Unique Items Quotes

I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content.

Etsy is fundamentally a creative community. On eBay, or Amazon for that matter, practically anyone can sell practically anything. On Etsy, you can only sell handmade goods, vintage goods over 20 years old, and craft supplies for making.

A secret talent or hobby... Hmm... I weirdly collect shot glasses.

I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, 'There's only a few people that have this.' I like to see that someone's put a lot of labor into making something.

I enjoy shopping for unique shoes and hats when I'm on a trip.

I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.

We love curating; we love discovering new products and vintage pieces.

I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.

I don't care for brands. I'm more of a boutique shopper because the things I will find there are unique, and there won't be any copies.

I collect objects I fall in love with more than antiques per se. Value is not a criteria that attracts me to something.

I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.

I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.

If you go to most pawn shops in Las Vegas, they will tell you exactly what they will pay for, say, an iPod. But if you show up with an 1833 ormolu clock, it won't pop up in their computer. They are going to tell you to go to Gold & Silver Pawn, because we buy weird things.

I think that the collectible ephemera craze/awareness is probably driven by a reverse market, rebounding off the sense of everything being mass-produced. It's the last step you take in trying to find something unique.

One of the things I've always loved is collecting telling little details.

I always said that I'm not into mass-marketing things. If there's one thing that looks cool, that's fine by me. I'm not interested in a whole bunch of stuff.

I was looking for some vintage furniture, and I came across this booth where they sold old pictures. This guy didn't just have things in a box; he had really curated his collection. Each image was like this little folk masterpiece.

Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

I seem to go through phases with collecting stuff: vintage Japanese men's magazines, coconut monkey carvings, '70s belt buckles.

I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

I take a great deal of value in things that are done by hand or executed by hand.

I love wandering around the vintage shops.

As everything becomes digitized, there's the idea that things that can't be digitized become more valuable.

I find some really cool, unique stuff in vintage shops. The good thing about vintage if that it doesn't quite fit you can customise it, like, make it shorter. The shorter the better!

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.