Post by Rex » Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:32 am

Not quite dumpster diving, but my parents and I were planning on finding a large piece of Styrofoam to place under our dog's electric heating blanket for winter (he's about ten now; very rarely does he come into the house, primarily only during thunder storms, and even then, sometimes we have to literally drag him indoors, which isn't easy since he's close to one hundred pounds).

We'd been putting it off since we can sometimes come across a piece at Walmart or another store (my father works for a part time contractual company, doing stock inventory on the sales floor or updating endcaps and the like... the amount of waste we see during his jobs has put me off of retail in general. Alas, I digress.) During our procrastination of procuring the Styrofoam, however, my father noticed something in the grass by the local Home Depot while we were driving somewhere; he pulled into the parking lot to see what it was, discovered it was a Styrofoam-like padding material, and put it into the van.

It's now sandwiched between the concrete of the car port and the electric blanket; it turns out the mat was a perfect size, which helps, but further helps because it not only saved us a couple dollars (negligible, but money nonetheless - yay free swag), but because it also didn't end up in a garbage hole, unused.



