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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 14314, member: 201&quot;]Yes, glass beads can be very dangerous to one&#039;s wallet! It never ceased to amaze me when I&#039;d walk out of a shop with a smallish bag and a lot less in my bank account! </p><p><br /></p><p>Shiloh, you have me beat, since I started collecting beads when I was about 21. But not by much, since I&#039;m a couple of years older. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":p" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>What helped (or didn&#039;t, depending upon how you look at it), is that my mom worked about a block from the &quot;bead district&quot; in Manhattan and would go bead shopping for me. She became friendly with the owner of one of the oldest shops and he&#039;d let her go down into the basement and rummage around, and sold her whatever she found by the pound. There was lots of great stuff in that basement!</p><p><br /></p><p>I like the idea of a thread to discuss beads. I have a gazillion photos I could share, too, since for my first 12 years on eBay I sold beads and buttons (mostly new Czech glass buttons) more than anything else. I stopped when eBay decided to make it difficult for people to buy more than one thing at the same time. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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