Dig This Treasure!

Good question!  You know, we really haven’t.  Sarah and I (luckily) have really different tastes.  She likes a lot of cutesy-1960s/1970s kitsch and I like a lot of primitive or pre-1950s stuff.

The only things we would fight about are things to resell on ebay, but usually it’s finders keepers.  Although we have given up items in the past if we know it is something the other person has sold before or would be better at selling.  For example, Sarah has made some mad cash repeatedly selling old greeting cards on ebay.  If I were to find a whole bunch of them, I’d give them up because I know it’s her “thing.”

There was one time at a doll auction when I accidentally started bidding against Sarah for an item.  When I realized, I looked at her and said, “Oh sorry” and then backed out.  Apparently you aren’t supposed to do this. The auctioneer said, “You aren’t colluding are you?!”  Read about auction collusion here.

Anyway, to be honest, I get more worried when Sarah’s mom Cindy is around because she and I buy similar items, for keeping and for selling.  Cindy is a lot of fun though, so I like when she tags along…I just have to keep a close eye on her.

-Erin

Update from Sarah: Erin’s got it right. We both like different kinds of things and we don’t really fight in general. Except for that one time we both cried on her driveway over a Christmas party. And we both have pretty bad memories, so the only thing I can think of recently that I really loved that she found first, was that folk art bear she found a month or so ago.