# Cool stuff I found in the trash !!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-stuff-i-found-in-the-trash/96191>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 30, 2001, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-stuff-i-found-in-the-trash/96191 "2001-11-30T20:14:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![dragongirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dragongirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragongirl)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-stuff-i-found-in-the-trash/96191/1 "2001-11-30T20:14:45Z")

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Hubby’s a roll-off truck driver, The trucks that deliver dumpsters. In the past week he brought home a Partridge Family lunch box, a Tonka tow truck, an old toy tractor, and a pretty good snow board.

So what cool stuff have you found in the trash ?

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**Author:** ![Arwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Arwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwen)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-stuff-i-found-in-the-trash/96191/2 "2001-11-30T20:54:08Z")

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Once, when I was little, my grandma found an electric race-car track, complete with cars. And it worked-we had a day of fun after we cleaned it up!

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-stuff-i-found-in-the-trash/96191/3 "2001-11-30T21:41:56Z")

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My wife has a wicker chair in the back seat of her car that she found in the trash; although there’s no room for it in the apartment, she just loves it. 😕 Her latest find was a very silly-looking hat that she found dumpster-diving. She likes that too (and she doesn’t even own any other hats).

Love her still, the big crazy.

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**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-stuff-i-found-in-the-trash/96191/4 "2001-11-30T22:01:32Z")

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Not me, but my grandmother. Man down the block died, and his family tossed a bunch o’ stuff out the back door& into the street. After it had been there a bit, my gran, having live through the depression, went and picked-over the refuse, finding a damaged (bottom punctured) silver porringer. Some years later she hauled it to one of those “Road Shows”, where it was identified as an authentic Revere Porringer, and a significant one, at that. She had much delight in saying “I told you so” to my grandfather, who had always thought it to be fake.

It’s now on long-term [loan](http://www.winterthur.org/Events/metal.htm) to the [Winterthur Muesum](http://www.winterthur.org) in Delaware.

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> Winterthur, DE October 23, 2001 – _A silver porringer made by Paul Revere_, a Victorian cast iron parlor stove, a gold presentation medal, and a teakettle made of copper, brass, and tin are among the objects in the new Metalworks gallery opening at Winterthur on November 9.