How do you choose your purchases? - Collecting Tiki

S Swanky_Tiki Member Florida Joined: Dec 21, 2003 Posts: 27	S Swanky_Tiki Posted posted on Sat, Dec 27, 2003 11:53 AM I was just curious as to how you guys pick what you are going to buy as far as Tiki mugs go. Do you buy what appeals to you personally? Do you buy what you know to be rare or of high value? Do you buy mugs of a certain style or from a certain place? Do you only buy from one designer or do you just buy whatever you can find? I don't have many tiki mugs, and none of them are rare or of high value, I actually got all of them as gifts. One is a green one that came from a little store in the back of a candle shop in St. Augustine's Old Town and the other four are a set that my husabnd bought me, they are short squatty, mass market sort of thing. I really have little luck finding anything hawaiiana or tiki around here, and have NO luck finding mugs. I frequent every antique store, thrift shop, flea market and rumage/yard sale I can find in a 50 mile radious but never find any. Mostly what I find are hawaiian theme wooden bowls, platters, etc. I found a few stone tiki statuelike thing-a-ma-bobs and some bamboo placemats, trays. I have a vast collection of coconut monkeys however, lol they are redilly available along the coast here. Where do you guys find most of your tiki mugs? Do you get them online? I see alot of them online but I never know what I should or shouldn't buy. [ Edited by: Swanky_Tiki on 2003-12-27 11:54 ]

I was just curious as to how you guys pick what you are going to buy as far as Tiki mugs go. Do you buy what appeals to you personally? Do you buy what you know to be rare or of high value? Do you buy mugs of a certain style or from a certain place? Do you only buy from one designer or do you just buy whatever you can find?

I don't have many tiki mugs, and none of them are rare or of high value, I actually got all of them as gifts. One is a green one that came from a little store in the back of a candle shop in St. Augustine's Old Town and the other four are a set that my husabnd bought me, they are short squatty, mass market sort of thing. I really have little luck finding anything hawaiiana or tiki around here, and have NO luck finding mugs. I frequent every antique store, thrift shop, flea market and rumage/yard sale I can find in a 50 mile radious but never find any. Mostly what I find are hawaiian theme wooden bowls, platters, etc. I found a few stone tiki statuelike thing-a-ma-bobs and some bamboo placemats, trays. I have a vast collection of coconut monkeys however, lol they are redilly available along the coast here.
Where do you guys find most of your tiki mugs? Do you get them online? I see alot of them online but I never know what I should or shouldn't buy.

[ Edited by: Swanky_Tiki on 2003-12-27 11:54 ]

Post #66587 by Swanky_Tiki on Sat, Dec 27, 2003 11:53 AM