A Three Year Retrospective

Today marks the 3rd anniversary of the start of my can collection.  So with the help of some recently found pictures, I will look back at how the collection grew.  These pictures were taken in May 2011, just a month after I started my collection. 

All 12 oz cans

Back then I kept my cans in three or four boxes in a closet.  One box held blue cans and green cans.  Another held red, orange and yellow cans.  And so on.  I had them organized my color (hence the rainbow in these pics).

But I quickly ran out of room in that closet.  It was in late June 2011 that I built my first set of shelves.  A couple of days later I had all of my cans displayed.  It was around that time that I took the pics that are used as the background on this blog. 

All cans of every size

The cans kept coming.  The collection kept growing.  I built more shelves.  Then I added even more shelves in the basement and expanded to the garage.  And now I have started using one cardboard box per brand because I can't display them all any more.

You know, when I review my three years of collecting in a quick summary like this, I worry that in three more years I may have to live in a camper because the house will be too full of cans.  If that happens, you can be sure I'll write a post about it :)