[shelbylovesmelby]

My mom was a diver, she collected cans & coupons from the trash. I didn't mind that she did it, but it was embarassing as a tween-teen to have someone mention they saw your mom dive'n in their trash. I would go with her sometimes when I was a kid, I don't know why I stopped or why I went with her in the first place. I'll tell ya our car was nasty from the smell of can's, not that it was anything worth looking @ anyway. But it was what my mom used to suppliment her income before Recycling everything became the standard & diving was a "no-no"

I did it when I was 12 w/ a friend for the soda cans and used the money I got from the cans to buy myself a new bike.

One of my friends, mother used to dive in the back of the grocerystore dumpster for meat.

My mom's cousin used to dive to get coupon sections out from the gas station dumpsters. Her & my aunt used to get some decent cut flower boquets from the garden centers trash.