Hit 100 dumpster dives this year and my garage is a disaster zone

Somehow I passed 100 trips behind stores and apartments since January. I counted them all in a notebook after I found a working Xbox controller in a Petco trash bin back in March. My garage now has 14 lamps, a stack of board games with missing pieces, and a weird metal thing I think might be part of a printer. My wife says we look like hoarders but I keep telling her it's all free. The real milestone was realizing I've saved about $400 on stuff I would have bought anyway. Does anyone else track their finds or am I just being weird about this?

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anna_hill1mo ago

it's all free" - but your garage is a mess and your wife is mad. Not a win.

evanr791mo ago

My buddy Dave tried this last summer and his wife gave him an ultimatum after he hauled home three broken vacuums and a milk crate full of cassette tapes. He ended up tripping over a lamp in their hallway at 2am and cracked his shin open, so now she won't let him keep anything that doesn't fit in a shoebox for a month @anna_hill might be onto something about the garage situation getting out of hand. Dave's still proud of the free toaster he found though, even if it only works on the "dark" setting.