When I was dating my wife about 31 years ago or so, she used to drag me to the local fairgrounds flea market, she liked to look for glassware and tools and other stuff. I did not mind going, but there was not much I would look for or check out, except for books. Once we got married she would go with me to Depression Glass Shows and we subscribed to a newspaper monthly called Depression Glass Daze, which had a column by Mark Chase about cartoon glasses.

I enjoyed reading the column and picked up a couple glasses. Then at a Depression Glass show I saw a Welch's Warner Brothers single character jelly glass, it was yosemite sam, and I was pretty sure that I had that glass, but I noticed it had a character's face embossed on the bottom, and when I turned it over I realized there were different faces on the bottom, and this combination was one I did not have! I bought the glass, I was hooked, and once I bought the Chase Kelly book, I was hooked for good.

Still collecting and buying glasses - in fact I bought some (3) Welchs Flintstone glasses last month at a flea market for 10 cents each - surely the lowest price ever for Welchs glasses, amazing after all this time.
I have got glasses at lots of places - flea markets, garage sales, antique shops and malls, resale shops and thrift shops, PGCA meetings. I have not bought much on Ebay, only a few times from club members. I also slowly but surely got started collecting the plastic cups (tumblers and mugs) and have amassed a large, interesting collection, of which I have never sold anything, and also have never sorted it out or arranged it, so I am not sure what I have and don't have - I use to have some 50 or so sets arranged in my basement, but once I moved it all got boxed up. I still sometimes (not often but regularly) see decent glasses at thrift shops and garage sales, but I almost never see good, old plastic cups. I think most of them have been put into the trash over the years.