The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VII.. Stop In!!!

[Charlie B]

Collectibles:
Years ago, someone suggested that a McDonald's box for a big burger (forget which) which had just been replaced with a plastic box would be a future collectible. The picture apparently show a burger bigger than the box and the boxes would mostly be thrown away (covered in juice and mustard).
Train collectors of our age mostly want two things:
the trains we had when we were young.
the trains we never got when we were young.

And don't forget, the box they came in in pristine condition. I don't save boxes as a rule, they take up too much space but I can understand folks keeping them as collectibles. And, that plastic box that replaced the cardboard at McDonald's has been replaced by paper once again.

I worked at a hydro-electric plant when McDonald's made the transition back to paper from the Styrofoam packaging. Until then the river had a lot of foam packaging floating on it that would collect on our trash racks. It cleared up in a couple of months. I think the fast food places use the fact that there are folks that still have no regard for the environment and think their dump is out the car window, to spread the word about their company. You see a McDonald's bag along the highway, next thing you know you are thinking Big Mac.
Charlie