With the benefit of hindsight
I’d be a very rich woman today, but even without a crystal ball I
still have a pretty good idea how to grow myself a great income
for my old age, and your old age too if the size of your pension
pot is causing you concern.
Let’s face it, relying on the state isn’t going to ensure a happy
retirement and, with a declining economy, a good many company
pensions might also yield poor or even zero future income.
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You can’t leave your future to
government or employers; you have to set the wheels in motion
yourself to provide money for your golden days.
With the benefit of hindsight I can however help you predict the
future, certainly as far as collectibles go. It all stems from the
day I discovered I was pregnant with my first child and I decided
to give up carrying heavy boxes packed with postcards in and out
of flea markets the length and breadth of the country. In short, I
decided to stop selling at flea markets and collectors’ fairs, for
a few years at least, and to sell my stock to make room in the
house for cots and prams and similar paraphernalia.
So I bundled my stock into the boot of the estate car and headed
for a collectibles auction house in Gloucester. There were close
to 50,000 cards at the time and overall those cards had cost me
about ten thousand pounds.
That’s when my problems started:
Problem #1 – I couldn’t wait for my cards to sell, I
couldn’t wait for my cheque to arrive, and I couldn’t wait to
choose baby clothes and bedding, toys and …………. when the cheque
arrived it was for just over £100!
Problem #2 – There was no eBay in those days, about 1985,
so the choice was to sell at distant antiques and collectors’
fairs or not sell at all. So I comforted myself with the fact I
was a lady of leisure now and £100 better off …… which brings me
to the light at the end of the tunnel, which is, based on
hindsight …… I kept a long list of most of the cards that made me
£100 richer …... and by today’s standards I reckon they’d be worth
about £100,000 and probably a great deal more. That’s because
collectibles have grown significantly in value over the past 20
years or so, especially made from paper and other fragile
materials, and what cost me about £10,000 in the early 1980s would
easily be worth ten times that price today.
Which is good news for you and maybe for me also! The good news
is, if you begin gathering small collectibles today and continue
for ten or twenty years or so, they’ll almost certainly grow
faster in value than most other investment types. Buying physical
collectibles this way, with a view to them growing in value and
being turned back into cash in the future is called ‘Alternative
Investing’, the name deriving from collectibles being an
‘alternative’ to investing in stocks and shares and other more
conventional investment types.
But there’s even better news to come, because a recession is the
perfect time to begin growing your alternative investment
portfolio. It’s a perfect time because collectibles lose a lot of
their value as the economy declines when non-investing collectors
and virtually all dealers cut down on spending until the economy
picks up again. When it picks up collectibles grow in value again
and your investment begins to pay off, if that is you liquidate
your assets when their price peaks.
As to why I know this is true, well apart from personal experience
over twenty years, I’ve also found prices falling recently at all
the auction houses I visit on a regular basis. Some houses,
normally fetching hundreds or even thousands of pounds for genuine
original postcard collections – also other collectibles - are
reporting double figure prices now. Very sad for sellers, but
great news for you, and for me, and presenting a great opportunity
for growing your pension portfolio starting today!
Oh yes, another tip, when you do retire try to make sure it isn’t
during a recession, or wait until the recession ends and the
economy booms again before liquidating your assets!
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