Archives

Check out the archives if you’re interested in seeing my older finds, and how the blog has changed over time!

If you’re very dedicated and want to read the posts sequentially, I’d suggest starting from the bottom of the second (post-by-post) list and moving upwards – the list is in descending order. Just keep in mind that my writing and photography skills have greatly improved since those early days.

By the month

• September 2023(1)
• July 2023(1)
• June 2023(1)
• May 2023(1)
• March 2023(3)
• February 2023(3)
• January 2023(1)
• December 2022(1)
• November 2022(2)
• July 2022(1)
• May 2022(1)
• April 2022(1)
• March 2022(1)
• February 2022(1)
• January 2022(1)
• December 2021(1)
• November 2021(2)
• September 2021(1)
• June 2021(1)
• April 2021(2)
• March 2021(1)
• February 2021(3)
• January 2021(3)
• December 2020(3)
• November 2020(2)
• October 2020(3)
• September 2020(2)
• August 2020(3)
• July 2020(2)
• June 2020(2)
• May 2020(4)
• April 2020(4)
• March 2020(5)
• February 2020(4)
• January 2020(6)
• December 2019(5)
• November 2019(6)
• October 2019(2)
• September 2019(4)
• August 2019(3)
• July 2019(2)
• June 2019(1)
• May 2019(4)
• April 2019(2)
• March 2019(4)
• February 2019(3)
• January 2019(3)
• December 2018(4)
• November 2018(2)
• October 2018(2)
• September 2018(2)
• August 2018(3)
• July 2018(4)
• June 2018(4)
• May 2018(7)
• April 2018(7)
• March 2018(6)
• February 2018(7)
• January 2018(8)
• December 2017(7)
• November 2017(8)
• October 2017(5)
• September 2017(9)
• August 2017(5)
• July 2017(7)
• June 2017(5)
• May 2017(5)
• April 2017(5)
• March 2017(6)
• February 2017(4)
• January 2017(2)
• December 2016(3)
• November 2016(4)
• October 2016(5)
• September 2016(6)
• August 2016(5)
• July 2016(3)
• June 2016(4)
• May 2016(6)
• April 2016(6)
• March 2016(7)
• February 2016(7)
• January 2016(7)
• December 2015(8)
• November 2015(6)
• October 2015(7)
• September 2015(8)
• August 2015(9)
• July 2015(10)
• June 2015(11)
• May 2015(13)
• April 2015(4)
• March 2015(4)
• February 2015(4)
• January 2015(4)
• December 2014(6)
• November 2014(4)
• October 2014(5)
• September 2014(5)
• August 2014(5)
• July 2014(6)
• June 2014(4)
• May 2014(7)
• April 2014(7)
• March 2014(7)
• February 2014(4)
• January 2014(7)
• December 2013(4)
• November 2013(6)
• October 2013(12)
• September 2013(7)
• August 2013(15)
• July 2013(14)
• June 2013(18)
• May 2013(20)
• April 2013(15)
• March 2013(16)
• February 2013(8)
• January 2013(6)
• December 2012(6)
• November 2012(12)
• October 2012(15)
• September 2012(21)
• August 2012(7)
• June 2012(1)
• May 2012(5)
• April 2012(27)
• March 2012(12)

By the post

• The all-nighter
• The summer lull
• The deluge
• It’s a good time for a yard sale
• This & that
• The finds I crave
• The cat pee house / the cow
• The Lens
• The book tossers pt.1
• Brand new junk
• Meet the parents
• Legends of Vancouver
• Changes pt.2
• Changes pt.1
• Existence
• Pear Core
• 1935
• The attack of the big babies
• Odds & ends
• 2022
• This & that
• Ridiculousness
• Grumpy old farts
• Fog-brained pt.2
• Fog-brained
• Just up the street
• Part one of a million pt.10
• Sunnyside
• Part one of a million pt.9
• The rusty blue dumpster pt.2
• Pass-pour pt.3
• Here & there
• Rich people moving: Exhibit B
• 2021
• Part one of a million pt.9
• Rich people moving – Exhibit A
• Random jewelry
• Around the bend
• Wild horses / not so fast
• The rusty blue dumpster pt.1
• Cahier confectionné pt.2
• Jack of all trades pt.1
• Part one of a million pt.8
• Fine china
• Counting coins
• A very 2020 encounter
• The card collector pt.2
• Part one of a million pt.7
• Oh ye of little trash
• Adventures in trash picking
• Part one of a million pt.6
• Spring cleaning bits & bobs
• A cornucopia of quality vintage junk pt.2
• A cornucopia of quality vintage junk pt.1
• The card collector
• That ain’t recyclable!
• Part one of a million pt. 5
• Bits and / or bobs
• Keep an eye out for those oblong bags
• The prestige pt.1
• COVID-19
• A well-timed trip to the Point
• Kucharske Mudroslovi
• Part one of a million pt.4
• Part one of a million pt.3
• The home office
• Part one of a million pt.2
• Growth
• Pass-pour pt.2
• Pass-pour pt.1
• The show must go on pt.2
• The show must go on pt.1
• Daisy
• Recent sales (July through October)
• The best of 2019
• The curmudgeon
• Part one of a million pt.1
• Flash in the pan pt.2
• Flash in the pan pt.1
• Grumpy gus pt.2
• Grumpy gus pt. 1
• Cahier confectionné
• Castaways
• The great sink experiment
• Montrose
• Surviving on scraps
• Garbage meat gamble
• The irate woman and her clocks
• Watch out for those boxes!
• One hit wonder
• Miscellaneous finds from the past six months
• The windowknocker
• Recent sales (May & June)
• Little boxes of treasures / Restlessness pt.2
• The Wecolator
• Self-respect
• Le quartier ukrainienne
• Restlessness pt.1
• Recent sales (March & April)
• Shredded bags & tiny treasures
• The horseshoe pt.2
• Metals both ferrous and non
• The horseshoe
• ‘tween Whitehorse & Skagway
• Recent sales (January & February)
• Week of the iPods pt.2
• Last of 2018 pt.3 / Week of the iPods pt.1
• 2018 Fiscal Year in Review
• Best of 2018
• Last of 2018 pt.2
• Last of 2018 pt.1
• Bordeaux-Cartierville pt. 2
• Recent sales: October & November
• White Owl
• Old junk
• Blossom
• Bordeaux-Cartierville
• The aged cardboard box
• The owl collector
• Recent sales: August & September
• Garbage of the Mile End pt.2
• Recent sales: July
• Things I bring to the auction house pt.2
• Pickin’ from the bottom of the bag
• Bits & bobs
• Recent sales: June
• I’ve been everywhere
• Things I bring to the auction house
• Moving day 2018
• Fast nickel
• Bad faith bargainers
• Recent sales: May
• One-hit wonders
• Dribs & drabs
• Questionable judgment pt.4
• Questionable judgment pt.3
• Flotsam & Jetsam
• Recent sales: April
• Day of plenty pt.2
• Move-out day 2018
• Day of plenty pt.1
• Cold hard cash
• This & that
• Best of 2017
• Questionable judgment pt.2
• 8203 Tanika
• Recent sales: March
• Garbage of the Mile End
• Busy week!
• Gold rush
• Bits & bobs
• Recent sales: February
• Questionable judgment pt.1
• Weird work / garbology pt.4
• Things I find while walking
• Dusty ol’ bags
• Odds & ends
• Garbology pt.3
• Recent sales – January
• Garbology pt.2
• Garbology pt.1
• Mercury pt.2
• Mars Technico
• Servire Populo Pt.4
• Recent sales: December
• Sortilège Pt.3
• Sortilège pt.2
• New garage & scrooge pt.2
• Odds & Ends
• The eviction
• Servire Populo pt.3
• Sortilège
• Recent sales: November
• Zassenhaus
• Recent sales: October
• Bits & Bugs
• Servire Populo pt.2
• Scrooge pt.1
• Recent sales: September
• Night of the sterling garbage pt. 2
• Alleyn 65
• Servire Populo pt. 1
• Night of the sterling garbage pt. 1
• The purge
• Very rich people pt. 5
• Loonies & Toonies
• Parker VP
• Recent sales – August
• Blessings pt.2
• Yard sale, garbage fall fashion + more
• Blessings pt. 1
• Fine folding furniture
• Very rich people pt. 4
• Quality junk
• Michel
• Garbage FIMO
• Recent sales – July
• Mercury
• Tuesday in Rosemont pt.2
• Stranger things / yard sale
• Very rich people pt. 3
• Tuesday in Rosemont
• Recent sales – June
• Canadair pt. 2
• But you were doing so well!
• Nice weather = extra garbage runs
• Canadair pt. 1
• Very rich people pt. 2
• Mousely Crew / Garage
• Moving day 2017
• Very rich people pt.1
• Recent sales – May
• Short posts say so much
• Colgate’s Kit Bag
• Reflection
• Move-out day 2017
• Yard sale / new expressions
• April sales + e-waste recycling
• Scotland – 1908?
• Expo’s [sic]
• Sugaring off
• Yard sale!
• The jewel
• Recent sales – March
• My junk runneth over
• Stimulated passion
• Precisa
• Svijet
• Recent sales (February)
• Requiem for a garbage day
• MBP
• Old stock
• Parker 51
• Recent sales – January 2017
• Vladdy
• Best of 2016!
• Recent sales (December 5 – December 31)
• Pen for men
• Recent sales (November 7 – December 4)
• Always be listing
• Recent sales (October 10 – November 6)
• The Future
• Perfumes / video gear / yard sale!
• Pickers and the police
• Cool tools / efficiency
• Finder’s fee
• Opium
• Recent sales (September 12 – October 10)
• Footprints
• Balloon Man
• Yard sale!
• Hateful things
• Far-right
• Recent sales (August 15 – September 11)
• Last step
• Sonneman
• News, notes, and old photos
• Recent sales (July 18 – August 14)
• Yard sale @ Café Névé
• Crokinole
• Blue-collar junk
• Recent sales (June 20 – July 17)
• Space hopper
• Move-out day
• Recent sales (May 23 – June 19)
• Geneva pt.2
• Selectric
• Recent sales (April 25 – May 22)
• Geneva pt.1
• The magic of garbage
• The muck pt.3
• Reading material
• Recent sales (April 11 – 24)
• Twiggy crap / Widdicomb
• Yard sale!
• Recent sales (March 28 – April 10)
• Miscellaneous finds from weeks past
• The muck pt.2
• Tenacity
• Recent sales (March 14 – March 27)
• Home
• Privilege pt.3 (and more miscellaneous finds)
• Recent sales (February 29 – March 13)
• The muck
• Winter is good
• Recent sales (February 15 – 28)
• Privilege Pt. 2
• Financial year in review: income sources
• Privilege
• Recent sales (February 1 – 14)
• Why do good people throw out nice things?
• Civvy street dance
• Recent sales (January 18 – January 31)
• Miscellaneous finds / Bunz trading experiment
• That ain’t garbage
• Recent sales (January 4 – January 17)
• Omega
• Recent sales (December 21 – January 3)
• Financial year in review! pt. 1
• The best of 2015!
• Ghitta / The pack mule returns
• Recent sales (December 7 – December 20)
• Brading’s
• Double Pro Fighter
• First class pt.2
• Recent sales (November 23 – December 6)
• First class
• Garbage concentrate
• Recent sales: November 9 – November 22
• Timing
• Recent sales: October 26 – November 8
• Dominion No. 12
• Recent sales (October 12 – October 25)
• Ticketed! pt. 2
• Ticketed!
• Thomasina
• Recent sales (September 28 to October 11)
• Hostesses’ refuse
• Chick’s letters
• Raccoon City
• The Life Boys
• Recent sales (August 31 – September 27)
• Slide scanning – Expo 67
• The liquidator pt. 3
• The radio guy tosses again!
• Recent sales (August 17 – August 30)
• Le voleur des ordures
• St-Denis
• Lachine
• That smell
• Character study pt. 2
• Recent sales (August 3 – August 16)
• Social Credit
• Dog days
• Dumpster in a bag pt. 2
• Recent sales (July 20 – August 3)
• Jewelry please!
• Little green
• Dumpster in a bag
• Character study
• Recent sales (July 6 – July 19)
• Asprey pt. 2
• Mini-post: The Hampstead Slugger
• Recent sales (June 22 – July 5)
• Rosemont cannonball
• The liquidator pt. 2
• The liquidator
• Garbage fatigue
• Duluth
• Castle
• Recent sales (June 8 – 21)
• Legal tender
• Folwark Zwierzecy
• Options
• Goodbye Mile End
• Grimes
• Recent sales (May 25 – June 7)
• First aid for fighting men
• P$yching Out Vegas
• The advantages of being seen
• Asprey
• Morrie
• Catching up
• Recent garbage sales (May 11-24)
• Côte-des-Neiges
• Conspicuous consumption
• London Piano
• Mini post! Seven things I found a month ago
• Clubmaster
• For Poland
• Special edition! The McGill move-out day examined
• Monday to Friday
• Cow of yore
• “Shag” Shaughnessy
• Collect them all!
• You “like” me, you really “like” me!
• Deviations
• Brutalist
• The Oracle
• So long, and thanks for all the trash
• Will to power; list to profit
• Fake out
• The enigmatic dumpster
• Long time, no see
• Beware!
• Au lutin qui bouffe
• Mystic
• Radio ’49
• 2014: the year in review
• Of Eminem and Tamagotchis
• Konec Civilizace
• White blanket
• Certificate of Honour
• Nova Eborac
• Life on civvy street
• Loose change
• What is wrong with this picture?
• Mondays
• Amik the beaver
• Côte Saint-Luc
• “Average”
• Boxes³
• Bearing down
• 300
• Triple digits
• Rue St-Jacques
• Muhlstock
• Dude, where’s my camera?
• Temp Work
• My belligerent lucky charm
• All cleaned up
• A special gift for the garbageman
• Pour la couture
• Red Ensign
• Your old cell phone
• Arrondissements
• That blog
• A lesson in selling silver and gold
• Moving Day Madness
• Accidental workaholic
• Shrink
• Peerless
• Lucky Cup
• Quiver
• Marblelike
• Family, industry and thrift
• ‘Till Your Well Runs Dry
• Sinful Songs
• Laval
• Digging deeper
• July 3, 1939
• Public Relations
• Emblem
• The good old hockey game
• Fab Friday
• Mars en Marche
• U.A.R.
• Two years in the garbage business!
• Propane propane
• Driftwood
• Challenger
• Le Naturaliste
• The Spectre of Defeat
• C I Fall
• Swatches Galore
• Crown Life
• Afrique Nouvelle
• The traveller
• Swizzlemanship
• There’s no such thing as bad weather
• Casual Friday
• Poésies d’amitié
• Liquidated
• Fresh Start
• Sphygmo
• Weathered
• Waiting
• The Gazetteer
• Duparquet
• Pee Wee
• The Big Inch
• For to tide you over
• The Cisco Kid
• Let’s recap
• On Bannantyne
• Taylor-made
• For Auld Lang Syne
• Dumpster Diver
• The Sourdough Gang
• Kiss-proof
• The old dusty trail
• The undiscovered country
• Victory is ours!
• Camera shy
• The electronic tower
• Man and his World
• Elocution
• Seinen Bergen
• Les choses vieux
• Garbage magic
• 1000+ never used balloons
• Mr Fuji
• Great Sight
• Freedom
• Chopstickbox
• New digs
• Pre-blog artefacts
• Back to the grind
• Les Chats Sauvages
• Too easy
• I am the eggman
• When la Cité became la Ville
• 21 Jewels
• Canadian Packers
• Sulky Trot!
• Summo est opportunitas
• The cull
• Sempur Constans
• The “hurry-up” pays off
• The hand-coloured life
• The case of the missing garbage
• Lisette and the nail gun
• The unfailing barometer
• Pressure Cooker
• Girl with kaleidoscope
• Dobbs Fifteen
• The mashie niblick, please
• I am a camera
• Dawn of the Century
• Bits and reels
• Bes, Osiris, Khepri, and Marantz
• The day after
• Moving day!
• An assortment of trays
• Projection
• Duelling propagandas
• The frustrations and anxieties post
• Life in Black and White
• Night moves
• Cowboys and Indians
• Escorial Grün
• Discovered by chance
• Deja Vu Part Two
• Impressing mom
• Deja Vu
• “Recovered Time”
• The Leftbehinds
• Trash Trek (and the Borg Pro)
• DVCAM
• Name that thing
• A well deserved break
• So close and yet so far
• Manic(ougan)
• Fur
• Calf’s Head en Tortue
• Electrolite
• Making some coin
• Leave my garbage alone
• The Fencibles
• Minimalism
• Pie Nine
• Peavey Rage
• Silver Cross Pram
• A pirate (of the Barbary Coast)
• Bone, tusk, or neither?
• It’s good to be “shure-handed”
• Finding fins
• Aurora the Conqueror
• A moderate amount of fame
• A Singer must die
• In the ghetto
• 1964 Chianti, a yard sale and a newspaper article
• Leaf’t Behind
• Try throwing this Javelin
• l’Arabie according to Valerga
• TMR
• Warmth
• Little amplified
• Generations
• Cinémonde
• First come first served
• Trees I find in the garbage
• Slow day (and some jewelry from Monday)
• A time to tarot
• Second-hand inefficiencies
• Karma
• A portrait of the Canadian winter
• A time to karaoke
• Giving to the give box
• Cops and scavengers (or, an interesting evening)
• Relocations
• Post-enterprise
• Casualties of spring
• Anis Escarchado Torriano
• The summer of garbage
• A change of seasoning
• Jo Ghost
• Transception
• Old Husqvarna
• A good example
• 1982
• Comic books
• Drought
• A tip?
• Pineapple skate bike
• Vintage Sprite
• A computer monitor and garbage gold pt. 2
• Garbage gold
• Miscellanea
• February blues
• Left behind
• Small haul
• Gas masks and wind chimes
• Sunny sunny day
• C’est bizarre
• Happy New Year!
• Lady Penelope’s Fab Car
• Winter wonderland
• Beer
• Boots
• A new pair of shoes
• Winter’s here!
• Odds and ends
• Garbage giveaways
• An expedition to Villeray
• Bit of jewelry and an old wooden box
• A new neighborhood
• A closer look
• VIC 20
• Old silver cutlery
• Site News: Etsy store now live
• Electronics of yesteryear
• More things from the other day
• Round 2
• Silver spoon and more
• Sidewalk sale and one awesome find
• A new food source
• Water jug and updates
• A penny found…
• Electronics
• My dumpster diving map
• A few things for tonight
• A collection of pins
• Tuesday evening finds
• Kitchenwares
• Poster – “Vaccination Clinic in Dingbatland”
• “Pelham Puppets” marionette dolls
• Vintage 1988 Cheez Whiz
• Baking with garbage
• Food
• A couple of old (gold?) rings
• Lots of jewelry and cool vintage housewares
• Cats I find in the garbage
• A few things from Friday
• An atlas from 1951 and a book from 1841
• Marketing waste
• A frying pan and a massive VTR
• Wok
• Just call me “Johnny Appleseed”
• More books and ephemera
• Washer motor giveaway
• Old books and more ephemera
• Mickey Mouse 1937 Belt Buckle
• Food and nails
• This evenings finds
• Newspapers galore
• All the small things
• 1965 Calendar from Bell Telephone
• Books and a tree
• Cool vintage ring and some rosin
• Tip of an iceberg
• My Darling Sheila
• A broken laptop and a few bits and bobs
• Cleaning up an old holy water font
• Vintage lamp, mobile Scrabble and lots of sewing stuff
• Old Silver from the Windsor
• I’m back!
• Out West
• The Young Catholic Messenger(s)
• Mulroney on a matchbox
• Introducing Mr. Key-nut
• VCR, Realistic Stereo “Disco Mixer,” Graphic Equalizer
• A busy few days
• Some stuff from yesterday and from before
• Some of the things from yesterday
• Some pretty interesting stuff
• Yesterday’s finds
• Enigmatic Grass Jelly Smoothie
• Dumpster curry!
• Some interesting evening finds
• Organic food and some quail eggs on the road
• Late finds on the 19th
• Early returns, April 19th
• I’m back!
• Past find – Office Chair
• Past find – Landscape
• Past find – Cool vintage chair
• Past find – Ottoman
• Past find – Electric Typewriter
• Past find – Elephant
• Past find – Odd figurine
• Past find – Creamer
• Past find – little dog figurine
• Past find – Camel Pesticide Sprayer
• Apartment on the curb
• Recycling
• In the evening
• Early returns: Monday the 2nd
• I went for a (m…
• I had to get up…
• I didn’t find …
• A few things not captured in the last post
• A bountiful birthday!
• I took Karma on…
• Today’s early returns
• Today
• Off day
• Odds and ends
• And now here’s…
• March 26, 2012
• Introduction
• A long time coming