frugal life humor-tell me a dumpster diving adventure

**Suzan Bits** · 11-09-2011, 10:38 AM

A bonus not-freezing day uot there. Going to move a bunch more ash firewood uot of the driveway. The "Dryed One Yaer" wood is so green its stil just realizing it droped its fall leaves. pfft. BUT I sure am grateful i cuold dig up the $180.00 for a cord.

Woodburning for heet not atmosphere.
Woodsmoke sniffing hair and clothes? A "Pig Pen" cluod- O-woodsmoke trailing behind yuo every where yuo go?

I try to lift my chin up high and just pretend that I'm wearing a VERY exclusive ~French Perfume~...

.." Josaphenes' A'Lure" perhaps.... ($15,000 per .23 ounce)

**Suzan Bits** · 11-10-2011, 12:16 AM

hmm, I gess its not ok to joke . or new poeple are expected not to sugest that some crazy things happen on the road to financial recovery.
Dont'no.
...er..nevermind

**ladytoysdream** · 11-10-2011, 05:39 AM

Originally Posted by Suzan Bits

hmm, I gess its not ok to joke . or new poeple are expected not to sugest that some crazy things happen on the road to financial recovery.
Dont'no.
...er..nevermind

(( hugs ))

I don't understand your second post.
Your first post was made late in the day, so it maybe awhile before anyone responds to you.

Growing up, we burned a lot of wood. I don't remember a smoke smell. I do however remember one night having a chimmey fire in the one in the kitchen. There we 4 kids sat in the cow barn , bundled up, waiting for the fire department to come, and smelling cow barn smell. And I remember mom just a fussing.

When my hubby worked for a dairy farmer when our kids were small, now that old wood furnace, made the house and everything in it smell like smoke. It was bad. But the house and the furnace was part of this job benefits, so it was what it was.

Our current set up is a outside wood boiler. Our house is warm, and the FIRE and the SMOKE is outside, not in the house. Yeah

And we are still poor......it is what it is.

**NicJean** · 11-10-2011, 08:13 AM

I love when my DH comes back in fron filling the boiler - he smells like ham, I LOVE ham!!

**valerian** · 11-10-2011, 09:15 AM

Sorry, but I don't understand this post...what does this have to do with dumpster diving? Isn't this post about woodsmoke smell?

**peanut** · 11-10-2011, 10:20 AM

I'm confused too. I have lots of wood smoke stories, like the time the chimney caught fire when I was a kid.

But not so many dumpster diving stories. Except maybe DH living in dread every spring I might find something to haul home.

Or the renter that moved out on the other side of the alley and didn't take her stuff. The landlord dumped it all in the alley beside the dumpster and in the dumpster. We neighbors had a heyday!

**tracergal007** · 11-10-2011, 11:12 AM

I once stopped by a roadside dumpster to pick up what looked to be a nice walker that my grandmother could use resting besides the dumpster.

As I went to take it to the car, a lady popped out of the dumpster, wearing a pair of old fashioned bloomers on her head and began to yell at me; turns out the walker was HER find for the day. Being that she scared that living daylights out of me (I didn't notice her crouched down in the dumpster!), I was more than happy to leave her to her findings!

**Suzan Bits** · 11-10-2011, 09:09 PM

i didnt rite my thuoghts very wel. What i was thinking abuot was- how up here when yuo burn wood and smel like wood smoke the snotty poeple in stores sometimes are jerks abuot it.
It is cuontry" Here" but New York State can be sort of weird with the seasonal influx of poeple from New York City. Often the city poeple treet us like bumpkins- then if they catch a wiff of wood smoke clinging to yuo many put yuo down.
I was making a joke abuot holding my haed high wood smoke and all.
I love the dumpster diving story where the old lady popped uot.
Plaese bear with me as I get my footing here. Yuo guys are giving me some graet ideas. Besides I just enjoy reeding yuor posts. I forgot that yuo dont no my sence of humor yet. I ment no harm.
Yuo no how sometimes yuo gotta laugh or yuor gonna cry?? I figure yuo all have had some adventures trying to make ends meet, and sometimes its funny.
sincerly,
Suzan

**Incognito** · 11-10-2011, 10:30 PM

A couple of years ago, I had next-door neighbours who loved to throw their garbage out the front door to pile up in the yard. 12 big black garbage bags full of scraps and dirty diapers, and lots of Pampers boxes. The dogs and cats had a field-day with ripping those bags open and spreading the garbage around, and it really was a horrible problem for a while, till these renters got evicted for that and other reasons.

I remember cleaning up their garbage many times when the dogs had spread it onto my lawn. And when they moved, and left it all behind, I hit the motherlode. All those empty Pampers boxes with the UPC's that were being collected by my coupon website friends. I collected loads of them from those boxes and from the dumpster area after they finally put their trash there. (Later I got lots of great coupons, FPC's and stamps in return for them in coupon-trades.) Plus I found lots of FPC's and high value coupons on their empty cereal boxes. So, although it was a horrible mess, there was much to be gained from it.

**angieB** · 11-10-2011, 10:54 PM

It's a diving adventure I wont forget.

**peanut** · 11-11-2011, 12:42 AM

AngieB: do tell!

**pollypurebred39** · 11-11-2011, 01:13 AM

Not exactly a dumpster story, more of a side of the road story. Down the road a piece from me a neighbor had set out this chair, and a few other item with a free sign. The chair was old and tattered, but very clean and had great bones. It was EXACTLY the kind of chair I had been looking for. So I pull over and I ask my youngest to give me a hand getting it into the back of the station wagon. He's 17 and he's dying of embarrassment, he can't believe I'm doing this. As we struggle to get it in the back of the wagon, I hear my son humming, he's humming the theme song to Sanford and Son!!! LOL!

**ml2620** · 11-11-2011, 07:00 AM

When I got my first apartment, my dad brought me two side chairs a neighbor put out on the stoop. They were the nicest thing I had in the apartment at first.

About a year later, my dad calls and says the neighbor wants the chairs back. I guess the husband tossed the chairs to the curb while the wife was away and it has been a lingering argument. They mentioned it at a neighborhood block party and one of the neighbors remembered seeing my dad take them.

So they asked for them back, and I willingly gave them. I went to drop them off at the neighbors house and they didn't even say thank you and were super snotty about it. Nearly ten years later I sometime wish I had said "well, if you want to be like that, I'm keeping your stupid chairs!