I posted this originally on NSF but I'll re-post it here:
I hate to disagree with Gary Sohmers, who's quoted in the article and who I
watch and enjoy on the Roadshow, but there is a fourth reason people
collect: Because it's fun.
When my daughter was a kid (she's 23 now), she used to come along with me
most Saturday mornings to yard sales and church bazaars. I was hunting for
books, toys and games, and she came along because there was all manner of
funky (and cheap) stuff that would turn up and she could stretch her
allowance a lot further, whether it was t-shirts, costume jewelery,
skateboards, weird hats or just cheap reading material.
Eventually, though, she got into collecting. When she was 12 I bought her a
subscription to MAD and renewed it every year on her birthday. So on our
junk hunting trips she started collecting MAD magazines, MAD paperbacks, MAD
games, buttons, you name it.
Eventually she outgrew it (also she found it harder to find stuff that
wasn't already in her collection), but we both had a blast while it lasted
and it meant we spent a lot of "quality time" (a term I don't like because
as far as I'm concerned it's all quality time) together, most of it
laughing.
And that whole time she was collecting neither one of us ever looked at a
price guide 'cuz that's not what it's about...
Dave
www.posteropolis.com
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