I own the largest crisp packet collection but I’m packing it in [Video]

To store the packets, Gary grills the packaging, rolls them up into balls, and puts them in storage containers

A dad from Bristol who started collecting packets when his partner was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer has announced his hobby will be coming to a crisp halt after twelve years.

Gary, 60, has collected over 24,000 packets, and says his favourite flavour is the classic Walker’s ready salted.

Mr Keys kept collecting after his partner, Joanne, passed away, but as his youngest child, Alisha, is leaving school this year he has made the decision to cease his collection.

‘I think not collecting them is really going to get to me,’ he said.

‘I might have to go back to it as it’s just a habit now. I think I’ll automatically start saving the packets of crisp.’

Gary, who works at the University of Hull, is well known for his collection, and says that …