[Normie] What to start collecting now that my kids can sell after i snuff it?

Lambyr

What you need to do is to write an award-winning, really successful novel and get rich. Helps if you get the movie deal too.

Then spend your millions buying up every copy of the novel that was ever sold. With your movie deal royalties you'll be able to offer more than the list price.

Then burn them all bar one copy - preferably a first print version.

Then snuff it and your kids will have a sought after by collector's novel to whack up on future eBay for...

Mr_Toad

One of my work colleagues collects sports memorabilia, F1 stuff, autographs etc. He also then started with other sports autographs. All of them from supposedly reputable dealers with good provenance.

He saw a program on TV about autographs in general that said most were fakes. He then spent some money getting his authenticated and was told most were indeed fake so loads of wasted money although his primary reason for buying them wasn't as an investment it wasn't the same knowing that what was on his walls were fakes.

You have to be careful.

lincroft1710

Assuming you could live for 50/60 years, we're talking about the late 21st century and it would be very difficult to predict what would be collectable then. A lot of stuff is collectable because it has relevance to the collector's childhood.

There is a possibility, even probability, that with space constraints, our homes in the future will have very little room for collections. Also future generations will not have the collecting bug, or want to preserve the past.

You could easily end up with a loft full of unsaleable rubbish, which your children will have to sort through, or they may just bin the whole lot.

Spend your money on enriching their lives now, or invest it for their education or something useful/necessary for their life.

soolin

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Assuming you could live for 50/60 years, we're talking about the late 21st century and it would be very difficult to predict what would be collectable then. A lot of stuff is collectable because it has relevance to the collector's childhood.

There is a possibility, even probability, that with space constraints, our homes in the future will have very little room for collections. Also future generations will not have the collecting bug, or want to preserve the past.

You could easily end up with a loft full of unsaleable rubbish, which your children will have to sort through, or they may just bin the whole lot.

Spend your money on enriching their lives now, or invest it for their education or something useful/necessary for their life.

I think you are spot on. The smaller the home, and the modern obsession for minimalism means a lot of antique and collectables that used to sell now won't sell at all.

I'm surprised though that the OP has found any saleable vinyl. When my dad died he left hundreds and hundreds of records all boxed and in original covers. Apart from one LP nothing has been worth the effort of selling, I sold some at car boots for 4 for £1 and donated several hundred that didn't sell at all and even took some to the local tip. I've got several dozen boxes left in storage plus a few boxes of 78s that have no value but I am loath to discard. I mention dumping them as a few of my local charity shops have added LPs to the items they no longer accept.

silvercar

Wine, vintage cars, gold coins, art.

Person_one

Gold, or possibly helium but that's a bit harder to store.

Mr_Toad

soolin wrote: »

I think you are spot on. The smaller the home, and the modern obsession for minimalism means a lot of antique and collectables that used to sell now won't sell at all.

I'm surprised though that the OP has found any saleable vinyl. When my dad died he left hundreds and hundreds of records all boxed and in original covers. Apart from one LP nothing has been worth the effort of selling, I sold some at car boots for 4 for £1 and donated several hundred that didn't sell at all and even took some to the local tip. I've got several dozen boxes left in storage plus a few boxes of 78s that have no value but I am loath to discard. I mention dumping them as a few of my local charity shops have added LPs to the items they no longer accept.

And yet vinyl is making a comeback. For the proper HiFi enthusiast it never really went away but more and more young people are buying vinyl and record players.

My son, whose 32, asked me a while ago what happened to all my vinyl. It survived a couple of house moves but was eventually dumped as it was taking up room and I really couldn't see myself ever using it again in anger.

That said what most of the younger people are buying are new releases, not the stuff their parents and grandparents were listening to :rotfl:

barbiedoll

Person_one wrote: »

Gold, or possibly helium but that's a bit harder to store.

:rotfl::rotfl:

Ames

When you looked on eBay did you see sold prices or list prices? There's a difference...

Spendless

spadoosh wrote: »

Doesnt always work mate, my mum bought some puppet things that she said would be worth something when i grow up, £20 theyre worth and thats if i hadnt knotted all the wires messing about with them.

Pelham Puppets? http://pelhampuppets.weebly.com/

My Mum refused to buy me them. Years later I saw one for sale in a shop, but it was just as I'd bought my first house and couldn't afford to indulge myself.