I Survived 7 Days Only Dumpster Diving - Did it Work?

I'm surviving the next week only dumpster diving. Just to prove you can do anything. Starting with absolutely nothing. Now to help me along with this week-long journey, I'm only giving myself three things. A backpack, just in case if I need to carry anything, my phone, and the clothes on my back. So that means I'll be left with no food, no water, and no place to stay. And I'll just have to figure all that out within this week. But with that said, let's start the timer and let's get straight into this. Now listen, we're gonna start off with this dumpster first. I'm gonna crack this thing open and see what we got. Okay, hear me out. It looks like we got a bunch of hay and cans. This is actually a gold mine. This is actually huge. All these cans are just money. I need my backpack. This is why I needed a backpack. This literally just seems set up already. And by the way, listen, guys, I am doing this 100% legitimately. I am not faking this at all. I am literally gonna spend the next week dumpster diving. So like, I genuinely don't know where I'm gonna sleep. Now it's about like 9 a.m. right now. The best thing about this is I thought I was gonna have to go to a pawn shop or something at first just to try to sell whatever I get. Yes, it might be just 10 cents a can, but 10 cents adds up over time, baby. Oh my gosh, should I not bring a big enough backpack? And FYI, we got Pops on the camera right now. I don't know if he's going through this with me. No? I'll be sleeping at home while you're doing this. Okay, deal. I didn't even look in this dumpster yet when we started recording the intro. We got a lot. Dude. We got a lot. My backpack right now is full of cans. I don't think I can fit any more in there, but I think I'm just gonna empty this trash bag right here. I'm gonna take this trash bag with me. Oh my gosh, that one is so gross, but it's gonna have to do. But Joe, let's start loading this thing up. Dude, this is huge. What the plan is now, we're gonna go to a can return. We're gonna get some cash, and then on the way to wherever we go, we're gonna go through a couple more dumpsters and hopefully find some more cool stuff. All right, Joe, so listen. We got our bag full of cans. I got a backpack full of cans. Let's do this. Now, the reason I got my phone is so I can look up things, like what time stuff's open. Let's say I wanna list something on Facebook Marketplace or something, and I just realized that I'm gonna need a phone charger. Let's find out where we're gonna sleep tonight, and then we can worry about the phone charger. But let's open this one up, and we got absolutely nothing. Okay, we're gonna hit up this one, and then we're gonna backtrack and hopefully go to a can return. You gotta be kidding me. Absolutely nothing again? Don't do that to us. And there's nothing. Come on. I'm not gonna lie. These are the cleanest smelling dumpsters that I've ever smelled in my life because they have nothing in them. There is some over here, though. I got a good feeling about this one because there's something sticking right out of it. What do we got? Oh, that's a bunch of cardboard. Three, two, one. Hold up. Wait a minute. Hold up. Wait a minute. All right, I might hop in this one. I think we're behind the Old Navy store right now. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that is a ton and a ton of hangers. All right, here's the first dumpster. I'm actually hopping in it. Speak to me, baby. Please tell me I hopped in for a good reason. What's in this bag? This is Old Navy paying me back by not shopping at their place. Anything good in this one? Just looks like a bunch of Old Navy nothing bags, shipping bags. Hold the phone. Hold the absolute phone. There's something heavy in here. An ice pack. This dumpster was also a bust. I say it's on to the next one. And when I mean on to the next one, let's go return some of these cans. And if I find a dumpster along the way, I'll end up turning on the camera. See you guys soon. You coming with me? No. All right, guys, so listen, I've been walking for some time now. Dad ended up dipping out on me. So I'm just like walking right now by myself. He made it to the main road right now, but we got a party store that's gonna be right over here. How you doing? Surviving off a dumpster diving for like a straight week. So yeah, I'm going dumpster to dumpster and slowly surviving my entire week off a dumpster diving. Yeah, take it easy, man. Conner TV. Take care of him. But hallelujah, we just made it to the party store. And look at who decided to show up. Now we're on this camp. Let's get inside here. Fingers crossed I got a can return. Hello. Do you have a can return? You don't? Okay. Walmart? Okay, thank you. Well, just when you think you're about to touch down and be able to make some money, stuff hits the fan. I thought a party store would have a can return. I guess not. We got to go to Walmart, which is actually not too, too far. See you guys there. And we made it. So we are at Walmart. I just wanted to check these really quick just to see if Walmart had any dumpsters that I was able to go through. And it looks like no. The reason why is because they put locks on all their dumpsters. So I don't think we'll be able to get into those, but it was worth the check. Pretty sure all Walmarts. Oh my gosh, there's a bee. Only attack the people that's coming for me. I'm pretty sure every Walmart has a lock on their trash can. But yo, let's go return these things. How you doing? Hey, what's going on? Let's go in here and get some bread. Wow, it smells like actually really good inside here. What's up, man? Why is there always a B? I'm back! Look at that price. 61 cans. $6.10. Bada bing, bada boom. Let's go get our money, honey. Thank you so much. Have a good one. So this is what we have wrapped up into this challenge so far. $6.10. I don't know how to invest this yet. I'm trying to think what's the best way on how I can expand this $6 right now. I'm wondering if I should go in there, buy a case of pop, and then sell them each for like a dollar. This was an extremely hard decision. I wanted to invest the money to make it grow because I knew I could at least double it. But it would take time and I had to prepare for the night. I thought about what I should do for a while and I genuinely didn't know what to do. But what I do know right now, there's more dumpsters over here. Let's go dig through those things and maybe I'll end up getting an idea. But I'm adding this to the bank. But y'all, that is an extremely good sign. We are gonna go check this one out really quick. Seeing all these shoe boxes gives me hope. Now these might just be a bunch of empty boxes which, to be honest, it's kind of feeling like that. Yup. Bunch of empty boxes. We got another box. Shoe box. Nothing. What do we have in here? Shopping cart. Empty box. Empty box. This one seems promising. It's an empty box. I'm seeing absolutely nothing. Alright, let's go check this one really quick. We got absolutely nothing going on for us over here. I really thought we could find something good in these dumpsters, but I looked around for about 20 minutes and found absolutely nothing but trash. While I was looking though, I really focused on how I could expand this $6. Even though I felt like we needed more money before I could even start to invest it, so instead of buying anything, we made it to a dumpster that was a gold mine last time. Now I know that was a quick cut, but that's just because I wanted to spare you of hearing me complain about the weather for 30 minutes. Wow, it is pretty hot. It is a hot one. It's like extremely hot. Pretty hot one. So hot. There's Chick-fil-A right there. That sounds so good. It is hot. I swear. But we finally made it to the mall. We're jumping all the way up top, baby. You know what? I see a table over here. You know what? Wait a second. I see a mannequin. Dude, no flipping way. I'm taking this. I am definitely taking this. So check out what's up here really quick. We got a bunch of boxes, and I see a mannequin. This might be weird. I think I'm going to take this mannequin. I can totally sell those mannequin legs. Hold up. Wait a second. I think I see the head. Let's go, baby. I am walking away happy with that. We're going to try to sell this guy. And this is the main reason why I wanted my phone. Now this, this is gold. This is absolutely gold. Are you sure about that? I'm happy. I got my boy Peter right here. And the reason why his name is Peter is because that's his actual name right here, son. Now guys, hear me out. It is already almost 3 o'clock. I need this phone to stay alive. Having my phone die is going to be a huge issue. But really quick, I just looked up mannequin on Facebook Marketplace, and check this out. We got these crappy looking ones, but no. We talking about the real deal, baby. Where it at? That one's complete ish for $65. I say on Facebook Marketplace, we just list this thing for like $40 just to get this thing gone. We could potentially get more value, but this is where time matters. Holy smokes. Peter, you are tall, dude. And well, I took some pictures and listed them on Facebook Marketplace, and waited around for about 15 minutes. But I realized waiting around probably isn't the best way to use my time, so I came up with a different plan. I'm going to go hit up some sneaker stores on Instagram. There's this one called Mulligan's Vintage. They just opened up a store. I'm going to try to video call them and see maybe if they'd want it. This is going to be the weirdest thing. Yo, what's good? Yo, yo, what's up? I got a question. This is very strange. Do you need a mannequin? Is it male or is it? It's, yes. $45. Do $40 and I got you. Let's do it. I'm going to head up there right now. You are a legend. Let's go. Let's go. We just got this thing sold. Let's go. First one I called. First person. Me and Peter, we homies for life now. He said that he'll pay me $40. I tried to get him for $45, but you know what? $40 is the deal. I didn't even need to put that up on Facebook Marketplace. Cash, money, in hand. This is going to be fun walking. I'll meet you guys there. And it was time to hit the road. I didn't realize how difficult it was going to be carrying Peter around, but thanks to my backpack, I managed to make it work. Let's hit this. I got to go back and get the camera. I just wanted to do one of those cool transition things. We were getting close to the grocery store, but while I'm walking, I decided it'd be a good idea to go to McDonald's. I'm actually getting really hungry and I'm thirsty, and I'm really hot again. I'm also going to text Pops, have him come up here, and I'm going to have him film in the process, but I think I'm going to leave the legs right there. Oh, crap. I was just calling you. How you doing? You're already here. Nice. Going into this McDonald's, I was really cautious on how much I was going to spend. I thought this could be the cheapest meal I could find, even though the total was $3.17. And I kept thinking, I really don't know how I'm going to do this for a week straight. Not just am I not going to know how I'm going to do this for a week, I don't even know where I'm staying tonight. And that's like my big issue is where am I going to stay? Can I get a complimentary cup of water? Thank you. But we'll worry about that later, because the only thing I could focus on was how great this free water was. This cup is going to come in clutch for the entire trip. The reason why this is going to be my water bottle. And this is going to be my savior throughout the entire trip. Oh, you have no idea how happy I am. Now, listen, I would want to sit and eat, but I feel like we got to get a move on and get some cash for this thing. Let's get a move on, baby. I'll meet you there. You'll probably beat me there. Alright, guys, so I haven't really picked up the camera in a little bit, only because the main reason is it's kind of hard to record while I have my water cup and the mannequin and my McChicken in my hand. I actually see a bench right over here, and I think I'm just going to sit down and eat this really quick. This chicken sandwich, one of the best chicken sandwiches I've ever had. So I just finished my sandwich, and I just realized that this was probably a horrible angle. Let's not waste any time. Let's go to the sneaker store. I'm probably going to put the camera down for right now, just because it's really hard to carry everything, and I'll end up turning on the camera once we get there. Alright, guys, so we just made it to the place. That's where it is, right there. We got pops over here. Alright, but we're heading in right now. We are at the place called Mulligan's. Let's go inside and check this place out. Got the mannequin. I got the mannequin. How you doing, bro? Good, bro. How are you? Good to see you. This entire week, I'm surviving out of a garbage can, pretty much. That's lit. What have you hit? Cans, mannequin. That's pretty much been it. How long has it been since you started? Just today. That's why I don't stink right now. Catch me on, like, day four, I might be stinking. I could not tell you how happy I was selling this mannequin. This really gave me hope, and seeing cash in hand made me realize that this week-long journey could be possible. We literally turned trash into cash. But there was still a problem. I had no place to sleep. So, I brought this up to keep it. We just came up with a great idea. Alright, I was telling him about, like, my struggles on what I was gonna do for the night, but... What do you get for $19.95? Not really that much. U-Haul. I think it's a home on wheels, if you ask me. This is insane, okay? A U-Haul truck. I didn't even think about this. This is literally genius. Coming from the man, have you slept in one of these before? Um, day the fifth? So, hear me out. Right now it's about, like, 5 o'clock, and I wanna like, prepare for the night. Now, I was looking around on my phone for, like, motels, and to be honest, I just feel like they're gonna be way too expensive. And honestly, I really think the U-Haul truck is, like, the best idea. So, check this out really quick. You can rent all these right here for $19.95. And guess what, baby? Hear me out. It kinda looks like a lot, and, you know what? It is a lot. We got some change, too. So, right now, we're sitting at $42.93. This is a come up, okay? This is huge. So, pretty much, if I were to get one of these trucks to sleep in, I wanna say we'll probably be left with, like, 20 bucks left throughout the night. But, I mean, with tax and there's something I gotta keep in mind. It's 80 cents a mile for every mile I drive. So, I'm gonna try my hardest not to really drive anywhere, even though it would be nice to, like, stop at some other dumpsters. But, I mean, walking around, we're finding some. It's just all the walking. Like, literally, I felt like I wasted all of today just from walking. But, listen, let's go through this dumpster really quick and then head to the U-Haul place. He has no idea what kind of luxury he has right now driving around in this car all day. Let's go check this thing out really quick. What do we have in here? Do we have more bottles? You gotta be kidding me. That's insane. Okay, I don't know if we should end up grabbing those. What the heck is this? So, Hot Wheels? Check this thing out. There's, like, a Hot Wheels thing. Peel to win. Get a code. I don't know. If you guys wanna do that, enter that code. See if you win anything. Not seeing too much. Just actual trash. Is that vinyl? Okay, you know what? I'm just gonna throw it in my backpack. I'm just gonna throw it in there because why not? Everything has potential value, okay? I don't let anything slide. Hold the phone. What the heck is this bag? Dude, that's nasty. I know it's nasty, but what the heck is this? What is this? You, like, put it in your finger or something? We got a solid seven of these things right here. I'm gonna have to look these things up. Again, I'm throwing them in my backpack. I don't know what they are, but I'm gonna look them up, see how much they're worth. We gotta get to the U-Haul place. I think they're, uh, gonna be closing soon. Who knows? Maybe this could help pay for the U-Haul truck. So, alright, I'll see ya. You have absolutely no idea how happy I am just seeing this. Tell me why this is so beautiful. This is amazing. This right here does not look like a truck you can rent for $19.95. This looks like a hotel on wheels. Let's just say it's about to go down, baby. Look at this. There's a can. Hello. Is it- anybody, uh, taking this right here? Okay, is it cool if I take it? It's just an empty can. Okay. Uh, can I rent a cargo van? Sure. You're gonna be $34.82. Okay, perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Thank you. Your truck is in lane H. Lane H? Yep. Okay. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Appreciate it. Take care. Let's go. We got it. I did not expect to pay that much for it. It was a little bit more than I expected because you had to already pay for the miles on it, which I paid for 10 miles. But, yo, let's go check out this hotel. Come on. Lane H, baby. What's up? What's up? And, well, we did it. Words could not describe how accomplished and happy I was that we found a place to sleep for the night. As simple as it sounded, just renting a van, nothing could feel more rewarding than this. This is amazing. So, it was time to hit the road. What's up, son? Oh my gosh. Welcome to my crib, baby. I can't believe we did this in a day. Here's my plan. I'm gonna end up driving somewhere right now. On the way there, if I see any dumpsters, I'm stopping. This is how much money we have now. That was like half our bankroll. Yeah. But, on the plus side, we do have a place to sleep. I can tell you, I might be regretting buying this right now, but at the same time, at nighttime, I'm gonna be thanking myself. Just to be in a car is just sick. I have, like, I feel like I can go anywhere now. So, I'll see you guys wherever we go next. And, sure enough, I found some dumpsters. I was just driving, saw an apartment complex, and I thought, you know what, there's gonna be some dumpsters here. And there's, like, some weird-looking thing over there. I gotta check that thing out and see what it is. Alright, let's go check this thing out. What the heck even is this? Dude, that is a mini washing machine. Think I'm taking this thing. I'm gonna look that thing up on Facebook Marketplace, see how much that thing's going for. Wow, this trash smells actually really good. Not too, too much in here. Hold up. What's up, baby? Is that an outlet right there? We literally have an outlet right here. So, we're gonna see if this washing machine works. This literally worked out perfect. What we got in here? This one stinks. I think that's a returnable right there. Dude, people are just throwing out money over here. Hold the fucking phone, dude. Dude, people are throwing out all types of cans. This right here is the Fiberware Professional blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, something, something. That's exactly what this thing is. This thing sells for $330 flipping dollars. Dude, let's say I get a hundred bucks for this thing. I'm happy. That right there is two days, two nights in the U-Haul. Plug in the sucker in. Tell me you work. We have a working mini washing machine right here. This just sealed the deal. I'm so happy we just got that U-Haul truck. I'm taking this thing. These are coming with us too. Not gonna lie, I saw a dumpster that was like two feet away from the ones that we were just at. Let's open it up, baby. What the flip is that? That's a bumper. We're not gonna take the bumper. What the heck is that? Is that a flipping door? There's literally a door in here. If I really wanted to, I would grab that thing, but I am not. There's one more right here. Oh my gosh. This one is crazy packed. Holy smokes. Wait, what is this? Is that a jacket? That's a flipping jacket. I'm taking that. Yo, check this out though. That's a nice crate. That's gonna be a perfect crate for my pop cans. What is that? What is that? Check this out really quick. This is like some kind of box, but for the most part that sucker is locked. Just like that. As I said, this sucker is open. Really confused on what this is used for. Go down in the comments right now. Tell me what you think this is used for. I doubt those are inside the box. I don't think there's any golf clubs. Yeah. Completely empty. What is this? What the heck is that? Thumbs up? What is that? I've never heard of it. That is like a super old coke bottle or something. Check this out. This is like a thumbs up bottle. Check this out. Someone has this thing up for 40 bucks right now. Shut up, dude. Someone actually, there's one sold for 20 bucks. If someone buys it for 5, 10 bucks, I'm happy. We're taking it. I definitely say we made out today. I wanna get to the spot where we're going though because the sun's starting to go down. So I'm just gonna load this stuff up and I'll meet you guys there. And this right here is gonna be home for at least the night. We might end up having to be here tomorrow but we're out here in the parking lot. This is home. Take care. Thanks for helping me film. Alright, you guys. I'm gonna go in here and I'm gonna list everything on Facebook. Alright, guys. So the sun is actually starting to go down right now. And it just hit me. Like while I was sitting here on my phone posting everything. I'm starving. Literally the last thing I ate was that McChicken. That was a couple of hours ago. And we're back, baby. I got my cans. And I got my cup. Because they're gonna have a drinking fountain here. And I'm definitely filling this thing up. Alright, guys. So I'm gonna be able to get this right here. This iPhone charger. Two things of ramen noodles. And I think I'll be left with a dollar something. I'm budgeting like crazy. Also, I'm about to go fill my water up. They have a drinking fountain over here. So I'm gonna use that. And let's not go broke. I love ramen noodles. I can eat ramen noodles every day of the week. And we don't even need water for them. And I'll show you guys how. But we made it home. Let's go, baby. This is what you do. You gotta just shake the chicken seasoning inside the packet just like that. Crunch it all into like small little ramen noodle chips. Pinch the top of the bag. And you shake. And then that right there, my friend, is a beautiful ramen noodle chip. That is so good. I don't know what it is. Moving around, not thinking about food. I don't get hungry at all. But as soon as I sit down and start to relax, that's when it hits me. By the way, we have absolutely no views on our listing right now. And it's around 9 o'clock. I put the listing up for $1.20 on this washing machine. And we currently have no views. But it's 9 o'clock. And in the meantime, I'm gonna enjoy my ramen noodle chips. And I'm probably gonna lay down for a little bit. And I will get back to you guys soon. It is so hard to sleep in this thing. It is freezing. I keep having to turn the car on. And this jacket is not doing that much. I tried to use it as a pillow. But my feet are freezing. I'm freezing. To be completely honest, I might end up sleeping in like the passenger side seat. Even though they don't recline. This kind of sucks. This really sucks. So I think for tomorrow, I'm just gonna try to like wake up super early. And try to just go through a bunch of dumpsters. And go to some pawn shops. And just try to make as much money as I can. So I'm able to like get a hotel room or something. Cause this sucks. This actually sucks. I thought this was such a good idea. I should just get like an extremely big blanket. Or something. Cause this sucks. Good morning. That was the worst night. So right now, it is currently 7. And it does not feel like 7. I thought I was gonna be able to sleep in the back. But I just ended up sleeping in this chair. I'm gonna have to call around and see what like the cheapest hotel is. Hopefully we can end up selling this washing machine. This is all we have right now. $3.28. And I am getting pretty hungry right now. And I think the best place to end up eating is gonna be somewhere free. My goal is to end up staying in a place like this. Now this is what I'm talking about. Look who decides to pull up. I don't know if Target puts locks on theirs. Are you kidding me? Alright, so that actually worked. Amazing. Huge shout out to Holiday Inn for the free breakfast. That is absolutely legendary. But now, it's time to drive this thing. And I just thought of a place that I think might be pretty good to dumpster dive in. And yo guys, so we are in the back of Best By right now. And by the way, I got some gloves. Shout out to Holiday Inn again. But yo, we're gonna hop in this one. So far, from the top it doesn't look like too much of anything. But I'm gonna dig around for a second. I did find a potato. Is that a pair of gloves? Hold up. That's a glove right there. I might end up taking that. Because these gloves kinda suck. Look at this. I just found a pair of gloves. I'm gonna put these gloves over these gloves. Collect the glass. What is this right here? Oh! Oh! That's huge. That's huge. Let's flip and go baby. Let's flip and go baby. It's a flip and door handle. For a hall closet. Let's go. That is a brand new door handle for a hall closet. That is like perfect. Why is someone throwing that out? Look at what I just saw down there. You see this? Hold up. Hold up. I just got so excited. But it's a broken golf club. I'm flying up out of here. I got a door knob. A brand new pair of gloves. That one right there says cardboard only. It's probably a bunch of cardboard. I'm seeing a bunch of cardboard, cardboard. That's a bunch of cans. Like I was saying, I am still getting cans. Okay. I am always on the lookout for cans. And boom. We made it to the next ones. Speak to me. What we got in here? Barnes and Noble. Wait a sec. Recyclable only. So it looks like a bunch of cardboard. Okay. Never mind. What we got in this one then? This is all the books. Nope. This one actually just looks like a bunch of trash. How about this blue one over here? I usually have good luck with the blue one. What do we have in here? What is this? It's like a refrigerator rack. We got a bunch of these things over here. They're all broken. What else we got? Wait a second. Wait a dang second. Hold up. Dude. No, no, no. Did we just hit the biggest lake? Wait a second. Dude. Dude. This is unreal. Wait a second. All of these boxes. Every single This. Oh my god. This is huge.