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Quit Your Job and Dumpster Dive

12/15/2008

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Today's Antiques Roadshow was a "Roadshow Special Edition". Titled From Trash to Treasure, the whole hour featured items of value--some topping US$100,000.00--pulled from the trash. For anyone who missed it, you can watch all the appraisals here: Antique Roadshow: From Trash to Treasure.

There is a section of particular interest on this episode for the Save Reno Dumpster Diving crowd. A Reno Dumpster Diver pulled a US$800-900 1820 John Trumbull print from a Reno Dumpster and is featured in an appraisal on this special trash-filled hour, you can watch the clip here: Reno Dumpster Diver Featured on Antique Roadshow.

Here is the info on the episode:

"Antiques Roadshow
Trash to Treasure
Monday, December 15, 8:00pm CHANNEL 5 (KNPB/Channel 5)Valuable items recovered from the trash are featured. Included: an autographed script of "The Informer," an Oscar-winning 1935 John Ford film; a rare 1885 Zuni Indian pot; items from Louis Comfort Tiffany's Laurelton Hall mansion.
CC, Stereo TVG Educational Taping Rights: 1 year"

In line with the Dumpster Diving of antiques and other valuables, in Forbes Magazine about a year ago they ran a feature in their section "Piece of the Week" called Dumpster Diving Pays Divedends, in which:

"A rare Arts & Crafts chair made by Charles Rolhfs and rescued from the trash made auction history last week. Expected to fetch around $30,000, it sold for the record price of $198,000.

Pulled from the neighbor's trash,..." (click the link above for full story)

So, we can conclude from the evidence presented in today's post--One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure. What are you waiting for? Take the day off or get extreme--quit your job--and...

dive a dumpster or your neighbor's trash bin (once it is on the street, of course); there could be a $198,000 chair waiting for you to save it. Oh, and while you're at it, don't forget--Save Reno Dumpster Diving.

2 Comments
Can't find a job- Survival depends on it
12/16/2008 01:34:29 pm

Since I can not find even a part time job, and my wife has gone from full time, to part time to on call. I now have to resort to selling all of our personal possessions to survive. Sorry I can't pay U-Hual $19.95 for a box, or $30.00 for a roll of bubble wrap to ship my stuff in. Why can't our lawmakers/jaded politicians pull their heads out and see what is really important? Maybe you could hire a Dumpster Czar and 10 new cops to police the dumpsters for violators. Think of all that new revenue the city is missing out on not fining poor and homeless people. Just have to lock those criminals up and make an example
of this hideous crime.
I will personally vote against any politician who votes yes on this.
And for you winy business owners- why don't you try re-cycling or giving away some of the stuff you fill our landfills with. If the politicians and general public could see what people and businesses toss out they would be amazed at the waste, and agree that anyone that recycles this junk is doing you a favor. As our economy continues it's down ward spiral, would you rather feed that homeless vet or struggling family or would you prefer them in your business or home with a knife or gun to rob you? Our leaders are morons.

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Jon
3/28/2011 04:32:53 am

http://journals.worldnomads.com/survivorcjm/story/70502/Ghana/My-Travel-Writing-Scholarship-2011-entry-Responsible-Travel#

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