Okayokayokay. Everybody’s having it rough right now. We’re all cutting back. But there’s no reason you can’t have new cool collectibles, and we don’t mean those model cars you buy on monthly payments. Here’s a selection of Mid-Century designs that fit today’s budgets, and are sure to be appreciated more in the future.

1-LUXFER PRISMS - A Frank Lloyd Wright house not in the budget? What about one of these glass tiles designed by the master beginning in 1897? $25 buys a decent one in this stylized flower design; rarer patterns (there were 97 in all) go for more.

2 - NAMBÉ - Handmade in Santa Fe, New Mexico by Native Americans, some pieces are very expensive. But there are a lot of smaller items, like candlesticks and small dishes and bowls, priced under $50. If you find something that’s damaged, Nambé will repolish it like new for 10% of new retail.

3 - BUTTERFLY CHAIRS - Officially called Ferrari-Hardoy chairs, you can find frames at yard sales and thrift stores cheap - like $20 or less for folding ones, more for the non-folding variety. New covers are at Storehouse, Crate & Barrel, and Circa50, at several quality and price points.

4 - VINTAGE PRINT ADS - Not only are pictures of great design more affordable than great design, they’re easier to find room for. Most full-page ads of the Fifties are the same size, so an impressive grouping of identically framed pictures for a hallway or dining room is as close as a few good finds and a trip to your local Pottery Barn. Figure $5-10 each for ordinary cool, more for really nifty stuff like tail-finned car ads.

5 - ICE-O-MATS - The first thing your dad bought as a badge of ladies’ man status was an ice-crusher, preferably a wall-mounted one shaped like a rocket. Figure $30 or less, but make sure there’s a wall bracket included. Especially nice in June Cleaver colors like turquoise and pink.

6 - CLOCK RADIOS - You’d be surprised how many Mid-Century clock radios are still functioning. Cheerful Fifties pastels and Googie shapes make them great to wake up to. You can get a good one for less than $50, and you can often fix a broken one with a new tube from Radio Shack.

7 - SCANDINAVIAN STAINLESS - Gorgeous sleek bowls, platters, and trays are out there, from Stelton, Fraser, and Wallace, among others. Most are under $25. Oven and dishwasher safe, and you couldn’t break one if you tried.

8 - MARIMEKKO - Marimekko from the Sixties and Seventies turns up surprisingly often, for a quarter the price of the revival prints recently introduced. $50 can buy a terrific Maija Isola pattern like ‘Huusari’, often already on stretchers for use as a wall hanging.

9 - WROUGHT IRON - Black iron wires and rods were hot for early Fifties furniture. Those old tables and bookcases and record-player stands are cheap, at $25-50. New rubber feet from Home Depot and a coat of Rustoleum spray paint will put your find in great shape.

10 - TABLE LINENS - Amazing how many people got nice Mid-Century linens as gifts forty years ago, and put them away for an occasion that never came. You can often find unused napkin sets, place mats, tablecloths and dishtowels for less than $20.

11 - BAR WARE - An art form for the Playboy crowd, there are great designs in stainless, teak, silver, plastic - you name it. You’ll see everything from stirrers to shakers to corkscrews, in looks ranging from elegant to pop, starting at $5.