# Need help completing my bottle cap collection.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 5, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-completing-my-bottle-cap-collection/293045 "2005-03-05T05:22:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-completing-my-bottle-cap-collection/293045/1 "2005-03-05T05:22:14Z")

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I spent the last five years collecting bottle caps of different bottles of whiskey. At first I stuck to just one size from each bottle, but soon I ran out of new bottle caps to get. Now I have expanded my collection to three different sizes of each bottle. I have hundreds of bottle caps at home. It’s a fun hobby that allows me to drink lots of scotch whiskey.

The problem now is that I need to stop drinking and have a few caps left to collect. I don’t want to waste money on buying a 1.75 liter of Ballantine 12 year old scotch if I am not going to drink it. Anyone know where I can buy bottle caps? I’ll pay for them. Anyone have bottle caps that they would like to mail me? Maybe I should just start drinking again till I finish my collection. Until then, I’ m trying to do what I can while sober.

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**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-completing-my-bottle-cap-collection/293045/2 "2005-03-06T05:47:28Z")

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Nobody?

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**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-completing-my-bottle-cap-collection/293045/3 "2005-03-06T06:28:40Z")

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You could buy the bottle of scotch, keep the cap. plug the bottle with a cork, and mail it to me. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-completing-my-bottle-cap-collection/293045/4 "2005-03-06T06:47:47Z")

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OMG! ERNIE!? Is that you?  
It’s me, Burt!  
Big Bird has been worried sick!

Sorry, I have nothing constructive to add. That was just the first thing that came to mind.

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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-completing-my-bottle-cap-collection/293045/5 "2005-03-06T14:33:11Z")

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Have you asked around at bars for bottlecaps? I’m sure that a friendly bartender wouldn’t mind saving some, especially if you made it worth his/her while.