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If you want to collect Christmas ornaments as a money making investment there are some things you will need to do to preserve their value. First, focus your collection. If you do not focus, you will end up with a shop full of disparate items that will not attract buyers.
To learn about what is hot in the Christmas ornament field go to shows, talk to dealers, buy price guides and do as much checking as possible. When buying ornaments, be discriminating. Buy the best pieces you can afford.
It is the better ornaments (and frankly most expensive) that are the ones most likely to appreciate in value. Follow the market place. Toys played with by baby boomers like the Jetsons, the Flintstones, Rocky and Bulwinkle have risen in value in recent years. Now Star Wars and toys from McDonalds are popular. So look now at the toys and popular culture items that children are playing with today and buy those.
There will be nostalgia for these items in twenty or thirty years. And that at the same time is the upside and downside of the collecting hobby. A lot of ornaments will appreciate in value, but it may take decades. That is why if you intend to make money, quickly turning these items over for a profit, you are going to be disappointed.
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