text: has anyone ever gone dumpster diving? can you tell me about it?  did you find anything cool?  also if anyone is here living in springfield mo, would you consider getting a dumpster diving group together? absolutely. and my wife and i used to go garbage picking in various neighborhoods the night before garage pickup. we've gotten all kinds of good, resaleable things. such as a wine cart, book shelves, expensive electric typewriters, more things than i can even think of right now. it got so bad, we've had to quit, because we don't have room for everything. a good place we found to dumpster dive was behind a local kmart. we've gotten a power saw, drills, flowers, plants, books, bags of dog food, cat food, lots of unopened potato chips bags, gum, health food bars, etc.. that had just recently expired.  the funniest time (looking back) was when i was in a dumpster and it started raining, i had trouble getting out, then it started to lightening, and it was amazing how i managed to fly out of that metal dumpster. my wife, who was watching, thought it was hilarious.