What's Your Best Hard Rubbish Find/Haul?

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    altomic on 09/12/2018 - 10:22

    +1

    one of current dual monitors is a roadside pick up.

    22" AOC monitor.

    picked up a matching one off ebay for $10.

    2 for $10.

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  myusername on 07/12/2018 - 14:13

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  my mrs

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  SiameseIfYouPlease on 07/12/2018 - 15:03

  I don’t really do it but my partner always comes home with random crap. Last time he got a broken MacBook Pro, he fixed it pretty easily. He also got a bunch of LEGO but the sets weren’t complete.

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  SwampCrack on 07/12/2018 - 15:43

  +1

  I once found a lawn mower. Problem was it was half full of grass clippings but on the flip side it had a full tank of fuel. Worked great and was still warm when I found it!

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  nootboii on 07/12/2018 - 17:27

  Picked up a rowing machine minus the cable, found a cable at home that worked and sold it the next day on Gumtree for $400 

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  syousef on 07/12/2018 - 17:49

  +1

  I found a bunch of Nikon and Canon camera gear. Some of it was old but most of it less than 15 years old. There were a couple of D90s, a D300S, a couple of D7000s. But the real gems were the lenses. A 70-200VR - the first version. An 85mm 1.4D. Also a couple of SB-800 flashes. I couldn't believe my luck! Unfortunately then I woke up.

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  kaleidoscope on 07/12/2018 - 17:49

  A broken printer.
  Thats it :-p

  I brought it home salvaged the motor assemblies and scanner for my hobby electronics projects.

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  Zarlia on 07/12/2018 - 18:40

  Fully working wii u with a bunch of games and controllers

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  [Deactivated] on 07/12/2018 - 19:41

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  I purposely destroy anything I leave out so the grubs that go around at night with trailers don't get shite :)

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  DiscoJango on 08/12/2018 - 08:50

  +1

  ive put out some good stuff on hard rubbish, knowing that someone will take it and make better use of it than me. i just try to time it so its not during a rainy season

  its also a good way to declutter and get rid of stuff

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  50cent on 08/12/2018 - 09:27

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  I found an Xbox working perfectly fine, just needed a new power cable and ended up selling it for over 100 bucks

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  Munki on 08/12/2018 - 11:16

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  The thing that really annoys me are the people who have absolutely no regard for the way things have been positioned for collection. They rummage through looking for the things they think are of value and then leave shit lying around. Have the decency to put them back on the pile or at the very least out of the way for pedestrians. I have seen so many footpaths being obstructed after scavengers have been around.

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  [Deactivated] on 08/12/2018 - 19:02

  There was an old kids wooden cubby a block away from me, nabbed it and turned it into a chicken coop after a few modifications.

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  cupcake on 08/12/2018 - 19:52

  My Mum's neighbour moved out of her house and dumped so much stuff out the front. She said we could have all of it.
  Best things were wooden chairs, lead crystal bowl still new in box, a Louis Vuitton handbag, and lots of house bits. It was a great weekend, we went and checked on the pile of stuff every hour because there was new stuff on it all the time. Mum got a new sewing machine!

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  raiseyoursteaks on 08/12/2018 - 22:16

  buying a bed from gumtree from an upmarket house . Next door neighbor throwing tons of good condition appliances. I ended up taking a working portable air conditioner.
  Traded it for $250 on a very hot summer day some months later.

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  pegasusx on 08/12/2018 - 22:44

  I use to love going through the local rubbish collection as our area was mainly retirees villas. The old stuff tend to be the best, as its mostly well made items, hard wood and restoreable. Most of my house is furnished with restored items off the kerb still.

  But the two most memorable find was a full lacquered decorated Singer sewing machine + full iron cast pedal turn wheel + wooden table. I listed it on trading post (Yes the paper version about 20 years ago.) and a shop from Bowral bought if off me for a cool $850. I wonder what I actually sold for as they seem to know their stuff.

  Other item is still with my parents. Looked like an old wooden coffee table but was heavy as hell for its size. Turned out was made out of a solid slab of Lebanese cedar and worth a bit now, as most are plantation cedar wood with poor grain patterns.

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  OzBarAnon on 09/12/2018 - 02:52

  No hard rubbish collection days where I live anymore. Just on-demand collection and I can't be bothered going to other neighbourhoods to scrounge through other people's rubbish.

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    bargainparker on 20/12/2018 - 23:22

    That is just stupid, since most houses don't have enough stuff to fill up the whole truck in one go.

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  jennifervaniston on 09/12/2018 - 08:54

  I use this item without the mounting brackets whoops wrong thread

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  slow on 09/12/2018 - 08:56

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  Pretty much furnished a whole 3 bedroom rental property with hard rubbish.
  Asko washing machine in good condition - saw the guy putting it out and he even helped load it into my car
  Townie bicycle that I sold for $400

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  murdercluck on 09/12/2018 - 10:59

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  Sometimes when I'm thinking about buying something I pray to the roadside gods to provide and I find it the next week

  Some good finds:
  - Fully specced out almost-new Macbook Air (Working - It had liquid spilled on it and had claimed insurance)
  - Breville dual boiler coffee machine
  - 6 month old wine fridge
  - Random unopened lego sets

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    [Deactivated] on 13/12/2018 - 14:43

    what about dignity?

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  coffeeinmyveins on 15/12/2018 - 18:10

  A betty boop statue in the bin that had some chips in it, about 3ft tall. Sold it for just under $300 on gumtree.

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