How to Collect Vintage Advertising

If you love to collect advertising and oldflat and away from sunlight, and try to find out
advertisements, then turn to the internet and theas much information about the ad that you can,
re-use centers, and your local newspaper.don't leave them laying around the house like
A great place to start, is the re-use centers, fleaclutter either!.. make sure to do something with
markets, second hand stores, and garage sales.them right away, take out the ad and discard the
Make sure to be dressed comfortable, in olderparts you don't want, and do that right away, or
clothes, because you will be doing some digging,you will end up with the same clutter as the
through old boxes etc!houses you took them from!
Most of the re-use centers will have oldWith magazines, pull or carefully cut out the entire
magazines in boxes, that you will have to digpage of the ad, this way there should be a date
through. This is a good place to start becauseon the page (hopefully) and then place it carefully
many people who are clearing out aging relativesin a album with plastic sheeting to protect it.
homes, don't know what to do with theIf vintage magazine advertisements are your
collections of older magazines, books etc thatpassion, then why not have themed albums,
may have been accumulating in some basementsshowing ads for "fishing" or "hunting" or
for years, so they will dump them off at these"household" that type of thing.
re-use centers. Many are pack rats, which ofYou can also start a business with this collection
course is good for you, if you are looking forof vintage advertising, as this has become a
older advertising.popular hobby.
Another way, is to place an ad in your local paper,If you have exhausted your local re-use centers,
that you are looking for older magazines andgarage sales, etc, then why not try shopping
newspapers (as an example) and you are willingonline?.. This way you can get advertisements
to come and pick them up. There are people whofrom all over the world and expand your
will take you up on that offer just to get boxescollection. You don't even need to leave your
of old magazines out of their basement.house. Just make sure to catalogue and label your
Once you have located some great ads, oralbums. Collecting vintage magazine ads, will take
magazines, or labels, take your treasures homeup less space in your home, as you place the
and put them in al album right away, somewherealbums on shelves etc...