In the late 70, when I was 14-15, I collected beer mats and beer towels. This basically meant stealing from pubs.
In those days pubs didn’t stay open all day so the art was to hit them just after opening time when they were still empty. Many a time you could peep in and survey a completely empty bar/lounge with the barmaid distracted somewhere and that was like an open invitation to strip the bar of as many towels and mats as you could grab hold of.
I’ve still got them all in the loft, a couple of hundred different towels and thousands of mats. Sometimes wish I’d carried on ‘collecting’ them but would probably have run out of space years ago.
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