does anyone else have this fetish?

yep, me too - I always read through the packaging

For twenty years (1980-2000) I lived in and renovated a house built in 1821 in Southwest Virginia. When we got to the kitchen there were 5 layers of old style sheet linoleum, with news papers between the layers to keep them from sticking together. I tore it up layer by layer reading and saving what I could. I was doing this at about the time all that mess was going on with the Contras in Nicaragua. The most shocking article between the flooring was from the 1930s about the US sending in the Marines to protect the interests of the Dole Corporation, in ... Nicaragua. What goes around comes around...
Man, that's Cool! Would live to see the 'ol house! That's what I do, and I dig that kinda stuff. These unrealistic TV shows with unlimited budgets and the fact they go to break, snap their fingers and the place is done gives home owners Very Unrealistic Expectations!