The big “find” for our collectors this month is a lovely hand-woven ikebana basket, purchased for around $4 and selling both at auction and at retail for many times that amount. Other interesting ...

Just the other day, I was shopping at a local mall when I meandered into one of the pop-up shops that appear during the holidays. It had all the expected cheap items: $2 DVDs, stacks of Beanie Babies, ...

They’re in it for the long haul. John Howard will never forget his first Hess tanker truck gifted by his grandfather many Christmases ago — a green, yellow, red and white 1968 model with a fuel hose ...

It’s perhaps too easy to get all misty-eyed and wistful about the past, especially when it concerns our old toys, but there really is something different about Tonka. Here were tough trucks, cranes, ...

Mariah Carey tells us that all she wants for Christmas is you. As for the rest of us, we’re eyeing the truck-themed toys that may roll under the trees in the homes of good girls and boys. In the ...