We use pallets for kindling... Most years pallets were all I burned. A few yrs ago when my girlfriend moved in here, she began bringing a truckload of pallets home every night . Needless to say we have a mountain of pallets here. Most I have broken down into pieces and stacked for kindling in a rick...

Ah you mean a dumpster . We call that dumpster diving. Yes....it often means getting in the thing. We used to dive dumpsters all over for building material and all sorts of stuff, even food. On the day after the sell by date passes on groceries, most grocery stores chuck it in the "skip". ...

Skip driving... You mean garbage picking?
We make good side money picking on trash day and reselling cast off goodies. Almost everything in our house is salvaged from somewhere.