I'm always in awe of the things you find. I'm real big on the Buy Nothing/Free Community/Freecycle groups near me, but I've never gone strolling in the wee hours (it's more of a safety thing for me here) to go see what ridiculous things I'm sure some of the rich people throw away. I would hazard a guess as to a few neighborhoods where I might find some things - but also those same people would probably call the cops if they saw someone poking through their trash because those are the kinds of reports I see on Nextdoor. Sigh.
That being said, in my old college town it was proper cultural practice for everyone to go dumpster diving at the end of the school year, to see what things kids with more money than sense threw out when they moved out of the dorms. Some real finds there!
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OHHHH I almost forgot to mention. I have acquired some of my furniture from other's throwaways here, but the one I saw a month or so ago blew me away. I didn't have any space to hold it for people but I posted it in some free groups and I hope somebody nabbed it.
Somebody threw out
A POOL TABLE.
I was like ...you've got to be kidding me!!!
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Thanks for the intriguing stories. I could do my hunting from 4 PM onward in the daylight, but there's a tradeoff on privacy, plus that not all of the buildings have their stuff out until the early evening. Some buildings even put there stuff out after midnight, so I prefer to go when it's ALL out (even if I'm not the early bird to find the easy pickings).
I must say that a pool table is something I've never found and would faint if I ever did. The closest I can say is a full folding German ping pong table a few months ago.