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I really like how the text talks about, "Someone else's junk could be the treasure needed to understand a culture or subculture." I love that saying because it has so many meanings. Sometimes when I go over to my friends house and I raid her closet i'll find a whole bunch of stuff that she never uses or wears. To me it's great stuff but to her it's just old news. I really like how the text talks about other people's garbage. We really don't think of the value of junk because we automatically think if someone else threw it out, it's no good. Sometimes they hold important cultural meanings. 

I read On Dumpster Diving by Lars Eighner and I really liked it. It's actually a pretty long story but it is very interesting. In the middle of the text it talks about the certain things he found on a college campus. It said on one hot day he found a large jug of Pat O Brien's Hurricane mix. The jug had been open but was still ice cold. He drank a lot of it then realized that there was a LOT of rum in it. I thought that part was pretty funny!!