The one completely new thing I learned how to do during the pandemic was to pick the locks on old gumball machines.
Over the last few years, an untold number of us have spent more time (and money) chasing our collecting passions than ever before. And in the summer of 2020, I paid big money (almost four figures) for a long-sought “holy grail” — a 1950s Oak Manufacturing combination card and gumball machine. A 5-cent
