I have the world’s largest collection of empty potato chip bags — it started as a way to cope while my wife was dying of breast cancer

New York Post ^ | March 8, 2024 | Social Links forDavid Landsel

[nickcarraway]

A retired man who built the world’s largest-ever collection of empty potato chip wrappers says he’s finally reached the proverbial bottom of the bag — after pulling in an astonishing 24,000.

Gary Key, of East Yorkshire, England, first embarked upon the thoroughly unusual pastime back in 2012 as a diversion after his partner Joanne was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. Joanne eventually passed, but Key was determined to honor her memory by continuing to build the curious collection.

Formerly employed by the University of Hull, Key, whose personal tastes run toward a nice, salty plain chip, estimated he collected nearly 300 empty bags per month, often picking them up from the side of the road.

[conductor john]

In my youth, I was impressed with Marlboro cigarette boxes. I glued them, peeled open, to my two closet doors, in a strange collage mimicking that soup can artist, Andy Warhol. My poor father paid a local painter a few hundred bucks to remove them and refinish them. Forgiven in a bundled plea deal with the Almighty years later.

[TimSkalaBim]

That’s a fun little story - thanks for sharing!

[GreenLanternCorps]

But does he have a Mike Sells Green Onion bag? It is the best potato chip ever created.