Vintage character lunch boxes are a fun find at local estate sales. If you’re looking to start collecting these charming pieces of history, let’s learn a little more about collecting them. A Brief History The lunch box as we know it today was created in 1935. Geuder, Paeschke, and Frey, a Milwaukee-based company, featured a new cartoon character, Mickey Mouse, on their “Lunch Kit.” This turned out to be a brilliant idea, and from that point forward, character lunch boxes wer

The clever candy dispenser, PEZ, is a quintessential childhood knickknack. They come in all shapes and sizes, and we often see these at estate sales in Tacoma, Olympia, or Gig Harbor. Let’s learn a little more about collecting PEZ. A Brief History PEZ got its start in Austria in the early 1920s and was invented as an alternative to smoking. Created by Eduard Haas III, the original dispensers mimic an old fashion cigarette lighter, and the original candy wasn’t candy at all,