Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for November 18, 2020

How much does an “I Like Ike” go for these days?

Works for me!

You might try foisting them off on an unsuspecting museum.

Pitch them.

Somewhere, somehow, there are people who collect those little pins. Put them up on eBay.

Stick them on A hat.

Basement it is. Leave it to your offspring to figure out what to do with them when you’re gone.

Gather everything up and take it to a local collective, and sell it to a dealer.

Or have a garage sale…

Either way, you’ll make 50 or 100 bucks with all that stuff you don’t really want and think has no value.

You’ll also be giving some poor but enterprising dealer a chance to buy things to sell at a price that allows a profit, and keeps him or her alive.

Yeah yeah… then you can go to the flea market and see your 50¢ pins marked $4 each…

and complain and wail and say you were cheated….

even though YOU didn’t do any research…

or spend hours looking for things to sell, rent a booth and get up before dawn to sell them…

nor will you carry most of them from flea market to show to collective for two years while you slowly sell some of them.

If you DO want to do some research…

and spend time answering email, processing payments, and wrapping and mailing things in a timely manner…

Then yeah… put it all on eBay.

it’s a lot of work.

Pin them to black velvet in a glassed in frame and hang them over the mantle.

I’m not old enough to have an “I Like Ike” button, but I DO have a Kennedy button and a HUGE pumpkin-colored “I LOVE THE BEATLES” button.

Make some kind of wall hanging with them, or put them in a shadow box.

Are any of them made of gold? Cash them in. You can get good money for gold right now.

had some pins for the Olympics that were held in Atlanta GA. One day I just packed them up and gave them away. Better in the hands of a collector or some kid who thinks they are cool than forgotten in my closet.

I have a friend whose dad collected commemorative spoons and medallions. He encouraged the habit and checked pawn shops in his travels. His sibs thought dad should divvy his cash NOW. When dad died, John got the collection. The sibs got the heavily-mortgaged house. Apparently some of those collectables were worth collecting – over a million dollars worth.

Ebay

Wait a hundred years and take them to the Antiques Roadshow.

how much space can they take up downstairs.

I am with you there. We moved house and are down to those dratted boxes full of stuff we don’t know what to do with.

Mount them on a corkboard first! Then you can put them on the wall in the basement and they will take up less floor space.

ebay

Donate to a non-profit thrift shop (Goodwill, hospital auxiliary, etc.). Support a good cause and make some collector happy.

That’s what basements are for.