Move Out Piles
Reddit user Phantom Scarecrow had found what they called in the trash collecting business as move-out piles. And they made a killing selling some of these items on eBay.
“Weirdest- A whole, skinned sheep head. A GIGANTIC, filthy dildo. Entire rooms full of furniture. (We called them “Move-out piles”, because it looked like the people were moving out of the house and just threw everything away.) 18 large trash bags of brand-name clothing, at the same house, three weeks in a row. (18 each week.)
Coolest- a big box of brand-new Rolling Rock Beer embossed metal signs, which I sold on Ebay for almost $400. Two beautiful 1950s pastel-colored sewing machines, one turquoise, one coral pink, with all their accessories. 12 working VCRs (This was in 2002, so DVD players were taking over).
My loader, a month before I started driving, found two antique baseball cards. They were the small ones from cigarette packs, and were worth several thousand dollars. He found them in the hopper, so he had no way of knowing which house they had come from, and no one ever claimed them.”