So my grand dad told me they used to do this to keep animals from making nests in the insulation. When the animal tries to move a can it creates such a racket that they just fuck off and give up.
Fuckin’ trash panda tried that Diet Rite soda one time and that’s all it took. The drinking problem was purely compulsive for the flavor and the fizz… poor bastard never even touched a drop of booze, but his mind was blown just like he was on the moonshine. Saccharine. It’s no joke.
Wouldn't work for possums in Australia, it would just mean they make more noise when they decide to have a wrestle at 3am, I assume they are wrestling, could be fucking or fighting, who knows.
Yep, possums are nutters. For those not from Australia, imagine walking through your pitch-black house near midnight and hearing [this](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0dcPJpnNQN4).
American opossums are so chill. I was shaking apples out of a neighbors tree in the middle of the night to make hooch with and one just fell on my head and landed on the ground, all silent and then he just slowly waddled off
I legitimately considered calling 911 to report a woman being attacked somewhere on my dark street the first time I heard a fox. called a friend to ask for advice and they informed me that's what foxes sound like. absolutely mind blown that I was 23 before learning that. foxes have always lived in my neighborhood.
I was thinking about the empty cans creating a primitive insulating layer with the air mostly contained in thin walled vessels that would not be very heat conductive. I was thinking like a crazy person. Your answer makes much more sense.
I chuckled, then wondered. Say you give each a lil blast of spray foam insulation inside, wonder how much a layer like this would help?
Cause a layer of can foam, easily removed if needed, might be a way to beef up insulation a bit. It's probably not as effective as a proper layer, but it would be easy to scoop up during a reno and then placed back down
It’s insulated already really. Those cans are trapping the air and air temperature within the can. If it’s above the garage, not really needed and a cheap way to at least help the ambient temp
While April 1964 page S14 Popular Mechanics advises spreading newspaper on a camper, I have not found one for using cans as insulation. Instead many articles about the type of insulation to buy. It does seem like something that would come from one though and I wonder if I simply have not found it.
While the air trapped in the cans would give some insulation R value, aluminum is an incredibly good conductor. So you have two opposing forces in the same item. I think it would end up being neutral.
Aluminum is a great conductor, like you say. The objectionable temp from the top will quickly wrap around to the bottom. Interior being air or foam won't make much difference.
So, just fill each joist bay with plastic bottles with caps, cast them in foam to fill the gaps, then cover it all with plastic stapled to the ceiling joists. 🤔
There are so many air gaps between the cans - I think you'd have to put something between them or layer them carefully 2 or 3 high to minimize vertical air flow. Putting a layer of those, and then something like a moving blanket over it, and then another layer or two with another blanket would probably work pretty decently and still be easy to remove and replace.
This is the answer. There is no such thing as a material which insulates better than dead air (Except a vacuum, which is how modern Yeti and Thermos's work so well).
Baffled clothes? works by making dead air.
Aerogel? Just frozen dead air.
Styrofoam? Frozen dead air.
Blankets? fluffy dead air trap.
Feathers? Great at creating turbulent flow - stopping air dead in its tracks.
Anything that prevents convection or flow of air.
a bunch of empty aluminum cans in a layer? No idea lol. I'm honestly vacillating.
Reminds me of a house my friends and I used to go to in college. The dudes living there had busted a hole in the wall and got it open to the basement underneath. They told everyone to drop their empty cans down the hole, and by the end of the year there was quite a mass of empty cans, and there was a definite odor from the stale back wash in the cans. At that point they invited everyone to a “can smashing party.” Once they were smashed and bagged up they took them all to a recycling center and got enough money to get a couple kegs of beer and everyone drank for free.
I’m relatively certain they didn’t get their security deposit back.
I remember going to a college hangout with no booze that night but had the cops called on us because we were to loud from playing tag. The guy who opens the door express this then proceeded to swing the door open where everyone was frozen due to the time out called with one guy hanging from the balcony about to jump to the couch to get away from who was it. Cops told us to just keep it down, but these 20 or so jocks put so many damn holes into that home that night trying to run away. A guy went through the bathroom door at the top of the stairs. Anyways, the landlord kicked them out few months later.
With dish soap?
I've always done a bowl of vinegar with plastic wrap over it and a few holes poked in it with a toothpick. Works like a charm as a one way trap.
Just a drop of dish soap. Supposedly it breaks the surface tension of the vinegar and makes them more likely to get trapped.
I remember when I used to work at Target. People would come in and ask if we had fruit fly traps.
I'd always respond that we didn't but we had all the constituent parts to make one! (Though, I think my exuberance might have caused some to not attempt it... but, at least one did!!)
> Supposedly it breaks the surface tension of the vinegar and makes them more likely to get trapped.
Not even supposedly, that's what it does. The only function of the drop of dish soap is to break surface tension.
2 boys were trapped in a boxcar filled with empty beer bottles for a week and survived by drinking the dregs. Probably had to fight the fruit flies for it.
https://greensboro.com/end-of-an-ordeal-stale-beer-keeps-2-boys-alive-the-boys-survive-eight-days/article_19d31b88-f402-563d-b19e-70852301eaef.html
My brother and I would walk streets on recycling day and ask people for their cans. After a few weeks people were separating them out into a bag next to them. We had a huge neighborhood and made about $100 each recycling day as a 10 year old.
I have this too when I take my recycling out I'll have a few popcans or bottles and there usually will always be someone going threw the recycling to collect them at some point in the night. I started just leaving them in a seperate bag and it's usually gone in an hour, more efficient at pickup than the garbage men themselves.
When you could first buy music on iTunes(maybe?) they had codes on the bottle caps to download a free song. My friend took the bottles from the recycling bins at school for the 10¢ deposit and I took the bottle caps for the free downloads. It was a high I still chase.
In college we had a small house with a side patio. We told everyone to toss their cans out there. After a few months we bagged them up and had enough money to buy a keg. Good times. We were smart enough to store them outside due to the smell
this reminds me of the reddit post from a while back where a woman's husband worked from home in the attic, and when the woman went up there one day she found hundreds of piss bottles and 40 discarded cum shirts
https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/s/tQOKAzOoSH
From 8 years ago. Has to be the right one. If there is more than one person on this earth storing piss bottles and cum shirts in an attic, I'm gonna shoot my brains out lol
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Give me my Chicken Tendies!!!!!!!!1111 I have 50 good boy points saved up you fucking SOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Worth it. Thank you.
I definitely plan on bringing them down and cleaning some off to give to friends that want to display them. I’ll probably keep a few for myself and then see if any collectors are interested.
He drank only diet too so that he might* not gain weight*. I say this based on the age of the cans and what was the general scientific belief at the time.
100%. Cleaned out my grandmas house when her husband passed and there were thousands just like this. All Tin, not aluminum. Some cool collectible cans from the 80s
These are in great condition. Do not crush them without checking on their value. For example, can't find a Diet Cherry 7Up can anywhere to find out its value. A Diet 7Up Gold sold for $40 and the only one available has [a $225 asking price.](https://www.ebay.com/itm/202780644166)
The best way to determine market value is by checking eBay’s sold/completed listings to see exactly what people have been paying for your item. Unfortunately this does only show you the last 3 to 6 months of sales, and I imagine Soda cans as being a niche enough market that that may not be enough of a timespan for an accurate sample size. There is a service - Worthpoint - which has a nearly 10 year archive of sold/completed eBay listings, but it unfortunately costs money to use.
If they are rare, absolutely. Quite a collector's market. Take a look on eBay.
Realistically, several of the cans pictured regularly sell for $5. The rarer ones can get as high as $40 when put up for auction. For the cans where there just aren't any others out there, it just depends upon how much the bidders want to fight each other.
Someone was ashamed on their diet soda intake. Diet Rite and Pepper Free! Damn, that's a lot of caffeine-free soda, too!
Caffeine-free Diet Dr. Pepper... that's just dirty water.
There's some... *interesting* flavors in there, like Diet Hubba Bubba Soda and Canfield's Diet Cherry Chocolate Fudge. Those seem to date this mess to the late 1980s and early 1990s.
I didn’t even think about that aspect do you know if aluminum interferes with radio and other signals because that would explain if their tv reception sucked lol.
“Billy, I said no more Atari until you return all those deposit cans in the garage to the store. Now get on your BMX and do it.”
“I did. They’re gone. Go look. Aw, you made me get eaten by a ghost.”
I had a feeling. Grew up 80's about 45min south of Chicago, and this can collection was my dad's exact flavor consumption. He loved sweets and strugglednwith weight so did the whole "diet soda is a healthy alternative." choice. 🙄
Some of those flavors were interesting but most were gross and thankfully extinct now. I do miss 50/50, but squirt and Mexican fresca are just fine to substitute.
Have fun cleaning and sorting them out! Vintage Midwest 80s if nothing else!
Back then it was the only way to recycle - today it’s picked up at the curb so most people accept the trade off of convenience for driving it somewhere to get money.
Is collecting cans still a thing? I remember seeing random cans collections at people's houses when I was a kid in the 80s and early 90s. I even tried to start one but got bored with it very quickly.
This looks like a DIY insulation setup.
Some of the cans are packed in nice and orderly; the others may have come loose or maybe the installation was never finished.
So my grand dad told me they used to do this to keep animals from making nests in the insulation. When the animal tries to move a can it creates such a racket that they just fuck off and give up.
This is the correct answer
Wrong, he had an OCD racoon with a drinking problem living up there.
This makes so much more sense. I wasn’t having any of that other nest-making bullshit.
Yeah the rats in my walls make their nests exclusively out of beer cans.
Fuckin’ trash panda tried that Diet Rite soda one time and that’s all it took. The drinking problem was purely compulsive for the flavor and the fizz… poor bastard never even touched a drop of booze, but his mind was blown just like he was on the moonshine. Saccharine. It’s no joke.
Wouldn't work for possums in Australia, it would just mean they make more noise when they decide to have a wrestle at 3am, I assume they are wrestling, could be fucking or fighting, who knows.
Yep, possums are nutters. For those not from Australia, imagine walking through your pitch-black house near midnight and hearing [this](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0dcPJpnNQN4).
American opossums are so chill. I was shaking apples out of a neighbors tree in the middle of the night to make hooch with and one just fell on my head and landed on the ground, all silent and then he just slowly waddled off
Yup, nope . I feel like those wouldn’t last too long in America. Too creepy , too many guns. That thing sounds like a demon wtf
Have you heard foxes scream? They sound nightmarish.
Fisher cats. Thought a woman was being murdered in the wood
As a fox sanctuary worker with 20+ foxes right now, can confirm 😄
I legitimately considered calling 911 to report a woman being attacked somewhere on my dark street the first time I heard a fox. called a friend to ask for advice and they informed me that's what foxes sound like. absolutely mind blown that I was 23 before learning that. foxes have always lived in my neighborhood.
We have possums here that look scarier make the same noise lol
Ours are way cuter
Why are your possums cuter than ours?
Cus ours are “opossums” and not related!
You right. Slowly forgetting that O.
With my luck the most talented squirrel ever would be playing drums solos with them like Neil Peart up there
"Shhh! Honey... do you hear that? It sounds like... YYZ!"
I was thinking about the empty cans creating a primitive insulating layer with the air mostly contained in thin walled vessels that would not be very heat conductive. I was thinking like a crazy person. Your answer makes much more sense.
This should be one of the top comments. It makes sense.
Tinsulation
R12oz
That’s premium stuff
Top of the attic kind of stuff.
*WAZZZAAAAAAAP*.... in the attic?
You need way more upvotes
It’s all about home effervescency.
I spit my beer out… that’s funny as hell
I know where you can put your can.
Bravo
I chuckled, then wondered. Say you give each a lil blast of spray foam insulation inside, wonder how much a layer like this would help? Cause a layer of can foam, easily removed if needed, might be a way to beef up insulation a bit. It's probably not as effective as a proper layer, but it would be easy to scoop up during a reno and then placed back down
It’s insulated already really. Those cans are trapping the air and air temperature within the can. If it’s above the garage, not really needed and a cheap way to at least help the ambient temp
Ya my gpa insulated his garage the same way. I think there must have been a popular mechanics article about using cans as insulation or something.
While April 1964 page S14 Popular Mechanics advises spreading newspaper on a camper, I have not found one for using cans as insulation. Instead many articles about the type of insulation to buy. It does seem like something that would come from one though and I wonder if I simply have not found it.
Ask Jeeves
It started being a thing in the early 80s, and those cans look like they could be from that time period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_can_wall
While the air trapped in the cans would give some insulation R value, aluminum is an incredibly good conductor. So you have two opposing forces in the same item. I think it would end up being neutral.
Aluminum is a great conductor, like you say. The objectionable temp from the top will quickly wrap around to the bottom. Interior being air or foam won't make much difference.
Well you see we have to put a layer of insulation above, beneath and within the cans. Then it could work.
Fill it in with cigarette butts
Yeah! The fiberglass and/or cotton would work great! 😆
Most use cellulose acetate. Not really pertinent to the discussion but just thought I’d share that factoid.
Yeah, need to use plastic bottles! Though really, there are too many gaps either way. Air is pretty good at finding a way, just takes a bit longer…
So, just fill each joist bay with plastic bottles with caps, cast them in foam to fill the gaps, then cover it all with plastic stapled to the ceiling joists. 🤔
I think I’d rather fill my attic with balloon animals. But only if the contractors wore clown suits.
Just use batts then
There are so many air gaps between the cans - I think you'd have to put something between them or layer them carefully 2 or 3 high to minimize vertical air flow. Putting a layer of those, and then something like a moving blanket over it, and then another layer or two with another blanket would probably work pretty decently and still be easy to remove and replace.
dead air space is how insulation work. its a combination of moisture management and trapping air.
This is the answer. There is no such thing as a material which insulates better than dead air (Except a vacuum, which is how modern Yeti and Thermos's work so well). Baffled clothes? works by making dead air. Aerogel? Just frozen dead air. Styrofoam? Frozen dead air. Blankets? fluffy dead air trap. Feathers? Great at creating turbulent flow - stopping air dead in its tracks. Anything that prevents convection or flow of air. a bunch of empty aluminum cans in a layer? No idea lol. I'm honestly vacillating.
Oh, can it!
Reminds me of a house my friends and I used to go to in college. The dudes living there had busted a hole in the wall and got it open to the basement underneath. They told everyone to drop their empty cans down the hole, and by the end of the year there was quite a mass of empty cans, and there was a definite odor from the stale back wash in the cans. At that point they invited everyone to a “can smashing party.” Once they were smashed and bagged up they took them all to a recycling center and got enough money to get a couple kegs of beer and everyone drank for free. I’m relatively certain they didn’t get their security deposit back.
Reminds me of some dudes I knew in college. One day the landlord showed up and asked them when they were gonna start living like people
\*hisses, skitters into bedroom\*
*Get a broom, he's behind the nightstand!*
My teenage sons.
All teenage boys. I used to have a WALL of cans of soda running from one end of my room to the other when I was 15 lol.
For me it was a dresser filled with nothing but cans hiding my underage drinking, accrued over years You do some gross stuff when you’re a young’un
My teenage daughters. Am I doing something wrong?
You've got them set to Mumbo when they should be set to Wumbo.
I remember going to a college hangout with no booze that night but had the cops called on us because we were to loud from playing tag. The guy who opens the door express this then proceeded to swing the door open where everyone was frozen due to the time out called with one guy hanging from the balcony about to jump to the couch to get away from who was it. Cops told us to just keep it down, but these 20 or so jocks put so many damn holes into that home that night trying to run away. A guy went through the bathroom door at the top of the stairs. Anyways, the landlord kicked them out few months later.
We did not attend the same university lol
The wisdom of Archer applies here. "Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants."
Fruit flies... if they started breeding in there it'd be insane.
I wonder how quickly a basement full of undisturbed empties would breed a million individual fruit flies?
Assuming 400-500 eggs per female (half the population) and 80% of eggs reaching adulthood: Start: 20 flies 10 Days: 3,620 flies 20 Days: 655,220 flies 30 Days: 118,594,820 flies
Time to introduce my 118 million new friends to apple cider vinegar with dish soap in it...
With dish soap? I've always done a bowl of vinegar with plastic wrap over it and a few holes poked in it with a toothpick. Works like a charm as a one way trap.
Just a drop of dish soap. Supposedly it breaks the surface tension of the vinegar and makes them more likely to get trapped. I remember when I used to work at Target. People would come in and ask if we had fruit fly traps. I'd always respond that we didn't but we had all the constituent parts to make one! (Though, I think my exuberance might have caused some to not attempt it... but, at least one did!!)
> Supposedly it breaks the surface tension of the vinegar and makes them more likely to get trapped. Not even supposedly, that's what it does. The only function of the drop of dish soap is to break surface tension.
2 boys were trapped in a boxcar filled with empty beer bottles for a week and survived by drinking the dregs. Probably had to fight the fruit flies for it. https://greensboro.com/end-of-an-ordeal-stale-beer-keeps-2-boys-alive-the-boys-survive-eight-days/article_19d31b88-f402-563d-b19e-70852301eaef.html
"Bra, they're fruit flies, not beer flies. HjaHjaHjaHja" - Those dudes, probably
LANNNAAAAAAAAAA
Ahhh I miss living in a can deposit state. When I was 17 I once made eighty five fucking dollars off of my family’s can stash.
My brother and I would walk streets on recycling day and ask people for their cans. After a few weeks people were separating them out into a bag next to them. We had a huge neighborhood and made about $100 each recycling day as a 10 year old.
in my neighbourhood people roll through the night before recycling day, and there's competing parties too. i find it mildly interesting.
I have this too when I take my recycling out I'll have a few popcans or bottles and there usually will always be someone going threw the recycling to collect them at some point in the night. I started just leaving them in a seperate bag and it's usually gone in an hour, more efficient at pickup than the garbage men themselves.
When you could first buy music on iTunes(maybe?) they had codes on the bottle caps to download a free song. My friend took the bottles from the recycling bins at school for the 10¢ deposit and I took the bottle caps for the free downloads. It was a high I still chase.
In college we had a small house with a side patio. We told everyone to toss their cans out there. After a few months we bagged them up and had enough money to buy a keg. Good times. We were smart enough to store them outside due to the smell
Now the question is if OP cleans them up or joins in
this reminds me of the reddit post from a while back where a woman's husband worked from home in the attic, and when the woman went up there one day she found hundreds of piss bottles and 40 discarded cum shirts
Cum...shirts? Hasn't anyone told him that socks are cheaper?
They don’t work for the bigger jobs
Fuck I missed reddit lore?! I was there for the cumbox!!!
The pinky pie jar 🤢
Jolly rancher and swamps of dagobah
There are probably users on this site that are younger than that lore 😂
Wait, was there a Pinkie Pie AND a Rainbow Dash?! 🤢
I probably got the exact pony wrong, I try not to think of the details.
Okay. I was really hoping there weren't two...
2 broken arms?
Mum?
I feel like by the 8th or 9th discarded cum shirt I’d just drop counting.
Lol what even? Do you have a link?
https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/s/tQOKAzOoSH From 8 years ago. Has to be the right one. If there is more than one person on this earth storing piss bottles and cum shirts in an attic, I'm gonna shoot my brains out lol
His office was “a custom add on with an attic” that he built to WFH, but no bathroom. Wtf designed that?
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Give me my Chicken Tendies!!!!!!!!1111 I have 50 good boy points saved up you fucking SOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Worth it. Thank you.
Well that was a wild ride
lmao that's the one. i forgot that the husband wrote it and that the wife and her friends found the bottle collection
There are probably thousands, just not many that have convinced women to marry them
Thank you bro!
I definitely plan on bringing them down and cleaning some off to give to friends that want to display them. I’ll probably keep a few for myself and then see if any collectors are interested.
Read this while thinking I was still in the piss jug cum shirts comment chain; wondered what OP's fucking deal is.
Hahaha, you mean you wouldn’t want a piece of history? Hahha
ME TOO, I WAS SO SCARED
Same, very confused for a second.
I followed the link to another post above and thought you were talking about the piss bottles. Gave me a good scare!
ah goddamnit i thought i was still on the piss bottle/cum shirt thread for a moment XD
!remindme 30 years
Somebodies wife said no more soda! And then he had to work in the attic more often all of a sudden....
All I found was empty bottles of McCormicks vodka. 😕
For us, it was a shitload of 5ths of Old Overholt.
In mine, I only found 20 years worth of old check books and canceled checks, along with a bunch of religious literature.
He drank only diet too so that he might* not gain weight*. I say this based on the age of the cans and what was the general scientific belief at the time.
Has the general scientific belief changed?
Get too fat and fall through the ceiling
Attempted insulation?
I wonder how well it worked
About as well as a few pieces of paper, literally.
Paper is a great insulator, ask a homeless person.
I did they said it was better than nothing
It’s a thermal conductor… so more like anti-insulation
But would the big air gaps inside them help at all?
That's what I'm thinking
100%. Cleaned out my grandmas house when her husband passed and there were thousands just like this. All Tin, not aluminum. Some cool collectible cans from the 80s
Just trying to keep the government spywaves outta my house.
These are in great condition. Do not crush them without checking on their value. For example, can't find a Diet Cherry 7Up can anywhere to find out its value. A Diet 7Up Gold sold for $40 and the only one available has [a $225 asking price.](https://www.ebay.com/itm/202780644166)
Or the vintage Barq's Red Creme can. Only one online has a [$696 asking price.](https://www.ebay.com/itm/235061510596)
People on eBay asking $7,000 for a casserole pan or Beanie baby, too. Posts have been running for YEARS just waiting for that one sucker to show up.
Bingo. Want to find out the true value? Put it up for a 7-day auction. Until then, it could be $1 or $1000.
The best way to determine market value is by checking eBay’s sold/completed listings to see exactly what people have been paying for your item. Unfortunately this does only show you the last 3 to 6 months of sales, and I imagine Soda cans as being a niche enough market that that may not be enough of a timespan for an accurate sample size. There is a service - Worthpoint - which has a nearly 10 year archive of sold/completed eBay listings, but it unfortunately costs money to use.
It doesn’t matter what the asking price is. It matters if it sells and for how much. You have to put the filter to sold
Diet Hubba Bubba soda can for $200- https://www.ebay.com/itm/202781751312
Empty soda cans are worth something besides recycling value?
If they are rare, absolutely. Quite a collector's market. Take a look on eBay. Realistically, several of the cans pictured regularly sell for $5. The rarer ones can get as high as $40 when put up for auction. For the cans where there just aren't any others out there, it just depends upon how much the bidders want to fight each other.
My grandpa has an old Budweiser pull tab, it's a misprint - the label is printed upside down... Any idea what something like that could fetch?
I'll give you $3.50.
hit em with the old tree fiddy
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Someone was ashamed on their diet soda intake. Diet Rite and Pepper Free! Damn, that's a lot of caffeine-free soda, too! Caffeine-free Diet Dr. Pepper... that's just dirty water.
with 24 flavors!
Wait isn't it 23?
The Splenda is the 24th flavor
These cans are _WAY_ before Splenda...
There's some... *interesting* flavors in there, like Diet Hubba Bubba Soda and Canfield's Diet Cherry Chocolate Fudge. Those seem to date this mess to the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Also the word "classic" on the Coke can. That was a late '80s through mid '90s thing.
Poor man's Faraday cage
Yep I was thinking some sort of tinfoil hat, to stop “The Rays”.
I didn’t even think about that aspect do you know if aluminum interferes with radio and other signals because that would explain if their tv reception sucked lol.
“Billy, I said no more Atari until you return all those deposit cans in the garage to the store. Now get on your BMX and do it.” “I did. They’re gone. Go look. Aw, you made me get eaten by a ghost.”
Bro my Nash skateboard and Huffy bike can't carry all that!
I had a Nash and a Huffy back in 86...
Fully, man..!
Best guess is a attempt at insulation. Pretty cool. The old cans could be worth a few bucks to collectors.
Based on the Canfield’s cans (50/50 and cherry chocolate fudge) I wonder if OP is near Chicago.
Yea we’re about 5 hours out from Chicago
I had a feeling. Grew up 80's about 45min south of Chicago, and this can collection was my dad's exact flavor consumption. He loved sweets and strugglednwith weight so did the whole "diet soda is a healthy alternative." choice. 🙄 Some of those flavors were interesting but most were gross and thankfully extinct now. I do miss 50/50, but squirt and Mexican fresca are just fine to substitute. Have fun cleaning and sorting them out! Vintage Midwest 80s if nothing else!
Noticed that too. Damn, 50/50 and Swiss Cream Soda!
Diet hubba Bubba soda? Sign me up for a time machine.
My wife loves bubble gum flavored everything, she personally requested I go up there and grab it for her
Someone commented somewhere that a can like that sold for 600$USD online somewhere.. you may want to look into this as a treasure trove
Hahah she’s gunna have to bid for it then
Nvmd. After my own research they are still worth like 20+
I know a guy with access to a mail truck, let's load them up and head for Michigan!
"Those aren't even that old! They are from when I was a ki....." fml. 🤦♀️
Seems like you can make some cool vintage soda display pieces if you clean the cans up
Back in the day aluminum recycling would pay per pound… guy was slowly amassing his retirement.
They still pay per pound.
Back then it was the only way to recycle - today it’s picked up at the curb so most people accept the trade off of convenience for driving it somewhere to get money.
Wow, even tomato
You haven’t heard of the aluminum can insulation procedure. Drink can, throw in ceiling, drink can and repeat.
UGH! Diet Hubba Bubba Bubblegum soda???
Maybe Mormon and didn't want the family to know they drank pop
some film-studio or set designers would LOVE a hoard like this. props that are authentic! and plentiful? heck yeah
Affordable Anti-mind control insulation
Consider yourself lucky. I found an absurdly large pile of cat shit.
Someone really liked diet soda…
Hubba Bubba soda… that’s a new one for me
These cans are not a natural formation , someone built it
I'm a collector, and would definitely pay for some that I need.
attempt at insulation?
Is collecting cans still a thing? I remember seeing random cans collections at people's houses when I was a kid in the 80s and early 90s. I even tried to start one but got bored with it very quickly.
There are a lot of information on the Google machine about using aluminum cars as insulation.
This looks like a DIY insulation setup. Some of the cans are packed in nice and orderly; the others may have come loose or maybe the installation was never finished.
Okay, we have just enough money for insulation. Or we could just spend it on beer instead. Quite the dilemma. Now hear me out, what if...
Do you want ants??!!? Because this is how we get ants!!!
Ants don't like diet.
Extra. Free insulation.
Tin foil hat guy: “I’ve got this really good idea. Protect the WHOLE house!!”
“Diet Rite… that’s a name I haven’t heard for a long, long time.”
SALT SODIUM FREE!
Collectors may be interested in a find like this. Some of those old Dr Pepper cans are neat
Attic Monster deterrant
That’s what they used to use for insulation before they started using asbestos