Dumpster Diving Denmark: Vintage Treasures & Crafting Supplies Galore 

My first sewing machine is from a large item pickup in rural Ontario. It's the kind of thing that was someone's gran's that they had no idea what to do with! It's a 1946 Singer featherweight and it had its intact carrying case, feet and the booklet. It still works really beautifully and I'm glad it didn't go to the garbage cause I love it

I love love love love the hunt of finding things in thrift stores, garage sales or estate sales. In college, I legit furnished my entire first apartment with roadside or you move it you take it finds. Loved watching this video! Also, the doggo footage was just the needed bit of joy that we all need ❤️

I'm so glad you saved the clock ! Unfortunately here recycling centers won't let you put usable stuff in a "to donate" spot. I once brought a table and the guy was like "I'm gonna smash it into pieces to make sure no one takes it home". I brought the table back home. I haven't gone thrifting much lately, but my kids had a gorgeous day bed we found in a thrift shop.

I used to dumpster dive when I was a kid. I'd jump into the dumpster that belonged to a local fabric shop. It was right behind a friend's house. My dolls were super well-dressed with all😮the clothes I made them from what I'd get from there.

the Beverly Hillbillies was SO appropriate!

a lot of places here in the USA, its against the law to dumpster dive. A lot of the dumpsters are behind a fence with lock on it. I do love to go to rummage, garage, and estate sales. love your videos

My Grandad was a dedicated 'skip diver' best thing he ever found for me was a solid Stirling Silver pair of opera glasses that date to C. 1890s from the makers mark. We were building a tardis in the garden that summer because we were obsessed with Dr. Who, and he thought they'd be cool to stick on the bit of wood that was our tardis pannel. They were tied onto the panel with string for an eintire summer 😂 then when we dismantled the pannel we realised what they were. I ended up cleaning and restoring them, grandad got the lenses replaced for me for that Christmas because they were hella scratched , and I now take them to the theatre with me when I want to be fancy.

Dumpster Diving is my favorite thing to do in the summertime. I've done it for years and I am not a hoarder. I've gotten the best stuff ever from them. The best places to go to are the rich parts of town. They are the funnest!😄👍

I love thrifting like you. I volunteer in a thrift store and love it.

I love watching your ideos. I'm almost 78 and not able to dumpster dive. I walk with a walker and it's difficult to get around. Thank you for sharing your adventures. God bless you my friend. Happy diving!❤❤

Love your varied videos. Better yet, your friendly personality sell the subjects. Can't get over your wealth of knowledge plus the fact you are a skilled circus performer

Firstly: thank you for Overly Happy Corgi in the snow. Twas delightful. :) Secondly: Your friend who was helping you is hilarious. Thirdly: I'm now wondering how difficult it would be to move to Copenhagen just for the dumpster diving opportunities....

I love dumpster diving and skip. One persons trash is another persons treasure. Im in the UK x

Learning to recycle, compost, remake, up-cycle and reuse was simple for me; because, all I had to do was go back to my parents' and grandfather's teaching from the farm.

Looks like your dog is searching for treasure for you. Super cute!

I have found so many awesome things at the curb and dumpsters. I have so many solid wood pieces in my house that cost me absolutely nothing! I always laugh at the timing of things, like one time I was saying I need to find more jelly jars for canning-a few days later I found a milk crate full of them at the thrift store in the dumpster!

My best treft was my leater couch in beautiful beige color, and it was almost new! To small for the new house the lady said.... perfect for my tiny house!😊

That is a massive haul! Also snow Cannelle is everything I need in life 😍 The best thing I've ever rescued from the side of the road is definitely a pedal powered sewing machine in its cabinet.

That pup is so adorable!

I, too, am a dumpster diver. Construction dumpsters are my favorite-- lots of wood good enough for building projects. I have had the police come a couple of times (called by a neighbor?). They are understanding of my desire to keep good stuff out of the waste stream and they let me keep what I've already removed, but tell me to move on. According to them/the law, the contents of the dumpster still belong to the person(s) who put them there, even if the intent is to get rid of them. OK, I kind of understand that... but it hasn't stopped me yet!

I love that you are so resourceful and considerate at the same time about article of clothings that others could use. You are also very handy in addition to your circle performing skills. You are amazing. Thank you for sharing your videos. Great job Shannon.

Those were great finds!! I especially love the black and white geometric fabric you found! The best find I ever had was when I responded to an ad on Facebook marketplace for free fabric and the guy gave me a truckload of free fabric!! My mom and I both sewing so we split it up between us and then we donated some to people that needed the fabric.

Stop it, Shannon! In my youth I delighted in picking up all kinds of stuff to re-use, some of which I did use for something, and much of which I eventually had to get rid of myself. You are giving me the itch to go on the hunt again.

Lots of good finds there, so my inner hoarder was happy for you) And at the same time my inner Mari Kondo was a bit concerned))

Man, I'd love to see community recycling/giveaway centers in my area. So much gets thrown out. I've trash picked several things, but a designated spot would be great.

We've cobbled together enough doors to replace our internal doors from skips locally, so we can have original doors reinstalled.My fave nightie, fave thermal top, our waste paper bins, over door hooks.

You are fun Girlfriend! I cannot ignore beautiful furniture legs, fabric especially velvet, and useful household items! Thank you for your fun hunts. I subscribed right away.

My best bring home from heavy trash pickup was a weathered yet very sturdy church pew found in upscale neighborhood.

I'm so glad you saved the clock. :) Thanks for the tour of residential Copenhagen, in the bargain. God bless you, keep up the good work/videos/helping save the plant. :)

Thank you for sharing!

Once a dumpster-diver/curb-scorer, *Always* a dumpster-diver/curb-scorer!! The best place I've Ever lived for scoring "trash", out of the 8 different states and many more cities within that I've lived, was Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Slate sidewalks that felt like arrowroot/cornstarch or 'butta' under bare feet, and real-original to the town gas lamps that Disney has never stopped trying to buy from the town. No alleyways in super old East Coast towns like that, so it was curb-scoring. I was there 25 yrs ago and just in time for elders to give up their homes. Very sadly but goodly for me as a detour for their treasured belongings, there was a big flux in generational deaths with grandparents passing on and their kids tossing what didn't sell in the estate sales. I'm sure many had settled retirement homes for remaining parents too, before contending with 80-100 yrs of worldly possessions. Not only are antiques and vintage much more common out there as older settled states, but by the end of it the people handling the belongings were not about to worry about worth-especially if the home was also going up for sale as well. It was a unique experience living in an ancient town while this was going on! I was out there because I moved to San Francisco alone and ended up hating it due to it being massively gentrified with no rent control at break neck speed, while hundreds of people lived on the street. A Minneapolis friend that I met there in my hometown, called me in SF after he went back there to his hometown. Exactly as I described had gone on and he was living in his grandparent's empty Victorian while it was being renovated and invited me out. I lasted 2 months in SF and over 2 Years in NJ! But his mother was a wealthy psychiatrist and used to take us in her van on trash day because she loved "treasure hunting", as she called it. But usually we were on foot and the majority of the time we were working against Other wealthy ladies in mini vans who were out doing the same! So- long story long....You never "used to" trash scavenge. You either did or didn't because of worrying what others would think and chose to sacrifice the Awesomeness!! Thanks for the venture!

I hope you still have that old sewing machine and typewriter! Fabulous pieces of machinery! (I have similar pieces! ) 😁

In my village, we have one clean-up day in spring and one in the fall. Items can only be placed on the curb the night before the clean-up day. Neighbors go out after dark to examine and go thru the treasures . The neighborhood teenagers are hired for half a day. They get donuts, pop, and pizza to keep them fueled up.

I could watch so many more adventures in dumpster-diving; this was so much fun! I'm very interested in the Danish system. Where I live, the street layout is fairly cramped (Victorian tenements) and our recycling and general waste disposal set-ups aren't great. I'm still trying to figure out what determines the timing of the emptying of the communal packaging recycling bins; I think it might have something to do with the phases of the moon... It was lovely seeing what treasure you found in the trash; thanks for taking us with you!

Just found your channel and subscribed. I am a maker, but I love that you recycle. And most of all you travel and bring Cannelle (sp?) with you even to Denmark. My brother lives or has lived in Denmark for over 50 years. Love your channel.

Yestetday I picked up 10 yards of a navy purple white modern print and 4 yards of garnet fabric. Plus two beautiful Japanese style bedspreads. One white bedspread. A haul. My best ever find was 6 feet of solid front cabinets, which I have here in this room.

I'm always scavenging flower pots and nursery packs ro reuse in my own little greenhouse but the absolute best find was four of the $30 hanging baskets from a local nursery just lying alongside the road. We assume they fell off the truck when they navigated a sharp turn but nevertheless made excellent mother's day gifts at a time when we were too broke to buy anything other than a card. Also found a high dollar circular saw in a case in the middle of a freeway. However the owner showed up and after describing the saw I handed it back to him. He was so happy that his saw was safe and sound that he gave me $50 for rescuing it.

Thank God, I thought it was just me doing that😆

I'm watching this trying to figure out why people are throwing away such nice things, like the hardly used iron and nice white curtains. Super awesome that you found them though!

You are amazing I got some smaller living rm furniture many yrs ago ❤

The number of treasures you find in dumpsters is astonishing! I wonder why people throw some perfectly usable things like candles or clothes... And I'd like so much to do something similar but, here in Swizerland, there are very strict rules about leaving stuff next to dumpsters and on the sidewalk so I can't do that. When I was little, there still were days of collecting heavy trash/furniture/miscelanous, and my grandparents salvaged the most adorable rocking horse for my cousins and I, and my mum found a whole bunch of tapes of a singer for children that I adored.

Copenhagen is such a beautiful city and the people seemed really nice. Great food, good walking, and more. If you were going to be quarantined someplace, that was a great spot! Wonderful finds and yes, you were right to save them from the trash.

Wow. Just Wow. I'm blown away by all the wonderful things you found. And wool. You found wool!!!!! I thought I was good purchasing most of my craft and sewing supplies from thrift store, but I must declare you the Thrift Hunting Queen. I wish we had that kind of recycling culture in Canada.

we do a similar thing here in france, the day before the big items garbage removal, people put stuff outside but there are a lot of people who drive by in vans to take things they can resell, it's a bit annoying.

A woman of my heart ! Exactly what I do, love the hunt and giving somethings another chance at a new life ! Well done , do a follow up an what you have made some of the things into !!!

BEST INTERLUDE EVA! ahem.. nice haul and I look forward to seeing what you do with some of those fabrics....

Hi, I've been looking in dumpsters since 1972. Shopping rummage sales, etc. since I was a kid. People in the US toss great stuff. Tina, Al's wife

I know it’s an older video but more people should watch this. Did the clock move back over seas with you or find a new home in Denmark? My sewing room couch was out next to the dumpsters behind the thrift store and I got to take it home for free, a kind worker even put it up and tied it down to my car. I wish my country (US) was more strict/broad with their recycling some areas don’t do it or are like “sure you can recycle electronics …if you have to pay for the dumpster and get a permit to put it somewhere”. My area has recycling but doesn’t do anywhere near enough of it, way too many say food items are packaged in non recyclable (here at least) materials, so frustrating.

A woman after my own heart as we say in England! Yes!! Treasure hunting is SO satisfying!!! My entire fabric stash is from our local charity shop which is a last-call-before-landfill one, and I am currently in the middle of hand stitching a huge kawandi-style scraps quilt with every colour in it under the sun. The trouble is I find I outgrow my space quite quickly and find it hard to let go the least amazing finds as in MY imagination I’ll use it all - one day 😅

Incredible finds!

I walk a lot and on trash days I will often see things I think are to good to end up in the land fill, so I bring them home. I found all kinds of things,from furniture to clothes to decorative items, I've even found money that people have thrown away, mostly coins, but I found a book with paper money in it once. So I always check books now, even if I don't want the books. People throw away all kinds of things here. Love the happy corgi footage. Thanks for that.

I just found your channel and subscribed so I’m way late to the conversation. Does anybody remember the big Goodwill donation containers outside of various stores? My grandma lived and worked right next door to a corner market (literally 25 feet away), and they had a Goodwill donation container. My cousins and I would get in it and go through everything. Mostly clothes that we would play dress up with. I wish they still had them. Certainly made it easier to donate.

You are my new favourite thing❤🎉❤

Wow, I found a soul mate. I'm doing that for decades.

OMG what some wonderful hauls!

Those are incredible finds!! Never really got into the dumpster diving since it's illegal in the countries I've lived in (Germany and Finland) and I shy away from the confrontation with residents, shop owners and the police. But I love going to the second hand store or recycling centre and get almost anything there from clothing, over sewing supplies to kitchen equipment.

I can’t believe what people throw away!!!😱 Wonderful!!!

This reminded me I need to go down to the metal container to get the beaten copper sheets out that I saw two days ago..wonder if someone else might have snagged it or the container has been emptied

Great find

Years ago I salvaged a wooden folding stool (with tattered canvas seat) off the curb & took it home, getting a few strange looks from people on the subway & GO train. But Canadians, so no comments. Best find was a clutch of plastic dress hangers with wide shoulders - perfect for drying tops. Found a wine box like yours & it works beautifully as a riser in my kitchen shelving. And last year, a table desk! And why does it always rain or snow on big garbage items? 😍 it does here in Canada too.

Nice result!

I love this so much!

Great job!

Such a cute doggie 😍

That was so much fun! It’s great how your dog is all nice and calm all around, but when it’s playtime, she goes for it. So, no snow in Copenhagen. I had always imagined a lot of snow there, maybe because of that book from some time ago, Smila’s Sense of Snow. Then I looked on the map and realized where it didn’t snow there much. How cool is that. Also we lived in the Northern part of Germany for a while and though it was overcast and drizzling, it didn’t really snow.

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Sometimes I see people throwing things that they could have sold, that makes me cry, specially last year after a good friend past away, her children and grand children rocked up, I was shocked at how much they took to our local tip, it was the first time I could not bring myself to go there, so much of it should have gone to our local Op-Shop/Thrift Store but it never got there. Now I see her once spotless garden in such a sorry state, she was so proud of her garden it was always trimmed and neat.

Molto, molto, molto interessante...quanti tesori belli e utili hai salvato! È triste la realtà che tante cose preziose o in buono stato e magari ancora nuove vengano buttate via....per fortuna ci sono persone come noi (anch'io recupero e riciclo😃 quando posso😅). Bisogna imparare a comprare solo ciò che è necessario ed è molto conveniente e divertente visitare i mercatini dell'usato.

I was in Copenhagen a month ago and was wondering about the recycling scene there, so this was very interesting!

Wow that clock is beautiful! Me and my mum once saw some crystal glasses next to a dumpster but I was like meh I don't want to carry them around while taking a walk, let's see if they are still there when we come back! Obviously they weren't... And I still feel very bad about that!

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In my neighborhood we use BuyNothing app. I saw in one of your videos (one with making that gorgeous cape) you use that app to ask for scraps of fabrics, so you are familiar with the app. People “ASK” and people “GIVE” basically everything, from pieces of furniture, appliances to even a bag of opened potato chips. I admire what you are doing, but you have exceptional physical ability, not everyone is “apt” to such a task. In my area we have rats and raccoons, I would be terrified thinking that I might disturb a family of those in the dumpster and they might not like it. So, I strongly recommend to use the app and avoid diving into a dumpster 😉😛

Just started watching what do you make with the fabrics you find

Hi shannon, About your rule for picking up discarded things. Goodwill end savers, etc. Have so much coming in To their locations that they pay millions of dollars for dump fees Each year. There's just too much Stuff in our culture. I say, Make good use of good stuff.

❤🎉🎉🎉way to go Now you have a House👍👏👏👏👏💪👏🙏🙏🙏

I've never gone dumpster diving per say, but I did once find one of those big flat 18th century style hats in a pile of stuff on the sidewalk that clearly wasn't being used anymore.

Corgis have the cutest bottoms. Whenever I see them from behind I think of a BBL (Brazilian butt lift) 😂

I did not know we (Denmark) was the leading country in recycling😂 I do (vaguely) know that our bottle return system is fairly unique, but not sorting your trash seems so weird to me...

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It's crazy what people throw away

Brb planning to move to Denmark 😂😂😂😂 Coolest thing I ever got from the trash was my personality /j 😂😂 Really, I dunno. I think one of the coolest things I ever found in the trash was a 1921 Singer 101 treadle machine...that WORKED, and was only missing like, the foot and the paint was pretty much all stripped away and the desk had seen better days. But man, that was a DAY. I might've been like, 14 or 15?

Wow, this looks like so much fun 👍😊 I have never dumpster dived, but I would definitely go thrifting 😊

Bonjour, Canelle semble s'amuser beaucoup davec cette neige lol... est-ce que vous vivez dans deux appartements, un ici et un a montreal?sinon comment faites vous les transferts? Cannelle s'adapte bien avec ces voyages inter-continentales? Moi aussi je suis reconnu pour trouver des tresors au bord des routes ou dumpsters lol2 matelas neufs( dumpster d'un magasin de matelas lol) , sofa en cuir... et j'en passe lol... merci pour tes merveilleux videos!

When I'm between gainful employment, I've repeatedly used dumpstering to help me pay the bills. It can take a couple weeks to flip some items through posting online, and you need the storage space to hold them - but a knowledge of what stuff is worth locally, and a willingness to write proper descriptions with measurements - and it can be profitable. At one point in my life, I took a long distance bus for an appointment in my old neighbourhood, with the expectation that I'd also be picking up a check, and that check would buy me my return ticket. (Cost, 3 hours min wage work at the time) Got there, the person who had the keys to the safe wasn't there. "We're not going to be able to give you your cheque today. Sorry. We'll pay to mail it expedited." Efff.... So I go around my old neighborhood, poking in the dumpsters that were most likely to contain the two things I knew I could flip immediately. (As opposed to my usual furniture - which can take a couple weeks, and requires dragging home and storing). Books, or DVDs. (The chances of finding alcohol bottles was slim, there's a number of regular pickers who come for those) Got lucky that day, and found about 20 lb of books, and a DVD that the used book store might pay for. Carried them the 15 blocks, and I earned JUST enough to cover my ticket and a slice of super cheap pizza. Then I got the phone call that the person had left the keys for the safe with someone else - and if I could come back - they'd get me my cheque. I wouldn't have been nearby still, had I not had to earn my ticket money. I've had cooler and better paid finds, but that was my most "arse-saving" one.

Some people were dumpster diving and heard whimpering coming from a trash bag, and assumed they found a puppy in the dumpster ☹️ Turns out it was a live human baby. 💔 ( Since adopted into a loving home, 👍❤️🙂🍀and mom went to jail.) All on cameras.

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I spy a Singer 128 hand crank 👍🏼😍

If Denmark is so fastidious about recycling, I'm dumbfounded that people actually throw away perfectly good stuff. Why aren't they donating it to thrift stores? Here in my small town in Canada, you would never find anything like you do! I'm envious

Those "funky" jaw bones are the lower jaws of a cat.

You should get a little cart and attach to the dog. 🎉❤

CUTENESS YOU TWO!

That’s it, I am moving.

Hey, shannon, how did you get from Nova Scotia to Denmark.? I'm a little confused.

Rewatching.

I know this is an old video and I'm hoping you've learned since then, but please be careful with any usb that you find, they can have viruses on them and it might not be worth the risk. the IT department at the library I work at is big on making sure everyone knows to never put an unknown or even a customer's usb in a staff only computer. cybersecurity is important

So ive just thought - this is illegal in the UK, at least that is what I was told!

Ï love toi corgy !!

What brand of 3 wheeled bike are you using and did it come with the huge basket ??

Im too worried about bed bugs to go dumpster diving.

So, I have to wonder: did you have to ship all this stuff back to the us when you came home?