I don't buy "old stuff" I buy good stuff.
My family, so my mother and my father as long as my sister...even though more my parents, always had a deep interst for the antiques, my mother would collect all sorts of things from antique/vintage linens, Burano, kitchenalia, china, and, ornaments, glassware and antique Murano and so forth...she would use all of them...my father was more into furniture, sterling silverware, oils, and all decor complexes from very ancient times.. after my father closed his jewelery and factory, the antiques sale is what he has started doing for a job.....
My father is more the "antiques" one, I mean, stuff from 1800s to middle ages and back...
I am more into 900s stuff and especially mid 900s....
Unuseful say they bith used to do and vist flea markets, auctions etc since like always.... so my father and I do now.
I buy and keep what I need and re-sell what I don't, must say I never end up getting something I will not use, in this case I get rid of it soon... there're collectors who takes stuff just for sake of having them but never use them, and quite frankly will never understand that...
As for collecting as long as i have room and gonna use these things it's a sane thing, then it becomes hoarding...
My father for himself has like 200-250 square meters room at the farm full of all sorts of furnitures and ancient and also vintage things he buys at auctions, along with stuff he initally buys the lot for.
It happens to be found along some things that I like or anyway mid 900s vintage and appliances as he buys stuff in lots ....the stuff he digs for usually are really important stuff, furniture dating as back as 1600 or older, he would restore all them and he's gonna put them in the Hi-class Bed&breakfaast we're gonna open in our historical farmhouse...many furnioture he got are also meant for his home so also in prevision of finishing the main Villa at the farm/house estate where is gonna move eventually...
His last purchase was an huge bed that belonged to a princess......you gotta see that thing!
In my family they understand the value, the betterness and the beautiness of what for others poor souls is just "old stuff"...
I think it's a family passion, my grandfather was also the same...
My father would call me when he stumble in something I may like, last day he came home with a bunch of dry irons he was given from an old man, his friend...I don't use them nor like them much so I put them in the box for the next flea market...
He do understand even though not being absolutely into my kind of things....if my mother was still alive we would make a perfect core...
BUT:
If you ask me though what they initially thought of my passion for washers and laundry, and especially when I was a child...well...that's another thing....
All I can say now is that I think he did understand, my mother did understand before he did, she came to fully get it when I was like 8-10 years old, my sister instead always did...
Well I think there at the farm I can also get my space to keep more machines and stuff, I already have planned a laundry room where to hook up the FF, the WP BD and SQ's... i think I'm not going to miss the space for some more machines for sure, the place is huge and there's a lot of space...looking forward to move there...
[this post was last edited: 1/28/2015-11:59]
