Ah, sweet! Scavenging usable material... gotta love it! The only dumpstering experience I've had was with food, and the differences are night and day between the US / Canada on one hand where dumpsters are overflowing with luxurious, delicious and healthy foods, places like Germany / Hungary on the other, where you're less likely to find good stuff, and are more likely to get in trouble with the authorities, and finally Mexico / Hungary (yeah, places overlap), where you are bound to be confronted by other professional scavengers on whose turf you are treading.

This is not meant to be a criticism, by the way. Please tell me more, keep writing some cool posts about these ways towards freedom. I'm super excited to read them, and yes, hopefully soon I hope to be on the less traveled path again. :-) At the moment the paths I'm traveling are teeming with folks who don't even know there is path under their feet... :-(