CRISP PACKET SOLD ON EBAY FOR £80?

[@ceehud]

I can 100% tell you that Corporate Advertising agencies collect this , frame them and have them displayed in corridors of their buildings . It costs them nothing because its a tax right off. Its a game but also history . Great video.

[@damonalbarn9854]

A few years ago whilst whilst doing some restoration on an old railway site at Honing I was digging out the base of the old signal box and discovered a golden wonder crisp packet. I took it home and cleaned it and to my surprise it was dated 1967 Beef and onion flavour and a promotion to win and triumph herald estate car. I have it framed and what is most astounding is how it has survived the elements all these years. This could end up being a new craze where people will be purposely digging old rubbish sites for crisp packets, how amazing.

[@ConnorClements]

I kept my old Walkers crisp packets from the 90s, I have loads of Star Wars and Spice Girls packets, keeping them for my retirement😂

[@NicHills]

Wow - that's awesome!!

[@sarahhardy8649]

That clear walkers one at the end, I’m sure in the 70’s we used to put them in the oven to shrink them

[@NicHills]

Yes we did that :)

[@richardnolloth]

That idea came from Shrinky Dinks in cereal packets back in the 70’s 😅

[@tinaturner1695]

Bones were my absolute favourites, and yes they were bone shaped, and fangs were yes fang shaped! Great crisps

[@LilBlighter]

I remember every one of these except the Tudor Chocolate ones, otherwise I've munched them all. My absolute favourite were the Smith's Cheese & Onion Square Crisps. At school in the late 70s/early 80s a 6p bag of Footballers Crisps where everyone's go to bag to chomp. We'd have competitions to see who could get the most in their mouth without them crushing, then invariably someone would get a slap up the chops and they'd fly everywhere. The artwork was always of its time. Just think going forward, choose some decent artwork packets, munch the crisps, flatten the bag and stash for a few decades. It takes up no space, so worth a small punt.

[@andrewhorner1078]

Back in the late 70's early eighties i worked for a plant repair company (tractors etc) and we went to an industrial tip where we were to fix one of their machines , i was stood on a very large mound of something and one of the site workers came over to me and said do you know what you are standing on (bit of a panic) they were wear'em scrar'ems from tudor crisps .There must have been 100k + and now i wished i had picked them up and filled my pockets

[@NicHills]

It's crazy when you think what's actually in landfill

[@CupidStunt0001]

I loved the Hedgehog crisps, they were originally called "Hedgehog Flavoured crisps but the company got taken to court and had to change to "Hedgehog Flavour" they had a spicy flavour and didn't contain any real hedgehog

[@liannehill748]

We had a Smiths Crisps factory in Paulsgrove near Portsmouth. You could smell them as you drove by. I remember the packets where you also had to empty the salt on from a little blue twist paper inside the pack back in the 60’s!

[@NicHills]

Yes I think they brought them back for a while :)

[@iangee3311]

I live in Portsmouth and had a friend at the Polytechnic who worked there one summer helping to keep rats and mice out of the factory. He said they seemed to buy lots of 'end of useful life' potatoes which were on the turn....he said the stink inside the factory was disgusting 😅

[@LilBlighter]

I remember finding 16 x salt bags in a packet once in the 80s. Hoping I never emptied them all in.

[@kiwitrains]

We have Smiths crisps here in Australia and they are good, Tudor crisps were made in Peterlee, Co,Durham they were taken over by Walkers.

[@steo-red408]

id love to know where they are getting these vintage crisp packets from,but seeing the old monster munch packets ,which were my favourites brought a big smile to my face

[@thomasmaiden5298]

Paul Heaton from the Beautiful South collects crisp packets, I watched a documentary and he showed them, he's got them in folders and photo albums, think he must have over a 1000😂

[@NicHills]

I bet it's worth way more than that!! Love Paul Heaton - one of the UK's greatest songwriters IMO

[@yorkshireboy3886]

I remember back in around 2005 (ish) the ring road was being dug up in Huddersfield town centre and next to a pile of dirt a work man had put an intact empty bag of 'Ringos' from early 1970s on a wall with a small stone on it. wish I'd have grabbed it now! It obviously was buried when the road was made in 1971. Possibly a snack from a former road worker?

[@NicHills]

We live and learn!

[@gazmoto]

The £80 “buy it now” empty unassuming crisp packet was most probably listed and bought by the same person or syndicate known to each other, it’s basically small scale money laundering which is rife on eBay and goes under the radar because of the smallish amounts involved but when they are cleaning £1000s of pounds a day with hundreds of listings it’s easy, there are examples of these ridiculously priced “sold” items all over eBay if you start looking 😀👍

[@Buffalo31]

I'm not surprised by this, as I knew someone in the late '90's keeping empty food boxes, especially cereals and anything with celebrities or TV show promotions on because he believed that there might be a place in the future (online) where there would be a demand for them.

[@ericadelarocha2731]

Oh my this is a blast from the past! I remember some of those crisps from my schooldays. When we were decimalised I remember crisps being 5p a packet, I have a vague memory of hedgehog flavour crisps, but I reckon they were Walkers or Smiths. I scoffed so many packets of prawn cocktail too. Pickled onion Monster munch were the bees knees. I live in Australia now but came back to visit the UK before Xmas and was happy to find pickled onion Monster Munch still available. Naturally I pigged out on all things crisp related not available in Oz!!

[@TatPeddler]

i have like a scrap book of various 80s stuff (chrisp packets, sweet wrappers etc) from my childhood in the loft. not sure i could bring myself to destroy the book as its quite interesting looking back with memories etc, but im sure some of that stuff would be collectable now

[@anntaplin4960]

I remember Fangs, shaped like fangs too. And Monster munch pickled onion. Wonder how much a full packet would go for lol

[@nolslifegren]

Tudor specific to the North East of England . Tudor Fried Onion Crisps ( 1977 ) were the greatest flavour of crisp ever invented

[@jenlovesbooks]

Yes, I’m from the north east and loved Tudor crisps as a kid.

[@clivehardman1273]

Canny bag of crisps

[@martinlanigan803]

Anyone pays that amount money for empty packet crisp packet are gone bonkers

[@-dave3577]

I remember the original Smiths Salt 'n' Shake crisps with the salt sachet.

[@NicHills]

Yes!!

[@gadgetman36]

Which you can still buy!

[@gazmoto]

I’m eating a packet now as I type 😂👍

[@paulreed5077]

Tudor crisps were from the North East. Adverts for them are on You Tube. I used to eat bags and bags of these!

[@melonybennett3814]

My ex-husband was from the North East. The first time I ever went up there, he kept telling me how good Tudor crisps were, much better than any we could buy down South. I bought a bag, and on the back it clearly stated they were made in the Kings Road, Reading (about 20 miles away from my home)! He was mortified when I pointed this out to him. Needless to say, I never let him forget it!

[@LittleHoneyPie]

Thanks for the blast from the past.I loved pickled onion monster munches, and hubby remembered😊 bones and sky raiders. Love the niche videos.

[@NicHills]

You are so welcome! It was fun to make :)

[@Buddybrindle]

Nick, I had hoped to see some crisps packets from my youth. I was born in 1950. A bag of crisps was a special treat back then. Smith’s is the only brand I remember. They came in a vast array of flavors as long as it was plain. But each pack contained a little bit of salt twisted up in a blue piece of paper. So you could add salt if you wanted! Love your videos, Nick!

[@NicHills]

Yes I remember a brand that brought that back for a while - a little sachet of salt... :)

[@helentrove620]

OMG, I remember eating pkts of those Bones & Fangs....oh how I wish I'd kept the empty packets 🤣

[@TechBaffle]

Smiths Crisps have made a comeback - ready salted, salt & vinegar, cheese & onion etc. Walkers owns Smiths, but seems to have a strange handling of it - even Salt & Shake is now branded as 'Walkers' but other retro crisps like Frazzles and Chipsticks are branded Smiths. The new old-style 'Smiths Crisps' are much like normal Walkers crisps, and I guess are more of the budget end - maybe Walkers needed a lower priced competitor to supermarket own-brands.

[@Purplegal1962]

Bones and Fangs were my favourites. Smiths were the brand leaders when we were kids- 4 bags for 10p in the late 70’s.

[@NicHills]

Bargain!!

[@taralane-williams809]

This just blew my mind!!! We had tayto & king crisps growing up in Ireland…weird & equally fascinating!!

[@NicHills]

thanks Tara :)

[@pandafeets]

Used to get the Hedgehog crisps from places like nature reserves or on days out, I seem to remember them being in gift shops anyway! Football crazy’s were bacon flavour balls and very nice, hmmm I remember a girl SHOPLIFTING football crazy’s 😅 oh the memories 😂 great video. Skydivers I can remember in salt and vinegar. Crazy what people pay for, but they would look nice framed…

[@jenniferhenderson6154]

We used to sell Tudor crisp at tuck shop at school in early 80’s pickles onion were so good. I think they were a Newcastle company ‘ you canny pack a Tudor’ was the advert . I’m from Fife scotland but we got them here. I remember my brother eating the football crisps when I was really young . I loved the bones crisps. I’m starving now would love some crisps from yesteryear . The best times ever

[@NicHills]

I vividly remember the tuck shop at our school too - standing in the queue and wasting all my break time to get a snack

[@RoseT78]

You unlocked memories I never knew I had! Loved Thundercat crisps back in the day!

[@NicHills]

Glad you enjoyed :)

[@suemorris1914]

You're right with the Pickled Onion Monster Munch, Nic. We can get them here in Australia, in the English section of one of our supermarkets.

[@sammiehall4415]

When I've been out with the dog I've found old crisp packets a little faded sometimes...ill pick them up next time, I still have old cake wrappers the foil ones pressed in a book I collected them for crafts as a kid! I'm the same age as you and remember all of those I love crisps even now. hedgehog flavour just tasted of beef to me! my grandad also used to buy these prawn cocktail piglet crisps, super thin shaped 3d pigs! best days :)

[@NicHills]

Great memories :)

[@pandafeets]

Oh and chocolate crisps… they exist still in Norway I’ve forget the name of them, they are like corn sticks with chocolate coating. But I don’t remember the chocolate flavoured crisps. Amazing.

[@Hadesdetecting]

I remember Flintstones crisps and spare rib being the best.years ago found a load of general 80s rubbish in a cavity in my bathroom wall and I retrieved some crisp packets, definitely gonna dig them out as I kept them somewhere.

[@NicHills]

Oooooh exciting!!

[@Hadesdetecting]

@@NicHills might have to get under the bath and stick my hand in the cavity, hopefully there's a market for old toothpaste boxes ...I know there is more of them in there lol

[@sundropkat]

I'm in the states, but this is fascinating! Now to add empty snack packets on the list of things to lookout for

[@digvintage5769]

Very cool! I used to work night shift at United Biscuits in Ashby -de-la-Zouch (who owned KP, McVities etc) in the 1980s, and would sometimes work overtime at the 'Snack Factory' . I remember Space Invaders being introduced. Never packed them though. It was normally chedders! The Snack factory smelled terrible. I much preferred packing biscuits. I worked on the non-round biscuit line. Rich Tea fingers, Morning Coffee and Nice biscuits. Those were the days!

[@NicHills]

...Mini chedders were so moorish!!

[@Dessan01]

It’s an interesting trip down memory lane, but honestly people must be simple to bid on these 😂 PS1 games yes, Crisp packets no.

[@laurabitters2905]

Great video Nic, I actually collected crisp packets back in the day, started when I was 8 years old (around 1980-1990) and I ended up with around 100 packets in my collection. I sold most of them on ebay a couple of years ago and got good prices even then but I'm sure I have a few left somewhere, I'll have to find them! :)

[@NicHills]

Yes! dig them out :)

[@darthfakington2227]

Good news for me potentially. I just found a Walkers Crisps packet, in Salt & Vinegar flavour, with a Super Mario promotion on it, in my childhood junk.

[@user-hd6pn8ns3t]

Loved this, salt and vinegar bones were my favorites.

[@joles-gaming]

I want a Panda Pop that is full! Miss those

[@TechBaffle]

I suppose combining nostalgia, and the rarity (most crisp packets will be binned) gives them value.

[@TheLuigi69]

Hedgehog flavour crisps ,I remember them well, we use to say in our innocence how do they know how Hedgehogs tastes , great days ... I think they were about 6 and half pence at 1st

[@thegoodgoodie7924]

the thing is, there is loads of these in my city in the woods in a big pile made by me

[@Tandem51]

Hello Nic & Andrea, I do love the way they say Pre Owned lol I am 71 and I think all he crisps I must have eaten and thrown all the empty packets in the bin, just think of all the money I have lost, oh well if only we could have seen into the future. Tom

[@NicHills]

Exactly - we all threw so much away!!

[@mmantiquescollectables6385]

Big Big money in old food packaging and food items. I have visited a few places where they have old food packaging in a vintage look shop/store. I used to do house clearances and all the foods and packaging would just get bagged and binned. Some of the deceased estates I have cleared were amazing, Obviously if I was in the know back then I would of kept alot more than I did. Some of the items you would find in the pantry would be still sealed with an expiry date of about 10 years prior, but back then it was just gone off food. Not knowing that now 20years later that someone would want to buy a sealed tin of beans from the 70s and pay good money for them :)

[@NicHills]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing....

[@markwilliams2598]

We had a pop man (van) came around every Sunday morning and he sold hedgehog crisps 😂 ah the memories

[@KiraEvans-ni4nn]

Never surprises me what sells anymore, clearing out my grandparents old house I found an old Argos catalogue, everyone said to just throw it away I sold it for £30 + P&P

[@NicHills]

Great sale - yes! Argos catalogs are another amazing niche...

[@saltwithlove2269]

Great video , thank you : it's the Dr Who choc bar wrappers I'm after 😍

[@jimmydbags1070]

The absolute state of reselling at the moment.

[@Dave-kw7jq]

I've either eaten or bought for my kids every one of those.. Yes The horror bags were shaped you stuffed them in so you looked like a vampire .Easily pleased in the seventies. I would have thought the Bensons with a salt sachet would have been one though.On another note I have thousands of Gum cards and sets and also some wax wrappers but here's what I really want someone to answer.. Is there a niche market for the printed Wax dividers that went between the gum and the cards??? If so what is it called ?

[@geordiemik72]

What surprises me about this is, where on earth do the sellers find the things? None of them look like they have been looked after for years by an avid collector, they all look like they have just been dragged out of a dustbin somewhere but how did they survive?

[@salfordnurse]

Does that mean I should last those Star Wars episode one Crisp Packets I've got stored somewhere?

[@NicHills]

Might be worth a look...

[@salfordnurse]

@@NicHills I’ve some Spanish variants, which I’ve never seen on eBay as well

[@judithpride1690]

In 1995, Walkers took control of the Monster Munch brand (after buying out Smiths) and relaunched it with smaller pieces and redesigned monster mascots.

[@NicHills]

Thanks for the info :)

[@FlippinRich]

Now this is a niche I need to get into! 😂

[@NicHills]

Amazing isn't it!

[@bdewar6837]

I'm 6 yrs older than you Nic and remember both bones and fangs. Bones varied in how salty they were, sometimes eye wateringly salty and other times tasteless. Beef monster munch transports me back to middle school lunchtime in the canteen circa 1980.

[@NicHills]

I remember our school had a tuck shop and sold Crisps, wham bars and all sorts of other stuff

[@Panzer-xi5uj]

Great video Nic crazy prices and yes pickled onion monster munch very nice 😊

[@NicHills]

Yes it was :)

[@regd.2263]

I remember the 1950's Smiths Crisps with salt in blue waxproof paper, and going to the cinema and i ended up biting into the salt pack by accident in the dark..also remember OXO crisps as well, they were the only two flavours availible in those days. They were only 3 or 4 pence a pack old money about 1.1/2 p decimal a packet. What happened to Smiths Crisps they were huge and the only make available in the UK if my memory serves me correctly.

[@NicHills]

OXO crisps wow - never heard of those!

[@regd.2263]

It was Golden Wonder that made the OXO crisps not Smiths my mistake​@@NicHills

[@gazmoto]

You can still buy salt n shake 👍

[@juliebrooke6099]

Used to get Tudor crisps at the swimming pool. The strangest flavour was hedgehog! No idea if it was a realistic flavour or not!

[@NicHills]

Yes that must be the one in the video!

[@LilBlighter]

Wasn't one I enjoyed, but had the odd bag back in the day. Even then it was so trying of a flash-in-the-pan novelty flavour. Tasted more peppery to me, with a hint of chicken.

[@Andygb78]

Hedgehog crisps were supposed to be healthier than other crisps. I can't remember why they were supposed to be healthier, but we had a whole foods shop not far from where we used to live, and my Mum would sometimes buy us things from there including Hedgehog crisps.

[@NicHills]

Made using the whole hedgehog of course....

[@bennettsteven]

we found a crisp packet from the 1980s in our garden hedge and sold it for AROUND £13 !!!!! Space raiders one

[@NicHills]

Amazing :)

[@tonyratbullringcottagecoll1823]

Good video . Some of the graphics on the bags are fantastic.

[@NicHills]

Yes very of their time...

[@jackiesmithsmetaldetecting]

Antiques road show never told us about this 😂

[@NicHills]

LOL

[@iamhull723]

Grate vido nick hope you can do more like this ❤ top man

[@Scarlettsview99]

That’s interesting with crisp packets another one to the list

[@websurfer1585]

I think i must have a fortune in my attic!

[@donnajones2468]

Got me thinking i need to save all my crisp packets now 😂

[@flippingmaggie6397]

ooh Nic don't you have the ceramic KP abbot that is showing on that 2nd packet of crisps.

[@NicHills]

oooooh you might just be right!!!

[@VictoriaFoley-qs2ok]

I worry about the personality traits of the purchasers of these! Enjoyed - thank you for doing the research. 😂

[@NicHills]

You are so welcome!

[@juliepearson1685]

Wow smiths are still going but gòod sales

[@Yngwiejmalmsteen08]

Smiths are still going they make salt and shake and many others still 👍

[@gadgetman36]

PepsiCo have owned Smith's and Walkers since 1989.

[@babsbyrne1464]

Makes me wonder where they find the retro empty packes …. Do people dig though landfills 😳

[@NicHills]

Good question...

[@Simon-qn5wm]

Maybe the £80 crisp packet was a booze fuelled boxing day purchase.

[@anjkovo2138]

I sold some old soda cans. They sell well

[@NicHills]

Yes, another great niche!

[@LilBlighter]

I've got a few sealed and empty Coca-Cola CANS. Might try selling a few towards Christmas.

[@nataliekibble9091]

They still do pickled onion Monster Munch

[@NicHills]

Ooooh I need to find some...

[@tinaturner1695]

The Co-op sell them

[@leanatale7251]

Not as mad as argos catalogues nic.

[@NicHills]

Yes!! that's a good one too!

[@Andygb78]

Or empty lynx deodorant cans form the 80s & 90s.

[@purplevamp666]

I remember hedgehog flavour crisps. They were vile 🤮 but we still ate them 😅😅

[@NicHills]

We ate some crazy stuff back then...

[@scottreid89]

I climb a mootain for a bag of Tudor

[@nthnmonkey]

Pity that Lift's oot of orda!

[@nthnmonkey]

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[@georgiahumphreys3881]

Can you remember piglets and hedgehog flavour crisps?

[@lggsretrofinds4461]

if there was nick berry crisps i know who would bid on them haha

[@STORMCLOUDGREY]

Does anyone remember shrinking crisp packets in the oven?

[@NicHills]

Yes!! and the actual 'shrinkies' that were issues in breakfast cereal I think

[@kierancleall1426]

Amazing video idea

[@NicHills]

Glad you think so!

[@stevenwalmsley3468]

I’ve found one for £103 jaws crisps by sooner

[@NicHills]

Incredible :)

[@stevenwalmsley3468]

Isn’t it ridiculous… I wish I kept some. I was born in 1969 lol

[@joannenapier9694]

Hedgehog flavour tasted like beef

[@NicHills]

Really!!!

[@jonhelmer8591]

Forget landfill mining for precious metals, its crisp packets!

[@NicHills]

Right!! And old Lynx cans...

[@scenesofmotion1]

Who has been storing empty crisp packets it never would have occurred to me

[@andrewhorner1078]

tudor crisps YOU CAN'T GET A BETTER BAG OF CRISPS THERE CANNY , mainly a north eastern crisp A CANNY BAG OF CRISPS

[@OOK11]

Pennies can't buy a bigger snack lol classic monster munch. Space raiders were 10p the cheapest

[@NicHills]

yes! Well remembered!

[@mrdando]

Most brands are regional therefore you won't have heard of them

[@debbiestevens4382]

Monster Munch….still available in pickled onion flavour

[@NicHills]

I must find some!

[@flippingmaggie6397]

Anyone know any horders?

[@jasondent7850]

does this mean holders are now goner be millionaires

[@stevie007]

👌👌

[@7zerobakes]

Bonkers 😂

[@willrobinson7599]

Worlds gone mad

[@NicHills]

Nah it's always been this way LOL

[@jaynebowden2136]

Be nice to find some in the jumble sale nic xx 😘

[@NicHills]

Definitely!!