Yeah if anyone would have had the foresight…and the $4-$5 you could have bought a box, left it unopened, and 46 years later… Cha-ching!!!!
Unfortunately, I was heading in the right direction in the 70's, but fell short of the mark! I bought full boxes from all of the local mom & pop and convenience stores in my childhood stomping grounds, but I opened almost every pack from those boxes. Where I DID luck out, was that I opened each pack as carefully as possible, as not to rip the wrapper. Then, after opening the packs, I would then store the flattened stack of un-ripped wrappers back in their respective boxes. I was constantly ridiculed by my friends for saving the "stuff that was supposed to be thrown in the trash", but I shrugged it off. To this day, I still have all of those boxes, with the wrappers still in them. I try not to dwell on the "what if" scenario, regarding not opening boxes for future investment purposes because I think I'd go crazy! LOL!
