My building has underground parking, 3 floors of it to be exact. The last floor is divided in half, half parking spots and the other half storage areas. Two days ago I noticed that some workers were emptying the storage rooms. I didn’t think of it much until today while snooping around through the boxes the building janitor spotted me and told me I could take whatever I wanted because they were going to throw everything out tomorrow. I was like cool and went upstairs and told Nat about it. A few minutes later we both went back down armed with two Maglite’s, a swiss army knife and camera.
There were a whole bunch of boxes lined up everywhere just filled with books, toys and electronics. We started going through them one by one and as we found stuff we just filled them in the trunk of my Wrangler.
I found a whole collection of National Geographic magazines from 1967 all the way till the early 80s. I found an excellent condition Apple II, a excellent condition NES with the gun and the Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt cartridge. I also found a clean SNES, a box full of DC comics cards, and a couple of cool books including a copy of Stephen Kings The Shining dated from 1977. My trunk is full of vintage treasures and I need like a shopping cart or something to help me take them upstairs. I even found a pristine condition ALGOL computer programming book dated 1968. I hadn’t heard of the ALGOL programming language up until two hours ago.
Anyway, this weekend I am probably going to pass by IKEA get me some new shelves. For now, I got junk in my trunk. I love this stuff..
14 replies on “I got junk in my trunk”
Why the fuck are you always the lucky one? Lol.
So you basically stole stuff..?
strange, who’s stuff was it before it became yours?
so mark when does the sale start? dont tell me that u will keep them? best best auction them on ebay $$$$$
so mark when does the sale start? dont tell me that u will keep them? best BET, auction them on ebay $$$$$
Some people’s junk becomes other people’s treasure trove 🙂
Lalaly, the newer stuff belonged to some residents who didn’t come back after the Gulf War while the old stuff belonged to the buildings owners family.
LFC I dont think the stuff is worth a lot.
Glad to know that you’re a junk collector (^_^).
Last year, the computers in some of the labs at my college were being replaced with newer PCs and monitors, and they just toss the old ones outside the computer labs for the taking. I didn’t know about this till a couple of days later when one of my colleagues informed me, when I reached there to see what I can grab, all I found were two Dell CRT monitors, I just took one and I’ve been using it till now.
If I knew about this earlier, I would’ve waited with a friend, collected all the monitors and PCs (Only the cases and Mama board were left, they remove the CPU, RAM, HD, CDdrive, floppy drive from them), and we would’ve refurbished them and sold them, we could’ve made decent cash out of this.
Now I work as a part time techie at my college, waiting for a second opportunity.
By the way, I recommend keeping that programming book you found, it might worth alot of money after 30 or 40 years from now.
hehe my fav of the lot the SNES stuff.
‘Duck Hunt’ now that’s the bomb.
I think you just struck gold! An NES and national geographic in one day! Dude! You must be happy as hell!
That must have been fun for both of you! Good stuff!
hehe it felt like “classy” dumpster diving
i wonder is they tried contacting the owners at all before disposing of the stuff :/
well anyhoo … congrats on the new stuff you got 😉
poor nat
try to sell the old mags,, they should worth something
any action figures?