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Posted 11/07/2016 05:24 am
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I wonder if there is a correlation between a child becoming a collector if a parent or close relative is.
I wonder if there is a correlation between a child becoming a collector if a parent or close relative is.
Good question! In my case it's not really true. My father was an economist, but with much more interest in banking and accounting principles, where my mother and her mother always had a raised interest in coins and currencies, but didn't do any collecting.
One of my LCS's changed ownership from father to son a few years ago and currently the next generation is being trained to take over again. So I guess sometimes it just runs in the family.
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Nobody wants their deceased relative's collection of Hummel figurines.
Nobody wants their deceased relative's collection of Hummel figurines.
Nobody probably knows what Hummel figurines are anymore, let alone if they have any value. It seems to go with a lot of hobbies like that: figurine collecting is virtually dead here, stamp collecting is dead and buried here, most other collectible hobbies share the same fate: only coin collecting still is alive, somehow. However... one of my LCS's sometimes looks more like a weekly meeting center for the elderly than a shop, given how many retired there are on a given Thursday evening. It's just that most of my friends and relatives know that I am somehow a reincarnation from the stone age that they accept that I have 'elderly' hobbies, but a lot of people actually give me a strange look when they find out where my interests lie.
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I have been teaching my cousins and neighnors and some look promising!!
I have been teaching my cousins and neighnors and some look promising!!
Keep up the good work!
