First off I wanted to thank everyone who participated in the favorite antique game. It was fun to see everyones amazing collections. If there is anyone else that would like to play please feel free to leave me a comment and I will gladly add your link to my page.

After a long day of tagging and hauling out the items for the yard sale, I am content with the fact that we sold alot, made some money, but more importantly cleared out some clutter in both of our houses.

It always amazes me to think that other people want my so called junk. Although if I wasn’t busy hosting the yard sale I would have been out there myself with the best of them finding more great treasures. More than half of our customers told me that they themselves should be having their own tag sale instead of buying more junk that they didn’t need. I think one reason that people love antique hunting is because certain objects remind us of memories from the past. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard people say oh honey look at this bleepy bleep I used to own one of these when I was a kid. This is one aspect of the business that I love, and brings me to my next story.

About a month ago I was in a great little antique shop in Grafton. As I scoured the store for treasures, I came across something familiar. The object was not only familiar but it was something of mine from the past. It was a mother of pearl inlaid hairclip that my grandparents had given me from a trip to Mexico. I had sold it about ten years ago at a yard sale. The dealer was there so I asked her where she got it from. She said that she had purchased it from another shop a couple of months ago. It is so amazing to me to think that after ten years something from my past showed up in an antique shop. I then wondered how many hands it went through until it finally ended up in that shop, and how many more it will go through in this lifetime.

Part of the job of being a dealer is trying to buy cheap and sell for a good profit. It is inevitable that another dealer will come along buy your merchandise mark it up again and resell for a higher profit. It’s just part of the foodchain game. It is a crap shoot as to where its final resting place will end up. This cyclical event could go on for years until the antique has finally found a good home to someone who collects and loves it. Even if a dealer decides not to sell the item in a shop, alot of antiques are sold on E-Bay and then sent to some far off place across the world.

Maybe I analyze things to much, I tend to do that, but it’s just food for thought for when you buy an antique try to imagine where it has been, who has touched it. Has it touched the life of someone else. Eventually you might even rediscover something from your own past like I did!!