Collecting!!

[Tuesday]

It's always difficult for me to start a new topic...not living in Manchester anymore....however...
I adore Car Boot Sales and Antique and Collectors Fairs. You just never know what you are going to find!!! (My hubbie says "a load of other peoples rubbish! "...which I know is true to a certain extent. Nothing much though beats the thrill of a 'find'. I am curious to know where in Manchester the best Car Boot Sales and Collector's Fairs are held. Has anyone here got a great bargain? Do you think ebay is killing of the Fairs and reducing the Boot sales to glorified jumble sales?

[celeste]

what a great topic, i adore collecting - i have just bought all the mags. where Daniel Craig is on the front, i collect art deco, (more than art nouveau) antique jewellery, just bought a white sapphire cluster ring (1930's) didn't know there were white sapphires, i collect min iature perfumes, signed autographs of favourites, i have a James Bond collection of figures and books, two Dr. Who paperback books, a few Dr. Who annuals, loads of other stuff i can't recall at the moment

[Tuesday]

Of course my great love is dolls so I am always on the look out. Over the years I have become very fussy dollwise so very rarely acquire anything other than at specialised sales....but you never know.
Collecting jewellery I expect is a minefield...but I love both art deco and art nouveau. I adore pink sapphires...that colour is just perfect, better than rubies.
My daughters quite like miniature perfume bottles too.
I think my collections would be described a 'kitsch' overall but I like them. These days I tend not to deviate too far from dolls and related items but only because of the space issue. I would love, at some time, to open a shop called something like 'Second Childhood'.
 

[celeste]

you'll just have to patent that name it's so good

[Tuesday]

Sadly I think it has been used before!

[celeste]

what about childhood second time round- no  more of a book title

[celeste]

Sue, did you ever buy that magazine COLLECT?  i have about fifty copies, but i gave up when i missed a few issues

[Tuesday]

what about childhood second time round- no  more of a book title

Howzabout 'Shop for Idiots that never really grew up'? (and run by the biggest idiot of them all ) That would have it covered I think

[Tuesday]

Sue, did you ever buy that magazine COLLECT?  i have about fifty copies, but i gave up when i missed a few issues

You really need a specialised magazine otherwise it just turns into yet another collection.
I used to get it in and out...but now just read it in WH Smith's when no one's looking.

[celeste]

I used to buy Homes & Antiques, at the back of the mag. they have a coupon where you can sell items,  a woman in n Scotland bought 51 Wade animals off me for £270

[village_idiot]

ladies i wish you well in your quest for buying things
As i have repeatedly stated on here you women are born with retail therapy disease
good health to yas all
village idiot

[Tuesday]

The lure of a bargain and/or the unexpected find make Car Boot Sales and Antique and Collectors Fairs really exciting things to go to......and with retail therapy thrown in -  HEAVEN!! 

[village_idiot]

Sue
we have those car boot sales over here
they are called trash and treasure markets
I went once and once was enough
Ya find ya self walking amongst hundreds and hundreds of people and when ya get caught up behind some [censored] that is smoking it makes ya sick yuk i never went again i totaly hate to be any where where some [censored] is smoking
Good health to ya
village idiot

[celeste]

FAWKES LIT A FIRE 

[village_idiot]

i hate smoking
nothing else needs to be said
village idiot