you could just buy like,
first editions of stuff the day they come out
then take them forward to the point when they are most valuable and auction them,
i suppose.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:19, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

true
but I imagine I wouldn't have much money, and thus first editions and stuff though within my price range wouldn't make that much. Whereas rare and special things would
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:23, Reply)

first editions are all going to be pretty cheap when they first come out though aren't they
on account of them, by very definition at the time, not being in any way famous or valuable.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:24, Reply)

also a fiver now is going to add up to a lot more twenty years ago,
although you would have to bear in mind money changes, i don't know how much it would cost for me to buy 1940 currency right now.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:25, Reply)

that's true
I think I was just planning on making more money. Perhaps go back and acquire an original Shakespeare folio
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:25, Reply)

well i asked about making yourself rich but yeh i mean,
i dunno how valuable shakespeare's stuff would be today if you stole his stuff and it didn't get seen at the exact time it originally did.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:29, Reply)

I'd steal one of his manuscripts
after it had been shown. Make a copy of it and leave it behind
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:30, Reply)

but then the copy would be known as the original
and your original would be known as a copy!
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:32, Reply)

film it
imagine what the footage would be worth
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:35, Reply)

only if it the first ever evidence of time travel i suppose

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:57, Reply)

I'd pick a play
where the original hasn't survived (in the original form at least)
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:38, Reply)

Do a Dr Who and get given Van Gogh paintings.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 0:25, Reply)