The dumpsters behind Winco in Kennewick are marked boy scouts and are not public property. You are stealing from boy scouts. I have been doing this for over a year and a half now. With Great Success. I go to my local Newspaper Distribution Center and get the sunday papers that they throw out, after their distribution of them. They throw them away, into two different dumpsters! And when I am done with them I take them to a local church to be recycled, so they can reap the benifits from them.
Lately there is a woman there that is telling me that I am stealing and cannot take the papers. She has threatened me with the police a few times now, but my sister called our local police department to ask them after the first incident, if it was illegal, and they told her NO.
I have tried to keep a low, low profile, just to ease the burden of confrintation, but today while I was there she showed up again.. Grrrrrr… The dumpsters that i get these papers from are in the front of the building in plain sight, completely Unmarked and they share them with the Mini Mart, whom they also share the lot with. The women keeps trying to tell me that it is private property. What a crock. Anyone else live in Oregon and have this problem?
I have about had it!!!! Im not hurting anyone by doing this, Im not taking anything out of anyones pocket. In Portland at least….
I live in De Soto Missouri. We want to be able to have money for extra essentials, and we need to pay our bills. We have been cutting everything short and he says we need to change something to make things work, we decided extreme couponing would do the trick. If anybody can help please do!
Oh good grief you people are so concerned with breaking a law of scoping out coupons? They are coupons for goodness sakes!! And they are paper recycling bins…magazines, newspapers etc…choose your neighborhood wisely but really now!
I do this with a friend of mine!! We get so many coupons that it is unreal!!!! Good luck to all of you!! Can anyone tell me? I just tried this for the first time. I was nervous that someone would see me, but no one did.
I live in a small town in Oregon. Stock piling is not that great of a idea to me. I believe in keeping items on hand but cases after cases just a dust collector.
And if you are digging dumpsters to stock pile no good for the dangers you listed. It is actually a pretty smart idea. The goal is to be self-sufficient during tough times such as job loss or inflation or even natural disasters. If you ever face unemployment in your family, then you would realize the benefit of having a food storage. It is more wise to life off of your own food storage than to seek help from the tax payers via welfare programs. I have a P.
Box and the cans inside are always overflowing with coupons that have been tossed out. As far as jumping in dumpster, I agree not a good idea. At my last job This was in Auburn, WA we found out people were sleeping in ours. Just because something was tossed out…. Would you climb into a donation bin for free clothing? Would you take food items out of the Food Drive bins located in businesses?
The sense of entitlement is appalling. We are talking about taking trash coupons , not stealing donations from clothing or food bins. I would consider taking items out of a donation bin stealing, pure and simple. So who decides what is ok? The laws decide it for us.
You can rationalize it however you want, but dumpster diving for coupons is illegal because of tresspassing laws. My husband worked for a manufacture company for 15 yrs. Well I had to apply for emergency benefits food stamps we have 3 children. Well I have couponed on and off over the years and I live in Alabama and I had to pay the sales tax on the items I had presented a coupon for.
So if public assisted people in AL use coupons they have to put back into the system by paying the sales tax. The sales tax is to fund state and local gocernment. The ebt cards are funded by borrowing money from enemy nations and now quite simply printing money out of thin air. Honestly, I would call the cops on anyone I saw in a dumpster.
Buy your newspaper, ask your coworkers, your neighbors, go to the local coffee place and ask for coupons if you cannot see spending the dollar a piece yes I have the Tacoma News Tribune coupon subscription and stay out of my recyle bin.. Not only do they know how much, but where and what store.
It is very easy for them to spot problem regions and stores. So if there is a conterfeit for example they usually are snuffed out quickly… But smart manufacturers will send their own investigators before contacting the store. That bar code carries a ton of data. There isnt anyone in the back sorting out all those coupons and sending them back to the manufacturere.
This isnt the s. Some of the recent store changes just make sense. Certainly there some overzealous players but we all know that the reality show is fiction and blurs the ethics of journalism.
Im surprised TLC can get away without posting a disclaimer maybe they do that some rules are being bent for entertainment. Nonetheless that show wont put coupons out of business. What would those people do if they fell and broke their arm doing something like that? I manage to find all sorts of people to get my inserts from and have the paper delivered. The extremes that some people are willing to go through just scare me. I am not in their shoes, but I am sure I would do it if that meant my kids got food every day.
I think this is another big issue with me, just being fair for everyone else in the community that is trying to give the same things to their own families. I live in a place that manages a few complex and they are now using chains to lock the trash and recycle tubs up I am sure that this is part of the reason why so I am guessing soon that this will become a huge trend to keep people out of the trash, I love my coupons but really this its gross to dumpster dive.
If you want coupons maybe try being friendly knock on peoples door. I have been guilty of pulling inserts out of the recycling dumpster, but only if I could see them when I was dumping my stuff into the dumpster too. I would never climb in, or trolled dumpsters for inserts, etc. Believe me. My favorite person featured on extreme couponing was an older woman who lived alone, and she asked everyone she knew for coupons, and got her exercise by walking around picking up the coupons.
Go places that people are reading the Sunday paper. I have Recycle dived. With permission and while we were going throught times of Coupon theft in our papers. The rules given to me were made clear by the property owner and I follow them. NO climbing in. No Leaving papers outside the container and no standing on the bottom rail and leaning in! I will continue. I can give you a little info about what I found out about a local person getting whole inserts and who is selling them.
This person has made arrangements with a local publisher who gives their papers away for free. This person gets a huge amount, I was told and she asked for more. When I asked for a small amount to help out a local low income get started. I find it disgusting and a horrible not just to me and what Iwas trying to do. Sure she sorts through and packages them up.
But do the math! But to hoard up all the FREE papers and sell them? I find her actions greedy and I believe she is the type that is giving coupo0ning a bad name. Well, what she is doing is illegal.
This is NOT the sort of business to be getting into, period. There are so many other legitimate ways to make money — even regarding coupons! For instance, one can easily earn a small income teaching coupon classes. If you do the math. She is making I assume that the recycled materials belong to the company who collects the refuse. If there was a safe place that allowed me to look through their recycled papers, I would be willing to put forth the effort to do so.
When I volunteered at the local elementary where my children went to school, I had a great relationship with the faculty. I put a large envelope in the faculty lounge telling them that I was trying to stretch my budget by saving money with coupons and asked if they would be willing to bring in their unwanted inserts from the Sunday paper. Why put yourself in danger or possibly breaking the law when you can communicate with the owner s?
I get my coupons from friends who do not use coupons. Then in return maybe you can donate or give them something back like TP, soap, or other things that they might use. It is very simple to just ASK the place where you want to take the stuff out of their bin. When I worked at a restaurant a guy would come along with a pickup and take all the cardboard from the recycle box.
He had a route and said he made money off it. Well, good for him. The garbage company charges you extra if you need a second dumpster and this guy saved us the trouble. So ask first people. Angela, I love these posts you do that create interesting discussions. I learn so much about coupons, ethics, and people. Kudos for your well researched post. For the discussion: 1. I am inspired by EBT users who stretch their dollar with coupons; these savvy shoppers are survivalists!
Thanks for your comment, Carolyn! I believe this is how we grow and are challenged. I think I read a post was it here, Angela? Ang- I never thought twice about dumpster diving if I had to…. Getting caught in an otherwise locked area or where signage is posted, can end up getting you charged with trespassing. If dumpster diving is illegal or impossible in your area, there are always ways to secure more coupons. You can start by establishing a relationship with the stores you frequent.
If you are on a friendly basis with them, they may just give you access to coupons they are throwing out or let you rummage through the trash unbothered. While I do not dumpster dive, I find that being friendly to store associates and managers typically gives you a great advantage coupon-wise. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
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