Our home is filled with antiques. Not expensive ones... cheap, practical ones. We scour the stores for old farm tools that are in good enough shape to still use. Much of our furniture was inherited, not bought, and we can trace it back to great-grandparents.<p>We didn&#x27;t plan it this way. We just happen to live on a hobby farm, trying to live sustainably, and would rather keep our old furniture for both financial and family reasons.<p>Of course, this also proves the point of the article - even in a home furnished mostly with antiques, we aren&#x27;t part of a market for it. Our antiques are functional objects in our life, not investments.