- Greg, I see you collect something very unique food tins.

How did you ever get started collecting tins?

- I got started collecting tins just kind of by accident Over the years.

I've gone to several garage sales and I would pick them up here and there and they're always plentiful.

And they're always inexpensive and I usually would pick 'em up because I had just a, a practical use for them to store things.

Or maybe I'd the design, maybe I, maybe I would use it to decorate just a little bit, but that isn't really how I got into it, was to decorate with them.

But I just picked them up here and there, and then I, I came across, one of my favorite ones was this, this one with the train on it here.

Then I, I, I started realizing that they were little works of art.

They were little pieces of art, either photographs or paintings that somebody had painstakingly put time into.

And then one thing led to another and I started to just collect them and display 'em.

- The colors have changed a little bit over the years.

Right?

- Yeah.

- I wonder which one's older.

This has the recipe book offer.

- That one has the product in grams and this one doesn't, so I'm going to guess this one's older.

- Yeah.

Yeah.

I just, I like it.

I, you know, it's, yeah.

It's probably not that - Old.

It was candy in it.

Yeah.

No, it's not that old.

I wonder if it says a date on there.

- Campbell Soup.

Yeah.

That's pretty cool.

When I see your collection, I go back in time.

I see products that I haven't seen since I was a kid.

That's what's really cool about your collection.

- Well, you know, and I think that, you know, when you look at the, like the pre the saltine cracker Tin Yeah.

And every, that brings everybody back to their grandma's house.

Yes.

You know, the, the old Dutch potato chip tin, a very, like, we were talking a very Minnesota product and, and again, just hearkens back to a, to a simpler time.

That is something that I like about the tins too, is I think they say something, A lot of the tins have illustrations on 'em that say something about our culture, about the holidays, about family time, about just enjoying a, a simple life.

- Yes.

The goodness of life Yeah.

Is shown through the tins.

The other thing I like about 'em, Greg, they're very colorful and I'm almost feeling like I'm looking at a Norman Rockwell painting.

- They do serve the practical purpose of being a great decoration.

This is a, a, a downstairs extra bedroom that we have behind my tins as a, a boring, drab, cinder block wall that I have hidden with this explosion of a color and with the color kind of a commentary.

And that's kind of what I like about it.

I am hoping that someday one of my kids will want my collection and they'll be able to hang on to it and, and pass it down because I have put some time into assembling all these.

And so I'm, I, I'm hoping somebody can enjoy 'em 50, a hundred years down the road.