I'm a professional scavenger making a living selling curbside garbage. This blog details my finds and sales. It also acts as an archive for things beautiful and historic that would otherwise have been destroyed.
This is my 300th post! I started “Things I find in the garbage” back in March 2012 – around two and half years ago. A good friend of mine suggested the idea to me and I quickly took to the world of blogging. I posted fairly prolifically in those early days; for example, in April… Continue reading 300
I decided to take the morning off so I could relax and prepare a bit for the yard sale. I’ll be out later this afternoon, though, hoping to find more stuff behind that place on Rachel that provided me with some great garbage on Tuesday. I made it out yesterday for my evening Rosemont run.… Continue reading Too easy
The place where I found those stamps has been one of my best spots of late. Many large black trash bags have appeared on the curb since then, often stuffed full of old papers, junk, and collectibles. Unfortunately, whoever is doing the tossing isn’t taking much care when putting things in the bags, and a substantial… Continue reading Garbology pt.1
