You can go to an estate scale every day of the week if you want to. And it’s a good way to buy furniture for a rental property or first apartment or something along those lines.
There really isn’t a great collectibles market for much of anything any longer. Every great collectibles bubble has come and burst at this point. And with Boomers starting to pass on, the markets are only going to be flooded with more stuff.
I don’t know if there is a fortune to be made here. My dad (70) has been in the process of downsizing things from my childhood home for a good five years now. It’s actually a hobby. Somehow, the house seems just as full as ever.
But I don’t know if people really truly want to do the “Let’s get rid of this stuff” before I die game.
I currently have three sets of inherited china. I stand to inherit at least 6 more in the next 20 years. I could open a five-star restaurant.
We’re actually using the china of one of my wife’s great aunts as our “every day” dishes. It made absolutely no sense to replace broken pieces of the dishes we got at Macy’s ten years ago when we could have a dinner party for 36 based on the stuff gathering dust in our attic.
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