thats only if its behind a fence, also picking locks can be very hard.

Maybe you should get a auto-picker

[Atom1er]

k
where can i get an autopicker?
and for how much?

[smooth_nuts]

budk.com i forget how much they cost but i always seen them in thier book thingys i used to get in the mail

[0lick]

Or if its a chain link fence get some wire cutters go through it or hop it, thats only if its behind a fence, also picking locks can be very hard.

Maybe you should get a auto-picker

picking locks aint very hard. it just gets hard to get used to. cuz u have to have the right tension on the rod and use the rakes and the pick correctly. then you have to kno how many pins are in the lock 3-4-5-6 and you have to keep count when thier being picked. practice makes perfect =] after a while u master it and its easy =D

[Attican]

Have any of you seen Fight Club?

If you're encountering a barbed wire fence, throw a thick blanket over the top then climb like a regular fence.

[sk8er6]

guess what i found...


a working laser printer.

at first i didn't think it would work, i was planning on scrapping it to use the fan for a magnetic stirrer. plus i got a stack of DHL labels...

lucky me.

[_Slur_]

picking locks aint very hard. it just gets hard to get used to. cuz u have to have the right tension on the rod and use the rakes and the pick correctly. then you have to kno how many pins are in the lock 3-4-5-6 and you have to keep count when thier being picked. practice makes perfect =] after a while u master it and its easy =D

Well like anything practice does help, I just need ot learn what to do first >.> I need a pick set

ALSO hair pins dont open locks, christ no matter what unless you are somekind of genius you shalnt get it open with those.

[anthrax]

You can pick locks with hair pins if you bend them into the right shape, its very hard with more complicated locks though.

[harry]

what about with straightened paper clips? would that work not that i lpan on picking any locks ahaha

[brandonb5269]

google home made lock picks, you can make them out of a hack saw blade and a dremal. very easy to make, easy to use, can even make ur tension wrench if u have a lil torch. these are effective for almost all locks if you use the proper shape head

[djsupreeme]

go to mark's work wearhouse and u will find so much clothes and shit. my bro found this big box of brand new socks and gitch and shit lmaoo and like shirts pants w/e all packaged not even open i dunno why they throw that shit out but w/e

[Molotov]

Dumpster diving for graffiti:
[SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]Did you get chased by a cop and lost your mop? Need a new mop? You can get one with a screw top. No need to shop, just get up and drop into a dumpster behind a bingo hall.



Hahahaha. Nice one.

[MARVY]

i have some bolt cutters, and they go threw chainlink like scissors on paper!

[aRXV]

Another good way to do this is to go into a store and pick out a few cans you want, throw them in a garbage can inside the store, either remember what color the trash bag is or put a sticker on the outside of the bag. Go to the dumpster later, abra fucking kadabra.

[silentchaos14]

lots of places use those dumpsters attached to the building now. im pretty sure walmart does anyway

[smooth_nuts]

its called a trash compacter jroc......

[silentchaos14]

and i was supposed to know how? it aint like ive ever asked what it was. just assumed it was a dumpster cuz it smelled horrible

[smooth_nuts]

hahaha dont lash out at me nukka(that my new favrite word : P)i was just sharing some info.....

[harry]

kinda sounds stupid...to much work involved...

[Run .]

scored loads of magazines the other day nearly like 20 different mags cause some were a month old :| just sitting on the top of shit in a box

[DS817]

To any one who opposes this. Just do what you gotta do. If jumping in some smelly garbage will get you free shit then go for it.

[Tagger101]

i found some alcohol in the garbage one time just a case of these twist wine coolers though it wasnt bad

[_Slur_]

If theres a party near your house and it goes late and everyones drinks wake up early when there too groggy to know whats going on. Go in the back door and take what beer they havent drank, walk in there house as someone may have passed out in the back door, I've seen his before, walk in there may be a six pack or two left.

They will just think they drank it, you can also recycle the bottles and cans for a nice shiny nickel.

[igots0le]

the weirdest think happened to me. about a year ago me and my friends were chillen at a middle school and i walked past the garabage and i found 2 packs of UNOPENED beer still in the box thingy. i dont drink so we just tried making molotov cocktails out of them but it didnt work. so we eneded up throwing the rest at cars. =)

[Murder.Corpse]

I tried to go to my local Home depo, and they dont have normal dupsters.
they put their garbage in this thing that compresses it, and crushes it.
no way in hell am i going into that, i've watched a video
where some small kid some how got into one of those, and
one of the employees turned on the machine and you can hear
the kid screaming, and shit, it was a horrorific video.
[you dont actually see the kid die, but you can hear him beg for
help and hear him scream]

[igots0le]

wtf. post the link. do home depot people always film themselves while crushing garbage or did the kid plan that or something....

[C-SONE]

I was on the bus one day and some guy left an unopened pack of cigs on the seat so I grabbed em and saved myself 15 bucks, Also once I went by this paint joint and in their dumpster they had one of those things that holds all the different colours of paint they use to mix colours but it was too heavy so I couldn't take it.

[dajam410]

wtf. post the link. do home depot people always film themselves while crushing garbage or did the kid plan that or something....

Hahahaha. He definitely planned that.

[igots0le]

so the kid killed himself as an example to us dumpster divers not to dive in a compactor? did he even die? or is this whole thing like made up. haha.

["Riot"]

your an idiot.

[Murder.Corpse]

so the kid killed himself as an example to us dumpster divers not to dive in a compactor? did he even die? or is this whole thing like made up. haha.

i watched the video in my Tourism Class, i dunno if theres an actual link.
>_>"

[OUTLAW]

I was on the bus one day and some guy left an unopened pack of cigs on the seat so I grabbed em and saved myself 15 bucks, Also once I went by this paint joint and in their dumpster they had one of those things that holds all the different colours of paint they use to mix colours but it was too heavy so I couldn't take it.


lol...i was on the bus a week ago and a blunt fell out of his pocket...i looked at it for a sec to c if he would notice gettin off the bus. i waited till the bus left and i smoked that shit right when i got home....

[S P R U E 0 1]

best thread that was not on a dumpster divers forums message board.
12 ooz doesn't even have one of these

[syrup2]

I was on the bus one day and some guy left an unopened pack of cigs on the seat so I grabbed em and saved myself 15 bucks, Also once I went by this paint joint and in their dumpster they had one of those things that holds all the different colours of paint they use to mix colours but it was too heavy so I couldn't take it.

15 dollers for ciggrates ?
what are you pushing out of your butt