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With prices of everything skyrocketing these days, Cambridge resident Ellen McBride has found a way of getting what she needs for nothing--the garbage...
...professed penny pincher, McBride has been salvaging items from the trash around town for practically all of her 30 years living in the city. Fans, lamps and other electrical appliances are prize finds for McBride, but bicycle parts are particularly important for both her and the kids in her neighborhood...
Although she claims that she is not running any "organized programs or anything," McBride donates her time and scavenged bike parts to fixing and assembling bicycles for children whose parents might not have the time or money...
...McBride says her hunts are most fruitful during the fall and spring, when people are cleaning out their houses. She knows the schedule of trash pick-up days and on those days, McBride can often be found riding around on her own bicycle, competing with the sanitation workers for her pick of the garbage...
...Junk has always been a part of my life," McBride boasts. "I grew up in Chelsea and Chelsea is the junk capital of the world...