What's more important/fun for you...the thrill of the hunt or the score?

[HumanWolfman]

I have an idea! For those of you who enjoy the hunt most, why dont you find the stuff so those of us who enjoy the score most can buy it. Tha way everyone gets what they like best!!!

[theantiquetiger]

For me, it's the hunt. Now that I don't collect anything now (sold most of my LSU collection), I just enjoy hitting the garage and estate sales. The dirtier the better. I don't do auctions because it takes away from the hunt. I also don't do it for the money by flipping it. I just use the money as a scale of how well I did. My oldest daughter (9 years old), loves hitting the garage sales with me and that three or four hours every other weekend is our time. We head out about 5:30am, shop for a couple hours, eat some breakfast, and than hit some more for a couple more hours.

My wife and youngest daughter (6 years old) could care less about the sales. Only thing is my youngest ask me to bring her something home.

I have one lady that owns an estate sale company and I use to help her price toys and LSU items. She still calls me at the end of sales, asking if I want to flip something left over worth a lot of money. I usually turn her down because that's not what I do.

I did take her up of some Baccarat and Lalique glasses last week end because I need to make up some money on a saxophone I took a hit on last week.

[mikeMc6]

Right now I'm in that excruciating middle period where I've completed the "hunt" from a member here and waiting every day for the four(!) boxes of "score" to arrive. Actually, the wait is quite painful! I think they call this the DF in screenplay terminology...