 It does happen. After all, we are a society of consumers and savers. So things did end up in the attic. And where I'm from on the East Coast, things ended up in the basement. Things do get squirreled away, says Joe Maddalena, who's built a career on locating, buying and selling collectibles of all kinds. There's so many areas of collecting, you know, whether you're collecting baseball cards or coins or, you know, rare books or manuscripts. You know, it's just so many different areas.