As one of the US’s leading house cleaning companies, Maid Service Potomac has seen its fair share of weird and wonderful waste over the years.
Trash collection men and women can claim the same, and we found a wonderful collection of stories on Thought Catalog from the trash man relating to what they’ve found over the years…
“I was a driver for a large company with green trucks. People will throw ANYTHING away. Skinned sheep heads. Gigantic, soiled sex toys. Deer stomachs. One house had 15 bags of nearly-new, designer clothes in the trash each week for almost a month.
Move-out piles
“Move-out piles were the worst. People would toss out what seemed like the entire contents of the house, and it would take us 15 minutes to load the truck, then we would fill up early and have to run to the landfill, and it would screw the whole day.”
Or how about this one, Maid Service Potomac points out. “One dumpster I get always has skinned raccoons in it, it had a deer hide in it for a few months because it was frozen to the bottom.
“Another dumpster was completely filled up with onions. nothing else, just onions. This house is way out in the middle of nowhere.”
Too much milk
“Schools are terrible because apparently they don’t dump their excess milk down the drain so there is always a good 3 inches in the bottoms of certain dumpsters. 3 inches of cheese when it’s hot.”
“I work for a biohazard company. One time I went to pick up waste from a hospital and there was a 2 week old leg sticking out of a container.”
Then, there are the things that people throw out that later turn out to be extremely valuable. Lego, for example, and even unopened boxes of cereal—yes, you read that right. Out there are people who will pay $100 for some of the unusual cereals and packaging that emerged in the 1980s and 90s.
Bad films
Old VHS copies of bad films are another collector’s item. Videos have been given the same nostalgia rinse as vinyl—yes, there are far better ways to watch a film, but why not re-create your teens at the same time with a video cassette (and that old memory from Blockbuster, where they instructed you to return the rental film tapes rewound). One video tape of Tales From the Quadead Zone, a 1987 horror film that went straight to VHS fetched almost $700 at auction. Because it’s so rare and terrible (the plot makes no sense) experts on video collection say it could fetch up to $2,000 today.
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