This Guy Spends $2.75 A Year On Food And Eats Like A King

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12. Could you add a option for "I've dumpster dived in the past'?

Back when I was younger, me and my dad would go diving a lot.

In our case it intended for food - Though we did get some occasionally, usually past date chips and boxes of jarred stuff that was tossed because one jar broke during shipping - but rather for tossed out small appliances and the like for scrapping.

You wouldn't believe the stuff that people tossed. Dehydrators and box fans were the most common thing we'd find, though it wasn't to odd to pull tv's, vcrs (Was back in 02, so these were still around), and the occasional dvd player. Hell, couple times we pulled a computer.

Hell, about 75% of the time these things worked fine. Well, ok, the dehydrators would usually have a busted rack but the others would be intact and perfectly usable.

My favorite find though was a old NES, will most of the cords and a half dozen games. Didn't have a power supply, though my dad knew enough about electronics to be able to jury-rig a different power supply to work with it.

Best food find though was a bakery toss off. Four boxes of bakery and deli foods along with 8 cakes stacked up outside the dumpster, most of it still edible.