It’s important to understand where antiques originate because many antique buyers make the mistake of misunderstanding the process by which antique items are found. Since many collectors and buyers do not fully grasp the process, much valuable time is spent looking in the wrong places for the valuable items. Several antique dealers and/or collectors might mean well, but they just lack the understanding needed to understand where the items originate.

Common sense tells us that the way to find fresh antiques and collectibles is to go where they exist in great abundance, and where they originate! They start in people’s homes. This easy to remember, fundamental concept explains the origins of at least ninety-nine percent of the antiques you see.

Another fact to keep in mind is that most antiques are in the homes of older citizens. Speaking in general terms, young people do not own them as much as older people do. Many older people came from a generation that saved everything, which explains this occurrence. That means that items as sentimental as the old toaster that didn’t work, or the 1950s toys they hung on to, older folks keep most of what they have owned, and this is how antiques originate.

That brings up another question, since you now know where and how antiques originate. How will you utilize the knowledge of antiques forming in older people’s homes when you are deciding where to spend the majority of your time? I wasted many valuable years in trying to grasp the following principles.

1. Anyone who wants to buy more fresh antiques will need to put themselves in a position where they see a large number of them on a recurrent basis. 2. This means that you need to familiarize yourself more household accumulations of the items over time. 3. To accomplish this, you simply must get into more people’s homes where the antiques originate.

Using these simple principles shall give you a boost over the competition. Believe me, I know antique dealers and collectors, and most of them find their antiques through one of only 5 methods. They find them through garage or estate sales, auctions, ‘goodwill’ type stores, flea markets and ‘pickers’.

Since you understand the above principles, you now know that the place where you will find the most antiques is actually in people’s homes. Familiarizing yourself with the places that antiques originate, and searching there, will make your search much more successful. This simple tool of collecting can take you farther than you ever dreamed possible!