On a rainy December night in 2012, I picked up my first Kirby, a Gsix 2001 Limited Edition in decent shape from beside a dumpster in the apartment complex where I lived at the time. It only needed a bag and a belt,It couldn't have been out there long because it was dry inside the bag. Before I went to bed that night, I found Vacuumland and ordered 27 bags and three belts for $25 with free shipping on eBay. There were no tools with it, but a few months later, I found a complete set in the proper G6 black and gray at a nearby thrift shop for less than $5. I'll never know for sure, and the odds are probably against it, but I've always liked to think that I reunited that machine with its original set of tools. When all was said and done, my total investment in that dumpster find machine, tools and consumables was a shade under $32.
While living in that complex for almost ten years, I made some amazing dumpster finds and observed that the best stuff often appeared near the end of the month, especially the last weekend of the month, when people were moving out.
