Garbage Dump Score

[Gridwalker306]

Yesterday my brother went to the local dump to empty the work junk trailer, and this is what he found. Some guy was there just ahead of him, his mother had just passed away, and he threw out all her stuff. I can't believe this idiot, he must have hated his mother! Anyway, my brother nabbed all this stuff before the bulldozer came to push the days garbage into the landfill. Apparently the guy paid his dump fees with antique money and threw out the rest. There is jewelry marked 14 and 18 K, silver items, some costume pieces, various old coins, even paper money! These are some of the items he found. Happy for my brother, what a save!

 

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[harleyglide]

When you get older sell your stuff enjoy your money .Why leave it to your kids have them make there own way. You die most of your possessions end up in the garbage.

 

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[Tenspeed]

If anyone saw Antiques Roadshow last night, there was a similar story. Aunt died and step kids didn't want any of her stuff. The woman got a paper bag with a Gold/Amethyst necklace that she thought was costume and a gold ring. The necklace was worth $25,000 and the ring $2,500.

She must have been really tough on them!

 

[PeteWmass]

this is precisely why I look in every house clean-out dumpster I see - people often throw entire boxes in without even looking through them(!)

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Nice save!!

At a flea market I heard the seller say the guy next to him gave him boxes of a clean out & he would make a few bucks then dump it and go home in half an hour. I found a few containers I needed, one had funny colored green paper in it, closed it back, asked him how much, paid him a dollar and left. Decided to investigate the green paper, 5 twenties,1952 & 1972! My first cache! It was at that moment I realized just what all was being thrown out!