Thank you, granny, for the advice. Dinner and a pad of paper is a great place to start brainstorming and not a lot of pressure. And I’m good at lists ;) I really do need to figure out the ebay thing. I have a cookie jar collection that got started on a trip when I was in high school. I now have about 45 or so. Most are on display over my kitchen cabinets, but the last few years, I’ve been seeing them more as dust collectors and have seriously been thinking it might be time to move on. A few are older, one or two I’ve never seen anywhere in books or online. If people are buying, I think it would be a good place to start.
I often think that challenges and changes in life are just the nudges we need for some new beginnings and adventures that we wouldn’t necessarily move to when life is status quo.
I often think that challenges and changes in life are just the nudges we need for some new beginnings and adventures that we wouldn’t necessarily move to when life is status quo.<<<
Yes, you are right, more than you know as yet.
I have always found survival to be more interesting, as a topic,
that talk about tv and folks latest new dress.
there are sites that teach how to use ebay, or have lots of info on using them and I think there is a site on ebay with a lot of information.
I will post any that I find, for I suspect that many want to make a little extra money.
Your cookie jars may well have more value than you expect,
for they have always been in the collectible class.
Warman’s price guide, has been the top book for dealers for about 40 years, I don’t recall when I first heard of it or started using it, but it has to be over 40 years.
People called me nuts, for rushing around to yard sales and buying collectibles for several years in San Diego, a friend knew antiques and had a small shop, she taught me and steered me into learning to read the trade marks and how to tell real old milk glass from the new [old is alive, an almost blue sheen and new is dead and cold white...]
We moved to Portland for one year and the doctor said Bill needed to be in the desert, so I sold a bunch of my collectibles and we moved to Arizona, where 5 years later I opened a small antique and craft shop with the ones that I still had.
I don’t have much left, but more than my family will ever figure out.
If I have ever actually made money in this life, it was with antiques and collectibles, for often with careful shopping, you can pay under a dollar for an item that will sell for $20.
Estate sales are a good source.
If you are in an old town, watch for the dress patterns from the 1920’s and 30’s in the sales, for they sell on ebay for $20. to 100.
They like the hippy patterns also and many consider them of no value and will even give them away.
Ebay is a good site to get a grip on values, for they show what things sold for.
People do keep the patterns, I was surprised, when I went through mine, it find I still owned everyone that I had ever made and my daughter was born in 1953.
Old jewelry is a mixed bag and I am not wise to it, some things I can spot, but not enough to really invest, more than pennies in it.
We need to change our collecting habits, at times, for that is what makes life interesting.
You will do fine, the library is full of antique books and has them on every subject, LOL, they are pretty picture books, until you understand the “rest of the story”.
I haven’t been interested in antiques on the internet, as this is not a good location to buy antiques, all new folks moving here and not bringing the old stuff with them.
Good luck and have fun....