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(Young Collectors)Sorry for the Convenience
The Young Collector
When Nora was born in 2010, Hollie’s coworkers at Prices4Antiques.com offered the very generous gift of diaper service. We were grateful, but we were initially also a little surprised. Now, that might shock some people who have us accurately pegged as folks who at least try to be ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Heirloom Quality
The Young Collector
We’ve talked before about our guilty pleasures in terms of collecting. We have others: eating marshmallow fluff from the jar, putting the windows down with the heater running on cool evening drives, and bad television. One of our guilty pleasure TV shows is Hoarders (or Hoarding: Buried Alive ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Sweet Charity
The Young Collector
We always end up in the bar. It never fails. After any forum, conference, or show, in the bar you’ll find a motley assortment of dealers, collectors, auctioneers, and the various colorful folks they seem to attract dissecting the recent event, solving the problems of the business, venting ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Oops, We Did It Again
The Young Collector
We are back from the fourth annual “I am never doing that again!” That might be more familiar to the rest of you by its formal name, the Midwest Antiques Forum. Also, to be fair, the “never doing that again” part tends to refer exclusively to accommodating small ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)A Philosophical Defense of an Old House
The Young Collector
So, after reading our column last month (“A Practical Defense of an Old House”), you’re not convinced you need to buy an old house for the satisfaction of learning how to remove plaster and replace insulation yourself? That’s fine. We’ve lived here for eight years now, and some ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)A Practical Defense of an Old House
The Young Collector
Hollie woke up in the night recently, because her “out of the covers” arm had cooled to a temperature that made her think the house might be getting too cold. She got up to check the stove, realized that Andrew would be up in a hour, so she ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Taking Care of Business
The Young Collector
Years ago, when we had our first Christmas together while we were in graduate school in Delaware, we put up a Christmas tree. It was by just about any standards a Charlie Brown tree. We didn’t have much money to spend, so when we needed a tree topper, ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)2013: The Year in Review
The Young Collector
This column seems to have become an annual tradition, one that’s much more pleasant to reflect on than resolutions. It shows how each year seems to bring such dramatic changes. Nat, who was a little pink lump (an adorable lump but a lump nonetheless) this time last year, ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)An Attitude of Gratitude
The Young Collector
Facebook is a quirky place. In many ways it embodies the Internet, which is probably why some people find it by turns addictive, amusing, educational, and annoying. You can watch trends just blip across the cultural radar. They range from small things such as “Sibling Week” (where if ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Cheerios and Cheese Pizza, or Bean and Bug’s Excellent Adventure
The Young Collector
Conventional wisdom seems to dictate that to be a writer, it is necessary to be miserable. In reality, being a writer makes the necessity of occasionally being miserable bearable. When things are deteriorating at a rapid clip, when a situation is veering toward the territory of “must-see TV” ... (Read More)
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