It was a bittersweet goodbye. Last month, @PackagingGeek David Luttenberger finally acted on his wife’s persistent request: He sorted, photographed, and then parted with his precious collection of 2,640 packages. He accumulated these samples over the last three decades, and stored them in his garage, home office, and the master bedroom walk-in closet.
“I began my collection addiction in 1989 with a sample pack of wooden hotdogs, a PET [polyethylene terephthalate] preform, and a lump of melted aluminum cans,” Luttenberger recalls.
As a fellow purveyor of packaging awesomeness, I know how painful it had to have been for Luttenberger to part with his treasures. I’ve cleaned out my stash periodically over the years and am down to just one file-box-size box (overflowing a bit). I hide it from my husband so he doesn’t accidentally kick it to the curb when I’m not looking. He knows how attached I am to my pretties, but he says he’d be doing me a favor by curtailing my ob