Thread 520935314

Why did old people in the 80s think this would be valuable? Why didn't they just sink it into gold?

Political because acquiring generational wealth is political.

>>520935314 (OP)
Do boomers have anything to leave to gen x?

Presuming she bought all these things for (You) to sell them later...how stupid are you?

>>520936193
Some of them still do, but most of them are still spending what's left.

>>520936193
The majority do, there's suckers who buy into trends like these collectibles every generation. Think about the kids in the future who will inherit 80 year old Magic the Gathering cards.

>>520935314 (OP)
It was house decorations. they werent JEWED like today's people are when you have to think about the future value of shit around your house

>>520935314 (OP)
>old people in the 80s
Those people came of age in the 20s and 30s.
Things like porcelain and fine china were considered only for the rich or European aristocrats.
Then along comes the postwar boom of the 1950s, and suddenly even the lower middle class can buy a set of fine china for their annual Christmas dinner, or for their daughter's wedding present.
Also keep in mind that the silent generation was essentially the last generation to adhere to the belief in generational wealth. They bought these things with the firm belief they'd actually accrue value, and leave them to their kids.

>>520935314 (OP)
That’s cheap worthless shit my grandmother had real shit. Only retards think stuff like that is a good investment strategy. It’s just a nice bonus that retains a lot of its value even today.

>>520935314 (OP)
i think it's about not having enough money to buy what you wanted earlier in life and so they don't hold back when they retire and have disposable income. that women probably spent her life flipping through the sears catalog wishing she had the cash to buy a nice tea set and now she finally has it and is happy.

can't you just let people enjoy things? it's her money and she can spend it however she wants to.

>>520935314 (OP)
My grandma gave me 1000 usd.
She said she's been saving it since the 80s
Not even in the bank, in cash in a box.
You dont realise just how ignorant oldfags are

>>520936824
Genuine porcelain shit from that era is still very valuable. My grandfather gave me a Tiffany hippo piggy bank that’s still worth decent money.

>>520936347
This. Kids only think of the money they can make selling their parents stuff these days.

I love trinkets, granny kind too. :)

Value is what we love and enjoy that is benevolent.

>>520935314 (OP)
My grandma has this
Ive never seen her use any of it even on Thanksgiving
I guess its just supposed to be admired?
Or perhaps its for a dignitary

>>520936960
Your grandmother is an absolute fucking retard. 1k in a Dow jones stock index fund in 1980 would be fucking 50,000 dollars today. That’s why you fucking lower class scum don’t have generational wealth you buy into the penny saved is a penny earned shit. If you stuff shit under a mattress literally you might as well be burning it.

>>520937151
We all die in the end

>>520937050
Because their parents were thoughtless selfish cunts that bought all that pigshit to begin with instead of investing in their childrens' future

>>520936960
In fairness it's not like economists are open about the fact that they're encouraging governments to destroy the value of money. They're very roundabout in it. They talk about investment, they talk about "a government's budget isn't like your credit card, sweetie" but they NEVER come out and say "yeah we're deliberately destroying the value of your currency day by day to coerce you into subsidizing the stock market and give wealthy investors cheap debt while your paycheck is worth less and less" and if you're some innocent boomer you'll just assume the government wouldn't do something so reprehensibly evil.

>>520937050
The sentimental value of a gift from your great grandfather far outweighs the monetary value unless you are talking about enough money to buy a car or house.

>>520937228
Rich people buy nice shit to display it’s not supposed to be an investment strategy.

>>520935314 (OP)
So you're a broke virgin because some random old woman spent a couple grand on pretty dinner plates over her lifetime?
Surely there's more to the story here.

>>520937228
It's all going to be yours after they pass anyway.

BTW my parents didn't buy gold either.

>>520937228
The parents that you got are nothing more than decentralised feeding stock for the new generation the government owns you and If you produce children you are slave to the children and the government.

>>520937396
I’m not an expert but that looks like fake cheap shit she got at a flea market.

>>520936644
>mtg
Kek!

>>520937359
Random trash in a china cabinet is not 'nice' nor did anyone have to be rich to buy it. Its trash. We ALL know its trash.

>>520935314 (OP)
Well, you see anon, typically that special set of China that was kept in the curio was actually pulled out and gently used for special occasions, such as Thanksgiving dinner. There was usually also a nicer set, “wedding china” which would be reserved for, well, weddings, and funerals I suppose. Anyhow, it was not uncommon for the sets to have been passed down through at least one generation, but usually more, by time it made it to say my grandmother (born 1942).

>>520937547
lol fucking low class piece of shit

Tiffany porcelain and Edgewood shit is still very valuable

Go eat a mayonnaise sandwich and jerk off to a police chase you fucking peasant

>>520935314 (OP)
you guys bought NFTs

>>520937547
Collecting China was really big in the 80s and 90s. Americans never had fine China so they wanted to grab it all from China cheap.

>>520936960
My grandparents went the route of sending $50-$100 in US treasury bonds each birthday and Christmas. Unfortunately, those “got lost” in the divorce. Bastards.

>>520937120
They're unironically the funcopops of the boomer generation.

>>520935314 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kbkysPTnHc
Social media has primed an environment where this type of degeneracy is not only accepted, it thrives. Social media desensitizes and radicalizes even moderates into believing heinous and abhorrent behavior is acceptable under the correct context. Spend just 5 minutes on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, you will find hordes of these deranged people. They exist among us. The FBI knows about them but never acts until it is far too late. Western society is on a one-way fast track to collapse as long as social media continues to destroy minds and decay the culture.

>>520937517
>I’m not an expert but that looks like fake cheap shit she got at a flea market.
OK, so OP is a broke loser because some random old woman bought a hundred bucks worth of plates at a yard sale.
Again, I'm guessing all you whiny loosers' problem isn't some random old person having a silly collection of brick a brack.

>>520937151
there's not access to that in Argentina

>>520935314 (OP)
Because it was valuable when they were growing up and saw it in their grandparents collections. Most people don't adapt to the economic realities year to year, why would some 80 year old adapt when they are already 50 years out of date?

>>520935314 (OP)
Modern products are trash and have shit quality. Quality household items and antiques from the "Made in America" era are worth their weight in gold now. You can't find that anymore outside of garage sales.

Beanie babies

>>520935314 (OP)
>Why did old people in the 80s think this would be valuable?
It is. To collectors. Just not you.

My Grandpa had the whole house full with this worthless shit. In 2021 we sold all the items in the use or threw it away and we only got like 200€.

The most values thing were actually copper pippes we sold for 1000€

Imagine that. A 90 year old dude with a house, a car, land and all his personal stuff was just worth 200€

My Smartphones is more than 200€.

Those oldfucks were stupid af with money. Like back in the 70´s and ounce of gold was like 150€ now it´s 3500€... but those retards spent all their money on worthless shit

this is also the reason i dont feel sad about "poor seniors" ... nigga you 50 years time to save money, invest money during the best periods / decades of the world. So fuck off and get pillow in your face at the retirment home by Ahmed

>>520937151
Because they were not investing for you. They were buying it for themselves.

>>520936731
people also used to have large get togethers. My parents inherited an awesome formal dining set up with china and we used to use it multiple times a year when family came over til there was no family anymore.

>>520937717
Sorry not Edgewood it’s Wedgwood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedgwood

Fucking cop peasant trash… let me speak your language

OINK OINK NIGGER OINK OINK

>>520937798
Yes money is everything
When I died I want lots of MONEY in the bank
Money money money
Everything I do is for big numbers in a bank

because fine china is valuable and always was
my grandmothers china got 10k at auction

>>520937798
couldve gotten more money selling to americans i bet instead of turkish flea markets

>>520937717
Bric-a-brac

>>520937908
>have zero monies
>die
What then?

>>520937908
and then they lose all their money on crypto rugpulls and jpegs

>>520937798
Good to know you're following in the family tradition of being a nigger with money. Your ancestors are smiling down on you with pride.

>>520937908
Trade pieces of paper with people until you die! My favorite game!

>>520937798
>My Grandpa had the whole house full with this worthless shit. In 2021 we sold all the items in the use or threw it away and we only got like 200€.

I found a set of spode plates that are worth 100 dollars. Copper pressed plates.

Young people don't even cook or eat at home so obviously plates are useless to them. Better to inherit a $1000 mcdonalds gift card for most of them.

Zoomers Pokemon cards and old video games are valuable.

I'm sure your grandchildren will love your beat to shit copy pokemon crystal with a dead battery or PS2 game with DVD rot.

>>520935314 (OP)
My father is an antiques dealer. He said this shit is absolutely worthless. He’s thrown so much of this garbage into dumpsters after old people die it’s unbelievable. Make sure to take the silverware, serving trays, and candelabras though. Look through old jewelry boxes too

>>520937942
Don’t bother the only generational wealth these people have experienced is molestation

>>520937958
I lived a life doing things
No worrying about how much my funko pop collection will be for my ungrateful grandchild will be worth

>>520937717
>brick a brack.

>>520937872
Post pics of your tea set with timestamp, fuckwit.

>>520937866
>people also used to have large get togethers.
doesnt happen anymore because you have to work for the k_kes

>>520937958
I used to hang out on vintage PC forums as a kid in the early 2000’s. A common boomer signature at the time was “whoever has the most stuff when they die, wins”. Although it was probably meant to be to be in the sense of useless junk(in other people’s eyes of course), I find it quite funny anyhow.

>>520935314 (OP)
Door to door salesmen, gullibility.

>>520938048
Cheap knockoff shit is worthless genuine brand stuff from major luxury brands retains a decent amount of value and in some cases can be very very expensive

What do you think literal barons and shit in Europe decorate their country homes with? IKEA furniture?

>>520938027
There’s certain red, blues, greens one knows to look for in the outer edge patterns.

>>520935314 (OP)
They were keeping up with the joneses. They also had faith in the dollar and weren't anticipating economic collapse, so they had no reason to buy gold.

>>520938150
Not a chance, this is white nigger ebt central now

>>520935314 (OP)
I had many wins and losses

Wins
1. Vintage comics (i bought hundreds of gold / silver era comics at a yard sale when i was in middle school)

2. Vintage video games (when i was in high school around 2000 you could buy second hand games from friends for $2 that are worth $300 today — 150x profit)

3. Vintage gold jewelry and watches

My loser:

I collected and bought a LOT of pins when i was young. I have about 50 full boards of pins and they’re worth nothing now LMAO

>>520937151
>argentina
>30 years of savings
>in the next best hyperinflation since Zimbabwe
Kill yourself you worthless fucking yiddler kike queer

>>520938033
Most don’t, but I cook out of a 1933 better homes and gardens cookbook passed down to me from my grandmother, who’s mother gave it to her. Good shit. Cast iron and lard all the way.

>>520935314 (OP)
it was the fanciest thing a person could own for generations

>>520937396
Fuck you kike

>>520938303
>They also had faith in the dollar and weren't anticipating economic collapse, so they had no reason to buy gold.

My parents were the same. They used to mock gold while spending thousands of dollars on comic books and other marvel toys. This was the 90s.

>>520935314 (OP)
Your average peasant has these kinds of little insipid collections, because it gives their life meaning.
The more money they have, the more expensive their collections, but almost always worthless.

>>520935314 (OP)
I remember my grandma had a whole China cabinet just full of cups and plates inlaid with gold leaf (yes actual gold leaf). I remember the microwave nuking itself when I tried to put one in and turn it on.

>>520938342
How about I beat the shit out of your daughter and wait for you to come look for me

>>520937657
Use the good velveteen 1975 polished heirloom rope to kill yourself

>>520938480
How about I make your son a paraplegic

>>520938369
My mom bought tons of Swarovski crystal animals and nice teak furniture. Lots of royal dalton as well.

I think the Swarovski animals are the most overrated junk in the world.

>>520938410
Most people don’t know that you actually can microwave metal without a spectacular reaction, if there is no spark-gap. At any rate, this is why it’s important to check for microwave safe markings. And dishwasher safe markings, unless you want to get murdered by grandma. I grew up drinking out of leaded crystal and I turned out alright.

>>520938522
Every time a nigger kills a cop an angel gets its wings

I regularly go through every physical item I own and if I don't use it, I throw it out or list it for sale on a secondhand app. Feels good to be rid of possessions and convert it into real assets (I buy ETFs)

>>520938427
Implying your anemic hebrew ass can manage to beat your own dick

>>520935314 (OP)
Depending on the material some fine china can actually be worth alot, most isn't though. My grandparents had literal silver and gold though pottery and china so was a form of transfer of generational wealth to my mother.

>>520938397
Collecting just gives you something to waste intellectual bandwidth on so you don’t worry. I think thats the evolutionary reason.its just a distraction form life’s worries.

I just try to channel my collecting instinct into gold and silver these days so i dont end up hoarding junk.

I collect badges of dead cops and shoot cum all over them to relieve stress

>>520938571
What an odd thing to say.
>>520938522
Furniture is blowing up these days, especially for the nicer vintage brands. That’s where the money is.

>>520938705
You should sell those while there are still boomers who care for trinkets, then you can buy 125% or more of the value in actual bullion

or better yet, gold miners. they're printing money with these prices and cheap oil

>>520938705
Watch collecting is prime, I enjoy it quite a bit. Steer clear of the grandpa meme Swiss watches though, the giant ones. I stay with vintage mechanical and self winding timepieces.

>>520938874
Look at that fat fucking piece of shit cop crying like a fucking homo LOL

>>520937151
>Your grandmother is an absolute fucking retard
Most of us come from normie families whose grandparents were uneducated or at least financially illiterate. Investing in gold or stocks was unheard of for most of the population. Still is. If your grandparent had a college degree, you come from a pretty wealthy family.

>>520938880
I only buy gold watches and i basically buy whenever i have cash available (not that often) and when the price is right.

>>520938991
Fucking peasant your great grandparents were shitting in outhouses and shining my great grandfathers shoes

Glad to see nothing much has changed

>>520935314 (OP)
Ok so how much can you sell gold for if you had a piece of gold?

>>520938991
Yeah, hi, my grandmother is a literal child in an adult body and always has been, it’s unreal, and she raised my mother to be the same way. It’s a serious issue.

Fucking low class pieces of nigger shit

>>520938213
>What do you think literal barons and shit in Europe decorate their country homes with?
They don't, it was decorated 200 years ago and hasn't needed updating because they live in penthouses and the family estate is managed by a trust.

>>520935314 (OP)
They got they money in they bank, and you ain't getting none of it

>>520938855
The thing is i dont want bullion. I prefer the trinkets. I get no joy from bullion. The large 18k pendant has a bucellati rigoti style engraving and when i wear it i feel like a king desu. The engraving and the diamonds together look insane. Must have cost a pile of money new.

>>520935314 (OP)
Grannies just liked fine china because it was pretty and back in their owning it was a status symbol. It showed your neighbors and friends that you were wealthy enough to have expensive plates and real silver utensils that you could show off. These people lived through the Great Depression when this kind of luxury wasn't possible. It was never meant to be a money making investment. It just made them happy.
I miss my grandma, bros. My parents are mentally ill drunks and drug users who have always been undependable and shitty. My grandma (and grandpa) was solid as a rock. I wish they would have just turned me over to her. She had fine china and it meant a lot to her.

>>520937151
>Invest in my Jewish Casino after all the bullshit we put you through.
>No
>Based grandparents

My grandma had a wardrobe full of fancy blankets and fabric for clothes for my wedding or some shit. I don't know if they're still there or are eaten by moths. Peasant life + communism is hell of a drug.

>>520939149
Oh yeah all of the historical estates and country homes in Europe are filled with Pokémon cards and ikea furniture

LOL

God that arm. her fucking gut and ass fat got diverted to her biceps

>>520939047
I have some gold elgins around, but mostly I’m in it for the movements. My most interesting is probably an old Slava, just for obscurity’s sake. If you’re ever interested in an affordable modern well designed self-winding watch, look no further than Seiko.

>>520936960
It would still only be about 4k USD adjusted for inflation. You're acting like you were shafted out of life changing money. Love your Grandmother for trying.

>>520939228
Your great grandparents were probably sharecroppers or some nigger shit I don’t expect trash like you to understand

A reading of the Last Will and Testament, 2075.
An anxious collection of odd relationships hear what some uncle has bequeathed them. And what he had were passwords. "I got his audiobook collection! One sniffy sister in law complains about getting his movie collection, until she reads the ancient EULA that could not conceive of the media technology they presently had,and smiles about how much money she can make from leasing the collection for rentals. The lawyer names one of the adolescent males to his surprise and the lawyers distaste. A piece of paper is slid unceremoniously across to the kid,and on it is passwords to the porn videos. The Holy Grail of masturbation to a horny kid. Until his older brother tells him that there may be stuff that the kid couldn't handle and the big brother will vet it with him. Later,they are in front of a computer and open a random video from the porn hub,and stare in growing horror as random cartoon sound effects play over a woman's moans of pleasure.

>>520939300
I told you the math the Dow jones was 900 in 1980 it’s 44,000 now

>>520936193
mine dont, they are shit grandparents (nothing to do with giving, they wont even give their time), they hate "clutter" and have at times given sentimental shit away, and they even sold my car 20 years ago because i took too long (like a month) to have it shipped out.
i expect to get nothing because they refused to put the house in trust.
i offered to buy a super big house so everyone could live together, including my sister and her familly, on a big ranch, and they said im not living in a flop house (it wasnt, it would have been great, and single floor unlike their trilevel piece of shit.
if they had done that we could be with family and the ranch now is worth big bucks because acreage with multiple houses near an a-tier city are worth big bucks now.
that generation - the boomers - are real fucking assholes and they played their cards wrong and will likely end up being beaten and abused by spics and niggers in state run homes eating pea soup and watching the electric jew and their grandkids wont even know much about them and this is all by their own choice.

It'll be valuable again, some e celeb slag will start collecting it because im le different and unique then every cunt will want some fine china

>>520938705
I collect guns, and Nazi memorabilia. They all go up in value, and I can display them.
I also collect Pez dispensers at random, and novelty tshirts, and store them in containers. Also Trump-hate stuff, because 100 years from now it could be worth something.

>>520939297
I have a 10k lord Elgin i bought a while ago. It’s engraved on the back that it was a presentation watch for working for ford of Canada.

>>520939276
No, they're decorated with literal family heirlooms that were crafted by artisans a few hundred years ago.

They're not buying Tiffany and co, they have China that was gifted to their family from the Qing dynasty.

>>520938705
Also, gold kills me, because you pay buying and selling. And at today's prices, that's a lot of money.
They say "well, it takes money to make bullion."
Yeah, but this one has been in circulation for 20 years. I don't see the logic in the premiums?

>>520939541
Yes I know that you fucking mong

China antiques silverware etc

>>520938880
>timepieces
faggot detected.

>>520939631
I basically only buy jewelry when i find it around spot which is not that often for nice stuff.

>>520939452
You know what the based boomers collected?

I got that lil fucker during the tet offensive

Reverse mortgages are more common than you think.

>>520939207
If you actually wear it it's different.

I think I have the collector's gene also (had various collections when I was a kid, and silver coins and antique guns (sold) when I grew older). I've figured out I can redirect that energy into organizing notes. One folder for each interest full of papers and printouts of the best stuff I've read on the subject. I also have a gym bag containing everything I really need should there be an emergency - pass, docs, some silver bars and gold coins and basic survival items to keep me comfortable for some days to a week

>>520939637
>genuine brand stuff from major luxury brands retains a decent amount of value
You obviously don't understand as you are assuming the European nobility are the ones in the market for early century porcelain. They're not, their needs for fancy dinnerware was long ago sorted.

Really the ultimate collectors item are the body parts of people you killed during war. But then you have some faggot offspring that throws them away because he’s gay and shit and loves sucking priest dick.

>>520939219
Most of it is not fine china. It is mass produced stuff from the avon or the sears catalogue. Collecting China was the beanie babies of the 80s and early 90s.

>>520939857
Shut up you stupid fucking nigger

>>520936193
neutered kids and poo colored people

>>520939885
China has been a collectors item for hundreds of years you fucking low class serf

My father was an educated man, came up poor, believed in not carrying any debt, etc.
But he also was blind with regard to investments for most of his life.
I had to tell him about refinancing his mortgage when the rates had fallen to almost nothing. He should have known about that.

>>520935314 (OP)
Because boomers are dullards and also were the first generation that was targeted with scientific psychological operation marketing. They were like native americans with zero immunity built up to new world diseases.

>>520935314 (OP)
Can you you imagine your Harry Potter Funko Pop collection gracing those shelves instead?

>>520936839
>can't you just let people enjoy things?
this has pretty much led to a planet overpopulated in the billions slowly being carved out and stripped off all resources by the surface dwellers.
grand strategy, indeed.
>inb4 you be the first, hans
i am a fucking recluse and have s smaller lifetime whateverthefuck-footprint than any Asian with an AC unit.

>>520935314 (OP)
I would fuck her and her fat arms. Her biceps are like another set of tits.

>>520939959
Yes but this is not fine China but cheaply created stuff mass produced in China.

>>520939536
Tried to find a pic of mine as I’m away from home, gave up

>>520939300
im not acting like anything just pointing out. Her love and intentions are pure thats whats important.
>>520937151
they probably didnt even know. Argentina was also a shitfest during the 80s you have no idea. Thats why argentinians are known to just stack dollars in the matress. Sadly by 2001 they had put almost all money in the bank and were rewarded by getting shafted 2/3 of it

>>520935314 (OP)
Art glass actually has value. Funko Pop? Not so much.

If this was a war I would’ve lopped off the heads of half of the chodes here and taken your fingers as war trophies. I’d give them to my son or grandson one day to let them know how cool it is to murder people.

>>520939680
Difference between an Oldsmobile and a Rolls Royce, jackass

>>520939843
I find hunting for things just a compulsive way to deal with the stress of live and as i said before i just try to channel that energy into gold and silver so that i dont end up with useless junk. Even though the gold and silver trinkets were not always the BEST investment almost everything i have bought is higher than what i paid - and most almost double.

>>520939902
Do you actually think there is any demand for historical tableware from the still existant gentry? And not the new luxury shit from Maison Flaneur, Ginori, Versace etc?

>>520938705
The specific value that these have is as fashion accessories, they could turn into fedoras i wouldnt bet your life on it

>>520940139
Homosexual.

>>520935314 (OP)
they didn't realize that women would fail to be female. they understood what women, when female, like though.

>>520940145
There is demand for your body parts. Which is very illegal unfortunately unless there is a war.

>>520936193
Do we need to? Seriously, was this your “plan a” all along? Hope mom and dad leave you something of value some day?

>>520935314 (OP)
Boomer funko pops

>>520937151
Yeah, yeah. Not untrue.
But it's always just in hindsight that we realize how easy it would've been to be geniuses...

>>520935314 (OP)
Old ladies did not have a china cabinet because they thought it would appreciate in value, they just liked having it and it's a southern tradition going back to the antebellum when having that stuff was actually apart of status among the women

>>520937706
>>520935314 (OP)
Spot the difference.
>hint: there is none.

>>520940195
Oh noes, someone on the internet thinks something about me! Jk, I love that I live rent free in your head, that you think of me, sucking cocks like mad. It’s a huge boost for me, and I’m not even gay.

>>520940229
>Ooga booga me no understand old money and new money different markets. Me chimp out like le based negroes over not understanding.

>>520939759
>tet offensive
Good shit. Welcome home.

>>520940100
China collections are fucking worthless.

>>520940157
I bought them all basically around spot.

The mesh watch with the diamond dial i paid 2400CAD maybe 4 years ago and today it’s worth around 5300CAD in gold. I actually wish those mesh watches hadn’t all been melted down because they look pretty cool in person. For whatever reason collectors dont like them and even the Pateks of that era have mostly already been melted.

>>520940310
You can actually use the china though

>>520940310
China
Beanie babies
Funko pops

All created in China and sold as cheap consumerist goods to Americans.

>>520937258
MVPLE SYRVP laced TRVTH NVKE

>>520940310
That would be me if i hadn’t changed course and gotten rigidly into gold and silver. I saw collecting shit like funko pops as a serious threat to my own well being since i have a collecting sensibility and had to stay disciplined to only buy solid gold trinkets.

>>520935314 (OP)
I just made $600 from 2 gamecube games. Every generation has wacky priorities

>>520940411
But will you?

>>520935314 (OP)
Guess I'm the odd man out, but I bought my house shortly after my parents moved into a smaller house and they gave me a lot of their older stuff so I didn't need to buy very much new furniture. When my cousins came to visit, one of them blurted out, "This is my childhood!" and really got a kick out of seeing our families' old stuff still being used. Most of this is usable furniture and dishes, with only a couple display items. I think I'll appreciate having some of my parents' things around after they die. I don't really care if I receive money from them.

>>520937228
And now you’re a selfish thoughtless cunt thinking that old people somehow owe you something. No doubt you’re still living at home sucking teet.

>>520940405
How do you know theyre solid gold? They almost never are, you could cover that whole watch with gold for 50$ of gold leaf

>>520940539
No but women used to use it. We are making fun of women comparing them to beanie babies when women would actually break out the china for special occasions. It was their thing. It's not like you see women today using them.

>>520940487
Toys from our generation are selling like mad. I don't get it either. I don't want em but other people do. I think they are buying them for their kids to play.

What's your best tip for getting rid of useless items?

I bought 10 pairs of identical black dress socks and threw all my old socks away

A $150 mini computer the size of a couple decks of cards can do everything you need (except gaming) for decades to come

You can get cheap drill bits and converters to make an old drill do almost anything, even saw wood

>>520940411
What >>520940539 wrote.
Nobody has ever used their "China."
And I honestly suspect that anybody who ever dared to try - or in other words FUCKED AROUND AND FOUND OUT - realized that it's not meant for use but only for putting it on display.

>>520940539
I enjoy eating off of my fine china now and then, but especially drinking from my collection of glassware. Adds a level of refinement to my life, but don’t listen to me, because apparently I’m a flaming faggot.

>>520940474
based. more power to you and your collection

>>520937657
>Edgewood
?
Do you mean Wedgwood?

>>520940654
Keep in mind Fine china stands the test of time while newer made stuff is brittle.

>>520940644
That's not true man, grandmas would break it out for thanksgiving sometimes and various holidays or special gatherings. Keep in mind my grandparents are long dead now but that generation definitely used them.

>>520935314 (OP)
this was about having good dishes for when family visited and not giving them the plastic hooters cup grandma usually drank from.

>>520940654
Same reason I use moderately priced writing instruments and drive an older grandma car(350 v8 Roadmaster), if it’s something I have to do anyway, I may as well enjoy the experience.

>>520940256
>Do we need to? Seriously, was this your “plan a” all along
The most entitled and spoiled generation naturally thinks like that.
I am already saving money for my kids (oldest is 6).
It's what parents should do.

Our children are the future of our nation and our bloodline.
Your generation fucked up the west so it probably can't be saved.
We got nothing from you except the decaying corpse of the functioning society that your elders gifted you.

>>520935314 (OP)
>Why did old people in the 80s think this would be valuable? Why didn't they just sink it into gold?
Today you should ask the same question to man-children who collect pokemon, funko pops, sports cards and digital items.

>>520940586
I’ve tested thousands of pieces. I am extremely autistic when it comes to collecting and know gold and silver testing inside out. Of the 400 of so pieces i have bought there are maybe 4 that turned out to not be legit - and all were bought far under spot anyway. One was a small Tiffany pendant that was supposed to be 1.25g but i have a 1g 18k pendant and i was holding them next to each other and I thought “the density doesnt look right” so i filed it and it had a silver core :(

But i trust my eye well enough that i can identify real gold jewelry on a homeless person.

Pic related is one i wish i had bought. It’s a 160g 18k Jizei Ikemono figurine of a crayfish made in mid century Italy as a kinetic sculpture since it has gyroscopic joints (3d rotational) and springs inside the claws. It’s basically totally photo realistic.

A scrap dealer near my house had it for $27,000 but i went with basically a pile of scrap asking if i could trade and they were like “it’s going to take 2 hours to tally that up. Can you just leave it here and come back” and i was like “i cant trust you like that.”

I wish i bought it though because i think its worth 300k+

>>520937120
>My grandma has this
They all do.
Recently had to empty the house of my deceased granma, you wouldn't believe the amount of cheap porcelains we threw away in the process. Easily 100Kg worth of plates, glasses and shit.
Literally nobody wanted it, not even for free, even tho the granny sunk stupid amounts of cash into it. And i'm not just talking about the family (and we are a large one, i've like 17 cousins on this side of the family), but even strangers on our version of craiglist don't want it for free.

For my gramp it was his collection of stamps, even sold by the lot of x500 on ebay for 1€ starting price it wouldn't sell. Boomers were so easy to scam holy fuck.
They could have purchased ungodly amounts of gold and silver with all the money they spent on their stupid glasses and stamps.

Ironically the only thing worth a damn in the house, they didn't pay for : the pharmacy, it was full of painkillers, benzos and opioids.
Let it be a warning to all the retards spending tens of Ks into pokemon cardboard, collectable vydia or (god forbid) NFTs and various shitcoins : it's all a scam, it's absolutely worthless after a generation.
If you want an investment vehicle you go for historically relevant artifacts or precious metals. Or drugs. Period.

>>520940805
I’m a buy it once and fix it as necessary type of guy, I swear to God I didn’t buy my first LCD until a girlfriend was tired of watching the old Zenith Space Command warm up, back in 2015.

>>520940805
You are honestly trying to tell me that the things that they put behind glass, on display, to be sheltered, were set free ONCE A YEAR so her family (including their retarded grand*kids ((You) too, because all kids are retards by definition)) can poke with forks and knives into it?
Nah, buddy, I don't think so, friend.
She maybe had 5 to 10 separate pieces apart from her main collection for your retards to eat from.
Ain't nobody touching her pristine shiny unused China.

>>520936193
no. boomers took everything they inherited and then also stole from their children and to atone for their sins they are giving their wealth to shit skins.

>>520935314 (OP)
The inability to think in anything but material terms is a characteristic of the subhuman slave.
A lack of connection to one's ancestry and tradition is a characteristic of the enslaved subhuman.

If youre depending on a woman to make well thought out investments, it is you that is the fucking retard.

>>520941019
I inherited a stamp collection from my grandmother.

>>520936193
bad memories

>>520936967
There are a bunch of types of porcelain/ceramic antiques that have value. The problem is that the greatest, silent and boomers generations were susceptible to a lot of marketing for kitsch shit sold on QVC and at local shops that is totally worthless. They have no reason or proof but they overpaid so much they truly believe that its valuable.

Have any of you inherited Hummel figurines? Old people used to love collecting these.

>>520935314 (OP)
Good thing zoomers don't do anything that retarded.

>>520941049
You are thinking about it from a male perspective also it's a cultural thing. My grandmothers had heavy southerner and english ancestry. Having really nice dishes and displaying them when they are not used was a tradition in the big southern homes in american history. It was about living on high cotton. It's just a cultural thing for the women. They used to spend all their time in and around the kitchen.

I'm not even going to claim the body of my boomer parents when they die from the morgue, put them in the dumpster lol.

>>520940391
Not if you know your stuff. The cut glass goblets have definitely gone up in value as has the Depression era china. Some people were pretty serious about what went into their collections. My grandmother had a ton of coin silver flatware and art deco pieces. Semi translucent ginger jars can sell upwards of a $1k. She also had a collection of theater glass she collected as a kid. Theaters literally handed out one piece of the set with each visit, a different piece weekly. Orange toned glass that changes color depending on the angle you look at it. Try finding that shit on the cheap.

>>520936193
unless plastic junk becomes valuable in the future, no

>>520935314 (OP)
Ive almost never seen anything thats pearlware worse less than 100$

>>520941161
From experience, you can throw it in the chimney, it's absolutely worthless, unless you got the ultra-mega-supra-rare first issue of Santiago de Chile of 1857 or whatever. Truth is most gramps got fleeced super hard and it was only a silent gen/old boomers thing, now nobody cares about it. We binned around 5K stamps in total since nobody bid on them.

>>520941019
Stamps were a big one because rare stamps were selling for thousands and stamp collecting was BIG. Every middle class person had a stamp collection.

The collection that nobody talks about is hockey cards and baseball cards. People were paying 10,000 USD for rookie baseball cards but today NOBODY WILL ADMIT THEY BOUGHT THOSE CARDS

I’d like to see a documentary about people with baseball card collections and where they are now and what they think of the mania after it passed. So much money went into those stupid cards and i have not met one person that admits to having bought them. LMAO

Asians are prone to doing similar shit. They construct plexiglass display cases for all their anime merch. They invest thousands of dollars filling up the display cases with useless junk, and that display case is like their "baby". They have a perfectly clean computer setup, perfectly clean wooden floor, artsy design on the wall, with custom matching mousepad, chair, computer case, placemat, and keycaps. This setup looks like the perfect museum room, perfectly curated and attended to.
This is what they do instead of having kids.

>>520941230
Commemorative coin is a similar scam. Back when I collected silver coins I discovered there's a company in my country that makes fake commemorative coins, plates them with silver or gold, and sells them in fancy cases to boomers for $100-$200 each. Their marketing materials make it seem like an investment. They have NO VALUE. can't even give them away.

>>520935314 (OP)
I was thinking about this too. I see a lot of boomers will horde useless trash, and I think if they could have spent that money on something better instead. instead they just have piles of stuff that will all guy into the garbage, and maybe a few things their family can sell

>>520941311
you're literally a piece of shit lol

It's just their gen's universal collection sort of item. It's why I work with some guys in their 60s who still think their DVD collection is still worth something.
Keep in mind we live in an upside down mirror world compared to the silent gen and boomers gens. They grew up and lived in a time where items where $$$$ but living costs where next to nothing. A $140-$200 item was equal to a month's rent. A big $$$$$ collections of dishes bought over the years was a real commitment.
Where as now midrange 75 inch tvs are less than rent

>>520941057
Where did the boomers touch you? My parents were both middle class and met in the army and through saving and good investments retired with a pile of money. Every time i talk to my mom she asks if she can send money. She will randomly send me boxes of cash.

>>520941253
Actually, kudos to the funcopop lardass.
He somehow managed to appear less punchable in this picture.

>>520941396
kek so true, each generation got it's mania, often fueled and artificially pumped by jewish grifters (like it was for baseball cards).

>>520941253
This is even more retarded because those plastic craps will literally melt.
>>520941385
So i will do them what i did to most of the sportscards i got from my father. Into the recycling bin.

>>520941396
Pre-internet there was a perception of scarcity surrounding many of those old pieces of doodoo. About 20 years ago a lot of that stuff fetched good prices online as well, but then data-points accessible to everyone became available which shattered the illusion that any of it would ever become difficult to come by.

>>520941385
Look up the history of stamp collecting. It was the most funny mania of all time. EVERY middle class person had books of stamps and would brag about owning rare ones. Idiotic in retrospect but at the time it was real in their minds.

>>520941485
>Where did the boomers touch you?
At least 90% of boomer-hate threads are antiwhite D&C psyops.

>>520941248
Only real Hummels have value. Lots of cheap imitations out there. My grandmother had most of these in your picrel. My uncle was in the military back in the 60’s in Germany and shipped a bunch back.

>>520941248
A few of those might be worth a little.

>>520936960
Thats like 1000 pesos to them, what the fuck
Even just investing in local businesses she would have made x10.000 that amount with our inflation

>>520935314 (OP)
Stupid bitch should have bought me more Pokeyman and Yu-Gi-Oh cards. That's the only thing of value she gave to me.

>>520937708
>Spend just 5 minutes on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, you will find hordes of these deranged people.
>he posts this on 4chan...HIMSELF
keklmao

>>520936193
Boomers don't have gen x offspring, retard. The age of fatherhood for baby boomer white men statistically is concentrated in the mid 30s meaning almost all of their offspring are exclusively millennials and zoomers. Why would gen x be left any shit?

The only reason you would assume gen x is next in line is because you're from a third world shithole, evidenced by your meme flag. People in poor poverty ridden countries have nothing better to do than to sit in their hot disgusting homes and fuck like animals. That's why its normal for you to have sequentially spaced generations and incorrectly project this assumption. If boomers had been burdened with a 5 kids by the time they are 22, they wouldn't have amassed anything and would have been living like poor third world larpers like you.

>>520941575
Rare stamps actually were rare. The postal companies that were selling them just got greedy and started spamming out too many new stamps and then people got overwhelmed and then bored and then gave up on stamps.

Companies like Rolex today have to work VERY hard not to give in and spam out watches because they have to be very disciplined to keep the illusion of scarcity by not over producing.

>>520935314 (OP)
I like some vintage glass but allot of it isn't worth anything
Only things worth something is uranium glass and various midcentury styled things

>>520940949
>Jizei Ikemono figurine of a crayfish
That's cool. I've seen a few of the Meiji period animals made of bronze, never gold though. They are amazing.

>>520941396
I “inherited” a tote box of binders full of baseball cards when a tenant in my building moved out, still hauling them around praying to God they’ll go up in value. Nothing yet.

>>520937788
Estate sales too. Got a complete set of old Corningware for $30. My wife was ecstatic.

>>520941878
I threw mine in the recycle bin.

>>520941583
Yeah that's crazy, i remember on both sides of the family back when i was a young kid being on my gramps' knees, with them showing me their large folders full of stamps
>"this will all be yours one day lil' anon :)"
fuck you, gimme your xanax instead!

What i understand is why they couldn't simply stick to coin collecting? Humans collect coins since coins are a thing, even Alexander the Great and Ceasar were coins collecting! And this stuff only grow in value with passing time.
At what point they decided
>mhmmm nope, lets not delve into those thousands' years old beautiful gold and silver coins, rather got after tiny glued pieces of paper with doodles on them who can be destroyed by just looking too hard at them!

>>520936824
Also, their idea of the "value" of their dishes was in using it, not selling it for cash.

It never occurred to them that we were all going to become socially isolated from each other and that families would only shrink and disappear in the future, never grow. That was completely beyond their reckoning.

They saw things like that being portrayed as the future in sci-fi movies starring Charlton Heston, but they LAUGHED at it. It was beyond ridiculous to them. Onions Green was seen as a ridiculous over-the-top comedy.

>>520937908
My goal is to die with like 500k in debt unpaid.

>>520937798
>Like back in the 70´s and ounce of gold was like 150€ now it´s 3500€
Willst ne derbe Wahrheitsbombe?
Even gold itself barely kept up with "inflation" and "purchasing power erosion" of the currency.
Hypothetically speaking, 150€ in the 70's would've bought you more (especially in quality and longevity) than 3500€ does in today's world.

I gotta hand it to the burgers.
Le stock market was the way to go.
We didn't have that over here because of
>sparen
>sparen
>Häusle bauen.
Burgers were way smarter. They were bauing their Häusles, moved in and paid them off over time.

>>520938324
Wait until some onion boy start collecting pins.

>>520941799
>Boomers don't have gen x offspring
What are you talking about man? Boomers are '46-'64. I'm a 50 year old Gen X ('65-80) and my parents are both boomers.

>>520942141
>tl;dr
Germans are a retarded bunch.
Don't ask me how I know.
(hint: I'm one of them.)

>>520941865
I’ve never seen another gold one. The one i showed i honestly think is museum quality. 1950s Italy was the apex of goldsmithing globally and to commission something that took 500 hours of master level work AND 5 ounces of 18k gold must have cost a pile of money.

It kills me honesly thinking that if i had bought it and contacted an art history expert from Italy and had him give a statement (for a fee) that it is the apex of Italian gold smithing and a lost work by a master - man I believe it could have been worth a pile of money.

And since it’s Japanese style but made in a post war Italian worskshop it would have been sellable to anyone interested in Italian art, Italian gold work, or even Japanese culture.

I truly think its top ten Italian gold objects ever made on par with the salt cellar by Cellini…

But then again maybe it was stolen and reported to interpol so when i tried to get it into museums to build a story around it it would get seized…

Who knows. Still wish i got it though.

>>520941878
LMAO. Bro the dream is dead. Burn them.

>>520935314 (OP)
They buy trinkets and tchotckes for their own enjoyment. They aren't doing it to make a good nest egg.

>>520937798
Man why do you disrespect your family so hard? One of my grandpas died when I was 2 and all I have left of him is a wobbly shelf he built. I cherish that shelf.

>>520935314 (OP)
Can you get arms like that natty?

>>520941458
>stuff that will all guy into the garbage
The classic line you hear all the time at thrift stores is awwwww someone gave away their entire collection of....... No bitch, that person died and their family didn't want 100+ ceramic owls or whatever. Like holy shit did my own mother have a ton of those resin based Boyd's Bears collectables.
They look like little 4-5 inch teddy bears but plastic etc. Hundreds and hundreds of them. I saved a few that trigger the awww thrift store hunting these with muh mom memories. I legit dumped all the rest at a Discovery cancer charity thrift store. I don't give a shit what they might of been worth. I going to spends months and 100s of hours trying ebay, pack, ship etc? Hell no.

>>520941987
I’m going to have a “hold on to it” mentality for the rest of my life after having not bought bitcoin back in 2013, I remember when it was pennys on the dollar. Why didn’t I? Because, I didn’t see a black-market unregulated currency going all that well, and I thought the SEC sure as hell wouldn’t let it fly if one profited from it massively. Boy, was I wrong, them and the Treasury ate that shit up.

>>520941997
Stamps were just marketed well and postal companies all colluded (must have been Jewish honestly since who had the international network…)

People would literally brag about getting a rare purple coloured stamp. It sounds crazy now like people bragging about steel Rolex watches they paid 15K for but… to them they meant something.

>>520935314 (OP)
My mom has a similar collection. I can 100% guarantee you that she bought it for herself without any intention whatsoever to regain anything of what she put into it to have it.

I asked her, I say "What do you want me to do with that crap when you die?" and she said "Give it away if you can. Trash can if you have to, I guess. You cannot resell it for what I paid for it."

>>520935314 (OP).

The more rare it is, the more it is expensive. It's that's simple, no math involved.

>>520935314 (OP)
Boomers and the generations are primitive people they're like if you gave an uncontacted tribe modern tech like cell phones, they're all people who grew up with these primitive minds and ways of thinking but then just lucked into being in a wealthy time where they all of a sudden got a lot of modern things. They don't understand anything about the way the world works including wealth building etc so they think some weird thing like this is valuable. Younger generations are much smarter as they have the a huge portion of human knowledge in their pocket and have learned how to consume it and use it from an early age.

>>520942405
Ok, I have some unfathomably rare skin cells and hair to sell you, one in a trillion or so in genetic makeup. Price: $1M USD OBO

>>520941458
Now think about the useless things you’ve invested in the last decade. Imagine if those thousands of dollars had been properly invested? Sometimes living is the best investment you can make.

>>520935314 (OP)
>Why did old people in the 80s think this would be valuable?
because it was. but the real reason is they were collecting what they like. only idiots collect things as an investment.

that's right all the funk o pops are worthless.

>>520942382.

whoa, whoa, whoa, replace Alex Jones with Herbert Kickl, or Thierry Baudet, and let's talk.

>>520942275
The lesson in all of this is you want to be the person producing these viral collectibles because someone made a pile of money off all this stuff. I’d love to be the guy one day that is making and selling and marketing the viral collectibles that give joy to people globally.

>>520940635
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/520585553/
>>520940850
Western or Asian nibs?

>>520942430
Of course boomers are primitive people. They were born before technology and the digital age. They like beer, cigarettes, plates...

They HATE HATE HATE smartphones. I never see boomers on a smartphone. It is always a ziggerette in their palms.

>>520941396
Did you see the abandoned warehouse that someone put entire semi-truckloads of rookie baseball cards in? It was something like Detroit or Chicago, where they do the exploration of abandoned buildings videos on youtube.

>>520942365
I’d love to sell a collection like that honestly.

>>520935314 (OP)
You can still use most of that stuff as actual dishes. No need to keep it on a shelf, drink out of the chalices. And eat top ramen out of the fine china, with a gold plated spoon. My mother collected those red avon dishes, I use them as regular dishes now.

>>520936960
Don't be cruel to her. She loves you. She did the best she could. She gave you everything because she wants the best for you, always. She's not smart, she's not educated, but she saved her money for 40 years so that you could have it.

If you think you're so smart, then you invest it.

Can I remind you of something? It's not your grandma's job to be one step ahead of the fucking billionaires like Bill Gates and George Soros who are trying to destroy everything.

Can you remember that? She's not a bad person because literal James Bond villains are getting the better of her.

>>520936967
It's not worth anything until you sell it.

>>520942559
The difference between me and most people is that I don’t see my possessions as investments, I buy them to use them, not on speculation. Sure, I could make money on almost everything I’ve ever bought, just on inflation alone(I only buy old shit), but that’s not why I keep it around. I’m not running my home like it’s a for-profit corporation.

>>520942430
I’ll remind you that America is the richest country globally.

>>520942430
Was it swipe left or swipe right? All that knowledge at your fingertips and still dumb as fucking bricks and still living at home.

>>520942141
>>sparen
>>sparen
>>Häusle bauen.
HA!
Ich hab' den Schwab gefunden.

>>520942365
Shelving should not be held up by the walls, thats a good way to lose your entire collection.

>>520942405
That's not how it works, like at all.
See this? Just won it literally 5 min ago at an online auction house for 35€. It's a matrix of the seal of the King's prosecutor for the city of Chartres. Each royal prosecutor had one to counterstamp all the legal documentations and give it royal authority.
Only one exist for each prosecutor or each major french city. Meanwhile tens of thousands of 1st edition Charizards exist and they are worth tens of Ks a pop.
Or better : btc doesn't even exist, there are 21 millions of those and they are 100K a pop.

>>520937539
It's a shame what Cocks and Nosewater have done to MTG. It used to be a fun game.

>>520942671
the collection is neat, there's a lot of old designs from different eras as well as commemorative tea pots for certain events

>>520942668
Highly believable. I randomly break out laughing when i think about the poor saps that bought those rookie cards as investments.

>>520935314 (OP)
>Why did old people in the 80s think this would be valuable
Did they?
or are you just repeating something you think you heard on the internet?

>>520942430
Boomers built all the tech companies you dumb fuck lol. You still are the dumbest generation because your minds are pudding from the tech.

>>520942711
>james bond-esque villain right when they announced the phaseout of incandescent bulbs:
>calls retirement homes and sells them by the pallet to retard seniors
>incandescent bulbs get relegalized within their (some of their) lifetime(s)
>lol, lmao even

>>520942786
There are these vertical pieces of wood in those walls that keep the structural integrity of the wall and are suitable for supporting shelving if using the properly rated hardware for the job.

>>520942365
>>520935314 (OP)
Imagine swiping your hand down a whole shelf of those and knocking them to the ground while those boomers watch on.

>>520941799
I'm born 1972 and my parents are 1945 and 1953. They both have nothing for me. I was left to fend for myself when I was a teen and their parents gave them all the support they could ever need. In fact, I have not spoken to my father since 1994 and my mother since 2008. They are terrible people and I want nothing to do with them. My mother is still running her household into the ground and affecting my millenial half-siblings very badly to this day.

>>520938303
>They also had faith in the dollar and weren't anticipating economic collapse, so they had no reason to buy gold.
In my country, it was illegal to own gold (beyond a small amount) between 1933 and 1974. I guess I can't blame my ancestors for not buying some.

Victorian era mentality. Having possessions was a way to show off wealth and feel you're in a higher class.

>>520942883
Young Americans waste their money on equally stupid stuff. People buy Jordan sneakers and hold them 10 years in a box and then the sole rots and falls off.

I bought a pair of pic related a couple years ago (dead stock from 20 years ago) and within a month the sole fell off because the glue was dried out :(

Collecting random shit used to be an adventurous hobby. asking around making friends. everything came with a story.

Catalogs existed, but delivery could take weeks, so people wondered if they would want it or need it when they received it in 2 months.

Now its point and click and not much else to collecting.

>>520943005
>I guess I can't blame my ancestors for not buying some.
And they got silver in their coinage until 1969 for $3 per troy ounce. They have zero fucking excuses.

>>520942997
the main collection is behind a barrier, but the cafe is anxiety inducing

>>520943073
Sounds like nigger mentality to me! Imagine living in destitute poverty just to look like someone who can afford to splash cash.

>>520942172
>>520942999
Just depends man, I'm mid 30s millenial and both my parents were boomers and my grandparents were teens during WW2

>>520942997
My mom would fucking have a heart attack while going into attack mode. She would.

>>520943073
For us it's just a way to have savings since nothing tied to fiat currencies & digital bubbles is safe kek.

>>520935314 (OP)
Some of them are. I read a local news article the other day about a young woman who owns an antique/botique/thrift shop in my city, and she bought a nice looking vase at Goodwill for $8 that turned out to be worth $14,000 CAD (so like $2.50 USD)

There's definitely money to be made on "stuff" but you gotta browse the thrift shops regularly, and gain as early access to estate sales as you can.

mirin those biceps. routine?

>>520935314 (OP)
Former Salvation Army warehouse worker/truck driver here. Stuff like that would get donated all the time, usually by Gen Xers or millennials who inherited the crap. They would give it to us because "I'm sure somebody will want it." 90% of that garbage would get tossed into a dumpster, while the truly valuable items would just get stolen by employees.

>>520942883
>Did they?
Yeah

>>520937657
It’s still trash though. Name brand trash.

>>520940341
nonce

>>520935314 (OP)
Its heirlooms like wedding presents you fucking primitive brown ape.

>>520943294
Im going to die from cringe.

HELP!

>>520935314 (OP)
Crystal and bone china are still valuable. You're just too poor to consider buying them. Come at me when a 5 piece, 6 seating minimum solid sterling silverware set is your daily use.

>>520942733
You don’t get much of an ROI on streaming services, driving aimlessly about in a gas burner, eating junk food.

>>520943235
Depends on how late people have children. Before women entered the workforce in the numbers we have today they would often be squeezing kids out well before their mid 20's. Nowadays, we have seen how long they are leaving it off. I'd wager that the bommers were the first generation for feature more "career women" with rotting gonads.

>>520943253
This is true too, some people wanted to store value in items. Like those people who buy paintings

>>520943005
My grandpa didn’t care if gold ownership was illegal, he hoarded Krugerrands in the floor safe in his house, and when that was full he just put them in the fridge.
>I guess he figured that niggers wouldn’t look in the fridge since white folks don’t season dey food.

>>520935314 (OP)
Mirin dat ceps

>>520943294
My step mother has that collection of plates, among many many other Gone With The Wind items, it was apparently a BFD to her generation (born ‘57?).

>>520939982
The problem is that there is just too mich shit to manage these days. Bureaucracy, finance, politics, health, law, taxation, economics, nutrition, and so forth. We have too much crap to think about and to consider. The happy ones in society are those that can simply ignore portions of it and just keep moving forward in their lane. They’re going to be great in their field(s) but woefully ignorant of others while being haughty about the things they don’t actually understand at all because they‘ve absorbed about two paragraphs of information regarding it. They don’t have any advantage to diverge from their specialization and need to defend their outsourcing of certain information for their ego, so they do that unwittingly.

>>520941799
> Boomers don't have gen x offspring

You are a fucking retard.

Tons of boomers have a GenX “first family” that they had when young and ignored or abused with their incompetence, then fucked off/divorced to whore around for a bit in the disco era and then started “second families” in the 80s that they then helicopter parented to make the spoiled millennials.

Some didn’t even let the new families know about their “first family” and the offspring millennials found out when they took a genetic test and got hits for half siblings somewhere.

If you want to know why GenX was so jaded, look no further than their parents.

>>520943468
Yup my parents met in college and both got careers going before they had me but my mom only worked part time when they had kids

Wow youre a kike, why dont you make a decent thread about antiques? I want something that can be appreciated

>>520935314 (OP)
nothings going to be valuable in the future. one word. datacenters. how many datacenters can you build on the planet earth? how about mars? ect

>>520943593
i want a lawn jockey

>>520935314 (OP)
>t. Funko pop collector

>>520941799
God you're fucking stupid

>>520943254
Problem is it's one needle in a giant haystack of millions of mass produced craps. You never gonna figure out what is valuable in the ocean of turd unless you have years of experience in this domain.

I'll give you a lil tip for noobs anyone can apply tho : Uranium glass (yup was popular in the 20/30s to put uranium in glasses to give it a green taint lol) always sell for good money and isn't too hard to find, so if you scout for good deals in antique shops or flea markets, remember to fit an UV-lamp in your pocket, UVs react very violently to uranium, it glows like crazy you can't miss it.

>>520943467
Exactly. I’m watching antenna TV as we speak. Sabrina the teenaged witch. Only because it came after Just Shoot Me and I haven’t felt like looking for something better.
Internet, I miss the old days when WEP was still common. Now, I run a hotspot from a rooted android, tethered to a router. Anything to keep the base price down.

>>520939149
This guy gets it. And to respond to the brain dead poster above, all the good shit is in rich family’s homes or museums. No dumb ass old people are going to have good porcelain and rich Europeans certainly aren’t letting anyone touch their shit

>>520943599
Datacenters exist on electricity and depreciating hardware. They are not an asset but just a resource.

>>520943294
Knowing how much my granny loves this stuff it makes me want to produce the same kind of viral collectibles.

>>520936193
Broken families, broken societies.

i had to sell my grandparents china to afford mcdonalds

>>520940539
My wife and I use my grandmother’s china any time we have guests.
>>520940644
Total bullshit.

>>520941397
Some of the designs are nice but I don't understand the awe and reverence they give this stuff.

>>520943706
Yes but those were mass produced shit with a graphic pop culture stamp on them. It's worth like 6 dollars today.

>>520943706
My 3rd Reich flatwares from the Kriegmarines/Wehrmacht/Luftwaffe is going great, grannies have skill issues. :)

>>520940887
>I am already saving money for my kids (oldest is 6).
>It's what parents should do.
Based Svendad

>>520943923
But they are bought for enjoyment not investment. I’m just saying that women love this stuff and I’d love to be the guy with the factory churning it out.

>>520937258
leaf indian is correct

>>520941019
>Ironically the only thing worth a damn in the house, they didn't pay for : the pharmacy, it was full of painkillers, benzos and opioids.
oh come on.
i chuckled at a sad story because of this line.

>>520944016
kek I think my grandma had that same image on one

We were formerly a military family and had redcoat uniforms, rifles, swords and letters from allegedly as far back as Napoleonic which 1. uniforms were given to literal fucking gypsies in the 60s by my idiot great aunt who 'didn't like the idea of old clothes in the house because of moths and she had new curtains 2. rifles were given to police just to be fucking destroyed because hurr durr firearms by stupid parents 3. of the swords/bayonets my great uncle supposedly used one as a fucking fire poker, the others were put in a shed on an allotment and rusted away because someone converted their fucking loft in the 80s and didn't have space also hurr durr military bad we're all leftist hippies who inexplicably ended up wealthy and now vote lib dem while pretending we're 'right on.'

We have some medals but there's some other story about what sounds like an early 1800s ammo pouch being just fucking given away to a church fair because hurr durr its an old bag.

The most annoying thing is they quote hippie shit like 'possessions just tie you down' when I complain about this.

>>520938033
>Better to inherit a $1000 mcdonalds gift card for most of them.
True, but they have a maximum balance of only $110. Really makes them an impractical vehicle for generational wealth. Sad!

Starbucks cards can have up to $500, which is decent. Come on, McDonald's.

>>520944389
I’m sad if these are the real numbers you just pulled out of your head and I’m too afraid to go look. Good luck anon.

>>520943965
I have some Bauscher Weiden dinner plates from Germany. That is apparently older than from the Hitler era. It's funny how many older German makers are still around.
>>520944016
Yes but read the article.

>>520941814
>Companies like Rolex today have to work VERY hard not to give in and spam out watches because they have to be very disciplined to keep the illusion of scarcity by not over producing.
Partly true. They also bid on their own watches to keep an artificial price floor.

>>520944371
Good job, you rose my blood pressure by 300% and now i want to kill half your family and punch my walls.

>>520944579
I will relish the day Rolexes are forgotten about and people inherit steel submariners and think “why did grams spend 20,000 on a steel watch”

>>520944371
Damn that sucks, anon. Do you at least know your family tree and the history? That's the hardest thing to know. Both my grandfathers were German and so they never talked about our roots. I have to go on wild goose chases looking up cousins I've never met just to find out where they were from.

That is genuinely the most disgusting arm I have ever seen lol

Grandpa collected jewelry just because he loved being blinged out. Eats my gut how much he gave away to his sugar baby that's younger than my mom.

>>520945052
What kinda bling?

95% of all modern crap that is marketed as a collectible, limited edition or that sort is just mass-produced and sold at a massive markup in order to lure in lower class people into thinking it will have some price-appreciation. Things that have real value and are sought after was never marketed as a collectible.

>>520935314 (OP)
They didn't, but they did go through the Depression which altered their brains to save shit you'd normally throw out. It wasn't a disposable society like today.
What today's generation fails to realize is that they will leave no record of their existence.
They don't write letters, they don't create anything and so your strava times and high score on candy crush will be your only "legacy" Pretty fucking sad really.

>>520945118
Well technically it is limited edition as no more would be made. However the actual items are not worth anything. A limited edition of trash will be worth nothing. The companies are just trying to sell products.

>>520945184
I guess I’ll always have my memorialized Facebook wall, right? Right?!

>>520941385
You disgust me. You could have kept them in a tiny box and passed them to your grandchildren. You know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

>>520943495
One of the first places that niggers check is in the freezer. Because too many people try that shit, and niggers have been taught it.

>>520945184
Americans collect Rolex, birkin bags, Nike sneakers, funko pops, Pokémon cards, vintage video games etc.

>>520945421
Thanks anon I’ll have to remember that phrase for future use

>>520942275
>I legit dumped all the rest at a Discovery cancer charity thrift store.
Despite being full of spite, you did a good deed by dropping it off there.

>>520945421
I have massive binders of these shit stamps. If they are worth nothing then i will bin them as well.

Why would i give kids stamps? They will just not appreciate them. They want pokemon card or actually they want to play roblox game.

>>520942365
judging by the ones in the shelves and especially the one granny is holding...

...most of those teapots seem to have come from some nightmare dimension.

>>520942365
Absolute shit tier teapots. More pop culture made in China SHIT. GL retiring on that.

>>520941286
FINALLY someone who understands. Women spent their life in the kitchen and wanted to be surrounded by nice things, as we do now with our own trinkets.

>>520943181
I'd refuse to sit anywhere but in the middle of that room...

>>520940949
Its pretty cool, ive never seen anything like it

>>520940346
It's pretty funny actually. Good new money and a certain amount of the old have residences full of $9000 swedish designer chairs from the 70's and other weird shit that's come back into vogue with post minimalism; now old money needing to furnish an apartment doesn't care about the price, the new money might take a bath reselling after a trend for quality old shit dies but no more than when their cunt wife needed that latest chef ready kitchen for the 5th time. But absolutely none of them have department store China.

>>520937828
>Because they were not investing for you. They were buying it for themselves
this is the kind of anon who has never given anything to anyone

>>520943289
>while the truly valuable items would just get stolen by employees
tell us some stories, man....

>>520943294
>The Christian Science Monitor
that article was an advertisement directed at gullible church goers in disguise, wasn't it?

>>520944660
It was a combination of the mid century leftist 'hurr durr old things bad we need more concrete office buildings to make people feel equal' with 'hurr durr military bad they kill babies get these baby killing implements out of our houses.' It's so, so fucking stupid and they STILL shrug it off.

>>520944785
Yeah somewhat but a lot of it's obscured and I have idiots who didn't write any personal anecdotes down or remember them because they were stupid hippies condemning their 'racist' military parents.