Dumpster Diving "Money Commin' Out Everywhere!"
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Howdy, y'all! My name is Mike and I absolutely love scavenging for free stuff, random treasures, lost valuables and other interesting artifacts. I mainly rock the dumpster diving scene but can be found digging through trash curbside as well as scavenging the river bottoms for lost treasures in the summer months. Join me on my epic voyages!
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In a nutshell, I ‘m an avid dumpster diver, scrapper, picker, treasure hunter and underwater connoisseur. I prowl the city streets in search of dumpster loot, curbside treasures & scrap metal as well as scour the river bottoms for lost valuables during the summer months when I can scrounge up enough money for gas. Be sure to stay subscribed to stay up to date with my latest expeditions, y'all!
I don't know about yall but who thought 5 years ago it'd be so pleasing watch some dig through the garbage. I love it 😀
sadly these videos been around for15 years plus
And very good for the scavenger. Mike’s making good money. I wish it would have to happen like that my day.
I hear you @teestella5998
I use to dumpster dive every night, it’s amazing to see some of the things people call trash. I have found old books that were rare and I made good money on them. It got to the point to where my wife and I would rent a spot at our local flea market . We paid $ 10.00 a day (Sat & Sun ), and in those two days we made up to $ 400.00 sometimes more ! I almost forgot, always check the pockets on clothes , and every book check them out money on many occasions, yep! hidden between those pages , paper money !! Thanks Mike ! Beaumont here!
“Gotta be quiet”
Proceeds to throw stuff in a truck and starts yelling like a maniac.
I enjoy watching the picking. It's only metal scrapping, true, and the real money is the youtube income but the curiosity of finding dumpster gold is the same. 35 years ago, this was me, diving right in. Miss that era for my youthful attitude about life as much as the compujunk I built a business with. But my time is over, and there are young guys to take up the slack, like Mike here. Go get em, dude!
It’s all about the hunt!
Keeping it out of the landfill. Don’t know why some businesses keep scrapers out. Guess the messy ones ruin it for the good scrapers. Such is life.
I love that you pick any messes that you make and even some you don’t.
Thks Mike for recycling all the stuff you get out of the garbage,an helping the planet.
I just stumbled on you and I’m in tears 😭 my dad was a scrapper and now I’m flooded with memories. I could watch and listen to you forever.
Mike, I work in the medical field so those oxygen service kits caught my eye, just so you know they retail for $318.00 on Percision's web sight, someone threw out at least a couple of grand worth of medical supplies!
100 x $318= $31,800 😢
The problem is - he is profoundly clueless as to online marketing / arbitrage and flat out business itself and profits / profit potential. While simultaneously being obsessed with scrounging for what he considers "scrap" - and literally EVERY video he posts - he throws away hundreds or thousands of dollars of ( many times new in box ) retail items.
Sometimes it's not all about money, maybe he likes too just scrap stuff which is a hobby that he loves. Obviously companies throw out new stuff all the time, he found it so therefore he decides
I love your work ethic to leave no dumpster unmined. And the breadth of you connections is impressive.
Eeew his breathe.
They probably bought a new dryer because the couldn't figure out where the noise was coming from when they used it lol
Vegas dryer
They probably thought it was broke or something bad was going on and it would break down soon or start a fire. It amazes me how people don't have common sense or just don't think these days LOL
I was thinking that too.
YES! We replaced a 20 year old industrial dryer at the nursing where I worked because it wouldn't tumble, it was full of coins and costume jewelry! I filled a quart Ball jar with what I found. Some coins were worn down on the edge from rubbing other coins.
Hi Mike. I truly never seen someone get so excited over some copper wire.it brings a smile to my dail.
Please Make a separate video of opening the dryer, I laughed when you shook out those
Few Coins
I find it so satisfying when he drops a full box of snibbets down on the concrete and it makes that thud.
Those medical boots cost 80 bucks a piece...for them to just trash them is ridiculous.
Thanks for sharing
Those boots could be part of Halloween costumes.
And at 15:33 those "low flow air oxygen blender service kit" thingys cost $318 a piece. And there's a ton of them.
I DO NOT like Seeing them throw those boots out either..costs ppl a bundle to get one when needed..horrible they throw them out..
I about laughed til I cried when you threw that glass chandelier in the back of your truck... Scrap and pallet man mentioned you in one of his videos when he lost his grabber in the dumpster and said he doesn't climb in. If you were there you'd just ninja right in and fetch it 🤣🤣🤣💙
I wonder how many pieces the chandelier is in. Lol 😂
I have only stopped to check out a few dumpsters so far. I dropped my grabber in. So, plan to take the other one for when I need to fish out the first one!
@@lorihanlon2525 You need a lanyard. 👍
@@d.t.4523 Good idea💡! I would have thought of that eventually! Thanks for the time saver!
Don’t know either personally but both are great people me personally if I knew both I would be hanging with mike get it done kinda guy
Scrap and Pallet man “I’m not like that Mike the Scavenger I can’t jump into dumpsters like him!” Your reputation precedes you!
I saw that too!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Partner...What Episode is That so I can watch it..
@@JESUSHernandez-ss3tw One of his more recent episodes. He was picking some heavy tubing out of a Harbor Freight dumpster but couldn't get all of it. He said "Mike The Scavenger would just hop right in, not me though" lol
@@ScienceFoundation Thanks you
I think it's the one that says "pick trash pick-up cash"
I also go by The Scavenger. I hit dumpsters, yard sale sites that are closing, auto salvage yards that will let me wander the yard and look for treasure. Magnet fishing is also lucrative. One mans trash is another's treasure. glad to see someone who is into scavenging with as much passion as I. Stay safe in those boxes! And yes, dryers are high yield money.
Be careful Mike, pretty sure it's illegal to launder money. 😂
and i was going to tell him that those are good money--- clean and laundered
@@emmamendoza5050 😂😂😂
Oh, thanks for the belly laugh...I think I just lost a few ounces. Keep it coming😋
🤔👍😁
Good one!! 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂Love it smarty-mc smarterson!!
One time I was cleaning the fridge at work and found a McDonald's double cheeseburger, I put it on top of the fridge and it stayed for over 4 years, before I trashed it I unwrapped it and there was no mold just a little dried out. From that day I never ate any fast food !!!!
You should check out Mr. Scrappity's channel. He has a cheeseburger and a twinkie in a mailbox. LOL
There is a dietician/nutritionist who has a big plastic drawer unit in which she keeps things to show how, using absolutely no refrigeration, things like big name take away burgers and thins NEVER mould, they never go bad…..makes you wonder how many chemicals are in these things. And if you get a chance, have a look at Dr. Sand van tuleken and his brother. They did an experiment where he ate nothing but ultra processed food for a month. Scary results!!
Love your videos Mike. I have no idea why I just love to watch you hop in dumpsters but I am so entertained by you!! Keep up the good work , you are keeping so much out of the land fill!!!
A couple of your stops must know your scrapping and loving it because most companies would never keep the scrap out of the dumpsters. Great job Mike as always. You always do the right thing!! Stay safe and healthy🙏❤🙏
Still watching from Alabama. You work so hard. So impressed the first time I saw your shop. You are so organized and clean. You have to work the whole time you are awake to keep it that neat.
My shop teacher (1977), always encouraged that, "a clean shop is a happy shop".
Let's fill her up!Yes Dottie was pretty full. Nice job Mike. Greets from the Netherlands🇳🇱.
I was laughing so hard when he said this thing is payin me!!!
17:17 good on you for doing the right thing. 😎
The number one stunner in the trash can😂
Our world is so wasteful 😞 but I’m so happy to see you save stuff from the landfills….
Thanks Mike for asking how we're doing ? We're fine and you are doing pretty good yourself, but you sir, are always UPBEAT as you work ! This grandmother 👵 ❤ loves watching your videos from Florida ! !
Thank you for taking those lithium batteries to Lowe’s, those are top of the line hazardous and can literally set a whole trash truck on fire. I hope you do that in the future!!
Should sell them... there are people who uses em to build custom battery packs for high class e bikes. Like Sur ron, Stealth and some cheap copy ones are impressive with some mods... 90+ mph on a e bike is kind of impressive in my opinion.
That clothes dryer was a piggy bank! lol ♡
Your aim from dumpster to back of pickup is so spot on! Yay, 2 points. A 3 pointer next! 😍
Man i’ve been binging your videos all day. Great content! Love that you stand out, by not begging for likes and all that crap. Keep it up champ💪🏻
Make a video of taking the dryer apart. I always have a great day when you put out your awesome videos. GOD BLESS you and your family and most importantly enjoy life
I'm happy that smidge is a word with the same meaning in the USA as the UK :)
When I stayed in Dudley,W. Midlands area I learned that I was wearing my fanny pack means something entirely different. I still called it a fanny pack. No wonder people stared at me. !!
@@robertschwartzman195 haha Yes there's quite a few every day words that have a totally different meaning!
Bumbags we call them here.
Hi Mike, Christ on a bike you have some great upper body strength , watching what you can throw makes my head hurt. I have been binge watching your videis for a few weeks and I am loving them. You make me giggle with your expressions. Keep it up.
It all adds up. Me n my wife takes walks and we find money or change in one week we picked up over 20 bucks. 7 cash and the rest all change.
Yet again mike a rerun got me through a painful night
A pocket full of jingle 😂 love watching these videos- thanks for sharing with us
I am very grateful for the work that you do and the way you share your travels.
You have made me laugh several times, but always have a smile on my face when watching you. Thank you Mikey. You're the best. Stay safe my friend.
Love the way you talk and sing to us while singing good songs and teaching us things as we climb over the garbage. Thanks for taking us along.😅
Too funny the coins that just kept coming and coming….👏👏
You’re amazing to watch scramble around in those dumpsters.
YES! Somedays you just need some Mike the Scavenger! Thanks for the post
Love it when you make a great score, after all you are saving it from going into landfill and recycling in the best possible way.
Thank you for what you do. This helps save our planet for our kids. I am amazed companies throw so much recyclable things away. What a terrible thing. I truly hope you make lots of money doing this. God be with you.
It kills me all the cardboard and wood I see in those dumpsters
@@connieward8608 yeah Texas is nice in many ways but they really need to get with the program when it comes to recycling.
The reason why nobody ever approaches Mike is because from a distance he looks crazy. Appearing to talk to himself as he leaps into dumpsters. 😂
Long time ago I got paid to help do some demo for a grocery store remodel. I loaded all the check out stands in my truck. At home I discovered they were full of change. Every time someone dropped change it went down to the bottom and stayed there. I got more in cash than what they paid me for my help.
🤣
That was a win-win!
Mikes word for the day...plethora🤣
Sounds like a good name for some bizarre rock band.
I take the backs off most dryers i get. Always finding $ in them.
It’s coming home, it’s coming home.. football’s coming home 🏴
No
but it want afterwards to travel ????
You just collect scrab
Ho yes
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That chandelier could be resalable for parts to a vintage lighting dealer. Was waiting for that CRT (slot machine screen) to implode when it hit the back of the truck. Gangster pillows? :) I believe the front of the dryer will pop off if you put a knife or screwdriver in the top slot at the corners. Have found rings, chains and earrings in them.
Yes, especially the hanging crystals. People will pay you a decent amount for them. You should find someone in business of building or rebuilding chandeliers.
Mike - people pay good money for gym memberships to get the kind of exercise you do. It's a win/win situation. 😂😂
I sell laptop lithium batteries all the time . Eighty cents a pound . You need to find a e waste recycler.
Love watching Michael scavenger. Back when I was younger I used to do a little bit of scavenging myself. Good luck keep it up
Hey Mike can you film when your taking apart that dryer I would love to see how much coins you find 😀
36:19 dude “give me ur loot”
That was so great
hope mike is doing and feeling better love the videos
Got a glimpse of your ninja turtle 🐢 shirt! heck yeah!
16:50 lithium is valuable. I'm surprised it isn't recycled. It should be more valuable than lead batteries.
Take batteries to battery source or interstate battery. They will pay you core charge per battery.
I wouldn’t keep the change...you could get in trouble with the fbi for having laundered money 😂
When I retired I did the scrap thing myself. It's how I started my used appliance business. I averaged $300 a day and $1000+ days occurred fairly common. I was in a large city and networked with a lot of businesses.
Let us know what the total was that you pulled out of that drier Mike :) it was like a little coin ATM that thing!
Another great video thank you. Keep up the good work saving the planet one dumpster at a time 👍🏼🇬🇧
Some RC modelers might have a use for the lisenum batteries
It amuses me when you try and talk in a British accent. Keep it up.
Love your socks and dumpster shuffle ❣
/the dryer with the coins looked like a one-armed-bandit that hit the jack pot!!
Don't you mean a no-arm bandit LOL
That chandelier crashing was sound effect perfection!
🤣🤣🤣
The guys left that conduit with the guts left in it just for You. 😊🇨🇦🌈. I always laugh so hard when those Nasty Dumpsters Eat You !! 🤣💗. OMGAWD !! I laughed and laughed and laughed after all the slot machines I’ve seen you pick up, it’s the dryer that pays off !!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mike got the dumpsters dance 🕺🏾🤣 nice 👍 moves 😎 respect
Those medical boots my dr charges 185.00 for them.
Bear in mind that millions of people go through trash each day, some of us to make a few more coins and others just to survive. It shows how wasteful we are when you see food thrown away and perfectly reusable items of all descriptions. Look at videos of people discovering old rubbish tips and dumps. If they are old enough there will be no plastics, only wood and metals, potteries and other natural materials. In the year 2121, you could envision most of our dumps and tips to be seen as pollution rather than just waste. Will we leave it to future generations to clean up all the plastic and so on or could we maybe employ hundreds of millions of people to do this now? Mike does his bit by recycling what he can. The politicians seem to blab on about green policies but don't come up with a green workforce to clean up the polluting rubbish which has been accumulating for a century on planet Earth. We have a pollution crisis not a climate crisis and we have the people power to begin the mammoth task of cleaning it up.
Our UK politicians made dumpster diving a criminal offence in the UK a few years ago, so everything goes into landfill here now!
If the 5-0 see you in a skip/dumpster they will arrest you if you do not have permission to be in it.
That just shows that it’s not about the health of the planet to these politicians….it’s just a ploy to get more money from us and to u more restrictions on us…in the UK where they made it illegal…they’ve done that in some of the cities around here..I almost wonder if there isn’t a way to sue the cities for the negligence because in the end..the people at for it…either in fines or fees for the disposal or another tax they want to impose on us for the green excuse..so if we have to pay for it then why aren’t we able to get a benefit from it…they say identity theft blah blah which is bs cuz 99% of that happens from online fraud and hacking….
I sometimes work on computers in restaurants. A few times at the end of the business day at a buffet, I have seen an employee filling up a trash can with perfectly good food. I wish I could have loaded up a few containers to take home, instead of seeing it all go into the trash.
TRU-DAT!!!!!
It is shameful. I live in a state where it is illegal. And I find it so frustrating because schools and government buildings do not recycle paper, cardboard, aluminum, plastic, food in the lunchroom, anything. If a child has an unopened package of food, carton of milk, or untouched fruit it has to go into the garbage instead of leaving it out for someone else to have. Less fortunate or not, why just throw it in the trash if its unopened? It has been paid for.
Our whole society has become so wasteful, it is like we have an unending supply of everything so no need to worry. And the government is perpetuating the problem. It does not want to help, and most certainly does not want us to help ourselves!
my favorite is the Dumpster Shuffle
Hi all, in all my time watching you and other scrappers,
I've never ever seen so much change come out of a dryer..
Better than a slot machine...
Another great night picking in the urban jungle....
Mike, Did you know that there is COPPER in those Lithium Ion Batteries?
It's not much, but there is a thin sheet of copper along with a thin sheet of aluminum in there. Trick is getting it out without Starting a fire from the Lithium coating on the insulator. (air and moisture will ignite lithium)
The lamp is called a “Diopter”.
When you tossed that crystal chandelier. 😱😱😱😱
Excellent...
The Barney dumpster is a goldmine!😊
Those w"Walking boots must be from a medical supply place or a Doctor's office! They look like the one I have for when I fractured my right ankle a while back. I actually had another one back in 2006 from a broken left foot. I don't know if you could resell them or not...or if a local free clinic would take them as a donation for their patients.
Doing awesome, Mike! Hurricane Elsa, luckily, didn’t carry too bad a punch! It didn’t impact Central Florida much at all, just mostly rain. Hope you’re doing just as good. Love your content, hope you’ll keep it up….for years and years! 🙂 ✌🏼❤️
It looks like they got all the kits to rebuild the mixers in a hospital and didn't use them.
Those dumpsters are on a scheduled pickup per dump. When we used to have a dumpster that could be dumped again that was extra, if the company took care of us we would load all the extra crap outside the dumpster. If they wouldn’t take care of us we would tell them to call for another dump. Mostly restaurants would give us a free lunch’s and market’s would give us stuff, sometimes money and sometimes beer. You scratch our backs and we’ll scratch yours, most people wouldn’t believe what we would find, although you would. Even money like you, mostly at apartment buildings.( clean outs) that’s why I love to watch you, I’m from Miami but I’m always watching from Panama City Florida, USA. 🇺🇸. Retired. !
No wonder their dryer tanked, it was never cleaned out 😂
Another awesome vid, thanx Mike 😀
You are such a hard worker for the environment. Great job!
"Aluminum prices are high" "Crutches are made of aluminum." Won't pick up an aluminum can.
Love. Your. Channel. Very. Much. Love. How. You
Dig. For. Good. Stuff
You let that sandwich go?? Scrap must be getting to ya! Those boots are like $300. each.
You doing it now I did it in the 70s.keep at it.!!!
That was a good haul for you! I am so curious how much change you find and what's all in there. Lol I use to wait tables and get a lot of change it adds up fast. I'd put it in a large jar on our fridge and cash it every so often, I think the most I got was about $200. I dont waitress anymore but still love finding change to throw in the jar.
The best scrapper on youtube
Greetings Mike. This was amazing all that wire goodness & metal. Plus dryer spitting out money. PLEASE PLEASE be CAREFUL, don't get hurt/injured getting those treasures. Stay hydrated, humble and kind. Be safe,healthy &blessed family
Good job keeping our earth a little more cleaner. Thanks mike
The celebs and sleepy joe will have discarded the boots after hiding their ankle monitors 🤣
Got the TV thing from a possible slot machine and then hitting the jackpot with the jingle from the dryer!! Lol
Seems like security would be given a message to leave you alone
Raining money dryer. Rolling on the floor laughing!😂
First time posting, but long time watcher. Have you ever given thought to donating the medical stuff, (boots) to the Veterans Association, or some other charity?
It's a good feeling being good. No worries that anything is gonna catch up with ya.
I have a feeling that even if Mike hit the lottery, he would probably still do this stuff.