Is your home crying out for a fragment of Lost's Oceanic Flight 815? Or your office in need of that Mad Men touch courtesy of Don Draper's armchair? Time to get bidding …

Sometimes you love a show so much that you really want it to be real. And now it can be. In the sense that you have the chance to purchase a piece of the action – or a piece of the set, the prop cabinet, or the wardrobe of your favourite character.

It will, of course, cost you. Today it's the turn of Mad Men fans to check their bank accounts and hold their breath hopefully as they begin the bidding for lots from the show, which it must be said, seem largely to comprise of various chairs and sofas. Very stylish chairs and sofas, mind you – with choice lots including Roger's three-seater, an armchair from Don's office, and this settee from Pete's office.

There are also desks, lamps and drapes on offer – although I can't quite figure out how you'd display your Mad Men curtains to their best advantage – along with the turntable from Pete's office and Roger's bar.

But the top of the bill is surely reserved for the trio of dresses including Joan's green number and … drumroll … a walk-on role in season five. Get your credit cards ready.

It would be a bit difficult to offer the same deal to Lost fans still mourning the moment when Jack's eyes closed for the last time and Lost finished its six-season run. But then there is going to be an awful lot of other Lost stuff auctioned on 21 and 22 August – with practically everything from the show up for sale: Question is: what should you be buying?

What you consider to be the choice picks from the 20+ pages of Lost listings rather depends on what you wish to do with your purchase. Clearly the sensible, rational thing to do would be to place these items under glass with their certificate of authenticity tucked underneath them. And if you're buying a hunk of plane/temporary beach camp material then that's the only serious proposal. But no fun. Seriously: why not get something you could really use? It's a recession after all.

Plum options on day one of the auction include Charlie's DS ring worn all the way through and so prominently featured in Greatest Hits, the episode in which he carked it. Wearing that is going to prove you're a superfan a lot more definitively than knowing all the words to You All Everybody (all two lines of it). There's also Kate's treasured toy plane , which has an estimate of $600-$800, and already has bids on it, two weeks before the auction begins.

For those looking for the least ostentatious purhase: how ideal a halloween costume is this? Yes, anyone can come to a halloween party dressed as Locke wearing a pair of khaki trousers and a t-shirt splashed with fake blood ... but you could be the one actually wearing Locke's actual trousers and bloody shirt . Which isn't perhaps entirely practical long term, but it's at least more impressive than the clean version of any of his costumes which, frankly, could be replicated for a lot less than the $200-$300 estimate.

But the bounty available on Day One of the auction is nothing compared to day two, where many of the big props from the closing season can be found. Oh, and Sawyer's underpants. If pants aren't quite your thing, you could always while the evening away with the senet game of Jacob and The Man in Black while pretending to have control over the souls of all humanity – or perhaps rocking Claire's actual squirrel baby.

You could always impress your friends with a bunch of Oceanic plastic water bottles (estimate $200-300) – or the beaten up version of the same bottle – the one Jack used to transfer power to Hurley – although that will probably set you back a great deal more because it was so important to the plot.

So if you've got an unlimited budget, and an undammable fount of love for US TV then this is your lucky month. (And with memorabilia being big business, your purchase might evencount as an investment. A pair of Nimoy-sweat-infused Vulcan Eartops sold for $3,000 last weekend, which is not to be sneezed at – mainly because sneezing would almost certainly dislodge your pointy old eartops.) So imagine I am presenting you with a blank cheque book and pen, and shooing you off towards the auctions. Anything you'd like to bid on?