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I worked in Silicon Valley in the early 2000's, so I did pretty well. All the house flipping and crazy money flying around made people very wasteful. Couch doesn't match the new drapes? Get rid of it. New flat screen doesn't fit in the TV cabinet? Toss it. New gadget came out with slightly higher resolution or faster processing than the old? Junk it. Looking back it was crazy what people would throw away.

My dad met this Afghani guy who had just come from Afghanistan to the US on a lottery. He knew nothing about America and didn't know english, it was like a completely new world for him.

Anyways, he got himself an apartment but didn't have any furniture. One day my dad goes to his place and sees that the place was fully furnished. My dad was shocked but didn't say anything, the guy didn't even have a job yet! When my dad finally asked him, he said he had been going on the street and seeing all the cool stuff people were throwing out and brought a lot of the stuff home and cleaned them off a little. A lot of the stuff looked perfectly fine to me.