I am Guy Mortier from Belgium and live in Aalst, a city between the big cities of Ghent and Brussels in Belgian Flanders and the latter is the heart of Europe. The Aalst is famous in Belgium for its Oilsjt Carnival.
I am 54 years old and I am operator in Bakery food factory. number one in Belgium. I also do grapical design, web-scripting for my career-job. I am married with two daughters Emily and Eline. I like to spend my free time on my Coca-Cola can collection and my computer (I make sites, advertisements, brochures, photography).
I started my collection in 1984. It started in 1980 when I collected all the different soda cans and beer cans (I found a lot of empty cans from the Oktoberfest in Wieze and some places with a lot of people from all countries). But in 1984 I started collecting Coca-Cola from all over the world (cans, bottles, gadgets, glasses and other things).In 1990 one had more than 1000 cans. Later I met other collectors so we could exchange our double cans. In 1994 I had contacts with 17 different collectors. After my marriage and moving house I stopped collecting gadgets and items (bottles and glasses). It became too much . So I decided to only collect cans (*) . I have over 2700 different cans and I made new collectors friends on the Internet . Now I have all the collectors and friends on the Internet with whom I have contact and trade. Now at the beginning of this millennium I have more than 5000 visitors on my site and I also have more than 3.500 different cokecans from 78 countries all over the world in my collection .
1998
20 years later... the new site "www.canscollection.be" bores me since the end of 2004 and I have more than 6400 different Coca-Cola cans. and more than 40.000 visitors and 150 traders I contacted for trade or deal ! I thank all my trade friends for helping me find cans for my collection and the latest cans ! I always send gifts for my trade friends. This way I have made more friends all over the world !
2015 new social page "Canscollection Belgium" group name and has more than 750 members so far
20 years later... the new site "www.canscollection.be" bores me since the end of 2004 and I have more than 6400 different Coca-Cola cans. and more than 40.000 visitors and 150 traders I contacted for trade or deal ! I thank all my trade friends for helping me find cans for my collection and the latest cans ! I always send gifts for my trade friends. This way I have made more friends all over the world !
2015 new social page "Canscollection Belgium" group name and has more than 750 members so far
In 2018 my site exists 20 years In between I have more than 14500 different cans . Now I start to limit a bit due to lack of space and time. I try to exchange with several cans from my collection for 1 old or rare can that I don't have yet.
I still collect but not everything correctly special edition cans and limited editions and also large collection of Coca-Cola coasters , Coca-Cola labels and metal caps ... who will be next in the future ?
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