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Bagster Giveaway

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Yesterday you heard all about how the Bagster bag saved our marriage.  Today I have the honor of giving you something fo fah-ree compliments of Waste Management!

Here’s the description : The Bagster® bag is a highly durable, woven bag designed for disposing as much as 3,300 pounds of debris and is big enough to hold full sheets of plywood, doors and even a bathtub.  Waste Management has made the Bagster® bag a simple solution for waste and debris removal.  You can purchase the Bagster® bag at more than 2,000 locations across the country, use it for as long as you like, then schedule a collection online or over the phone whenever you are ready.  The Bagster® bag is sold at local home improvement and hardware stores, including participating The Home Depot, Lowe’s, Ace Hardware and True Value.

Here’s what’s up for grabs:

  • PRIZE :  $100 AMEX Giftcard
  • NUMBER OF WINNERS : (1) One
  • TO ENTER : Leave a comment with the phrase ”I wanna be a baglady (or bagman)” and let’s chat about the funniest thing you’ve put in or pulled out of the trash.  Hands down the funniest thing we’ve pulled outta the trash is a bidet.  Yes.  My darling boyfriend got it out of the neighbors trash and then he ran down the side of the road holding it a foot away from his body while I laughed hysterically.
  • PRIZE SHIPS : United States
  • NITTY GRITTY : This giveaway ends on Friday February 1st at 8am EDT.  Only one contest entry per email address.  The winners will be chosen using Random.org and emailed to claim their prize.  Winners are not announced on this blog so please use your regularly checked email address.

Please check out the Bagster bag website.  They are also on facebook and twitter!

GOOD LUCK!

Disclosure: Waste Management partnered with bloggers such as me to participate in its The Bagster® Bag Blogger Challenge.  A winner will be chosen by random and voucher fulfillment will be handled by a third party.

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  1. I wanna be a baglady! You have made me realize my trash adventures are in need of improvement!

  2. I wanna be a baglady. Though for the life of me I don’t recall ever pulling anything out of the trash, though I’m sure I have! I recall having a giant vanity mirror I was tired of having ‘no shows’ from Craigs List not come get, so I finally smashed it up and threw it away. Probably bad luck!

  3. I wanna be a baglady! The weirdest thing I’ve pulled out of the trash is a gigantic mirror from the alley behind our old building.

  4. I wanna be a bag lady!

    I’ve never pulled anything weird out of the trash…but cleaning out a relative’s house, we ended up putting a lot of strange things IN the trash! Medicine and eye drops that expired in 1965, meat from the 80s at the back of her freezer, a million Christmas cards that were never thrown away, etc. (She was a bit of a hoarder!)

  5. I want to be a baglady! Funniest thing we ever pulled out of the garbage was a shoe rack that I “had to have” only to return it to the garbage pile weeks later.

  6. I wanna be a baglady! Nothing funny out, but there was a shocker when we put out an old decrepit refrigerator that the previous homeowners used as a beer fridge. I didn’t list it since it was I such bad shape. We put it out at 10 pm, it was gone before the garbarge truck came at 6am. Not only was I who med someone took it, but that someone gets up that early w/ their truck to look.

  7. I want to be a bag lady!

    I can’t recall the funniest thing I dug out of the trash, but my husband is constantly throwing stuff away, like hardware that’s still in a package. The other day he accidentally threw away a cap that goes on our desk, so I made him dig for that.

  9. I wanna be a baglady

    The funniest thing I’ve pulled out of the trash is coupons when I was big into couponing!

  10. “I wanna be a baglady”
    The craziest thing I ever pulled out of the trash was a retainer. When my little sister turned 15, I wanted to surprise her and “kidnap” her, take her out to breakfast and a spa day. So I grabbed her out of bed, threw her in my car that was filled with balloons and off we went for a sister day. Of course she had her retainer in so as soon as we get to IHOP she pulled it out and wrapped it in a napkin…and yes…they cleared our table and we forgot all about it. My parents had already replaced it twice and so when we realized it was missing, we knew what our next project was…find that retainer! 2 hours later, it was found….and we skipped the spa and went home to disinfect with a hot shower. yikes!

  11. I wanna be a baglady! Probably the funniest thing is when my college roommates and I would immediately ransack the neighbor’s trash when they put out old furniture. No shame here.

  12. I wanna be a bag lady!

    I’ve had to pull way too many things out of the trash thanks to a child that is very enthusiastic about throwing things out and recycling. It is amusing to the man of the house. 🙁

  13. I WANNA be a Baglady… Pulled pizza outta the trash at a restaurant and ate it. It was practically unscathed:). Not really something funny I guess, just delicious.

  14. I wanna be a bag lady! Maybe I’m not very adventurous because I’ve never gone dumpster diving =(

  15. I wanna be a bag lady. Not reay funny…but I’ve pulled out a side table from the trash, 2 barrel back chairs & a twin bed frame.

  16. I wanna be a bag lady

    The best thing we ever pulled from the trash are these giant 5 drawer steel filing cabinets. We had such grand plans for them but as of right now they are still sitting around because there are just so many and they are so large haha. My husband and I joke that they are our treasures though and soon we will be filling them with all our very important things (just have to get them inside first lol).
    Awesome giveaway!

  17. I wanna be a bag lady!

    I can’t think of anything funny that I’ve put in/out of the trash. I do often tend to set things at the end of the driveway with a “free” sign attached in hopes that someone else wants my trash.

  18. I wanna be a bag lady!

    I always have to sneak the hubs ratty clothes in the trash. He refuses to throw away clothes with holes and so I sneak them in while he is at work!

  19. ”I wanna be a baglady (or bagman)”
    The funniest thing I’ve dumpster dived for was a huge flower pot that only lived with me for a few weeks. My mom loved it so much she managed to steal it away when I moved out….only to have it stolen off her front porch during a storm. The piece had quite a sordid past!

  20. I remember when I was younger, my mom and I rescued a set of women’s golf clubs (I think they were teal!) out of a neighbor’s trash. I don’t know why – neither of us golfs. But they were free! 🙂 I wonder if the clubs are still in my parents’ garage….

  21. I wanna be a baglady

    hmm I”m going to change it up… the thing I have the most eco guilt about putting into the trash is diapers!

  22. I wanna be a baglady! The most embarrassing thing I’ve hauled out of my neighbor’s trash was a lattice covered with a full grown jasmine plant. I enlisted my boyfriend and we walked down our street (where we live and know people!) with this giant lattice with vines and roots going everywhere. #noshame

  23. I wanna be a baglady!

    I’m not one for pulling things out of the garbage, but my hoarder husband sure is! He will take anything and everything out of the trash, so when I throw certain things away I have to bury them in the trash a bit so he doesn’t see it and take it back out! Ughh …

  24. I wanna be a baglady! I’ve grabbed amazing gold frames that were out at the curb outside of my office in downtown boston. Rescued!

  25. I want to be a baglady! Funniest thing? Can’t say there’s been anything really funny but I have a trashy story. As I was moving out of my first apt, my mom was taking out of the dumpster everything I was throwing away…mostly decor items I had bought from Goodwill. She was a very sentimental, organized “hoarder”. Well she passed away right before Thanksgiving last year. My dad and I have been going through her things and stumbled upon those old decor items 15 yrs later. I’ve never been so happy to see “trash” in my life. The memory of that day and my mom made us laugh and smile. Guess my mom was a baglady too!

  26. I wanna be a bag-lady!

    I was once pushing my infant son through the neighborhood in his stroller when I spotted a pretty wing back chair next to someone’s trash. It definitely needed some work, but I felt like I happened upon the find of the century. I was several blocks from home, but I hauled a$$ in record time to grab the truck and pick her up. I remember being so afraid that someone else would snatch her up. I STILL need to work on her…boo.

  27. I want to be a bag lady! In college we found an awesome bar in an alley that we pulled into our living room (the thing was huge!) for parties.

  28. I want to be a baglady!

    My roommates in college and I went dumpster diving. We were told that the sorority dorm was the place to hit at the end of the school year by some locals and boy were they right. Those girls threw away everything. We retrieved a bag of quarters, some clothes, some (clean) pyrex dishes, a stool, and some laundry detergent to name a few! It was awesome! great memories…

  29. I wanna be a baglady!

    I haven’t pulled out anything too crazy. But my neighbors threw out a ton of ribbon after decorating for Christmas and I ran out in the dark to take it all. First a few rolls then my husband told me to just grab the whole tub!

  30. I wanna be a baglady!!! And funny, hmmm… nothing really funny, my funniest trash story is this: When building our house, we of course rented dumpsters. We built the house right next door to our “old” house, & even after we moved the dumpster was sitting on our old property (which was no longer ours). They WOULD NOT pick it up! So one morning we got up, looked out the window, and – a whole 40 yard dumpster had been emptied in that yard! What a mess!

    What a fantastic giveaway! Sure hope I win! Xo

  31. I want to be a baglady!

    After reading your blog yesterday about the bagster, I actually went & started looking at their website (good job picking Katie, bagster, cuz it worked)

    No funny trash stories from me…womp womp

  32. I wanna be a bag lady! When we moved into this house there was one of those beauty school manquin heads in the basement. (at least thats what we HOPED it was). Some of the hair was red, some was platinum blonde, and some was even dreadlocked. I thought we should put in IN atrash bag, but my husband left it on top of the trash barrel for the world to see. Were super classy 🙂

  33. I wanna be a bag lady. I don’t have any great “stuff I found in the trash stories”. I had to find a way to trash the couch my dog ate – that was a challenge.

  34. I wanna be a bag lady! When we were children, we went “treasure hunting” in a moving neighbor’s curb pile. I think the most random thing we found was a pile of yearbooks from the 1950’s.

  35. I wanna be a bag lady! Can’t say I’ve gone dumpster diving yet, but I did throw away my daughters Mickey pack-n-play. The luxurious mattress was made out of very thin wood and bent under her weight at 6 months old.

  38. I wanna be a baglady!

    I can’t think of anything terribly funny I’ve thrown away or picked out of the garbage. I would pick out a bidet, those are awesome!

  40. I wanna be a baglady…in college we pulled this couch out of our neighbors garbage, only to dicover the thing reeked like cigarette smoke so badly that we had to carry it back out to the curb the next day.

  41. I wanna be a baglady! I’ve never pulled anything out, even though I’ve thought about it! But in NJ where I live, periodically we can put stuff out (just about anything!) and the township has a truck that comes around a picks it up and takes it to the township dump. So we always see ALL KINDS of things! To me, toilets always look funny sitting out in front of a house!

  42. I wanna be a bag lady! I don’t have any crazy trash stories, but this would really come in handy when it comes to getting rid of the crap the previous owners left in our basement!

  43. I wanna be a baglady!

    This is gross – but I’ve totally thrown away chocolate so that I don’t eat it, and then take it out of the trash the next day to finish it. No big deal, right?

  44. I wanna be a bag lady!!

    I asked my husband to throw away an old breast pump, and when I get home that night, I see our trash on the curb, and the breast pump and all the accessories strewn around (something must have gotten into the trash!). It was the same week we had to throw away our old toilet!! So. Humiliating….

  45. ”I wanna be a baglady (or bagman)”
    My husband and I have pulled pretty much everything that’s in our house out of someone elses’s trash!! He gets so embarassed if it’s a neighbor that lives close by so he usually makes me wait until its dark and probably the funniest time was trying to haul a rusty old metal cabinet that I desperately wanted down the street, in the dark – because it was so akward to carry even for the two of us we were laughing so hard and we realized when we got home that our neighbors had been sitting on the porch watching us the whole time!

  46. I wanna be a baglady!!

    Before I was married, I lived downtown in the city, and my roommates and I would scavenge the night before trash day. Since it was a very transient area, everyone was always getting rid of big items! We got a bunch of free furniture that way…although I drew the line when my roommate wanted to bring home a mattress from the side of the road!

  47. I wanna be a baglady! Our old green toilet sat in the yard for a few days before being properly disposed of…making us look pretty trashy!

  48. I wanna be a baglady!

    It wasn’t so funny at the time, but my mom and I were heading into town and spotted a mid-century modern side table on the side of the road with a fo’ free sign… so we stopped and started loading… my brother drove by (small town!!) and I waved… he flipped because all he saw was us on the side of the road and what appeared to be me waving him down for help!! Whoops! Looking back, it was pretty funny, but it wasn’t so funny for him at the time!

  49. I wanna be a baglady…We’ve put some random things in the trash around here. Admittedly when our basement flooded my husband’s stash of Playboy’s from his bachelor days had been in a milk crate on the floor in a corner. They were completely under water and weighed about a ton when we found them.

  51. I wanna be a bag lady! Funniest thing we’ve ever pulled out of a Dumpster? Hmmm…it’s not exactly hilarious, but I have a deep-seated love for old furniture, esp. kid furniture — which we’ll inevitably bring home with us for it to live in the garage for eons before painting/sanding etc.

  52. I wanna be a baglady!
    Whenever we move, we pick boxes up from the trash where I work (an environmental lab), so when we get to our new house, all of our “biohazard” boxes start to be unloaded and I’m sure the neighbors are so excited that we are moving in! =)

  53. I wanna be a baglady!

    Can’t say that I’ve ever dug anything weird out of the trash can, but I did just have my 4 year old son pull my earring out of the toilet yesterday. I literally walked in the bathroom and put the toilet seat up and my earring fell from my ear. Perfect timing!

  54. I wanna be a bag lady… The funniest thing I pulled out of the trash would be the top tier of my wedding cake. It was in the box and on top of the trash so I pulled it out and then put in freezer hopefully on our 1 yr anniversary it doesn’t taste like trash. If it does then does that mean I have a trashy marriage?

  55. I wanna be a baglady!

    My one year old has decided that the trash can is a fantastic spot to drop things lately. Just yesterday I opened the can to find our tv remote hanging out in there…

  56. I want to be a bag lady – even though i don’t I’ve ever pulled anything out of the trash.

  57. I wanna be a baglady! I’ve pulled out a huge picture frame….then spray painted it and it looked awesome!

  58. I want to be a bag lady!! A few months ago, I made my 8 year old daughter grab a portable high chair (still in the box!!!!) out of someone’s garbage. She would barely touch the box. It was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen…but we’ve got to start them young, right?

  59. I wanna be a baglady! The only funny thing I’ve put in our trash lately is… ugh cat poop. Funny thing – I’ve heard that even disposable diaper ‘goods’ are supposed to be dumped into the toilet before going to the trash since waste isn’t suppose to go to landfills. What about pet waste?

  60. I wanna be a baglady! I don’t know about funny, but the best thing I ever pulled out of the trash were two perfectly good cornhole boards (for you non-midwesterners they’re those boards with holes in them for bean bag toss). They were plain white and my bf (now husband) painted them with my college logo and mascot. We use them all the time in summer!

  62. I wanna be a bag lady!

    Well, I guess I sort of already am one. My husband works in construction, so the blessing and the curse of him working on other homes is that he brings home LOTS of stuff that comes out of the homes he works on or is left over material. Price is nice (free), but storage becomes a problem.

    Maybe not the funniest but definitely the coolest thing we’ve ever pulled out of the job dumpster is probably a garden door that my daughter and used for a photo display at an expo. We got loads of complements and lots of phone pics taken of it. Now if only we could find a new home for it??????

  63. I wanna be a bag lady! I’m not much of a dumpster-diver, but I come from a long line of them! My dad once brought home porta-potties from an old farm he was cleaning up. My husband has brought home an office chair, a gliding rocker that we actually fixed up to use in our son’s room, and a weight bench.

  64. ”I wanna be a baglady”

    The only thing I’ve ever pulled out of a dumpster is moving boxes. I’m not very creative 😉

  65. I wanna be a baglady! The funniest thing I’ve ever put in the trash was a toilet. Except that in true redneck fashion we let it sit in our yard for a week before actually throwing it in the dumpster!

  66. I wanna be a baglady!! My dad and I pulled a caviar refrigerator out of the trash at the supermarket! It was the size of a mini-frig and perfect for my garage!

  67. I wanna be a baglady! I don’t think I’ve pulled anything funny out of the trash. My mom is shameless about it, which is why I have an aversion to trash can rummaging. She would go through the trash cans at the end of the year and take slightly used school supplies that the kids were throwing out of their lockers.

  68. I wanna be a bag lady! My oldest son used to throw everything away when he was a toddler…toys, kitchen utensils, anything he could get his hands on. I dug through the trash at least once a day for about a year!

  69. “I wanna be a baglady” wouldn’t really say it’s funny but most interesting thing I’ve pulled out of the trash was a 1st generation iPod about 2 years ago. It was the ones before iPods were even a thing it was only 4gb.

  70. I wanna be a bag lady! I pulled a vacuum cleaner out of a dumpster at the local college after move-out.

  71. The funniest thing I’ve pulled out of the trash? I don’t think it’s that funny, but the way we got it back to the house is! My boyfriend found 2 very awesome solid wood (old) doors in someone’s trash and called me immediately. We put these heavy doors in my Honda Accord, and obviously didn’t fit! So he walked behind the car and made sure they didn’t fall out of the trunk (we only had to go a couple of blocks) but we got them to our house!

  72. I wanna be a baglady. My friends and I once dumpster-dove around the Des Moines metro for Wendy’s beverage cups while they were doing a promotion with an airline. We collected enough to get free flights to GA for spring break!

  73. I wanna be a bag lady!

    I’m a dumpster diver at heart. Everybody’s trash looks great to me! I’ve taken chairs, tables, and most recently drove around taking pepsi bottles and boxes to enter codes for a charity fundraiser!

  75. I wanna be a baglady!

    The only thing we’ve dumpster dived for was building materials – pallets and spare wood from the construction dumpsters in our neighborhood. The funny part is that I have no building experience and my husband can’t hammer a nail without injury (his words, not mine!). So, we’ve lived in this house for 7 years, watched the neighborhood go up around us and the scraps we carried home are mostly safe and snug in our garage, taking up space that might be handy for oh I dunno…a car?

    The only bits that did get used were for a little workbench in the nook in the garage, built by my father in law =)

  76. I wanna be a baglady!! The only funnyish thing I’ve ever left out for trash is 3 toilets at the same time. And, of course, it was well before garbage day so my neighbors weren’t too happy about the curb display!

  77. I want to be a baglady!

    Weirdest thing we put to the curb was 9 shelving units from the garage of the house we moved into 2.5 years ago. We put them out around 10pm and at 7am there was only 1 left!

  78. I wanna be a baglady – one of the coolest things I have pulled out of the trash are old bricks from my old elementary school as it was being torn down.

  79. I want to be a bag lady!!!! I have gotten chairs out of the trash for sure and the nastiest thing I have tossed was the curtains of a 90 year old woman after we bought our current house.

  80. I want to be a bag lady!

    I’m not usually particularly amused by my trash….I can’t think of anything!

  81. I want to be a bag lady! I once pulled out a box of unopened Kraft Mac & Cheese. It was college…enough said 🙂

  82. I haven’t pulled anything super funny out of the trashcan, but a few months ago I stumbled upon a huge Fisher-Price Little People Garage while on a walk with my 1 and 3 year olds. It was in perfect condition, so I made the little ones carry it with them in the jogging stroller for a couple of miles. It was a really tight squeeze, but worth it!

  83. I wanna be a bag lady!
    I always make my hubby pull things out of the trash for me! Haha!
    I have found a kid size art desk and once I found two wingback chairs that I never reupholstered and ended up giving away on Craigslist.

  84. I wanna be a baglady!

    Our guest room nightstand was my best score! A little sanding, a little paint, and good as new.

  85. I wanna be a baglady!
    I can’t say I pulled anything out of trash, but pulled something out of pile that was supposed to go to trash, but never made it there, because I brought home some cool clothing for my kids!

  86. I wanna be a bag lady!
    One time my hubby and I were out on a walk, and spied a shoe rack in someone’s trash. My sweet hubby carried this huge shelf home (over a mile!). Good thing it fit where I wanted it : )

  89. I wanna be a baglady! I can’t off the top of my head think of anything funny that I’ve pulled out of or put into the trash, but I did really have a thing for bags growing up. I honestly had a closet full of empty paper and plastic bags. So, I’ve kind of already done the whole baglady thing, but I sure want to have a second chance to claim baglady status! Thanks for the chance to win!

  90. I wanna be a baglady, please!

    I haven’t pulled out many “funny” things from the trash, but the best thing I ever got from the trash was an antique dresser. It was sitting on the outside of it, and I needed one.

    What I didn’t know at the time, but would later learn, was that the owners of it could not fit it in their moving truck (we met when I was picking it up- they were still there moving). It had been in the family for who-knows-how-long and had many layers of paint on it due to all of the different owners.

    They wanted it to go to someone who could love it as much as they did. It was my first “grown up” dresser on my own. A friend restored it for me. It’s the most beautiful dresser, to me, and I’m so thankful for how it came to be found- dumpster diving or surfing and all!

  91. ”I wanna be a baglady” I’m guilty of my fair share or dumpster diving for furniture and great finds (much to my husband’s chagrin). What makes it funny is that I pick stuff up while I’m out walking the dog and have to carry it home!

  92. I wanna be a baglady! I’ve never pulled anything funny out of the trash, unfortunately, but we have a giant trash can and it’s always amusing when thing still stick out the top…

  93. I wanna be a baglady. My best friend and I have 1 brick each that we pulled from tornado wreckage of our old church.

  94. I wanna be a baglady… this isn’t really funny, but the best thing I’ve found in the trash was a working Singer sewing machine. It even had all the extra accessories and the manual!

  95. “I wanna be a bg lady”

    curbing is not common in our neighborhood/town. maybe because it rains so much but we did pull some cool orange high school type gym lockers out of a dumpster behind a storage unit. I love them and have used them for years!

  96. I wanna be a baglady!

    We haven’t pulled anything out of the trash yet although I have wanted to but my husband wouldn’t help. We’ve put plenty in the trash though. The previous owners of our house left us some strange things.

  97. Well this may not be funny, per se…but we are deep in the midst of a remodel and one day as my hubby was going to the golden arches for lunch (dig this-no kitchen since July!), he spots a trash truck with various household “trash”/treasures. He follows the truck and when they stop, he stops and asks for the antique french doors! Score!!!

  98. I wanna be a baglady! Not much of a dumpster diver, but I did pull an old sofabed loveseat out of my neighbor’s basement when I left for college. My mom and I recovered it, and about 6 years later, I sold it for $50 bucks!

  99. I wanna be a baglady!

    I’m not sure I’ve ever pulled out anything *funny* out of the garbage, but I did once snag a piece of artwork that someone was going to throw away. So many people compliment me on it and they’re always surprised to find it came from next to a dumpster. I also got a working table lamp (with shade), and a small plastic trash can that I use in my bathroom. Not all at the same time, so it helps to keep an eye out. 😉

  100. I wanna be a baglady …

    Funniest thing I ever pulled out of the trash was a BCBG suede dress. Someone had put it in the trash chute when I was living in Chicago. One good dry clean later, and it was mine, mine, mine.

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  101. I wanna be a baglady!
    The funniest things I’ve put INTO the trash would be ANYTHING from my boyfriend’s storage bins. I am currently trying to get him to get rid of a small but FRAMED Notorious B.I.G. poster. I am sure there was a perfectly good reason why he has that…..I am just not even remotely sure what it could be.

  103. I wanna be a bag lady! One time I was cleaning out my rental car after a work trip and I accidentally tossed the keys in the dumpster along with the trash! Ugh… Needless to say, I had to go ‘diving’.

  104. I wanna be a baglady!

    Not me particularily, but my bother fished a GIANT mirror in a gorgeous frame out of a house he was demo-ing and gave it to me. Some cleaning and a few coats of paint later and it is the centerpeice of my dining room!

  105. I wanna be a bag lady! I was out for a run this morning and actually almost grabbed some really cute chairs from a curb nearby, but the garbage trucks beat me 🙁 They just needed a little love!

  106. I wanna be a baglady. I grew up with a dumpster diving mom, unfortunately, my husband is not a fan of said lifestyle. So he’s taught me to throw broken or unused stuff away. The entertaining part is, we get to watch our next door neighbors dig through our trash whenever scrap wood (I mean SCRAP), carpet, etc is in our trash. They are our entertainment on a regular basis that is for sure.

  107. I wanna be a baglady. I don’t think I’ve ever pulled anything out of the trash. Hmmmm, think I need to step up the game!

  108. I wanna be a baglady!

    One day we were driving down a road into town and there was a horse on the side of the road. I yelled “Stop!” There was a 3 foot high leathery looking horse out for the taking. We double checked with the owners of the house and they said he was out for garbage so we loaded that little guy up and brought him home. Best day ever.

  111. I wanna be a baglady! My husband, who can be a bit absentminded, one time went into the bathroom in the middle of the night and peed in the garbage can instead of the toilet. Hopefully not many people are putting that in their trash!

  112. I wanna be a baglady. I grabbed a wooden highchair that the neighbors put out for the trash. We don’t have kids so everyone thought I was crazy but I thought it would be cute to paint and use when kids were over for dinner.

  113. I wanna be a baglady!
    Our big TV broke – the circuit board was fried. We figured someone with some skills could fix it and use it for themselves. So we boxed it all up nice and good and left it near the trash cans in our alley – 60 minutes later it was gone! Just another perk of living in the city:)

  114. I wanna be a baglady! My dad recently bought a new home and we’re in the process of cleaning out his old home and NEED a bag! This is so much better/easier than a dumpster. Would LOVE to win!

    ps. Curious about Part 2 of Weston’s birth story!! Are you keeping us in suspense on purpose? HA! Love your blog 🙂

  115. I wanna be a baglady! When I was little, my Mom pulled a scarecrow out of someone’s trash. I was MORTIFIED…but as an adult now, it is totally something I would do!

  117. “I want to be a baglady!” This coolest/funniest thing we’ve pulled out the trash was probably a kid table and chairs from someones curb but I went up to the door to make sure it was ok to take because it was in perfect condition!

  118. I wanna be a baglady!!

    I’m just impressed that your neighbors had one in their garbage! Mine may have a camp portajohn I could have swipped! 😉

    The coolest thing I ever dumpster dived for was a mannequin from a department store dumpster. I set it up in the kitchen and went to bed. When my dad came in later that night and saw the silhouet of it against the windows he thought someone had broken in and went all ninja assasin on it.

    That was 15 years ago…and I still hear about it at Christmas dinner.

  119. “I wanna be a bag lady”

    When my grandmother died the extended family was cleaning out her house. Someone tossed her antique roll-top desk into the dumpster. I was horrified and climbed INTO the dumpster to pull it out. I moved the now-broken desk to a few apartments in my early twenties, never fixed it as planned, then finally threw it out.

  120. I wanna be a bag lady! I have a spring/summer outdoor project planned and this will be perfect for hauling off old landscape timbers and shrubbery. Great giveaway!

  121. I want to be a Bag lady!
    Nothing “funny” that I’ve pulled out but I love to watch my husband squirm every time I pull something from a neighbors curb.

  124. I wanna be a baglady! I can’t think of anything funny that we have thrown away or taken out of the trash. I blame my mommy brain this morning!

  125. I wanna be a baglady… and um…i LOVE old wood, and can’t count the amount of times i’ve pulled it out of trashes, sides of the road…ummm… anywhere!!! My husband thinks I’m very very weird 🙂

  126. I wanna be a bag lady! The funniest thing I’ve pulled OUT is my 17 month old! He likes to climb into everything, and sees no problem with climbing in a nasty trash can! Hopefully he’ll stay out of the bagster!

  127. I wanna be a bag lady!

    I pulled a jute rug out of a deceased woman’s foreclosed home. I don’t think I will elaborate on this one 🙂

  128. I wanna be a baglady….oh so many choices to pick from my dumpster dives (to the dismay of my boyfriend and family). I once picked a toilet out of my neighbors garbage when they were remodeling their master bath….so we could use it for my White Trash Bash – 4th of July party in which all the neighbors dressed in their best Nascar apparel (temporary tattoos were plentiful) and feasted on a Twinkie and Ho-Ho cake, Vienna Sausage Eating Contest, Nascar slip-n-slide, etc. That toilet sat in my yard for over a week before I finally kicked it to the curb for real. Besides I am really not a second hand toilet kind of girl! 🙂

  129. I wanna be a baglady!

    My dad is constantly pulling old doors out of the trash so I can use them as a flipcup table. 2 issues with this

    1. why do i need more than one of these tables?
    2. i’m not 23 any more and don’t really play flipcup that often.

  131. I wanna be a baglady! When I was a little kid, I thought pennies were useless so I used to throw them away when I cleaned my room. My bad, piggy bank. 🙁

  132. I want to be a baglady!

    I’m dying that you put a bidet in the trash – because I have too! The first home I bought was owned by a older, single woman. The bathroom in the house was very small, but attached to the wall next to the toilet was a kitchen sink sprayer. It connected through the wall to the water pipes. It was a rigged up bidet! I still get teased about that to this day. It got ripped out of the wall and sent to the trash the day I moved in! So weird. I think I still have a photo of it somewhere. To strange to believe!

  133. I wanna be a baglady! The funniest thing I’ve ever put in the trash is another trash can…I felt like I was being politically incorrect. Or in the matrix. Or Inception. But turns out, when you have a broken trash can the only thing to do is put in a bigger, less broken trash can 🙂

  134. I wanna be a baglady….funniest thing we have pulled out of the garbage is practially everything we have in our house- no joke, the only furniture we have only purchased is our mattress, in our.entire.house. Everythine else was either an occasiaonl gift or (mostly) found in the garbage!

  135. I wanna be a bag lady!! never grabbed anything funny, but I did snag a yellow leather library chair…cleaned it all up and all my friends fight over it when they come over…so comfy!

  138. I wanna be a baglady!

    When we were remodeling our house, we put the former owner’s artwork in the trash: a door with a scene of cats painted on it! Shiny silver paint and everything.

  140. I want to be a baglady!
    We’re building a new house so this dumpster-bag would be SO EXTREMELY HELPFUL! It might save our marriage too, because the old saying is correct…if a marriage can survive building a house it can survive ANYTHING 🙂

  141. I wanna be a baglady (or bagman)! I don’t thin we’ve pulled anything too crazy out of the trash but I’ll break really fast for dressers and chairs on the side of the road! People throw away the best stuff!

  142. I wanna be a bag lady!

    Most of my patio furniture came from the trash. I lived in this apartment complex where people liked to throw things away rather than move them, and I got a sweet set of directors chairs for my deck the first time. They had a wasp living in them, so after I killed it I couldn’t sit in it for awhile. I also scored a set of metal/ceramic garden chairs that I had for awhile until they cracked. I still miss those chairs.

  143. I wanna be a baglady! I honestly don’t know. I can’t think of one funny thing I’ve ever pulled out of the trash. Sorry- no great story here.

  144. I wanna be a baglady!

    I guess the funniest thing I ever pulled out of the trash was in college when someone threw an old couch into the dumpster and my roommate and I proceeded to get out of the dumpster. It was not so much the item as the process that was unforgettable. Picture two 19 year olds, a large commercial dumpster, and a huge white couch 🙂

  146. I wanna be a bag lady! When I was in middle school I was part of an organization that used recycled items to build big contraptions. We had three competitions each year and after all the competitions people would throw away there recycled contraptions. So. Out they came to be re-recycled. 🙂

  147. I wanna be a baglady (or bagman)!

    Saaaweeet giveaway. Seriously, my garage has never held my car inside b/c of the stuff packed in there. When we were renovating our upstairs bathroom the floor literally gave in and fell into our kitchen. Taking a sledgehammer to that gross tub and then throwing that all away was awesome!

  148. I want to be a baglady! I took my new-to-dumpster-diving friend along to a neighborhood clean-up with me. We both had new babies and found a nice house with a load of baby items in the front yard. There was a new box of nursing pads, so I grabbed them. My friend DIED of embarrassment. Hey, they’re like 5 bucks! 😉 TMI….

  149. I wanna be a baglady!!! I pulled my keys out of the trash once…when my daughter was little she went through “cleaning” phase, anything left out she tossed!

  150. I wanna be a baglady.

    I can’t think of anything funny I’ve pulled out of the trash. But I did get the best umbrella ever from the trash. That thing has been going strong for at least 6 years now.

  151. I wanna be a baglady! We just finished our basement and have a ton of stuff to dispose of! Oddest thing my brother (sorry I have no good stories!) every pulled from the trash was food (including produce!)… and no we weren’t homeless! He was living in Chicago and Whole Foods dumps tons of still very good food at a specific time each night. Helped him thru college

    Now – I’m curious… have you installed the bidet, or craigslist it? 🙂

  152. I wanna be a baglady!! I have pulled out lunch boxes and side tables…nothing a good bucket of bleach can’t handle!! : )

  153. I wanna be a baglady! I wish I had a funny story to share about dump diving but I don’t, sorry!!

  155. I wanna be a baglady!

    I can’t remember a particularly funny item I’ve grabbed from the trash. But the last time we moved we asked a local store if we could dig through their cardboard dumpster for boxes and the staff was more than happy to allow us. My husband was standing on the top of the dumpster when a security guard decided we should be questioned for stealing. After convincing him that there was no need to have us arrested, he gave us 5 minutes to get off the property before the police would be there. Who knew it was such a crime to reuse boxes that were destined for the trash company.

  156. I wanna be a baglady. I am a trash-aholic. We never have room in our trash can, and even sometimes go and fill up the neighbors with our leftovers because I seem to throw everything away!

  157. I wanna be a baglady !!!

    Hmmm the funniest thing I’ve pulled out of the trash….. we have a big garbage pick up day once a year and each year my sister & mom & i all go out driving around EVERY block looking to SCORE!! While its not the funniest thing – one year my mom was looking for a very large planter and sure enough we drove up to a house with a giant one on the curb, PERFECTION! Well just as we parked another baglady started dragging to the side of this persons house to come pick up later she said?! ….so after she pulled away my sister and I ran to the side where she was trying to stash it and we snagged it. My mom was in the car dying of laughter watching us trying to haul this giant ceramic planter across the street as fast as we could! so yes, i “stole” another persons garbage…from another person 🙂 hey, alls fair in love & trash right? 🙂

  159. I wanna be a baglady… I’ve been thinking about getting one of these recently to clean house! We have bits and pieces of “stuff” throughout the house and yard… parts of a fence, branches, and some demo work we are hoping to do and I’ve actually researched the bag 🙂

    My hubby is always picking things out of the trash… he’s found a kid’s ride on John Deere, 2 power wheels, and bathroom sink, bikes… he is always finding more treasures to bring home 🙂

    This bag would be perfect!

  162. I wanna be a baglady…the funniest thing i found that someone left out in the trash wasn’t really funny at first…it was a dresser…a dresser that fell apart after we brought it home..that’s why it was funny since we had to out it out our trash, right after it just collapsed and wasn’t worth it to fix it.

  163. I wanna be a baglady! I found this super cool wood and leather desk chair. It had great “bones” and lots of potential. …until my brother sat on it not knowing I hadn’t fixed it up yet. Without support under the seat cushion, he fell right through. Sorry baby bro!

  164. I wanna be a baglady! A garden gnome…come with our first place and I just couldn’t stand it!

  165. I wanna be a baglady!

    I had to pull my keys out of the dumpster once. I tossed our garbage back into our apartment complex dumpster, and tossed my keys along with it.

  166. i want to be a bag lady!!!
    in college we would dumpster dive for books at the end of the quarter to re-sell them!
    people just threw them away and didn’t bother to sell them back! a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do for some natty light money!

  167. The weirdest thing we saved from the garbage is this strange plastic but metallic gold cherub table it was in the basement of our house when we moved in and how could we toss that out? We put it outside in the spring and summer when we have company. Its a conversation piece for sure!

  168. I wanna be a bag lady 🙂

    I recently pulled a not yet empty toilet paper roll out of the trash… I’m still not sure why it got thrown away.

  169. I wanna be a baglady!

    The best thing I have ever found/put DIRECTLY INTO THE TRASH was a silicone butt. As in a sex aide for men. With holes. I am not even kidding. It was in an under-the-stairs storage nook in my house when I moved in. To make matters worse, the room it was in had a cherub/angel border to it. THEY COULD SEE THE SIN! I know those cherubs were judging.

    Also, from one Goodwill girl to the other, how have you not rep-ed the Macklemore song that suddenly took off??

  170. I want to be a baglady!! I am sure it wasn’t funny but digging through the trash for a check wedding gift at 1:30am was PRICELESS!

  171. I wanna be a baglady! The worst thing I had to put in the trash was a dead squirrel that my dog brought into the house. I was screaming the whole time!

  172. i wanna be a bag lady! i pulled a set of wrought iron cafe chairs out of someone’s trash pile and i’ve had them for 10 years now!

  173. I wanna be a bag lady!
    I could make something up, but I’ve never fished anything really interesting out of the trash before. I’ll have to be more intentional about that!

  176. I wanna be a baglady! Most random thing…maybe an old wicker bench someone had sitting on their curb. I brought it home and it sat in our garage, on our porch and other places while I thought about spray painting it but never did. The seat wasn’t sturdy enough to hold anything. Then it went to our curb and someone else found it. I’m sure you would have had a great idea, but I just couldn’t think of anything else to do w it!

  177. ”I wanna be a baglady”

    We “rescued” a blow up doll. We hosed it off while wearing gloves and then hung it outside our roommate’s door. I had never heard her scream that loud.

  178. I wanna be a baglady! One time, our neighbors were throwing away a BEAUTIFUL lamp; they had it sticking out of the top of their garbage can. I waited until it was dark and tiptoed over and grabbed it. It was exactly what I needed on the piece in our entryway. It sits there to this day! Oh, and I also got a BRAND NEW wheelbarrow from the same folks, the same way. They used it the day the moved in and put it on the curb. Crazy.

  179. ”I wanna be a baglady”

    I pull stuff out of the garbage all the time but mainly furniture. I can’t think of a very funny piece but I did find a 15 pane, solid wood french door that is in perfect condition. I find it funny that someone actually threw that out!

  180. I wannabe a bag lady! Once when I opened our trash can a cat jumped out, yowzers, talk about scaring me!!

  181. I wanna be a baglady!
    Walking down an alley with my dad and brother, when I was a child, we found a giant papier mache Ernie – of Bert & Ernie – head, which we proceeded to take home and my brother wore in a kiddie parade in our small MT town. This raises lots of questions in my adult life – why scoping alleyside trash cans, Dad? Don’t you suppose the original owner was probably at the parade and recognized their refuse?!!

  182. I wanna be a baglady!

    I have never pulled anything funny out of someone’s trash, but I did score a beautiful mirror recently!!

  184. I wanna be a baglady! Probably the grossest thing was a mattress infested with bed bugs from a rental house we used to own. YUCK!

  186. I wanna be a baglady… I was volunteering to help clean the side of a highway in college and there were many horrifying things, but my favorite was a random samurai sword. How do you lose a sword driving down the highway?

  188. I wanna be a baglady!

    I don’t think I’ve ever pulled anything very funny out of the trash though. Or put in. Though, it’s worth noting that we had to move 40 bags of trash out front, left by the previous tenants, when we moved into my first apartment. It was almost literally a dump.

    When we moved out, there were no more than 5, from 8 people.

  189. I wanna be a baglady! Not funny exactly, but my friend and I pulled a perfectly working toaster out of the trash to help furnish her apartment out of college.

  190. I wanna be a baglady! I would have to say the funniest thing that my husband has pulled out of the trash are the cardboard toilet paper rolls. Let me explain…my husband is a nut about recycling and will go through the trash after me and pull out the stuff that I should have thrown in the recycle can. I am so bad at remembering to throw stuff in for recycle that he usually has to go through and pull it all out, the biggest offender, toilet paper rolls.

  191. I wanna be a bag lady!

    Funniest thing we’ve ever thrown away was probably when I was little and the house next door to us was being built and there was a dumpster parked right by our back deck. I’m sure she shouldn’t have been doing it, but every night my mom would get rid of stuff that she didn’t want anymore and every morning we’d hear the construction guys commenting on the crazy stuff in the trash. Best one was when she threw out an old doctor’s scale that wasn’t working anymore and they guys were like, where in the world did this come from?! Thinking back, I wish she hadn’t thrown that out, it would have made for an awesome decoration!

  192. I wanna be a bag lady! When I was 22, I took a French class in Harvard Square, and walking back to my apartment one night I spotted a wooden, queen-sized headboard leaning against a trash can with a piece of paper taped to it that said “FREE!” So I picked that sucker up and carried it a mile down Massachusetts Ave back to my apartment! I still have it, 8 years later!

  193. I wanna be a baglady!

    I’ve actually never found anything worth dumpster diving for… maybe it’s b/c we live in the pacific northwest and everything is soggy?

  194. I wanna be a baglady!

    I dont think Ive pulled anything funny out of the trash- but we did get a large mirror from the trash at a storage unit that we hung in our dining room.

  195. My retainer for my teeth out of my middle school dumpster. We had spaghetti that day. It was disgusting, but I found it! (and yes I did still wear it)

  196. While cleaning the trash from our yard when we first bought our house, we actually found a bowling ball in the yard!

  197. I wanna be a baglady! I’ve never pulled anything out of a trashcan, but we did take furniture that was left on the curb for trash. Does that count? It was porch furniture and my husband was mortified that I told him to take it…we were laughing so hard and whispering trying to shove it in the back of our car.

  198. “I wanna be a bagman” It would save me the harassment I just received from our neighbors a week after moving in and we had toilets sitting next to the curb for the trash! I’d like to avoid that in the future!

  199. I wanna be a baglady!!! The funniest thing we’ve put in the trash?? Terrible Christmas presents. Yes, sometimes they can re-done. Or donated. but sometimes? Sometimes they are TRASH, my friends.

  200. Oh I totally want to be a bag lady! About a year and a half ago, we had two couches that we had to get rid of. They were really really bad. Smushed, old, fabric was kind of denigrating. I tried to take them to Salvation Army & also our recycle center, but neither would take them. Ended up having to take them to the dump. My dad thought it was hilarious that we were living with these couches like this for years but no charity would take them.

  201. I wanna to be a baglady…can’t think of anything funny I’ve put in or pulled out of the trash but I do miss living in New York…anytime you wanted to get rid of something you set it out on the curb and it disappeared within minutes. People would fight over the most random things left on the side of the road!

  202. I wanna be a baglady!

    Hmmm…the weirdest thing I’ve pulled out of the trash? I have no idea but I’m a new mom so I am sure I’ll have some stories in a few years once my little guy starts getting in to things!

  203. I wanna be a baglady! Ok, so the funniest thing I’ve pulled out the of the trash is my cellphone. Not particularly notable until you know it was a trash can at a coffee shop. Um, gross. Turns out, that is how I proved that taking out the battery and putting the phone/battery into a bowl of rice for 3 days totally works! It’s been 5 months, and the phone is still going strong. Please keep in mind that this is not a smart phone, tho. I hear those things are tricky 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway!

  204. I wanna be a baglady!
    The only thing I can recall pulling out of the trash is a sturdy wooden barstool that ended up getting a lot of use.

  205. Funniest thing? Your bidet makes mine seem normal….a table. A rickety sofa table that I straightened up and painted up.

  206. I wanna be a bag lady! I have rescued many piece of furniture to restore…nothing very amusing though : ) But this would help with our basement clean-out that is coming up soon!

  207. I wanna be a bag lady!
    We don’t take funny things to often but we did find an awesome rocking chair that I plan on redoing in the near future!

  209. I wanna be a baglady! With a toddler that loves to “help out”, I am always fishing stuff out of the garbage…maybe the funniest thing would be one of my bras. I think he confused the hamper and the garbage..?

  210. I wanna be a baglady. I dug through some trash on the side of the road and picked up a plastic caddy. Not funny but pretty useful to me.

  211. Funniest thing I’ve taken out of the garbage hmmmm, can’t say it’s super funny, but we took out this mirror, only to get home to figure out it was broken. UGH!

  212. I want to be a bag lady! My Father once found a bright red vinyl bench seat at the dump and installed it as the backseat of his blue and white truck so my brother and I could have real seat belts! That was a pretty great find 🙂

  214. I wanna be a baglady! This will probably be funny someday, but my DH threw his wedding ring into the trash a few weeks ago. The real funniest thing I ever got was a chair that was left next the the dumpster in our old apartment building. It was just sitting there for almost a week and then I brought it home. DH thought it was horribly ugly, but when I tried to give it away a few years later, refused for me to let it go.

  215. I wanna be a baglady!

    (I accidentally typed “badlady” instead of “baglady” just now. ha)
    I really cannot think of one funny thing I’ve thrown away or picked out of a trash… sorry!

  216. I wanna be a baglady! I once threw away a life-size cardboard cut-out of the Backstreet Boys. Embarrassing!

    Also, sorry for the confusion, but is the prize a Bagster or a $100 Amex gift card?

  217. When cleaning out my grandfathers basement,we found a necklace made of (what we thought were) human teeth. It turned out to be teeth from dentures (only slightly less disturbing) made into a necklace, but why anyone would make something like that is a headscratcher to this day.

  219. I wanna be a baglady! We’re not dumpster divers, but we do find some pretty hilarious stuff at the thrift stores.

  220. I want to be a bagman!! Can’t say I ever got anything interesting out of the garbage, but I did once hit Jay Leno with a bag of garbage accidentally.

  221. I wanna be a bag lady!

    I don’t think I’ve ever pulled anything funny out of the trash, but I have scored a few AMAZING pieces of furniture. I always thought it was funny that someone would throw away a perfectly good piece of furniture!

  223. I wanna be a baglady!

    The funniest thing I’ve ever pulled out of the trash was a blow up hula girl. We were at the mall where there was a Party City store and we just happened to notice that the sales reps were dumping gobs of brand new hawaiian themed stuff into the dumpster. We waited patiently until they were done and then I dove into the mall dumpster (yes, I did) to grab what I could. I think I got some leis, an Aloha banner, a coconut bra and grass skirt, and then the blowup hula girl. This worked out perfect for us because my inlaws were on their way back from Hawaii so we set up a huge welcome home party for them. Best dumpster dive ever!

  224. “I wanna be a baglady”…. Sadly I don’t have anything too funny I have pulled out of the trash…but this gift card would help to dispose of lots of trash from renovating our home!

  225. I wanna be a baglady (or bagman)! I’ve definitely pulled out my fair share of random furniture from the side of the road!

  226. I wanna be a baglady (or bagman)!

    I haven’t pulled out too much funny stuff from trash, just some furniture and chairs to be repainted. But someone in my neighborhood keeps taking all the funny stuff I put in mine. A broken edger, a broken ironing board, just the glass out of a huge picutre frame, the bases of two broken toilets, and a 5×8 rug that my husband tried to clean but ended up smelling like we rolled a dead body up in it. I hope they’re enjoying all their stuff!

  227. I wanna be a baglady! The funniest thing I ever pulled out of the trash was a pregnancy test because I decided I had to keep it forever. I still have that pee stick in my nightstand and my daughter is two! 🙂

  229. I wanna be a bag lady! And I don’t know if it’s funny, but I once found a rusty bucket I really “needed”. Cause it had character. Of course I took it home and did nothing with it, so eventually ended up in our trash.

  230. I wanna be a baglady! My husband tries to avoid “big trash day” at all costs in our neighborhood. I just love driving around and seeing what treasures I can find, but he gets very embarassed at the thought of it!

  231. I wanna be a baglady!

    The funniest thing was a box of stuff I grabbed- was too embarrassed to sort through at the site- and later found a leapfrog word whammer in the bottom of! SCORE!

  232. I wanna be a baglady…
    Although it wasn’t a bidet, I took a lifesize cutout of Elvis out of a trash pile (he was wearing a gold jumpsuit). I left him in front of my roommate’s bedroom door to greet her in the am. She wasn’t very appreciative.

  233. ”I wanna be a baglady” The funniest thing recently is that I put my pumpkin (yes, from Halloween just last week) down our condo’s chute. It splattered everywhere! I didn’t have an option to put it anywhere else (we’re fined heavily) and so down the chute it went!

  234. I wanna be a baglady aka 100 dollars richer:-) how can we compete with your bidet find? I live in the city so i stay far from others trash. Ick. But im sure people have had a field day in my trash from all the times ive moved!

  235. I want to be a baglady!

    I’m always eyeing the curb when I drive to/from work on garbage days. I’ve gotten some good stuff, sometimes from the same house.

    The most interesting one was this couple that owned shops that closed and they had tons of things set up on tables in their driveway with FREE signs on them. They had glass hurricanes, Christmas decorations, stencils, washtubs painted with Merry Christmas, a small tree to hang on the wall, a tree in a bucket, Fall candle rings, wooden easels, switchplate covers, etc. and all of these things were brand new. It was awesome!

  236. I wanna be a baglady!! Funniest thing… has to be pulling glass spagetti jars out of the trash after my husband tried to throw them away….

  237. I wanna be a baglady! Craig and I are currently working on purchasing a “fixer upper” so this would come in handy. I’ve totally gone diving for my retainer on more than one occasion as a child. I had a horrible habit of throwing them away… YUCK!

  238. I wanna be a baglady! I worked as a janitor at our middle in the summers during high school…a CASE of single ply TP was going to be tossed because…well it was single ply. I took it. And TP’d a looooooot of houses. 🙂

  239. I wanna be a baglady!

    Honestly I’m such a germ freak that the idea of taking something out of the trash makes my skin crawl. I am definitely a purger though, and there isn’t much I haven’t thrown away!

  241. I wanna be a bagman!

    Once in college we went dumpster diving for Panera Bread’s leftovers. And then we ate them.

    True story.

  242. Oh please oh please oh please let us win this!!!! We neeeeeed to clean out our basement like tomorrow!

    You wouldn’t believe everything that is down there, Tim apparently has to keep EVERY box from EVERYTHING he has ever bought. Fish supplies…think about all that stinky goldfish rock in your basement. It has got to go haha!

  243. I wanna be a baglady! hahaha thats hilarious, anyway the weirdest thing ive ever pulled from my trash is a beehive! Ok I didnt really pull it out myself we had to have a guy come and do it for us. They were everywhere!

  244. I wanna be a baglady! I can’t think of anything funny I’ve pulled out or put in the garbage.

  245. I want to be a bag lady! I’m trying to get over my inhibitions about going through other’s trash. There was a filing cabinet on the side of the road this week, and I’m still kicking myself for not stopping to pick it up!

    But the funniest thing I ever dug out of the trash was after a 4th of July picnic when I was 10. I dug out a bunch of the used, fireworks canisters and took them home. My Dad was not amused, and I think he threw them away.

  247. I wanna be a baglady!!! My son (then 11) dumpster-dived for a giant fishing net (long metal pole with net attached). Problem #1…we are over 2 hours away from the ocean. Problem #2…the holes are so far apart that any fish that you might catch could swim right through. We have held on to that pole for years–“we might need it one day…” UGH!!!

  248. I wanna be a baglady. The funniest thing I have pulled out of the trash? Not sure. Maybe a t-shirt that my mom wanted to get rid of but that I rescued because those holes just meant that it was perfectly worn in.

  250. I wanna be a bag lady! In college our entire house was furnished with all the stuff that other people had tossed out. Thinking back on it, it’s pretty gross but at the time we were thrilled with all of our “vintage” furniture.

  251. I wanna be a baglady….and it’s not super funny like a bidet but we pulled out this awesome saxophone and sold it for $300!!

  252. I wanna be a baglady! Don’t have anything super crazy we’ve thrown away, but we have a running joke about when we put “Free” stuff out on the curb. It is always gone that day. One neighbor even took the free sign after the free item was gone 🙂

  253. I wanna be a bag lady!!!
    Funniest thing i pulled out of the trash was a a little tikes airplane teeter tooter (sp?). I dont know why anyone would have thrown it out 🙂

  254. I want to be a bag lady!

    My favorite dumpster dive “safe” was a quilt rack. It is beautiful and love its functionality!

  256. ”I wanna be a baglady” ….. I take things out of the garbage all the time.. so let’s see….a giant huge wooden easter bunny decoration.

  257. I wanna be a bag lady!

    My best item thrown away is also toilet related – we have two bathrooms and have replaced both toilet seats since moving in. The one that my husband worked on this week had a seat but no lid (?). I’m sure that would be a fun, if not practical, find for a dumpster-diver.

  258. I wanna be a baglady…

    Back in college, me and some friends found what we thought was an old science vacuum chamber near the dumpster. We took it thinking it would be a fun BBQ, but after contemplating the idea further and realizing it probably was contaminated with a lot of nasty chemicals we decided to leave it as “art” near a school. About a week later there was a local news story about an elementary class that found our “art” and decided to use it as inspiration for a writing project. The kids wrote elaborate stories about the chamber and what they though it was. Most of the children’s imagined it was something from outer space and brought to Earth by aliens. The kids were very creative and it was a lot of fun thinking that we helped inspire a bit of confusion and wonder to an entire school.

  259. I wanna be a baglady! I have moved a lot in the past 9 years – I routinely dumster dive in the cardboard box recycle dumpsters behind local strip malls. =) saving money!

  260. I wanna be a bag lady!

    Weirdest thing I put in the trash- 8 foot tall paper mache man I made in college for an event that NO ONE came to. I was reimbursed by the group it was for, so it wasn’t my money wasted. The next day I saw it next to the dumpster creeping people out because it wouldn’t fit inside. Hilarious.

  261. I wanna be a baglady!

    I found the cutest set of 3 pre-lit alpine Christmas trees by our dumpster. It was day time and I was too embarrassed to take them so I made my husband go out and get them in the middle of night. He was mortified to be dumpster diving for Christmas trees and I thought it was the funniest thing and laughed and laughed. To this day, he hates those little trees!

  262. I wanna be a baglady!
    Nothing funny that we’ve left in the trash, but when I was moving out of my first apartment, I donated my couch to Volunteers of America. We left it on the curb for their truck to pick up, along with a coat tree and a VOA sign. Within minutes, some neighborhood doofuses decided they needed a couch on their porch, so they threw the coat tree and sign on the ground and carried my VOA donation couch down the street to their porch. My boyfriend (now husband) chased them down the street and told them that they’d just stolen a charity donation and he made them carry it back. LOL

  263. I wanna be a baglady! I’m a recycling fanatic, so I’m always pulling something out of the trash that DH tossed.

  265. I wanna be a baglady! I would have to say the funniest “dumpster” experience I have shared was with my teenaged son. Every summer, the college students throw away everything they don’t want to take back home with them. The college will bring in special dumpsters to accomodate all of the “waste”. The students have been known to throw away everything from mini-fridges to furniture to laptops! I decided to go “shopping” one day and got my son to go along, after all, he is more agile than I. It is easier for him to climb in than me 🙂 At any rate, I saw a lawn chair I wanted. We grabbed that and began loading it down with various other “goodies” we discovered. Nothing as exciting as a laptop, but I found lots of quirky knick knacks and a couple of small furniture pieces I liked. As we had parked a couple of blocks away, we carried them between us, loaded on our lawn chair pallet. The stares and comments we received had my poor son going 20 different shades of red. After we got back to the minivan and loaded everything in it, my son looked at me and told me that he would never, ever do that for me again and that I could feel free to disown him if I didn’t like it. I busted out laughing. I couldn’t help myself. I felt bad that I had obviously embarrassed him horribly, but I couldn’t help but laugh at his comment. I promised him I would never make him do that again. Now, several years later, he actually gets a laugh out of it himself. He, himself, doesn’t mind a “street-side” treasure every now and then. He is, after all, his mother’s son 🙂

  266. “I wanna be a baglady”

    I once made a boyfriend help me pull a fake Christmas tree out of a dumpster!

  267. ”I wanna be a baglady” – never pulled anything awesome from the trash myself, but my mom has an eye for seeing the diamond in the rough and is always coming home with something!

  268. I wanna be a bag lady!
    OK, don’t know if this counts as funny. When I was a grad student, neighbors of our had a yard the sale the week-end that we moved in. We didn’t buy much, maybe a chair and a soap dish. Later that day, we were walking around and everything that hadn’t sold was piled up in or next to the dumpster. I snagged this print of a daVinci sketch with a mat for free. And 10 years later, it’s still hanging on my wall. I’m a sucker for free art, I guess!

  269. annnddd now i feel silly, as i have read my blogroll and see that not one but TWO people have posted about that song today. so i’m going out on a limb here in thinking you have heard it and please disregard earlier comment. but not about the entering the contest, that stays.

  271. I wanna be a bag lady! When we bought our first house we had to throw away a bunch of random stuff that the previous owners left behind, including a big jar of some sort of grease/fat? I didn’t really want to know…

  272. ”I wanna be a baglady ”

    The funniest looking thing we’ve thrown away was a toilet. I think it just made our front yard look funny and tacky, so I covered it with a large box until waste management came!

  274. “I wanna be a baglady”

    The funniest story we have of getting rid of something is when our 35 year water heater finally died a few months ago (It was an old skool one that was made to last, when we bought our house the inspector said “Wow, you don’t see these kind anymore. Keep it until it goes out”) It finally rusted a hole in the bottom and started leaking. We decided with a friend’s help to replace it ourselves, saving us hundreds of dollars. But that also meant hauling it away but we don’t have a truck and the dump fees here are outrageous.

    Our neighbor gave us a genius idea…Put it out with the trash. But the trash service doesn’t take things like that. (“Trust me”, he said) Our trash pick up comes on Monday. So on Sunday evening, my husband lugged the heavy thing, full of sediment to the end of our driveway. An hour later, he left to run an errand and I heard an excited yell from downstairs “WATER HEATER’S GONE!” We really didn’t think anyone would want that worthless rusted thing…but I guess people salvage the metal? (We already had planned to haul it back to the garage if it was still at the end of the driveway come Monday morning)

    So you just never know what someone might take from the curb, so everything’s worth a shot…and just think of all the $$ saved 😀

  275. Not that I’m balking at a $100 Amex gift card, but I am a little curious why the giveaway isn’t a Bagster? …and I do wanna be a bag lady. Not exactly funny but in college somebody dumped out hundreds of videos in our apartment complex’s dumpster, right on top of all the other trash so they were easy to grab. My roommates and I dug them out, kept the good ones and donated the rest.

  276. I wanna be a baglady! The best things I pulled out of the trash were a neighbor’s antique brass lamps so that I could use the shades.

  277. I want to be a bag lady! How are we supposed to compete with bidet?? I don’t think I’ve ever picked anything funny out of the trash, but the best was just this last December, and it was my 11 year old. He came sneaking in the house and whispered in my ear that he had found the perfect Christmas present for his 7 year old brother. I followed him out to the garage and there was a bike that looked brand new with a paper FREE sign on it. He gave it to his bro for Christmas and was soooo proud. On Christmas eve he was explaining to me how I should sneak it in the house and wrap it, and he said “oh yeah, could you take that tacky FREE sign off and put like, you know, Merry Christmas on it or something on it”. lol. I saw the exact same bike at Walmart for $78!

  278. I wanna be a baglady! We pulled an old school desk from the trash. The kind with a lift-up top on the desk and attached chair. Had it for years and enjoyed playing “school” with it!

  279. ”I wanna be a baglady”: In college I saw a guy dumpster diving, and he pulled a dead skunk out of the dumpster. Pretty gross but funny.

  280. I want to be a baglady! And I’m not sure if I’ve pulled out anything ridiculous from the trash, but my dog does all the time. Most recently – old undies I was getting rid of. We think he’s a sex fiend.

  282. I wanna be a baglady. In college I knew people who used to dumpster dive for Krispy Kreme’s castoffs.

  283. I wanna be a baglady! I once spent an entire evening digging through the trash in search of my missing food coloring that I’d just ordered. Never did find it. I suppose we will probably find it when we move, hidden in some completely random place!

  284. I wanna be a baglady!

    I think the funniest thing we pulled out of someone’s trash was a tree stump, we were hoping to make a side table out of it, but ended up putting it back out on the curb.

  285. I wanna be a baglady. The craziest thing I have ever pulled out of the trash is probably PHI (Personal Health Information). I am a hospital compliance officer so I constantly have to check the trash to make sure we are disposing of things correctly, not the best part of my job.

  286. I wanna be a baglady! We tried to throw away these hideous orange cokebottle fake glass interior shutters from the house we purchased a couple years ago, and my sister stopped us and said she had to have them. They are hanging on the wall as “decoration” in her dining room. : ) It always cracks me up how different of taste two sisters can have!

  287. I wanna be a bag lady! Every year my parent’s town has a day where no matter what you leave out the trash company will come and take so people go nuts the day before driving around and looking through their neighbors’ trash for treasures. We’ve gotten vinyl records, decorative baskets, dishware, books, toys, patio furniture, ect. It’s kind of my favorite day of the year lol.

  288. I wanna be a baglady! The weirdest thing I’ve gone dumpster diving for was a sweet lamp that now lives in our master bedroom. There was nothing wrong with it and they sell the same one at World Market for $60 — score.

  289. I wanna be a bag lady! And I actually don’t recall anything hilarious that I’ve pulled out of the trash… I found a mouse in my empty trash can. Does that count?

  290. “I want to be a baglady”

    The funniest thing I have pulled out of a dumpster is a creepy lawn statue of a dinosaur. It currently lives on my parents farm to keep watch over the barn.

  291. i wanna be a baglady! i worked in the dorms during college, and at the end of every year, kids would throw out practically everything in their rooms. the dorm staff would take home discarded sofas, tables, fans–i would always pull out the houseplants. i think half the plants in my house (ten years later) were thrown away by college kids.

  292. I wanna be a bag lady! The best thing that I have pulled out of the trash is a mini fridge. At the end of the school year, college students toss all sorts of good stuff in the dumpster and I stalked the campus dumpsters and ended up with a nice mini fridge.

  293. I wanna be a baglady! Honestly I haven’t dug through the trash enough to have pulled anything funny out. I am constantly throwing things away in our bathroom trash accidentally – so going through that garbage is always pleasant… not.

  294. I wanna be a baglady!
    Um, yeah, can’t compete with a bidet, although I could tell a really funny story about one! 🙂 Out of the trash, not so funny really, but random pieces of wood/furniture/frames. I’m pretty selective with my dumpster diving 🙂

  295. I wanna be a baglady!!

    I work for a lodging company, and you wouldn’t believe the stuff people leave behind as ‘trash’. I have some seriously awesome 80’s neon ski coats!

  296. I wanna be a baglady! I grabbed a jenny lind crib out of the trash, which isn’t too crazy, BUT i left it outside way too long and it was moldy very quickly. several people lectured me not to use it for my baby…seriously? I may be frugal but not that bad!!

  297. I wanna be a baglady! Sadly I’ve never pulled anything out of the trash. People in my town don’t throw away anything except trash 🙂

  298. I wanna be a baglady!!

    (seriously though – our garage is full of ish and we really need to clean it out!!)

    I’m not a huge dumpster-diver (I’m more of a thrift store shopper, which is *kinda* the same thing, but without a lot of the shame), but once we pulled some really nice chairs from the dumpster in our old apartment building. Well, from NEXT TO the dumpster. I count it as a dumpster dive. Not really funny, but an AWESOME score.

  299. I wanna be a baglady! In middle school, I pulled an old class picture of strangers out of the trash- and hung it in my room!

  300. I wanna be a baglady! I’m wracking my brains for something strange that I’ve pulled out of the trash, but I can’t think of anything. This means I really should go dumpster diving more 🙂

  302. I wanna be a baglady. This isn’t necessarily from a dumpster, but my husband works for the department of transportation, and picks up trash from the roadside a lot. So far he has brough home about 100 tow straps, 5 tires, and a plastic toy pipe he loves to put in his hat.

  303. I wanna be a baglady! I once convinced my husband to get this “great” little table from a house on our street for me to redo. Once he was convinced and went and got it I realized it was actually really ugly and nasty. So I put it out with our trash lol.

  304. I wanna be a baglady! Not the funniest but my biggest trash-pulling success: I pulled an awesome 70’s style mirror out of the dumpster of my old apartment. It featured brass, concentric squares, and lots of dirt and paint splatters. My boyfriend thought I was insane. But, it was in great shape, and with a little cleaning, it turned into a totally rad piece for my entryway. Dumpster diving FTW!

  305. “I wanna be a baglady!” Boy could we use this, with two little ones running around the amount of stuff seems to multiply daily and the house gets smaller and smaller…a little purging would feel fantastic!

  306. I wanna be a bag lady! I pulled a dresser away from a neighbor’s curb but my stealth moves were thrawted by a very very squeaky dolly!

  307. I think it’s because the price varies from place to place and some areas don’t even have the Bagster available yet. It’s fairly new so I’m sure that it’ll spread as the customer base grows.
    xo – kb

  308. “I wanna be a baglady, please!”

    The funniest moment of garbage picking I had was scoring a sweet wood table. While the object itself certainly isn’t funny, the ridiculousness that ensued as my mom and I tried to fit it into my Jeep was hysterical! And to make it worse my dad promised to ‘fix’ it for me before I took it home but it still has yet to reach my house – 16 months later! He totally hijacked it! Geesh, Dad!

  309. I want to be a bag lady! It’s not funny. . but I had to sift threw a particularly nasty bag of trash this week when I dropped a small component of our roomba vacuum in it. I am about six million months pregnant so I am sure I looked funny. . .

  310. I wanna be a baglady!
    I don’t know that I’ve put in or pulled out anything too strange from the trash. But when I was a kid I remember my mom would pull things out of peoples trash including toys.

  311. Katie, I want to be a bag lady! I have never pulled anything out of someone’s trash, but I would love to clear some basement storage junk as you have!

  313. i wanna be a bag lady! can’t say i’ve had great dumpster diving experiences like your boyfriends, which is too bad, cause i’d love to have a memory like that. we did find an almost brand new bose surround sound outside a fraternity though!

  314. I wanna be a baglady!

    I think the craziest thing we’ve ever pulled out of a dumpster would actually be pumpkins. But they weren’t actually in the dumpster — they were growing around the dumpster. I think someone threw away old pumpkins the year before and somehow more started to grow the next spring. So we had a pumpkin patch around the dumpster the next year that we used to decorate with for fall!

  315. I want to be a bag lady!! I don’t think I’ve pulled anything that interesting out of the trash but I have a ton of stuff I’d love to throw in a bagster at home!!

  316. I wanna be a baglady! Ok…when I was in college, my sister and I, along with some friends, went to a concert at our church of a local band that we really liked. We thought there t-shirts were so cool, but you know… college kids=limited funds/broke as a joke. I overheard the bass player tell someone that their dog peed on some t-shirts and they threw them in the trash. After the concert, I went to the dumpster, got in, and retrieved 2 shirts–one for me and one for my sis. Hot water and detergent cures many germs. : )

  317. I wanna be a baglady!! This thing mightttt possibly get my bf to propose LOL as he oftentimes refers to our attic as my “enabler” and I’m close to being a hoarder..so just saying…I’D LOVE TO WIN THIS! 🙂

  318. “I wanna be a baglady”. I can’t think of anything that I’ve pulled out of the trash, but at my previous house we could put anything out by the alley and it would be gone in a day (dirt, broken tile, an old water heater…). We currently have a toilet sitting in our driveway that we need to get rid of so a bagster would be soooo helpful. It’s been out there long enough that we’re probably considered “those people” now by the neighbors.

  320. I wanna be a baglady…I’ve never had a personal funny trash story but my then BF, now DH, pretended to toss his newborn nephew in the trash when we went to visit him in the hospital. Guess it was funny to him O_o

  323. I wanna be a baglady! I’m sure I’ve put odd things in our trash, but can’t remember them off the top of my head. Is it weird to admit that I’m jealous of all the stories of people finding amazing things in the trash? I have however used a bagster and it was an amazing way to clean out our garage and basement!

  324. I wanna be a baglady! Our 3 year old was always throwing away silverware and good dishes last year. She knows now what goes in the sink and trash.

  325. I wanna be a bag lady!!!

    When I was a teenager I definitely had to pull my retainer out of the garbage at a Chinese restaurant where I had left it….ewww!!!

  326. I wanna be a baglady. The only interesting trash story I can think of is my brother’s. At the time he was living in an apartment in a college town. Someone threw out a sofa, but soon a dumpster diver came and took it away. A few days later, the same sofa was back in the dumpster. My guess is it looked nice, but had a nasty scent.

  327. I want to be a bag lady! Not exactly funny but we got a lot of our nursery furniture (minus the crib) from trash picking – tip: find out the trash day of a wealthy neighborhood and get to pickin’ 🙂

  328. I want to be a baglady.

    I live in a college town so dumpster diving around move outs is practically required. When I was in high school we found a box of change that ended up being around $80. We got a hotel room for the night and had a party it was great.

  329. I wanna be a baglady! I haven’t pulled anything funny from the trash, but my father and husband has brought home tables, bikes, alarm clocks and once a full set of dinning ware.

  330. I wanna be a bag lady fo sho!

    I’ve never pulled anything out of anyone’s trash, but we have a neighborhood garbage picker that always drives through with his beat ass truck & picks through ours!

  331. I wanna be a baglady!

    Right after I got married, I had to do a little dumpster diving at our apartment complex because my husband threw away some cards that still had checks in them. Luckily, the trash hadn’t been picked up yet.

  332. I wanna be a bag lady!

    I’m buying my first home and the other day we “rescued” a lawn mower from a curb! A little TLC and I think the man-friend can bring her back to life!

  333. I want to be a baglady. And, I’d actually use the gift card to clean out our garage and begin to get it organized, this would be a good start! Thanks for the ‘review’, we’ve been looking into bagster for awhile now, glad to read some good feedback!

  335. I want to be a bag lady!

    I have no funny trash stories. Sorry. Dumpster diving just isn’t my thing. But I need dolla bills to decorate my house and in turn toss stuff that other people will totally dumpster dive over. Fair enough, no?

  336. I wanna be a baglady…. the best thing I’ve ever rescued from the trash (with the help of friends) was a CPR dummy from my high school.

  337. I wanna be a baglady!

    I’ve pulled my dog’s toy out of the trash. After I threw away his gross squirrel, he sat by the trash can crying.

  338. I want to be a bag lady! I once rescued a decent looking couch from a neighbor’s trash only to realize it was missing cushions (after my family helped lug it back to our house)!

  340. I want to be a bag lady! In college, my roommates and I sifted through all the recycling bins on campus to redeem the beer cans. Ah, to be young again..

  341. I want to be a bag lady!! I cannot recall pulling anything out of the trash, but I could definitely do some purging!

  342. I wanna be a baglady!

    The funniest thing I found in our trash was a body!

    Funny Story…I was backing out of my garage and going down the driveway when I saw a pair of legs hanging out of our garbage can. I freaked out. I put on the brakes, locked the door, called my husband who was in the house and told him we had to move immediately (we had only moved in a few months prior). I told him that people were out to get us and it wasn’t cool, I was not going to stand for it. He very nicely advised me to calm down and tell him what was wrong. I told him “There is a dead body in our trash!” My husband came out of the house and walked down to the garbage and pulled out a pair of legs! Actually it was a pair of nylons stuffed with newspaper and a pair of tennis shoes….my crazy neighbors thought it would be hilarious to play a joke on me. It was insane, I really thought there was a dead body in our trash can! I still haven’t gotten the neighbors back yet…hmmmm.

  343. I want to be a bag lady! I work in theatre so the question should probably be what crazy thing have I not thrown away. There is nothing like having fake palm trees stick up out of you dumpster like there is a secret tropical oasis hidden in there.

  344. I want to be a baglady! I once pulled one of those plastic flamingos from a neighbors trash…then promptly drove to plant it in my mom’s front yard. It was fabulous, though she was mystified as to how the pink perfection landed there.

  345. I wanna be a baglady

    Um, my kid got stuck in a wastebasket when he was smaller. The look on his face was so funny I had to snap a pic before I helped him get out.

  346. I wanna be a bag lady!!!! I go on purging whirl winds and my husband has to stop and make me use my brain….no Laurie, we don’t have to throw all of the measuring cups away just because the 1/4th cup is cracked..

  347. I wanna be a baglady ….. just yesterday I had to pull a Walmart receipt out of the trash. I mistakenly bought detangler instead of hairspray (the bottles are identical … didn’t notice until I looked at the front of it). It wasn’t too bad … but it wasn’t pristine!

  350. I wanna be a bag lady! Well the funniest thing my mom pulled out of the trash was ME when I was a toddler standing on my highchair and fell back and landed in the can!

  351. I wanna be a bag lady! I’m not very experienced and pulling things out of the trash yet, but recently I brought home some terracotta pots that were left in my apartments dumpster. They were all stuck together which is maybe why they were ditched? I got them apart in about 10 seconds and now they are all over my patio!

  352. I wanna be a baglady!
    It`s not weird… but last week we found an awesome shoe rack in the neighbors trash! <it fits out closet perfectly!

  353. I wanna be a baglady! Honestly I don’t think I’ve ever taken anything out of the trash, I know sad:( My husband is kinda a germaphobe so even if I did take something he’d never let me bring it near the house;)

  354. I wanna be a bag lady!
    While I personally have never picked anything out of the trash, my mom was notorious for “collecting” discarded chairs for her garden. I remember one time driving around with her as a teenager, and she saw a chair on someones front lawn that she thought they were throwing away, but just to be sure she decided to knock on their door to see if she could take it. I. WAS. MORTIFIED.

  355. I wanna be a baglady! I’m not nearly as exciting as you, but I’ve often gone after coupons or giftcards that were accidentally thrown away!

  356. I wanna be a bag lady!
    I can honestly say I’ve never gone dumpster diving – not that I wouldn’t but since buying a house a year ago I’m more about getting rid of all the junk that we’ve accumulated and trying not to keep collecting more!

  357. I want to be a bag lady! I have pulled more than my fair share of stuff out of the trash… not sure the weirdest but the other day I pulled an awesome wood door out of someone’s HUGE trash pile and I received quite a few comments as I walked home with it on my head. Best part was, my husband and daughter were with me but he refused to carry it, bc he does not like me bringing “projects” home anymore.

  358. I want to be a bag lady! I don’t do the dumpster dive, but I have a semi-freegan friend who gets probably half of his groceries from dumpster diving–everything is always wrapped. The week after valentines day, he had the mother load of bouquets.

  359. I wanna be a baglady!

    I actually have never pulled anything out of the trash, but I always have my eye out for something good!

  360. I wanna be a baglady! I honestly can’t remember anything cool i’ve taken out of or put into the trash. how boring of me!

  361. I want to be a baglady! My husband pulled a huge water heater out of the dump on and industrial demolition site and is making it into a humongous smoker! We’ve also grabbed some landscape stones and plan to redo our yard soon. Oh and some old spiggots and ancient fire extinguishers. The list is endless.

  363. I want to be a bag lady! We had a broken-in-two cast iron tub sitting in our front yard for weeks!! We tried putting it in the trash in pieces but the trash people wouldnt take it because it is too heavy! LOL So we had it sitting in our yard, on display, with NO plants planted it in, for weeks before we could haul it away. (Heck – we had to buy a trailer to do that!)

  365. I wanna be a bag lady!

    I used to work for a nonprofit that involved many trips to the dump/transfer station as we renovated people’s homes… I can’t think of anything particularly funny that we either disposed of or pulled out of the trash, but there are plenty of completely inappropriate stories I could tell about the trips themselves! Chuckling to myself just thinking about them…

  366. I want to be a baglady! I have yet to accumulate any great trash pulling stories, but will probably throw away some hilarious things from our basement if I win this!

  367. I wanna be a bag lady! I’ve never gone dumpster diving (because my husband would so not be happy about that!) but we did throw our toilet in a dumpster when we moved into our house. If I recall, my husband also wanted to smash it once it was in there. Sigh… boys.

  368. I wanna be a bag lady! Do you think my husband’s old rusty car that’s been sitting in our garage since we moved into this house would fit in the Bagster? 😉 (he only jumped it and put a spare on to move it over here from our aparment!)

  369. I wanna be a baglady. It wasn’t funny but I lost my credit card and driver’s license and we thought it had been thrown out by the cleaning service in my sorority house. Imagine 4 sorority girls in a dumpster, wearing letters. I’m sure lots of people got a laugh

  370. “I wanna be a baglady!”

    Mid-November I held a garage sale, and only made about $30. But, the stuff I had at the curb in a garbage pile; old bed pillows, bath rugs, mattress pads, stuff that was too used to put a price on – all went with the passing garage sale seekers. Resulting in no garbage to pick-up, but had a load of stuff that didn’t sale I took to Goodwill.

  371. I want to be a bag lady!!
    This isn’t funny… but it’s our one and only digging in trash experience. We moved to our first house in the end of June in August our neighbor’s had my husband go dig through their dumpster that was full of kitty litter (and it was about 100 degrees out) and other gross things. When he came back he had the worst look on his face. I asked what they needed help looking for…he (the hubs) told me that their daughter had passed away and was cremated. They accidently threw her ashes away. 🙁 True. Story. Needless to say we don’t like dumpster diving.

  372. I wanna be a bag lady!

    When I was in fifth grade I went to church camp and thought I was cleaning up litter on a trail and picked up an old deflated balloon… but I didn’t realize it wasn’t a balloon until some other kids started laughing. ICK. Enough said.

  374. I wanna be a Bag Lady! I dont pull alot of stuff out of the trash but im notorious for taking in junky furniture left by the curp. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it goes right back to the curb 🙂

  375. I wanna be a baglady!

    I managed to snag a small tv stand from a trashpile. If we extend out of “trashpile” and include “Dorm hall’s donation pile”, I managed to get a ginormous pink petticoat that was filthy and needed a seam fixed, but otherwise beautiful and now I have so many costumes planned around it, lol

  376. I wanna be a bag lady! I’ve had the Hubbs pull a kitchen tabletop out of our neighbor’s trash…not necessarily hilarious, but super handy!!

  377. I want to be a bag-lady! I remember pulling out my own retainer from the trash in middle school…yuck.

  378. i’m a baglady!

    When i was a kid we demolished a house. we had so many odd things on the street and towns people picked everything (included the old old toliets) up. the garbage men had to do nothing!

  380. I wanna be a baglady!

    Back in college, we pulled a papasan chair out of the neighbors trash and treasured it for the next 3 years!

  381. I wanna be a baglady! I can’t think of something funny! I must have had boring garbage experiences!

  382. I want to be a bag lady, please! I’ve got some serious spring cleaning that needs to happen! No more dumpster diving until it’s done!

  383. I wanna be a baglady!!! I don’t think we’ve done any serious dumpster diving or pulled anything funny out of the trash. Although, watching my husband run down the street with a bidet would be hilarious.
    We have some serious work to do to our house…main bathroom remodel, anyone? So a Bagster would come in super handy for that! Now that I think of it, maybe we will need 2 bags and 2 trips worth to get everything the way I want it around here. 🙂

  384. I want to be a baglady!

    We have rescued several things from the trash, the best was some metal shelving that a nursing home had put out by their dumpster….those shelves have been with us 12 years and are great for storage in our garage.

  385. I’m already a bag lady. I save way too many used grocery bags. And, just the other day I had to pull a receipt out of the trash that I specifically told the dear boyfriend not to get rid of.

  386. i want to be a baglady!

    my husband was making dinner one night and had accidentally thrown away the onion he needed. after he realized it, i busted him staring into the trashcan, totally seeing the wheels in his head turning, like “should i? shouldn’t i?” and, not to my surprise, he went for it, took it out, caught me watching and goes, “what?! it was only in there for an hour!”

  387. I want to be a BAGLADY! Hmmm a few chairs, old crib railings (made a bench out of them) ok ok had good intentions of making a bench out of them LOL

  388. I wanna be a baglady!

    I haven’t pulled anything too funny for the trash, but when I was a kid I helped my uncle scavenge the neighborhood sidewalks and we rescued some great furniture!

  389. I want to be a bag lady!!
    The trash guys once took something that wasn’t trash – my brand new baby jogger and a small little tykes swing set. I was so upset I cried, and then I was so mad I got back and made them pay to replace my things.

  392. I wanna be a bag lady!

    I’ve picked a ton of furniture off the side of the road in the last couple of months – three chairs, a giant framed puzzle, a coffee table, a side table and a bird cage. My husband is less than impressed, but some of it’s already been re-done and looking lovely (and for free!)

  393. I wanna be a baglady. I pulled some cardboard footer tubes out of the trash and my kids had a blast with them for months.

  395. I wanna be a baglady! I pulled out books from a dumpster at our local high school. Nothing too exciting!

  396. I wanna be a baglady! the worst is having to dig through my trash after my or my kid has accidentally thrown something in there that didn’t belong.

  397. I want to be a bag lady! I pulled a coffee table out of my neighbors trash in college, and am still using it 10 years later!!

  398. I wanna be a bag lady! In high school, my friends and I once pulled a toilet from a neighbors garbage and then delivered to someone special!

  399. I wanna be a bag lady! I got a Fisher Price cozy coupe on the side of the road. As a mom to a 2 year old, it was a great find!

  401. I wanna be a bag lady! Well, I watched my boyfriend dive into a nasty public trash can to retrieve the wooden crab cracking mallet he accidentally threw away, all in the name of getting his $3 back…

  402. ”I wanna be a baglady” I’m not sure I’ve had the good fortune of finding something good in our local trash!

  403. Big trash day is one of my favorite holidays!
    Years ago I rescued an adorable side table only to discover at home it was covered in mold!!! Ewww

  404. I want to be a bag lady! When I was a kid my brother and I used to dumpster dive. oh yes. we used to pull old wood and just general trash out of neighbors cans & dumpsters to make forts in the backyard.
    I’m sure the neighbors thought there were a bunch of homeless people living in our backyard.

  406. I want to be a bag lady! A mannequin was pulled out of someone’s else garbage to be used as a prank on me. Not AT ALL funny for me at the time. Now I’ll give a slight smirk.

  408. I wanna be a baglady! The best throw away was our bathroom demolition debris, we were cheep so we disposed of the rubble (4 walls and a floor of avocado green tile and 1 terazzo shower pan) in Shawshank style a few small moving boxes of rubble a week for about two months, definitely could have used a bagster!

  409. I wanna be a baglady! As a teenager, I had to pull my retainers out of the trash. More than once. You would think after the first time I would have learned my lesson… not so much. I had a steep learning curve.

  410. I want to be a bad lady! I’m constantly pulling things out of one neighbor’s trash pile. I think they purposefully leave one or two items out every week or so to see if I’ll stop and pick them up. I usuallly do.

  412. I wanna be a baglady!

    Unfortunately, I don’t have any of my own dumpster diving stories. My husband’s friend went DD once for Wendy’s cups when they were giving away Delta airline miles. I think he actually got a free flight out of it.

  413. I wanna be a bag lady!! The funniest thing I have pulled out of the trash was my engagement ring.. I had a small panic attack when it slid off my newly engaged finger (before it was sized correctly) and I had to dig it out. Of course there was coffee grounds in there AND I had just emptied the vaccum canister. GROSS.

  414. I want to be a bag lady! The BEST thing we pulled from someone’s trash was a pretty red Weber gas grill. Maybe the family got a new stainless one? When my husband loaded it in his truck it clattered and grill pieces flew everywhere. Not awesome in the dark. Ten years later? Yep, we still have that grill that moved from TN to CO with us. And it’s still pretty. 🙂

  415. I want to be a baglady!! I make it a policy not to have to pull things out of the trash 😉

  416. I want to be a bag lady! My husband won’t let me get things out of other peoples’ trash. Boo on him.

  420. There are a number of rugs that I like for my grand daughter’s bedroom (the girl’s room) in light pink shag.
    Hope I win!
    linda

  422. I want to be a bag lady! I love going “junking”. I used to have this awesome polyester, safety orange wingback chair that I picked up from the curb one day. The fabric was hideous, but it had gorgeous wooden claw feet and “hands” at the ends of the arms. And it was oh so comfy!

  423. I wanna be a bag lady!

    My item went somewhat full circle. In college I had an assignment in an art class to take an existing chair and somehow change it. Not just reupholster or anything, but really change it. Well I didn’t really care for the class, so to show a little attitude I decided I was going to use a toilet. That’s like a chair, right? Some students from a different class/project that they needed to get rid of so I got it for free. I glued magazine pages all over it and used the tank as a magazine rack. Of course the teacher loved it haha And then it sat in my living room for 2 years. It was a great conversation piece at parties! …and thankfully went “unused”…

  424. I want to be a baglady!
    I guess the funniest thing I pulled out of the trash wasn’t really trash at all but ended up being some kids bike left by the road that I thought was trash up for grabs…oops.

  426. bag lady!

    not a big fan of dumpster diving. but I do love picking up pennies off the ground. the cruddier the better. it drives the hubs crazy.

  427. I wanna be a baglady …

    And the best thing was probably one of those plastic Playskol tables for a friend…

  429. I wanna be a bag lady. A medical “potty chair” is the weirdest thing I’ve thrown away.

  431. I want to be a bag lady. I need this so badly. An old boat of ours has become our “too large for the garbage can” dump and boy could I clean it out with this. I could almost get the boat in it, I bet.

  432. I wanna be a bag lady! Hmmm…I’m not sure I’ve pulled anything interesting out of the garbage!

  433. I wanna be a baglady!

    I have been through a few purges and have gotten rid of pretty much everything you can think of that you cannot donate!!!!

  434. I want to be a baglady! Found our cat in the dumpster when he was around 3 weeks old. Took him to the vet and he ended up being a full blooded Himalayan flame point. He is the sweetest and most cuddly cat ever! He even plays fetch!

  436. I wanna be a bagman – the funniest thing was when a raccoon jumped out of the trash and my girlfriend thought it was a monkey… We still joke about “OH MY GOD ITS A MONKEY”

  438. I want to be a bag lady!
    When we moved into our house, the old owners left behind TONS of awesome stuff in the trash. A sombrero was my favorite item though 🙂

  439. I wanna be a baglady! I’ve pulled some pretty lame things out of the trash however my oldest sister on the other hand… I was present for this experience so maybe it’s the same thing. She saw what looked like 2 new Victoria Secret bras in the dumpers at my little sisters apartment. She actually climbed fully in. It was worth in the end because they did still have the tags on and they were her size! We laughed so hard that someone may have peed their pants 🙂 It makes you wonder how the brand new bras got in there in the first place. Umm boyfriend troubles 🙂

  440. I wanna be a baglady (or bagman) Just had to throw away a beautiful silk dress because my boyfriend decided to be helpful and wash it and dry it…at least I’m trying to think it’s funny 🙂

  442. I wanna be a bag lady.

    Sadly we haven’t gotten anything fun out of the trash. Just some useful or not so useful stuff. Last item was a teak backyard table that just needs a little fixing and a lot of love and it’ll be as good as new.

  444. I wanna be a baglady!!

    I don’t think I’ve ever pulled anything funny from the trash…maybe important things that were accidentally tossed. Never fun. Haha.

  445. I wanna be a bag lady!!! I can’t really remember pulling anything funny or otherwise out of the trash, but my husband and I are on a mission to be recyclers of the week. Every. single. week. We rock us some recycling. Our recycling bin is much larger than our trash bin and we fill it to overflowing and our trash is rarely even half full. Thanks for a chance to win, especially because there’s no bagster in our area. womp womp

  446. I wanna be a bag lady!

    I saved a bunch of furniture pieces from the side of the road over the years! One man’s trash…

  447. I want to be a baglady!! I once threw away a $50 gift card to Home Depot that I had thought was all used up. The next day my husband asked where it was and I told him what I did….and quickly began digging through the trash (with gloves on) to try to find it. Two hours of digging through rotten food, soiled paper towels, kitty litter and other miscellaneous garbage, I finally found it… but it had $0.31 left on it. Le sigh.

  449. I wanna be a bag lady! My husband had a couch that he loved in his apartment that he had pulled out of the trash…the love was not mutual and it did not make it to our first apartment together! He still misses it sometimes, but I think he has formed a permanent bond to our current craigslist couch.

  450. I want to be a baglady – kindof……I have never gotten anything out of the trash to take home, or even out by the side of the road. The thought of it just kind of skeeves me out. It must be part of a disorder of some kind!

  451. I wanna be a bag lady!
    Funniest thing…hmm…I did grab a cute wooden chair that fits perfectly at our desk out of a dumpster next to my place of employment…not so sure how professional that looked, but the chair is awesome!

  452. I want to be a baglady! My husband pulled two huge wash bins out of the trash pile in front of our neighbors house. Funny part of the story is that he would fill them up with soapy water and let our three young children play in them ON our driveway:-)

  454. I wanna be a baglady! When I was 15, I lived in an apartment complex with my sister, who was 12 at the time. One day while dropping our garbage off at the dumpster, we spotted a suitcase inside. We were too curious to pass up the suitcase without checking to see if there was something in it. I coaxed my sister into jumping into the dumpster to grab the suitcase. We were laughing hysterically, but I was also nervous that someone would spot us…really, what 15 year old girl wants to be spotted dumpster diving? Anyway, we were thrilled when we realized that there was indeed something in the suitcase. We grabbed onto it and ran as quickly as we could into our apartment to see what it contained. Imagine our surprise when we opened it to find 3 mannequin heads…creepy! I’m fairly certain we had to change our pants after that little find.

  455. I wanna be a baglady!

    The weirdest thing my husband ever pulled out of a dumpster was plush dog rocking horse, err rocking dog? It was dirty and gross but my husband thought we should save it from its dumpster death. It sat by our couch until I couldn’t take the smell anymore and threw it out when he was at work. We don’t talk about it.

  456. ”I wanna be a baglady!”
    I’ve pulled over to scope out a garbage area… and found an AMAZING leather side chair with carved wooden arms & legs (I’m talking GORGEOUS) for free. It lives in my livingroom. 😀

  457. I wanna be a baglady. I once found a mid-century leather chair in a dumpster. Not my proudest moment … but I really like the chair!

  458. I wanna be a baglady We had just moved & didn’t have much so we grabbed some dining chairs someone left out for the trash man. I’m glad no one had a recording device to see us running with them! lol

  459. I wanna be a baglady! I had to pull my cell phone out of an office building restroom trash can after I accidently tossed it away vs. the paper towel in my hand. Scrounging through all the used paper towels to find my phone at the bottom of the can…I was scared of what might also be in the can in addition to the wet paper towels from lots of different hands…yikes!

  460. I wanna be a bag lady! A neighbor was throwing away a record stand, it makes a great night table 🙂

  461. I wanna be a baglady!

    I haven’t pulled anything out of the garbage that would be remarkable to tell anyone about, but when I was a kid my dad noticed and dug out a 4 foot tall white power ranger for my brother. I was mortified. He didn’t care what I thought and brought it home, had my mom stitch the arm back together and bleached it. When they gave it to my brother he was sooo happy, even after finding out it was someone elses trash.

  463. I wanna be a bag lady! 🙂

    I remember having a school project in middle school in which we had to create something out of trash, and I made what I thought was a BEAUTIFUL flower sculpture out of this bright green standing fan I found in an alley. My mother struggled to love my work of “art,” but she managed, as mothers do! Haha

    My mom though, talked a trash guy out of hauling away a terrible-looking sofa that someone had thrown out, and he swore he would not pick it up again (so she had to fully commit). The sofa is currently reupholstered and in our sitting room now! It’s lovely! 🙂

  464. I wana be a baglady! I haven’t got anything really cool out of the trash the only thing I can think of is whenever we or family is moving I get the job of going behind all the stores and dumpster areas to find the much needed cardboard boxes.

  466. I wanna be a baglady! really! I pulled a door from the trash. it makes my heart swoon and will become my headboard soon.

  467. I wanna be a baglady!

    I’ve never gotten anything from the trash or put anything in that was funny..BUT this does remind me of a story to share so that this post isn’t completely lame. When I was in middle school, my friend’s youth group was having a lock-in and decided to play a game of manhunt. I got the brilliant idea to hide in the dumpster. Most disgusting thing I’ve ever done in my life! I still cringe just thinking about what was probably in that thing.

  468. ”I wanna be a baglady (or bagman)”
    Got a 900 pound headboard off the curb. Well at least it felt like 900 pounds. It’s still sitting in my garage untouched.

  469. I wanna be a bag lady! We pulled out old bicycles and old kids outside play equipment and a wicker chair from the garbage before. Spray paint is a wonderful thing!

  471. I wanna be a baglady! Maybe not the funniest thing, but I did put my cellphone in the trash one time and didn’t realize it until the trashmen were long gone. I guess the universe gave me a big ol’ sign it was time to get rid of the ghetto phone and get an iPhone.

  472. I wanna be a bag lady! One time I pulled out a small table from my neighbors’ trash, the same table I had thrown away weeks before. I guess they pulled it from my trash and changed their mind. I realized I still loved the table and took it back!

  475. I wanna be a baglady! In college everyone threw out their dorm decorations like lamps, desk chairs, rugs, book shelves. I found an awesome rug and took it to my first apartment where it lived for 2 years until we threw it out ourselves (it acquired lots of stains) 🙂

  476. I wanna be a bag lady! I’ve dived for a few kitchen chairs…all of which are still untouched in the basement.

  477. I want to be a baglady!
    I once threw out two wine crates that I wasn’t going to use. A few minutes later after I had put them out with the building’s trash, my mother-in-law came in very happy and proud telling my husband and I She had found these great wooden boxes. We still have them!

  479. I wanna be a bag lady! My kids pull out my used blue oil absorbing face wipes and play with them. Eww.

  480. I wanna be a baglady! My brother once pulled a GIANT mirror in a gorgeous frame out of a trashed house he was cleaning and gave it to me. I cleaned and painted that puppy and now its gorgeous!

  481. I wanna be a baglady! I don’t think I’ve ever dug anything out of the trash. Womp womp. But, my neighbors definitely wouldn’t be putting anything out that I would want, lol. I live in a pretty rural area.

  483. I WANNA BE A BAGLADY! Every Spring, my little town has an “unlimited pickup” week of trash. It is like Christmas! Everyone drives around scouting out people’s things. This past Spring, we acquired: a mirror, kids basketball hoop, cement drainy-thing that goes at the end of the drain pipe, coffee table, and complete Little Tykes backyard climber. Booyah!

  484. I wanna be a baglady.

    I haven’t pulled anything out the garbage but the funniest thing we’ve put into the garbage would have to be old stinky shoes… and with two boys, they were super stinky!

  485. I wanna be a bag lady.
    When we lived on base, Mondays were bulk trash pick up days. So, every Sunday my hubby and his friend would cruise around the neighborhood looking to score something cool. Once, he brought home an old microwave that took about 20 minutes to pop a bag of popcorn. We used that thing for almost two years before putting it back out on the curb!:)

  486. I wanna be a bag lady! I’ve had to rescue my retainer from the trash a few times, but that’s about it!

  487. I wanna be a baglady.

    In undergrad, there was construction going on as we were building things for engineering competitions. We would dumpster dive for materials and found things like full boxes of wire brushes, pvc pipe, a brand new hose, full roll of red caution tape, brand new particle masks, painters overalls, etc. It was insane how much brand new stuff they threw out that were still in the original package!

  490. I wanna be a baglady! I haven’t ever pulled something out of the trash for my house, but when I was in high school, our church youth group would do a trash scavenger hunt every year. We had to find items like lamps, couches, tvs, etc. in other people’s trash and take pictures with them. We loved it!

  491. I wanna be a bag lady!

    In my grad school days, I was a pretty frequent dumpster diver. I once got a pair of BRAND NEW snow boots from the REI dumpster. My less exciting dives still scored me some beautiful fresh flowers from Whole Foods!

  492. I wanna be a bag lady!

    The weirdest thing we pulled out was one of those bouncy horse things with the metal springs. It was OLD and my husband thought it would be worth money. He was wrong!

  493. I want to be a bag lady!

    I’m not sure it’s the funniest thing I’ve pulled out of the garbage, but maybe the dumbest… our neighbors put a dented and rusted filing cabinet on the curb on trash day and I made my husband go retrieve it for me. It sat in our garage for two years before I came to grips that it was junk and turned it over the recycling crew.

  494. I wanna be a baglady! I pulled some forks and knives out of the trash just yesterday – boyfriend got a little over-zealous when clearing the table!

  495. I want to be a bag lady. My husband threw away some trash along with his wedding band on our honeymoon. His ring was too big. Needless to say he has one that fits now.

  497. I wanna be a baglady….I’ve never found anything cool in a dumpster but my dad once found a famous ballplayers front door during the demo of his house!

  498. I wanna be a baglady (or bagman)

    I pulled out a really nice rod iron standing coat tree! It was slightly bent, and all I needed was my boyfriend’s muscles and a good rub down and it was good as new!

  499. I wanna’ be a baglady! I don’t know if it qualifies, but I rescue plants out of our huge compost bin at the arboretum. I’m assuming the administrative offices throw them out or sometimes they will be extras not needed from horticulture class plantings.

  500. I wanna be a bag lady. Haven’t made any great discoveries yet but the sadest was while cleaning out my moms house we tossed her old scrapbooks, after taking out things that meant something to us kids.

  502. I wanna be a baglady! I don’t know that I’ve ever snagged anything funny, but when we moved out of our last apartment (married student housing) we snagged a sad old dresser than some other students were throwing away, but it was too heavy for me to efficiently lift to help my husband carry across the parking lot, so a lady who lived across the street saw us and fell sorry for us and came and carried it for me! I felt pretty silly (and weak)!

  503. I want to be a baglady 🙂 I have seen all kinds of things I didn’t want to see in the trashcans at the school where I teach… including condom wrappers. Yikes.

  504. I wanna be a baglady. I get made fun of all the time by my husband for stopping to pick up children’s toys set out for the trash man. Sometimes we score, sometimes not so much.

  505. I want to be a bag lady! I pulled a chair out of the trash, then painted it and turned it into a treasure! Love it!

  506. I want to be a bag lady! We’re actually about to demo our second bathroom and probably going to be bag people for the cast iron tub pieces and other heavy stuff that would be a paaaaain to take to the dump.
    As for pulling things out of the garbage, I got a nice sturdy damask-patterned box from my old apartment’s trash chute. I think it was a wedding card box, but I use it for yarn. When I’m crocheting the yarn comes out the flap in the top!

  507. I wanna be a baglady. I haven’t really pulled things out of the trash, but I have saved some things from going in!

  508. I WANNA BE A BAG LADY!! The funniest thing I have pulled out of the trash is a working vacuum.

  509. i wanna be a baglady….we didn’t pull it from the trash we made the neighbors remove a caterpillar ride on toy from their trash for our daughter once though

  510. ”I wanna be a baglady”

    so i didn’t pull it out of the trash, but my daughter’s greatgrandmother did! a plush rocking unicorn. think rocking horse, with a HORN. blech!

    let’s just say it went into our trash when nobody was looking and hasn’t been seen since. 😉

  511. I definitely wanna be a baglady!! …I never find anything cool in the trash. I’m going to start really working at it now after reading all these comments!

  512. I wanna be a bag lady!

    The craziest thing we pulled from the trash was a giant vitamin water cooler. A store was getting rid of it and we thought it would be a conversation piece at parties. Needless to say, it was broken and as soon as we filled it with ice, it started leaking all over!

  513. I wanna be a bag lady!

    I’ve never gone dumpster diving or curb creeping on garbage day. Other people’s garbage creeps me out…

  514. I wanna be a bag lady! I pulled a light fixture out of a store’s dumpster while the employees watched me with disdain

  517. I wanna be a baglady!

    (or bag man) and since i had to go find a check we accidently through away in the dumpster the other day, i guess i am.

  518. I wanna be a baglady! haven’t ever pulled anything awesome out of the trash, but i have accidentally thrown away things i needed before, and realized it too late. maybe my trash became someone elses treasure!

  519. I wanna be a baglady! I’m pretty skeeved out by other peoples’ trash, so I haven’t found anything funny. Now I kinda wish I had!

  520. I wanna be a bag lady! I’m not much for dumpster diving, but I recall raiding the neighbor’s trash once when I was little because they were getting rid of some old toys and purses (I was a bag lady even then!).

  521. I wanna be a baglady! When I was a kid, my sister and I found a pair of white knee-high boots circa 1965. They were great for dress up!

  522. I wanna be a baglady (or bagman)!

    Construction cones, I don’t know why, I just know I needed them!

  523. I wanna be a bag lady.

    My mom and I got old church pews out of the trash thinking they would make really nice benches but it turns out they were just made out of plywood and whoever upholstered them used at least 200 staples, it was awful!

  524. I’m a baglady!

    My friend tried to feed me a full sized, unopened grocery store cake he pulled from the trash.

    No.

  526. I wanna be a baglady!!! …Oh wait, I already am one! 🙂 Best thing I have found in the trash (on homeless day during college, when all of the students are homeless for 24 hours in between the apartment leases) is a huge (broken) mirror! It was about 6 feet tall (I’m 5’9… so it was big enough to look silly when I walked it home) …my dad thought I was nuts when I told him what I found but I got a new piece of glass and painted the frame and boom! A beautiful entry way mirror! It was a great find and so much fun trying to walk 5 blocks home with this big (broken) mirror!

  527. I wanna be a baglady!! I’ve rescued golfclubs from the garbage,and I don’t even play golf!

  528. I want to be a baglady! We bought our home almost 2 years ago and have been finding random “treasures” ever since… although the most notable ones are actually outside, rather than in the house. The most epic one being a LIFE sized, SOLID CONCRETE, deer STATUE in the woods at the edge of our property. But we saved him from the rubble and he is now our backyard pet…yes, everyone that comes over actually thinks there is a deer in our backyard! it’s great! My husband named him after our tractor… John Deer(e)! But my favorite “trash” is one that I can’t take credit for rescuing. When my cat was a lil kitten to a ferrel momma in the city, she was dropped at someone’s feet who tossed her, thinking the cat just dropped off a rat. My friend and co-workers took her in, gave her a bottle and the kitten hung out at her job until they found a home for her (me!) She was only 18oz the first time we weighed her!

  529. I wanna be a baglady! I don’t know how funny this really is, but my husband and I used to do work for an apartment complex. One weekend we dragged seven vacuum cleaners out of the dumpster. None of them looked to be more than six months old. One needed a new filter, one needed a new belt (both only a few dollars to fix), but with the other five had really clogged hoses that we unclogged with an old curtain rod. So many of our friends got new vacuum cleaners that summer. It must be nice to be well off enough to just throw out a vacuum and get a new one without even checking the basic problems.

  530. I wanna be a baglady!!! We just redid our fireplace, and there was a whole-lotta 70’s faux-lava rock put into our trash!

  531. I wanna be a baglady! I’ve never been dumpster diving so I’ve never found anything funny. ;(

  533. I wanna be a baglady!
    I’ve found perfectly good fixtures that were a perfect fit for our space!

  535. I wanna be a Bag lady…
    We were tailgating and I found an iphone in the trash. In our attempts to find the owner we found nude pictures of the guy’s girlfriend. Eventually we were able to get the phone back to the guy and his girlfriend was there! Yikes! Of course we told them and there was a lot of laughter!

  536. I wanna be a baglady. I haven’t ever gotten anything out of the dumpster. But, one day while on a walk w/my toddler, I passed by someone’s trash can and saw some puzzles in there. Was tempted to grab them, but thought I’d better not. Didn’t have anywhere to put them during the rest of my walk (I was pushing an umbrella stroller).

  537. I want to be a BAGMAN or we want to be BAGPEOPLE! We just tore out both our bathrooms and could use this very much!!! Our neighbor’s house sold to a flipper, not the circus sort mind you, just someone who tries to eek out a living by turning old houses into fab houses with his team. We would run across the street each morning like secret agents and pull wood, old windows, old greasy countertops out of their dumpster in hopes of making a craft bench for my wife and a manly wood working bench for myself. The last piece of counter top had a pair of old underwear practically attached to the bottom of it! Fearless…and with gloves…I scraped it off and now we have two nice pieces of butcher block for our tables…I get the one that had the “granny panties,” attached to it! So my new bench will be known as “hot pants,” according to my darling wife! LOL

  538. I wanna be a baglady… i pulled some stuff from the trash when we were clearing out my grandmas house when she moved… random knick knacks… i don’t even know if i still have any of them

  539. I wanna be a baglady! I’ve never really made a point of looking through the trash to find stuff. I may start now though 🙂

  540. I wanna be a baglady! The best thing I can think of right now is a computer. Several months ago on a trip to the dump with my husband we spotted and grabbed a computer that was in the trash. Besides the harddrive, it was a perfectly fine computer!

  541. I wanna be a baglady!

    One time I was literally hanging half-way into a recycling bin with my friend holding my ankles towards the sky to find THE perfect sized cardboard box to make a kid’s halloween pumpkin tossing game! I felt so gross afterwards I needed to take a shower!

  542. I wanna be a baglady! One night while driving home from dinner my husband spots an old gas pump on the side of the road. He called his brother stating we would be right over to pick him up(to be able to help with the gas pump)! He obliged and 5 minutes later I was the getaway driver while the boys hop out of the truck prepared to hoist 200 pounds into the back of the truck only to realized it was a 50 lb wooden storage unit built to look like a gas pump!! To my husband’s defense the cabinet looks great in our basement and after researching online they are still worth $200-$300!

  543. I wanna be a bag lady. In our old neighborhood there was a large trash pick up day once a month. One day, driving with my mother in law we scored a beautiful red chair, a large potted mexican heather bush and a small iron table. We looked like to crazy ladies, jumping in and out of her small car and some how making it all fit; of course the trunk was open and the bush was slightly bent.

  544. I wanna be a baglady! I put my whole back stoop in the trash – jackhammered out the concrete and then piece by peice snuck it into our trash can!

  545. I want to be a bag lady! I think I (or m husband) once threw away a $125 Visa gift card from my mom (by mistake), that was years ago, I searched high and low, never found it, and hope at least someone else did and it’s not sitting in a landfill somewhere. 🙂

  546. I want to be a bag lady. I can’t think of anything fun that I’ve pulled out , but my two girls are always pulling out their school projects that I’ve tossed wondering why would I ever trash anything so wonderful. : )

  547. I wanna be a bag lady. I never pass a trash can w/out wondering what’s inside. Haha I usually come home from the jockey lot with a treasure or 2 I have rescued!

  548. I WANNA BE A BAG LADY!!! I am not much of a dumpster diver, but my husband is and he has scored several treasures including an electric scooter and a really nice bicycle. Both items only needed small repairs and they were as good as new.

  549. i wanna be a baglady!! the only thing i’ve been dumpster diving for are moving boxes when i was in college. sounds like i need to work on that, lol!

  550. I wanna be a baglady

    I accidentally threw my iphone in the trash. After frantically looking for 1/2 an hour I realized what I did and had to fish it out in a waiting room full of people. It was pretty embarassing

  552. I wanna be a bag lady. I never pull out anything big, but have “saved” a perfectly good 70’s style changing table that I then repainted and used with my second daughter. anything to save money!

  555. I wanna be a bag lady!

    Can’t say I have done much funny dumpster diving, but not for lack of wanting. There’s an old suitcase that still haunts me! Shoulda made that thang mine!

  556. I wanna be a bag lady. I can’t think of anything remarkable (unfortunately) that I’ve dumpster dived for. Hmmm……

  557. I want to be a bag lady … Apparently I should start because I can’t remember pulling anything from anyone’s trash. :-/

  558. I wanna be a baglady! I haven’t done a ton of dumpster diving but I did have to go in our garbage to find a few thing accidentally thrown out over the years…

  562. I WANNA BE A BAGLADY!

    I’m not certain I’ve ever pulled anything out, but one of my favorite things to do is to go to the dump. My friends think I’m crazy, but there’s something so cleansing about getting to throw junk into a big trailer. The thought of having the dump come to me makes me practically swoon!

  565. I wanna be a bag lady! Wooohoo! I just found a bunch of lovely wrapping paper in the trash! It was all tied up nice with rubber bands. Lovely stuff- but made me laugh that someone had just chucked it in the recycling!

  567. I wanna be a bag lady! The best thing I’ve rescued from the side of the road is a beautiful wrought iron table and chairs, perfect except for a missing glass top (which I replaced for not very much).

  568. I wanna be a baglady! After my grandpa passed away we got a huge dumpster to empty his house. My parents threw out an old musty trunk that my grandparents had brought their things in when they moved here from Scotland. I thought it was way to cool to throw out so I crawled into the dumpster to get it and shoved it into the back of my moms car. I have no idea to do with it now though! haha

  569. I want to be a bag lady! When I was a kid, I had to go through our own trash because I accidentally threw away a $50 bill in a Christmas card! Was sooo not funny at the time though.

  570. I want to be a baglady. Back when I was in college I was out running one day and came across an air hockey table a few blocks away from our house. It was completely assembled, sitting by the curb, with a free sign on it. I sprinted home to get my roommates and we carried the thing at least half a mile back home. It worked it and fit perfectly in our basement.

  571. I wanna be a bag lady! I have put out a pink sink, broken oven, and old countertops before and people pick them up within the hour usually. Sometimes I think “no one in their right mind would want this” and of course, someone does (which I find funny).

  572. I wanna be a bag lady! I don’t have any stories funnier than your average dumpster dive… but, there is something funny about it each time you do it!

  573. I wanna be a bag lady! I don’t think I have any funny stories… but my grandma did get my dining room chairs out of the dumpster 🙂

  574. I wanna be a bag lady! In our mail room in college people would throw out millions of coupons from a local Mexican restaurant. My friends and I would take them out of trash to use for $2 tacos!

  575. I wanna be a bag lady! When we were newly weds, our first kitchen table was pulled right from the dumpster of an apartment complex we were visiting. Used it for a couple years and then donated it when we replaced it with a hand me down from my husband’s boss.

  576. I wanna be a bag lady!. I haven’t found anything unusual or particularly interesting. Hopefully that means my funny story is yet to come!

  579. I wanna be a baglady…I don’t have any dumpster dive stories….but all of or furniture except for3 items has all been given or thrifted!

  580. ”I wanna be a baglady” I don’t have any stories, the only thing I can picture right now is from an episode of Here comes Honey Boo Boo!

  581. I wanna be a bag lady! We haven’t pulled much out of the trash…we’re still a little lazy to get around to actually searching for things.

  583. I wanna be a bag lady! I love love love getting things out of the trash! We used to live in an apartment in Chicago which backed up to a parking lot that was surrounded with 4 other apartment buildings. it was the PERFECT place to scavenge. I found some great things there! I also love to throw away or put out on the curb and watch someone take away my things.
    -Wendy

  585. I wanna be a bag lady!

    Not very funny but I scored an amazingly huge, in great condition, patio umbrella and cast iron base from a dumpster.

  586. I wanna be a bag lady! Confession: I grew up dumpster diving. We live in a college town and come late summer when students move out and in, the stuff you can find is a-mazing! Love it. Second confession: my parents are missionaries to Africa. One year back in the States on furlough, I think we furnished almost our entire house on students cast-offs- and it actually turned out to be beautiful!

  587. I wanna be a bag lady! Embarrassingly we demo’d a soffitt in our kitchen and the drywall remains are STILL on our back deck… We are those neighbors.

  588. I wanna be a bag lady! I always want to pull stuff out of the trash or that I see sitting on curbs but my husband will never let me … no vision, I tell ya. The funniest thing I’ve ever thrown away would have to be a very large, ummm … “toy” that I got as a gift at my bachelorette party. That would make for a great dumpster diving story!

  589. I wanna be a bag lady! Our contractor knocked over the original toilet (oops) to the house and it shattered. We were picking up and throwing away shards for weeks.

  590. I wanna be a bag lady!

    Too many times we have dug through our trash after my daughter threw away her retainer wrapped in a napkin. She wanted to make sure it stayed clean and not touch the table, sigh…

  591. I wanna be a bag lady! I save some metal garbage can from the trash. I used them for containers so I could grown flowers on my tiny apartment balcony.

  593. I wanna be a baglady! I have pulled waay too many things out of the trash. Mostly furniture during my college age days. Last year my husband found an old foosball table. The table was a wreck, but the men and posts were in great condition. He grabbed to replace a few guys on a friend’s table. That’s right, we garbage pick for our friends too.

  594. I wanna be a baglady!!! Pulled an atlas out…not too weird…but the fact that i swiped it outta the recycling bin like some sorta ninja was fun!

  595. I wanna be a baglady! Hmm…. when I was huge pregnant Hubby threw away these shelf dividers that I wasn’t planning on throwing away. I threatened to climb into the dumpster if he didn’t get them out for me. He rescued some of them, but put his foot down and wouldn’t climb far enough in there to get the ones out of the bottom. (Shh… don’t tell. I haven’t used them for any projects yet!). 🙂

  596. I wanna be a bag lady! Best thing I’ve gotten from dumpster diving was a pottery barn kids anywhere chair! The cover was ruined, but I found one on sale and it was a major deal!

  597. I wanna be a bag lady! My most embarrasing trashed item (which was carefully wrapped in a variety of layers and bags before being discarded) looked like a faucet that you wouldn’t buy. 😉

  599. I wanna be a baglady! I once threw away a really nice necklace on accident – luckily managed to dig it out of the trash before the garbagemen came!

  600. I wanna be a baglady! Funniest things thrown away are definitely bachelorette party leftovers. Always very interesting. Hopefully no one is going through items in my trash!

  601. I wanna be a baglady!!!! Have never pulled anything OUT of the trash but put plenty of things IN to the trash… when we moved into our current home, it was abandoned. The owner had died in a nursing home. He had 17 fans…yes 17!!!! ALL BROKEN! Some were standup, some were box fans, some were antique… ALL BROKEN!!! Its was so weird! And our house is fairly well ventilated…maybe he liked the noise???

  602. I wanna be a bag lady!

    I once made my husband pick up two mustard colored high back chairs I thought I could re-upolster… Turns out it was too complicated… We Placed back on our curb for the taking.

  605. I just moved to a city and am in the process of buying my first place. I have no furniture so I see a whole lot of dumpster diving for furniture in my future. I wanna be a baglady

  606. I wanna be a bag lady! And I’ve never pulled anything out of the trash. I’ve gotten a few things from the curb, but not from the trash!

  607. I wanna be a bag lady! The funniest thing I pulled out of the trash wasn’t really there. It was in the days of pagers. My Mom thought she had thrown hers away so I bellied up (actually bodied up) INTO our apartment dumpster and searched for it! Through some gross stuff! She ended up finding it INTHEHOUSE! Oh well, makes for a funny story! =)

  608. I wanna be a bag lady! What is a bidet?? I can’t think of any good stories. I’m sure once upon a time in high school I had to dig through trash looking for my retainer:)

  609. I wanna be a bag lady! I had to go dumpster diving shortly after we got married to retrieve some checks that my husband accidentally threw away.

  610. I wanna be a bag lady! Actually, I need to use a bagster for a house my boyfriend just bought that has a bunch of junk in the back yard! The best thing I’ve saved from a curb is probably a wicker chair…it only needed some spray paint!

  612. Baglady me! Okay, this is really awful. But in college my friends and I pulled a tequila bottle out of the trash (strict Christian college, so this was a feat in itself), peed in it, then mailed it to our enemy. I did not “contribute” because I thought the school could trace my pee DNA. And yes, the recipient was deserving. Did she drink it? We’ll never know.

  613. I wanna be a baglady! Our spur of the moment high school senior prank was to go around town collecting weird things from the city-wide overside trash day, and place them all over the underclassmen parking lot. We’re talking toilets, the plastic shower surrounds, cat-pee smelling 70’s easy chairs, etc. Good times… for us, not so much for the underclassmen.

  614. I wanna be a bag lady! I have def picked up a few pieces that some would consider “trash” my basement is like a graveyard of pieces I have picked up over the last 2 years!! Slowly they are all making thier way into our home though!

  615. I wanna be a bagman. I’ve never dumpster dived, no matter how many times my wife has asked me to do it.

  616. I wanna be a baglady! My sister and I once dumpster dove for some Christmas decorations that this lady threw away at a craft mart – they still had the tags!

  617. I wanna be a bag lady! One time in college, my friend pulled half a jar of peanut butter out of the trash and actually considered eating it before we stopped him!

  618. I wanna be a bag lady! I threw away a Netflix DVD a couple years ago… turns out everyone else I know wasn’t charged when they lost DVDs, but I was. Boo. I should’ve jumped into the dumpster to look for it.

  619. I wanna be a baglady!

    The funniest thing I can think of (and it’s really not that funny) that we threw away was sawdust when we refinished our hardwood floors. We had 6-55 gallon drums of sawdust, so every week we would pour one of them into our large trashcan until it was all gone. We were too cheap to pay to have it hauled. The funny part was when the garbage truck arm would dump our can, it looked like a duststorm in our cul-de-sac for at least an hour! We’d watch from the window and laugh!

  622. I wanna be a bag lady! It’s the new year and time to throw out LOTS of old stuff. I’ve never dumpster dived for anything but strong corrugated cardboard – and I don’t even do it, I send hubby out for it. We used it to line our squirrel’s cage.

  623. I wanna be a bag lady! I once went through all the garbage cans in the house, including the stinky diaper genie, looking for my daughter’s missing princess figurine… only to find out later that it was hiding behind the blinds in her bedroom all along. =(

  626. Once my boyfriend came home with a very big bird cage. It was bigger than any of those sold in pet shops and only after a while I found out he actually took from a trash can If I knew before I’d probably be against it, I don’t like stuff from the trash.

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