Saw an article recently on the beeb about a guy who sold his collection of 4000 whisky miniatures for £30k, despite the fact he hates whisky (which may explain why he still had them).

Got me thinking, what could be collected by someone with little or no specialist knowledge, that could be expected to accumulate a fair amount of value over a 15-20 year period?

Link to article https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-59673351.amp

Cheers

Rim brake pads and rims.

Contemporary art.

Fast fords, anything rs or st badged, and keep it mint.

He would have been much better off in an S&P Tracker…

Live humans.

Houses?

Lego?

Lego houses?

4000 whisky miniatures for £30k

That’s an average of £7.50 per miniature. There must’ve been some old / rare minis in that lot, that’s not just popping 25ml of Glen Ordinary in your basket when you’re doing your weekly shop.

Whisky can be a good investment – I have a mate collects full-sized bottles (and also drinks a lot of it) – but he’s loaded, he knows what he’s doing and has been doing it for years. Oh and he has a room dedicated to it, consider that anything you collect will take up space.

Ultimately you’re speculating. If if it were possible to reliably invest with no knowledge, we’d all be doing it. Your man up there was either savvy or lucky. If I had money lying around for a collection I’d probably pay someone to buy shares or hoy it into my pension (which is broadly the same thing anyway).

Why bother with so many miniatures?

Wish I had as much *hic* self control.

Petrol.

Drinking water

Lego seems to be a good bet, but I wonder if a lot of people have jumped on that band wagon now and it’s finished?

I know if I had bought 2 of each of the sets I have bought in the last 10 years, I could of made a profit by keeping one sealed, then sticking it on Ebay a few years later.

Board games could be a possible one, identify a future classic and keep it mint. Probably not a number 1 best seller but something a bit more niche.

Old colleague of mine buys console games from car boots. He waits until the console has become outdated enough that the games are about £1, but before there is any retro appeal. Unopened ones are the ones to get.

He stashes them for a few years and then sells them via eBay. He used to make about £500 a week from his car boot / eBay stuff.

Mind you, he had a knack for it. Went on Bargain Hunt with his mother and they totally smashed it. Not only did they win, they got the Golden Gavel – classic.

All the crypto

Fatbikes
Front mechs
Woodburners

Rim brake pads and rims

I did emphasise little or no specialist knowledge 😀

That’s an average of £7.50 per miniature. There must’ve been some old / rare minis in that lot, that’s not just popping 25ml of Glen Ordinary in your basket when you’re doing your weekly shop.

Yup, that thought had occurred to me too. It did say some lots hadn’t sold, so does that mean less than 4000 for £30k? Regardless a quick peek at current prices for decent miniatures means you could be losing money, though I’m assuming that he paid a lot less in the 80s and 90s.

Anything to do with cars requires specialist knowledge for sure (as well as comparatively deep pockets). The video game/console similarly requires someone who knows what they’re doing and is prepared to hoof it around carboots etc.

My thinking is a collection that could be accumulated over time by just buying stuff that’s reasonably cheap and accessible but that will become rarer and more collectable over time.

Petrol

Ha! You’re seemingly not wrong! Whilst garage space is currently at a premium, the missus would probably welcome me replacing a few bikes with a couple of rusty barrels full of petrol!

Houses.

What were the last few years’ must-have toys? Those. Lego is done and video games are done (xb360 and PS3 stuff might go up slightly but they made bloody millions of them so probs not) unless you get lucky and find someone selling something that they haven’t valued on ebay.

Houses

Don’t get me started. Could/should have bought a house in that there London in 2002. Would be worth over £900,000 more than I would have paid for it. Only consolation is that the ex would probably have ended up with it. Silver linings.

Can’t help feel that the property market has to – has to – correct itself at some point. It’s that or bloody revolution.

However, houses = big bucks whichever way you cut it. What is needed is cheap, easily accessible and collectable by a numpty like me with relative ease.

Crypto is always an option, can’t help thinking that bird may have flown though..

NFTs or watches

Covid vaccines

Land – they are not making it any more

Compassion and Kindness.
Store it in an AI

Copper

As other countries urbanise the demand for it will keep increasing – once people in China have as much copper in their houses as we have in ours it’ll pretty much have all run out.

Houses

all that’s really happening when house prices increase is the value of our money is decreasing

Gold

140mm Ultegra freeza ice-tech rotors

Icebergs. Like goldust they’ll be.

I’ve got 6 bags of house coal I’m thinking of hoarding.

Saint 10 speed shifters and Freddos

mate of mine is buying a bottle of macallan (i think) whisky each year for his young lad. think theyre about £200 each, but he says they should be worth a fortune when he hits 18….

Crystal balls 😉

A Bored Monkey?

mate of mine is buying a bottle of macallan (i think) whisky each year for his young lad. think theyre about £200 each, but he says they should be worth a fortune when he hits 18….

Wonder where he got that idea from 😉

If it’s drink look for Manager special runs that get given to staff.
I’ve a numbered bottle of that hidden away.https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/4085/mortlach-16-year-old-flora-fauna

Also if you see it in a pub buy a dram as an opened bottle is worthless.

Next is anything that kids are using now 30 years later it’s adults with disposable cash. I have hot wheels but ones that cross both interest of car fans and toy fans Old vws/fords. Some limited runs I’ve got some with custom paint I’ve have signed one by Shepard Fairey.
Good returns now are posh bags and watches the Chinese are currently turning their backs on property due to the current scandals and are heavy into posh Rolex watches.

Good graffiti art is still collecting well French artist known as Invader is on my list as love his work.

Polar bears

Crypto is always an option, can’t help thinking that bird may have flown though..

It has barely even started…

Unless you think FIAT currency is going to last forever, then Crypto in some way shape or form is going to shape the future of our storage of wealth in the future for sure.

Otherwise houses…

There will be the odd car that will 10x or more in value over the next 15-20 years, but predicting which one (or managing to buy one of the ones that we know will 10x in the first place!) is hard enough, but then storing it for 20yrs etc whilst not using it… No ta!

The best financial advice I have heard in a long time is simply to put 1-2% of your expendable income into Crypto every month… Just keep accumulating. If you’ve got £1k spare per month, £10-20 you won’t even notice. But in 10yrs time when your investments are worth 10/100/1000x what you paid for them then they are very real and life changing. Of course, you have to be prepared for the outside possibility that the Fed gets involved, manages to outlaw it somehow or take control (like they did with Gold in the US in the 1930’s) and fix the price… So don’t put what you can’t afford in to it, just in case. But assuming it pays off, then you’ll be in the money!

26” wheels, tyres and inner tubes – when riders rediscover how nimble they are – they will return! Happy Holidays!

If only memories had monetary value.

In addition to my post above – DON’T collect high end nine speed transmission components. I anticipate that there’ll be a glut on the market when my will is executed along with cries of “why did he collect all this stuff”! Happy Holidays II!

Dry land ?.

Rim brake pads and rims.

You’ll have lost the knowledge on how to ‘Set them up properly’