10+ Couples Explain Why They’ve Had Such Long Engagements

Why do some people rush into marriage? You’re going to spend THE REST OF YOUR DAMN LIVES together, so why not just ease into it?

That what some couples thing. They’ve waited for YEARS AND YEAR to tie the knot. However, sometimes it can be a sign of trouble in the relationship.

If your partner is making you wait and wait without setting any sort of date, then something might be up.

1. Probably doesn’t…

Photo Credit: Twitter

2. Forever alone…

Photo Credit: Twitter

3. Time to get some therapy!

Photo Credit: Twitter

4. Then don’t get married. Easy!

Photo Credit: Twitter

5. To each their own…

Photo Credit: Twitter

6. Well, that’s just lazy…

Photo Credit: Twitter

7. I mean, in some states it’s already official!

Photo Credit: Twitter

8. Nothing wrong with planning and getting costs together…

Photo Credit: Twitter

9. Yeah, this is really common. Why not just do it at the court house and then have a fun party at your house?

Photo Credit: Twitter

10. Good! Love it when couples are on the same page!

Photo Credit: Twitter

11. Probably won’t happen if that’s your attitude…

Photo Credit: Twitter

12. Then time to have a conversation…

Photo Credit: Twitter

13. Well, at least you’re similar!

Photo Credit: Twitter

What do you think? Should people be engaged for however long they want or is there a time to put up or shut up?

Sound off in the comments!

The post 10+ Couples Explain Why They’ve Had Such Long Engagements appeared first on UberFacts.

People with Social Anxiety Will Laugh out Loud at These Tweets

Do you have social anxiety? If so, I sympathize with you…but you should also laugh at it once in a while! Might as well, right?

1. Hurry up!

2. Assume the worst…

3. Anxiety thru and thru…

4. It’s not nothing…

5. Open up!

6. It’s always about you…

7. It all means something…

8. Probably dying…

9. But what DID it mean?!?!

10. Must be nice…

11. Always fun to pre-game!

12. Just give me a minute… or thirty…

13. ALL of this!

14. Ditto.

All you Pokémon trainers out there… that last one is for you.

And for you who have no idea what I’m talking about… let that linger for a while…

The post People with Social Anxiety Will Laugh out Loud at These Tweets appeared first on UberFacts.

I’m Going to Laugh While I Read These 14 Tweets. Will You Join Me?

Welcome to my post about funny tweets. There’s 14 of them, so shall we just start reading them now?

We shall!

1. I can see this…

2. For those Mariah stans only…

3. Less. Is. More.

4. Oh snap….

5. This is gonna hurt.

6. This haunts me quite a bit

7. Trash loves trash

8. At least she’s honest…

9. I like it! More!

10. I’m listening…

11. Just the bare necessities…

12. GIMME!

13. Oh…. I get it!

14. Pokémon coming at ya with the funny…

Well, I don’t know about you, but I enjoyed that quite a bit!

Come back for more of all of that sometime soon!

Until then… toodles!

The post I’m Going to Laugh While I Read These 14 Tweets. Will You Join Me? appeared first on UberFacts.

Married Couples Confess: We Haven’t Consummated Our Marriage yet

This is quite strange…

So, what if this happened to you…

You save your virginity for your marriage and then, on your wedding night… nothing happens.

Not only that, nothing happens for a week, a month or more!

Would you be surprised to find out how many people have NOT consummated their marriage after getting married?

Get ready to read some craziness!

19. There’s always annulments…

Photo Credit: Whisper

18. Sounds like you had sex before though, so…?

Photo Credit: Whisper

17. This really sucks.

Photo Credit: Whisper

16. I’ll tell you what’s going to happen: divorce.

Photo Credit: Whisper

15. Time to talk to your SO!

Photo Credit: Whisper

14. Ummm, that’s not how it works…

Photo Credit: Whisper

13. Okay, this is a happy ending! Finally!

Photo Credit: Whisper

12. Haha, yeah, you really should.

Photo Credit: Whisper

11. I would be!

Photo Credit: Whisper

10. Well, I honestly can’t say I blame him…

Photo Credit: Whisper

9. That’s a LONG time to wait.

Photo Credit: Whisper

8. It really shouldn’t be a fight. There’s something wrong.

Photo Credit: Whisper

7. Go. To. Therapy.

Photo Credit: Whisper

6. Some men do have low sex drives…

Photo Credit: Whisper

5. Okay, NOT the same thing!

Photo Credit: Whisper

4. Talk to somebody about it. You have to get past this.

Photo Credit: Whisper

3. Yes. She will. Get ON it.

Photo Credit: Whisper

2. Yeah, it would be nice.

Photo Credit: Whisper

1. Never think that!

Photo Credit: Whisper

A wedding night situation wouldn’t be a big deal for me because there’s no reality where I would marry someone and wouldn’t have slept with them.

But if a couple weeks went by and I was getting rejected… time to get an annulment!

Sorry, not sorry.

The post Married Couples Confess: We Haven’t Consummated Our Marriage yet appeared first on UberFacts.

13 People Share Their Most Awkward Make out Stories

You ever lock lips with somebody who you’re excited to be making out with… and something super cringy happens?

You’re not alone. These 13 couples had some super awkward moments when things were just heating up…

1. Hahaha… friends are the best…

Photo Credit: Whisper

2. How exactly does that even happen? Was he sucking your nose?!

Photo Credit: Whisper

3. Yeah, that sucks…

Photo Credit: Whisper

4. PFFFTTTT!!!!

Photo Credit: Whisper

5. Science nerds be like…

Photo Credit: Whisper

6. Moving waaaaaayyyy too fast…

Photo Credit: Whisper

7. Ghosts LOVE to watch…

Photo Credit: Whisper

8. Snack time!

Photo Credit: Whisper

9. This… seems… odd…

Photo Credit: Whisper

10. HA! Classic.

Photo Credit: Whisper

11. Well, what did you expect?!

Photo Credit: Whisper

12. “Chuckles! Get out of here!”

Photo Credit: Whisper

13. But how….

Photo Credit: Whisper

Oh yeah, those were embarrassing for sure.

But hey, you got to kiss, so it’s not all THAT bad, right? Right?!?

The post 13 People Share Their Most Awkward Make out Stories appeared first on UberFacts.

Keep These Savage Responses to Texts from Exes in Mind Next Time an Old Flame Gets in Touch

The art of the text that is a total burn needs to be perfected over time. It doesn’t happen overnight.

Listen, breaking up and moving on sucks usually, but sometimes you get an opportunity to just completely own the other person and it is DEEPLY satisfying.

These folks know what I’m talking about!!

1. Oh do you now???

Photo Credit: Instagram

2. Garbage is as garbage does…

Photo Credit: Instagram

3. Well, YEAH!

Photo Credit: Instagram

4. Completely dead

Photo Credit: Instagram

5. Zigaziga ahhhhhhh

Photo Credit: Instagram

6. Not to Starbucks nor anywhere else!

Photo Credit: Instagram

7. Chop chop…

Photo Credit: Instagram

8. Mom things…

Photo Credit: Instagram

9. LOL…

Photo Credit: Instagram

10. And NO

Photo Credit: Instagram

11. In a galaxy far, far away…

Photo Credit: Instagram

12. Oh no! Not the mom jokes!

Photo Credit: Instagram

13. How close?

Photo Credit: Instagram

Key fact from all of these… move on fam! Asap.

Lingering is for suckers!

The post Keep These Savage Responses to Texts from Exes in Mind Next Time an Old Flame Gets in Touch appeared first on UberFacts.

15 Funny Tweets About Animals That’ll Give You a Good Laugh

Animals are completely unpredictable, so either they’re going to make us laugh or kill us. One of those two things. Which one will it be…?

Thankfully, they usually just make us laugh… as they lay in wait for the right time to strike!

Here are 15 times they decided it was better to make us laugh then introduce us to an untimely demise.

15. Sing it loud! Sing it proud!

14. Oh… you fancy!

13. The cutest!

12. That’s a no from fido…

11. “You dog? I dog too!”

10. GURRRRRRRLLLLL!

9. Well, there goes THOSE plans…

8. Pretty much me always

7. No touch fone. Only petz. Pls n thx u!

6. Ninjdog

5. Done got wrecked!

4. Yep… pretty much!

3. Hey girl…

2. “Whatever shall I do?!”

1. Good boy!

It’s a wonder they put up with us and not destroy us all.

Because they could.

They have the numbers.

The post 15 Funny Tweets About Animals That’ll Give You a Good Laugh appeared first on UberFacts.

These Small Town Memes Will Give You Big Laughs

Major pastimes in small towns: drinking, fighting, watching football games, bonfires, mudding, getting in each other’s business.

But let’s not generalize… we’ll let these memes do that for us…

1. Eating good in the rural neighborhood!

Photo Credit: Someecards

2. Yeah, that’s a city on the left…

Photo Credit: Someecards

3. Oh, they ALL pregnant? Hmmm… guess God should’ve taught them about birth control…

Photo Credit: Someecards

4. You can deliver live chickens? Of course you can…

Photo Credit: Someecards

5. Go team!

Photo Credit: Someecards

6. A god damned felony if I’ve ever seen one!

Photo Credit: Someecards

7. The Chevy, Dodge and Ford dealerships were always doing good…

Photo Credit: Someecards

8. Driving is NBD.

Photo Credit: Someecards

9. Phew! Crisis averted…

Photo Credit: Someecards

10. And fuck. You forgot the fucking.

Photo Credit: Someecards

11. Wait… they had an Olive Garden in their small town? Fancy…

Photo Credit: Someecards

12. No no… you’d drive around it. Nice trick meme, city folk!

Photo Credit: Someecards

13. Again, you’d just push it out of the way with your truck. This is NOT a real obstacle.

Photo Credit: Someecards

All those small town memes really brought me back to my roots… which was not small town America. But a lot of my extended family lived in a small town, so I’d visit from time to time.

Needless to say, I’m really glad my family got out of small town America before I was born.

They’re nice places to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.

Just saying…

The post These Small Town Memes Will Give You Big Laughs appeared first on UberFacts.

20 Memes for Moms That Are Extremely Relatable

Being a mom is a higher learning institution where a toddler is the teacher, and they’re making up new lessons randomly and without warning. And every day you have to pass test after test after test.

And if you fail… oh boy. Let’s not even talk about that.

Let’s just read some memes instead. And eat chocolate. And talk about our kids.

20. How yo doin’?? ?

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

19. Oh, you sassy gurl!

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

18. Oh yeah, dat me!

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

17. Truth

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

16. RUN! Protect the treasure!

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

15. But do you have to, tho?

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

14. Oh, blame the dads again, ehhhhh?

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

13. HALP!

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

12. The right is just the industrial version…

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

11. “You want to play a game, mommy?”

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

10. Stop touching it!

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

9. Damn it feels good to be a toddler…

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

8. But would you?

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

7. Complete and utter destruction of the mind, body and soul

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

6. I’m HUGE!

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

5. You can do anything. But there are consequences.

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

4. Yo betch! Cheez-its! Right meow!

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

3. Tonight I googled, “Does giving kids booze to sleep really work…”

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

2. Rules? What rules!?!

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

1. Always on poop. Forever on poop.

Photo Credit: Petty Mayo

Just remember moms… you chose this.

But you’re free to complain.

We’re listening.

We’re always listening…

The post 20 Memes for Moms That Are Extremely Relatable appeared first on UberFacts.

Garbage Collectors & Dumpster Divers Reveal the Insane Stuff People Threw ​Out

Ever been dumpster diving? It’s pretty wild.

Yes, rich people throw away a bunch of expensive things for no apparent reason other than they’re rich.

With that in mind, let’s take a look at these 23 answers to the question that reddit asked, “What’s the most illegal, strange or valuable thing you’ve seen while gathering people’s trash?”

Oh, and do you want to know what pro football players throw out? That one is at the end. And it’s pretty nuts.

23. “Ironically a bunch of brand new trashcans”

I’ve volunteered at neighborhood cleanups and have found some amazing stuff.

I was working the metal bin, but took home a couple nice GT bmx bikes for the kids.

A brand new in the box turkey deep fryer.

Ironically a bunch of brand new trashcans (Rubbermaid brute)

Perfectly fine honda pressure washer.

Commercial paint sprayer.

I grab it for myself and sell that shit!

22. “They were BEDAZZLED.”

I’m a janitor in an office building. I’ve seen a lot of strange things in the five years I’ve been there. Bathroom trash is the weirdest – I’ve found empty bottles of lube, chicken wings stuffed into the tampon boxes, pregnancy tests at least a few times a year – but the lady with the bugs was the weirdest.

One of the floors in the building had a huge problem with bugs. One night I was collecting the trash off the floor when I noticed she had very carefully decorated a cardboard box to look like a hotel, and had a sign inviting people to drop any bugs they found inside. It was weird, but I figured she was just collecting proof of the bug problem to get management to do something about it.

A few weeks later, I turned the corner to her cubicle, and it was covered in bugs. There were about 20, tacked up all over with pushpins. And they were BEDAZZLED. Each of these goddamn bugs had its own unique pattern.

After we told management about it they finally did bring an exterminator in! We still talk about the “bug lady” to this day.

21. “…in their own specialty shaped little recessed bits lay three large adult toys.”

I was doing waste analysis, collecting people’s domestic rubbish and sorting it into categories, producing data for recycling planning. Fairly disgusting job.

Anyway, I once found a nice wooden box with a hinged lid, lined with some sort of silky fabric, and in their own specialty shaped little recessed bits lay three large adult toys.

One was the size of a fire extinguisher. The thing was scary.

No idea why someone would throw them out when they’d clearly been cherished.

20. “So, he started a freecycling program…”

Not a garbageman, but in my college town dumpster diving was a regional sport every May with all the college kids throwing away anything they didn’t care to move.

My geography professor found a brand new, never used, pair of skis in the trash one year. So, he started a freecycling program, which was an assignment for my honors human geography class.

We picked up unwanted items from the dorms and Greek houses, and held onto them until school started in the fall, when students could have their pick of anything.

Certain items, like shoes, went straight to where my professor volunteered in Peru, and anything unused went to Goodwill or another thrift store.

Laziness does terrible things when you’re young.

19. “…the CEO doesn’t give a sh!t.”

My friend’s dad is the “do everything” kind of man for a CEO of a construction company.

He gets asked to throw away jewelries and expensive art artifacts.

He also had to get rid of old pick ups (sell them or whatever he could but get rid of them) he could keep the money the CEO doesn’t give a sh!t.

18. “I still have a 3 storage units full of house parts I picked up back then”

I have a (now deceased) friend who basically stocked his antique store with stuff he found on the side of the road.

I’m sort of ashamed to admit it because I feel like it was profiting off the misfortune of others but I lived in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina and I basically rebuilt my house from stuff that people tossed. I was amazed at the amount of stuff people ripped out that was above the waterline.

​People would literally hire crews to gut their entire house and they would put everything, and I repeat, everything on the side of the road. At one point there

Some of the stuff I found: AC Units. 2-3 Sub-Zero refrigerators (compressor is on the top, people, there are no electronics in the bottom to get wet). A full room of paneling which I used to panel a small bathroom.

Marble flooring. Attic fans. Solid wood doors. A full vintage porcelain bathroom set (tub, sink, toilet and bidet). A skeleton shower from the 20’s ($). Hardwood flooring. Chandeliers. Cabinets. Lots and lots of cypress molding and structural elements.

Also found: TV sets. Computers. 2 grand pianos (flood had discolored legs but not reached the soundboard). 3-4 bedroom sets. A stack of paintings by a well-known LA artist ($$). Lamps. Stereo equipment.

I still have a 3 storage units full of house parts I picked up back then that I have slowly been incorporating into my current home renovation. It was truly a shame to see all this great old stuff be tossed and replaced with Home Depot crap. I could have filled 10 more units with stuff I saw and couldn’t store.

17. “…to hear the most satisfying “pop” you’ve ever heard.”

Brother owns a trash company which I worked a lot for during summer breaks.

I’ve found a live possum, which hissed at me. Dead mice. Lots of adult videos. Blow up doll.

The most valuable thing to find is glass handles of vodka. We used to save them in the cab, throw them as high as we could at the dump to hear the most satisfying “pop” you’ve ever heard.

Gotta find little enjoyable things that make you smile while working a literal sh*tty job.

16. “I mean like small scale professional level stuff.”

Not a garbage man, but we used to hang out at the dumpster of the local U-Store type place (before the whole Storage Wars thing happened) and first of the month you could find the coolest sh*t in that dumpster.

I remember we got an entire wine making set. And I don’t mean a little one, I mean like small scale professional level stuff. Wine corks, multiple heavy glass bottles of all different colors, those huge glass bottles, the hoses and valves, everything.

Basically looked like someone had an entire micro-brewery setup and forgot to pay the rent on his box.

Whoopsie.

15. “This man just threw about 30k in the trash”

I worked as garbage man last year as a summer job. One day a man came by who said he lost a high sum of money and he wants us to look for it. The money was in an envelope and he said it was € 10.000+. He said he wanted to bring the money to the bank and stashed it between some old newspaper he wanted to get rid of (yeah, what a genius, right?).

Anyways, we were about 10 men at that time and he promised to give all of us a fair share if we manage to find it, so, obviously we started the search.

As you can imagine, that shit usually takes a while to find because you have to literally look through every paper container (about 20) for a small envelope.

Well, the luck was on our side that day, after about 10 minutes a coworker called out that he got it. Awesome. He looked inside and told us later that it was definitely more than 10k (more like 30k).

Everybody got a 100€ bill and it was pretty much the best working day ever.

This man just threw about 30k in the trash and found it like 2 hours later. Should’ve went to the casino that day.

14. “Others were sold on eBay for 4 times what I paid…”

I’m a major thrift store scavenger. I found a tiny hole-in-the-wall junk shop in a town just outside a big Tennessee city, near Amish country. Most of the stuff was old vending machine crap, and stacks of old magazines etc.

I saw a big plastic bag full of (what looked like) old, torn towels that had “donate” written on it and scratched out, and “whole bag $10” rewritten on the bag. I started peeking through it. Under the torn towels were incredibly beautiful hand-embroidered bed linens and pillowcases, some with crocheted or hand-tatted lace trim.

Most were incredibly soft linen, or beautiful cotton. I’m a crafter so I immediately saw the value. My guess is that someone’s mother/grandmother passed away and they threw her whole linen cabinet into a bag without looking closely. I got up really quickly so the store clerk wouldn’t see how excited I was and guess that the bag had more than towels in it. I paid the $10 and ran to my car to unpack.

In that bag were 8 pairs of pillowcases (all different, all flawlessly embroidered ), 6 embroidered woven dish towels , a 1950s style apron, and many small items like handkerchiefs..and 2 torn towels. Down the road in the antiques shopping row, I saw a pair of nearly identical pillowcases going for $50 a pair.

A bunch of the stuff is currently on my bed. Others were sold on eBay for 4 times what I paid for the whole bag.

13. “Guy had left computers, tvs, a f*cking mercedes…”

Friend’s uncle owns some apartment buildings. Guy from China was living in one of the units and ended up needing to leave the country for Visa issues.

Eventually got in touch with the guy somehow (email likely) to ask what was going on, why no rent paid, etc.

Guy explains and says that he can’t give money for rent, and to just sell off anything in the apartment to make up for it.

Guy had left computers, tvs, a f*cking mercedes, etc.

Cleared way more than the $1600 for two months rent, plus kept the security deposit.

12. “He tells Dad that the foot was likely removed as a warning to someone…”

Not me, but my Dad was.

He found his share of cool stuff. he worked from 1969-1989 for the DSNY. I still have a lamp made from an old brass fire extinguisher that he found, like many others, he found lots of TV’s, some new clothes (usually at Christmas time – that is why we always went through the wrapping paper), baseball cards by the box, wish I kept those, some WWII stuff, most notably an SS Dagger –

but one of the wings of the eagle was broken and attached with scotch tape. Stamps, cause I collected them when I was a kid. I have a Hitler postage stamp somewhere from this.

I wrote this before, but here it goes. The creepiest thing was in the early 1970’s, Dad and the other 2 guys (at the time they were 3 to a truck, one drove, the others loaded the trash), were in East New York, an area of Brooklyn that is really sh*tty (and still is today).

They come across a very large human foot that was black (as in it came from someone who was black). Not knowing what to do, they put it in a paper bag and drove to the nearest police precinct. They walk up to the desk Sgt and place the bag in front of him. He asks what is this about?

He gestures to look inside. Desk Sgt does. closes bag up, looks at Dad and his partners, and tells them “Cycle it” (By cycle, he meant just run it through the truck with the other trash).

He tells Dad that the foot was likely removed as a warning to someone, that they (the police in that precinct) had seen it before. It was likely drug related. Even if they did find the owner, he wouldn’t talk, and the foot couldn’t be attached back. By moving the foot, they pretty much ruined a crime scene.

They cycled the foot.

This was the 1970’s – NYC was in a downward spiral at the time.

11. “The most valuable would have to be an assorted allotment…”

Very wealthy neighborhood.

I tossed 4-5 bags into the hopper, the fifth one ripped… sweet sweet mary jane. Although it was just trimmings.

I laughed and kept going.

The most valuable would have to be an assorted allotment of unused Winsor and Newton oil paints.

Nothing too spectacular. But as an artist it was valuable to me.

10. “…wondering if people knew that I could read all of their medical records…”

As a kid, I can chime in what rich people threw away, even in the 1970s. None of this would make that much sense anymore, but the number one thing that I found that was surprising were clock radios. They were perfectly functioning clock radios, they just weren’t the new LCD models. They were the flip kind, or they would have a gear that would slowly turn and show the time. Are used to clean them up, and then sell them to other neighborhood kids for like five bucks. My mother caught wind of this, and put an end to it because she didn’t like the thought of her son digging through someone else’s trash.

Decades later, I went dumpster diving with some friends once in a while to get computer equipment from the back of failed business operations. It’s how I built my first few computers. I remember looking at one of the contents of the hard drive, and wondering if people knew that I could read all of their medical records or private email. :/

I am told that it’s better handled now. Almost every company I’ve worked for in the last 20 years has some sort of technology recycling service, but I always wonder if they’re just paying someone else to throw it in the dumpster for them.

9. “The rich guy hands him the keys, title,”

My uncle’s friend picked up trash in Grosse Pointe in the 80’s. There was a rich client who would often meet him by the curb just to talk every day. One day, he up and asks, “Hey, you know anything about cars?” Uncle’s friend happened to be working the trash job to save up to open his own car shop, so he replied, “Sure do!”

The guy then asked him what he thought about the Ford Escort, and uncle’s buddy replied that he thought it was cheap, but reliable. The rich guy hands him the keys, title, and tells him to pick it up after his route, he had bought it brand new for his daughter, but she hated it, and he was going to get her a different car.

The odometer had less than 500 miles on it.

8. “Easily have gotten over $5k worth of makeup products…”

I enjoy dumpster diving from time to time even though I make enough money to live comfortably – I grew up in the poor parts of San Diego and would dumpster dive as a kid with my friends for fun and the habit never really wore off.

Back when I was a preteen/teen there was a fairly well off family in our apartment complex who had 4 kids and every month or two, their parents would get PISSED OFF at one of their kids and throw out ALL of their toys. This happened like clockwork every 2-3 months with one kid one month, another kid another month and sometimes 2or 3 kids in one sitting. My friend and I would dumpster dive and pull out EASILY $500 worth of toys each – sometimes brand new stuff with price stickers still attached.

One time, they threw out their kids Harry Potter collection stuff out. Got a few of the books, some limited edition golden Harry Potter bookmarks, unused journals and this brand new and unopened. I still have it over 15 yrs later.

More recently though I’ve found a F*CKTON of crafting supplies – mainly really expensive beads and beading materials to make necklaces/bracelets. I’m talking like 30 lbs of beads and beading materials in one big box – split it up into parts and sold them for $100 on ebay each.

Also found a set of really nice fireplace pokers with the holder, a few used brand name handbags, a bag full of Iron Maiden gear including shirts, CDs, random cutouts and printouts of Iron Maiden’s Eddie and a huge cloth iron maiden flag all from the same dumpster (on different occasions).

Also, when I go out of town to big cities (or when I go back to visit my family in San Diego) I like to go dumpster diving at makeup stores since they tend to throw out perfectly near new condition displays ALL THE TIME.

Easily have gotten over $5k worth of makeup products over the years by diving in their dumpsters.

7. “sold them all online for like $600 pure net profit…”

Not a garbage man – but at work there was this big cleaning spree in our storage room (IT place)

Rummaging through it because I was bored and noticed there were a LOT of brand new sealed in retail box Lexmark color ink cartridges. I don’t have an inkjet but this was going to get thrown on a pallet and tossed.

I scored probably 25 or 30 brand new boxes (tricolor packs) and sold them all online for like $600 pure net profit (after fees).

Turns out people are willing to buy those things when your price is 20% less than everyone else online.

6. “8 year old me f*cking LOVED bin day.”

My dad has been ‘on the bins’ (working for the council doing refuse, blocked drains, street cleaning etc) for about 30-odd years.

He brought a load of books home once, all hard cover Terry Pratchett’s, that someone had just tossed in to a bin in a shopping centre.

He used to do tip runs, collecting stuff that had been dumped illegally and taking it to a tip (landfill?) and he used to come back with all sorts of sh!t. Mum would just bin it all again as soon as he was at work. “Look at this!” he’d say, dragging something utterly horrid in to the house “Can you believe someone would throw this away?!” Yes dad. We can believe.

Bonus points – his mates that worked our route would let me press the button on the trash compactor!

8 year old me f*cking LOVED bin day.

5. “a Raleigh 753 tubing road race bike.”

Dumpster diver: Fender Telecaster, rusted strings but unplayed;

Sony short wave radio;

washing machine & dryer;

silver ashtray, spoon, and chopsticks, a set;

unopened whiskey and brandy bottles;

a sword;

a set of old handmade carbon steel kitchen knives with ebony handles;

several printers;

3 Sony Trinitron monitors;

books, lots of books;

several 30-40 year old passports;

a Raleigh 753 tubing road race bike;

a top-of-the-line DeLonghi espresso machine.

4. “…found $40,000 hidden…”

Not a trash story exactly, but….a couch was donated to a charity.

It went onto the sale floor at a thrift shop and sat there for 2 weeks.

Since it reached the time limit for sale they were throwing it into the dumpster.

A last second inspection found $40,000 hidden inside.

I didn’t see one red cent of it, but it went to charity so I guess thats cool.

3. “He just kept saying heads, heads, heads…”

A normal day at the landfill was interrupted by a scream of terror from the dozer driver who came running full tilt and white as a sheet up to my me.

He just kept saying heads, heads, heads, over and over again.

They went back to his dozer and found a garbage bag torn open with ten bloody heads spilling out of it.

Somebody had thrown away ten mannequin heads that had been used in a local haunted house.

2. “It’s hard to imagine what rich kids throw out.”

I grew up near a very wealthy prep school, and at the end of every year I would dumpster dive for all kinds of things.

Electronics (mp3s, graphing calculators, etc…), brand new camping gear from the one overnight trip they do, desks/desk chairs, money, you name it.

I’d sell some on craigs, keep some, and donate what I didn’t need.

It’s hard to imagine what rich kids throw out.

1. “…contracts and just about all the personal information that one would need to actually become Ricky Williams.”

When former Football player Ricky Williams briefly retired to become a spiritual guru in the hills he moved into a place that was on my recycling route.

I noticed a box he tossed once and grabbed it to see if there was any memorabilia or football items related in it. It looked important.

What was in it was team doctors papers, contracts and just about all the personal information that one would need to actually become Ricky Williams.

I felt weird that this was out there, so I took it home and burned every piece of it in the fireplace.

Felt guilty even looking at it as I tossed it.

Moral to these stories? If you’re Ricky Williams, you need to get a firepit and burn yo shit! #truth

The post Garbage Collectors & Dumpster Divers Reveal the Insane Stuff People Threw ​Out appeared first on UberFacts.