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Snooki sells pink-on-black Cadillac for Jersey-quality payday

Collecting culture thrives on finding objects once cast off as worthless that later become valuable with the patina of time, from "Antiques Roadshow" to the Smithsonian. What we lack is a term for the opposite — the hoarding of stuff valued far beyond any rational sense of worth, which will only fade with time. For example: Spending $77,510 in an eBay auction for a used Cadillac Escalade EXT pickup driven and customized by "Jersey Shore" star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi. That's a lot of gym, tanning and laundry.