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HEY YOU! Do you have an appliance at home that doesn't work anymore? Maybe someone left an old desktop computer near the dumpster at work? Perhaps you found an old

Updating on the carpenter pencil sales from last year

So last January, I ended up with a big box of carpenter pencils. These were unused and saved from the trash pile. I sold the pencils in bundles of 15 to 120 per

Mini-Fridge found and sold. With bonus Cokes!

So, I had the mini-fridge at the shop. It's a Whirlpool. And I have been using it to chill the Jeff Gordon #24 commemorative coca colas. I have used if for a year

How much $$$ is in your set top box?

Do You Know? still from video What kind of board is inside one of these, and is it worth scrapping it? It depends on where you live, proximity to ewaste buyers,

Our Introduction Video

This video was actually made in July 2023 I figured we would start from the first one and work our way through it. My wife and I started a recycling company in Hudson's

I'm Going To Figure This Out

This is a cross post of @wanderingmoon/im-going-to-figure-this-out by @theterminal.Can anyone assist with some specs or data sheets on this project?

Have a Coke and A Smile! Jeff Gordon races for the win in 1995.

I am amazed at what I find along the curb and set aside at the local apartment complex. Today was 12 bottles of coke. Should I call them vintage? They are from 1995,

Get To Work Pencils! 200 pounds of carpenter pencils this week.

So this week, I picked up 200 pounds of carpenter pencils from a manufacturer. It's misprinted logos on the pencils. The cost to me is NADA, Zip, Zero! I put these

Celebrating 2002 with the Collector's Edition Barbie. Sold it on auction.

So, I have been steadily working my way through selling the Barbies from the roadside box. This one sold today and it's Barbie 2002. This one is probably in the

Metal collection day and chairs to repair. Saving things from the landfill.

So I was back on the road this week and picked up several salvageable items. Chairs are one of my favorite finds. I like to make a new plywood base and then cover

Rocking Moroccan Barbie today! Another auction, another doll on the way!

So, I found a box of Barbies on my roadside scavenges recently. It was a surprised because they were still in the original boxes and collector editions. I have been

Barbie Has a Day In The Sun! The Hollywood movie star doll, before she went all Hollywood!

Yes, Barbie was a huge movie this year. That's probably why there's been such strong auction activity on the box of Barbies that I found alongside the road. This

Olympic Barbie returns for the gold, or at least the green. From trash to cash again today.

I scrap and salvage. This has been a very good one for me. I found a box of Barbies that were still in original packaging along side the road. Where I live, people

Back on the streets, picked up a dishwasher and a box of Barbies

Back out scrapping today. Started out with a dishwasher, a metal lounge chair, a baker's rack and a metal storage cabinet. I am pretty sure the dishwasher is no

Baseball cards from the desk drawer. Topps today for the win.

When we scrap, we also salvage. So sometimes we are picking up old furniture. This week, we picked up a desk and it contained three boxes of baseball cards. The

Scrapping for this week. Around 600 pounds for $68.

This week, we took a truck load of scrap to the metal yard. Copper is doing pretty good at $2.68 a pound, but we didn't have very much copper. We mostly had scrap

Beach Clean Up

Hi fellow Scrappers, Today I wanted to celebrate the removal of some trash from a beach! Beach Clean Up I'm glad that I found this little community here! I've done

Well, This Was A Bust... So Far

Bought a few tonnes of this stuff so I'll be busy pulling screws for a while Things have gotten pretty busy with me starting a new recycling business and since there

Van Scrapping and Meandering Thoughts

Yeah it's a bit slower lately and I figured I'd try to remember how the camera works. Oh, and 3Speak. I wanted to feel my rage again. ▶️ 3Speak

Phone Woes.

Just a brief video from an old phone to explain why I am not uploading videos from my new phone. It turned out to be a huge PITA to do it this way so it's the last