31 of the Most Memorable Items Trash Collectors Have Found

You’ve probably heard the old cliche, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” It’s meant to be more of a metaphor about how different people value different things. In the case of this specific Reddit thread, though, it’s often 100 percent literal.

When you want something out of your life, you throw it in the trash. Even then, though, there’s one last person who gets a glance at it as an owned item: the garbagemen and women of this fine country. It might be something that’s in fact plenty valuable, in which case, it’s their lucky day. It may be something incredibly disturbing or gross, in which case, not so much. 

Find examples of both below from Reddit’s trash collectors…