My siblings and I are going through the sad and nostalgic chore of cleaning out the house I grew up in. We keep running into things where someone would say, “Mom was sure that would be valuable some day.” Like a Mr. Peanut, Peanut Butter Maker. <\/p>\n
It’s used, and partly broken. I might possibly get $5 for it. <\/p>\n
There are some lovely prints by an Annapolis artist, which Mom was sure were valuable. They don’t do well at resale. Some of the vintage 70s china and glassware is a little valuable, but it’s hardly worth the trouble. <\/p>\n
I’m sure there are people who do well with collectibles, but I think you have to study the market and know what you’re doing. Just keeping old stuff in the hopes that it will be valuable some day doesn’t work out as well as you might hope. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My siblings and I are going through the sad and nostalgic chore of cleaning out the house I grew up in. We keep running into things where someone would say, “Mom was sure that would be valuable some day.” Like a Mr. Peanut, Peanut Butter Maker. It’s used, and partly broken. I might possibly get … Continue reading “Don’t collect “collectibles” unless you’re expert at it”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}