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so what makes it collectable ?
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It looks like there is some confusion between something being collectible versus it having monetary value.
For something to be collectible, it only has to have value or interest to the one person who collects it. It doesn't have to have monetary value at all, or even be of ANY interest to anyone else.
I saw a program about collecting, and one of the guys collection consisted of 700 "barf bags" he had collected from the flights he had taken all over the world. Now I doubt too many other people would want those... but that doesn't make them any less collectable to that one person.
For something to be collectible, it only has to have value or interest to the one person who collects it. It doesn't have to have monetary value at all, or even be of ANY interest to anyone else.
I saw a program about collecting, and one of the guys collection consisted of 700 "barf bags" he had collected from the flights he had taken all over the world. Now I doubt too many other people would want those... but that doesn't make them any less collectable to that one person.
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I agree.
In many cases, the thing(arts, crafts...knives of course) which we think it as investment will not make money.
I believe simply...we will be happy only when we get our favorite things for each.
And sometimes, something which were bought NOT as investment will make money.
I call it "thanks of things".
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/a...-art-collector-dies-at-89.html?pagewanted=all
Investment will come(or will not come) later.
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I think some answers will be similar, but all will be different.
It's a preference, and if you are not honest about collecting based on your own preference, or you allow outside influences to guide your preference, you are probably heading toward disappointment.
It's a preference, and if you are not honest about collecting based on your own preference, or you allow outside influences to guide your preference, you are probably heading toward disappointment.
