In this era of ever-rising prices and not enough disposable income to go around, finding a good deal is everything. While for many this means couponing and waiting on seasonal sales, for example, ...

When I saw my friend Jackie post about going dumpster diving, aka the practice of obtaining food from trash dumpsters, my first thought was: What new hell are we going through in this country where ...

Talk about a filthy habit. A cost-conscious woman who ditched a good job to pursue her passion for dumpster diving claims to have saved $50,000 on clothing and other essentials in just two years.

On social media, the scene plays out again and again: people plunging into dumpsters and finding discarded treasures like luxury purses, video games and brand-new makeup kits. In recent years, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image collage containing 3 images, Image 1 shows Janet Kalish, Image 2 shows Cindy Rosin, Image 3 shows Hands pulling food from ...

One person’s trash is another person’s holiday treasure. A poverty-stricken mom says she’s resorted to “dumpster diving” to procure Christmas presents for her young son — and has already found $240 ...

For most people, dumpster diving might sound extreme but for Emelie Watson and her family eating food discarded in bins is ...

When I first heard about a woman who had turned her lifelong habit of dumpster diving into a business, I had a lot of questions. Don’t you? Although I shop for deals, and have scored some great finds, ...

“My girlfriend tells me I smell like trash,” says Colin West. And he takes that as a compliment. West spends 40 to 60 hours a week scuba diving Lake Tahoe to locate and remove submerged trash. On the ...