How to get your spouse interested in coins

Petescorner

Get a subscription to CoinWorld magazine and leave it as the sole source of reading material in the restroom. If there are Cosmopolitans or Travel magazines already there, get rid of those by moving them to the night stand, or better yet, throwing them away. If your spouse is the observant type, you may have to reduce the competing reading material in increments rather than all at once.

I know this is a bit under-handed, but it has actually worked for me. Last week, my wife came up to me to tell me that the Mint program on coins was coming up on the Discovery Channel and wanted to know if I would like to watch it with her. When I asked her, since when has she been interested in coins, she said, "I don't know, I've just been reading a lot about them lately." True story!

NBSQLGeek

"Yes Excelent" Mr. Burns

I will try this with the wife. She has begun to help look threw change and save it to the side for me. mUAHAHHAHAH!

FC57Coins

That is assuming that you WANT your wife to get interested in coins - if she saw some of my purchases she'd KILL me! LOL - no thanks!

FrattLaw

No, no, no, I agree with the smoking Dog! It's okay if she asks once in awhile, but I don't want her too involved. Seperate hobbies are good for a marriage.

Michael

wallstreetman

Talk Nordstroms into selling them!

NBSQLGeek

I would rathe rhave my wife interested in coins than longerberger baskets.

Baskets = warm winters with the fireplace

dpoole

Everytime she asks about what I'm doing in there, I tell her the story again about the 1995W Silver American Eagle I got in my bullion proof set that year. She goes off happily, thinking all my numismatic decisions are like that. Heh, heh.

Now, if she started reading about coins and really getting up on things, I'd be in LOTS of trouble.

NBSQLGeek

ROFL. Yeah thats where I see your point.

<runs and hides the coin mags>

LucyBop

Then again, depending on who your wife is, she may spend more money all coins they all of you!

relayer

Get a subscription to CoinWorld magazine

It's very dangerous to leave pricing information lying around. What they don't know won't hurt them

michael

that would rarer than hens teeth but i guess anything is possible

sincerely michael

leothelyon

Coins is the last thing I want to be talking with my wife about........she already has enough crap to chew on my ear about.......blah, blah, blah all the time and it's simple minded stuff.........it would be way to annoying.........that 50 state quarter collection has already got her started..........and she doesn't know anything about high quality......and then she's showing me a quarter from between her thumb and fingers.....is this a nice one.....yes dear. The most irratatlng thing to watch is when she's using my loupe
and it's 6 inches from her eye........

Leo

dddangerousdan

<< <i>Get a subscription to CoinWorld magazine

It's very dangerous to leave pricing information lying around. What they don't know won't hurt them >>



Not quite, it's What they don't know won't hurt "YOU"

DAN

Spooly

(The most irratatlng thing to watch is when she's using my loupe and it's 6 inches from her eye........)


ROTFLMAO!

SarasotaFrank

I feel bad for you guys. I spend a fair amount of time and money on my collection, and my wife, bless her heart will stroll by and show an interest in coins that have eye appeal to her. I usually show her just about anything extraordinary that comes along. I felt inclined to tell her I was going to spend (for me) a fair amount of money on the last dime for my Mercury set. She was more interested in the 16D from a standpoint of completing that project than she was about the $500 price tag.

If I am able to make it to FUN this year, she wants to go. Now THAT will be the test, because I'll be seeking some toughies at that show.

Mark

I agree with SarasotaFrank: I'd LOVE to have my spouse (I say spouse rather that wife from deference to Lucy and the other women on the boards) interested in coins. My wife has a better eye than I do for grading, and if she were more involved, my guess is that average quality of the coins I own would be higher.

Mark

Petescorner

If I am able to make it to FUN this year, she wants to go. Now THAT will be the test, because I'll be seeking some toughies at that show.

Frank, if I'm able to go to the FUN show this year, I may just have my wife with me. I figure it's a lot harder to get a day away by myself, than it is to make a day for both of us out of it. And with her new found interest, she probably would have a great time.

And I agree with needing separate hobbies, but that is where golf comes in!

Bulldog

Pete,

For thirty years of my collecting coins, My Spouse never looked at one of them.

Well I figured out how to get her interested. During our DIVORCE , She showed more interest in my coins, then she ever did me.

So we all have our ways of bringing interest to the table...LOL


BD

ferd

Good stuff Pete, it's worth a try!

coppercoins

It would never work for me. My wife is European and would have nothing to do with the, "American obsession with collecting." She doesn't understand it and claims that she never will. She sees every coin for its face value....something to spend.

theFonz

The answer for me on this is to stay single.






theFonz

Mrpawn

Took the wife to a coin show. Bribed her with breakfast before and lunch afterwards. While I spent too much time studying Morgans at one table she wandered off and discovered ancient Greek & Roman coins. Bought her a few. Bought her some more at the nest coin show even though she was too busy to go. These are cute , interesting and different.

For Christmas she got a sequence of wrapped boxes. First was a distinctive magnifying glass. Next was a book on IDing Greek and Roman coins. Last in THIS group contained some more ancients. She has already read and annotated the book and is looking forward to the next coin show.

coppercoins

Took the wife to a coin show. Bribed her with breakfast before and lunch afterwards. >>



You can actually start and finish a coin show in time for lunch and breakfast? Takes me all day, and she knows it. I go alone, thanks. Every time I have tried to take the family, I get nagged at for wanting to stay from 9 til 5. I go alone and the hours pass like minutes. It's better for all of us that way. My wife has a bad habit of being a real b*^ch at coin shows...and wouldn't be afraid to admit it.

Last October we traveled 200 miles to a show. The idea was that she and the kid would go to a science museum while I attended the show. I wanted to be there at 9AM to get in as much as I could. well, she wakes me up at 9AM, after having set the only alarm for 6AM so she could go running. Of course she didn't re-set the alarm, so I slept. We left the hotel at 10AM, and she wanted breakfast. We shoved down some breakfast, and I got to the show at 11AM. She leaves with the kid, and everything is okay - so I thought. She shows back up at 1:30 thinking I would be finished and would be ready to go to lunch with them, then got pissed when I told her I was only a third finished, and I would need at least until 5PM. She leaves with him, runs off to do something (I didn't care what), then shows back up at 4:30. I decided I might as well be ready enough, so I left, half finished with the sole purpose for the trip. That's how it goes when she goes with me.

I went to another show alone, left the house at 4:30AM, drove 250 miles, got to the show at 8:30AM, and they were kind enough to let me in half an hour early. I knew the bourse chairman, so I was able to walk the floor while the dealers were getting set up. I spent the entire day there, then attended the club meeting at 6:30, and still wasn't bored. I ate pizza at 8:30PM, watched a couple of movies in the hotel room (one had Jack Nicholson, my favorite), and went to sleep after 1AM. I got back up at 7AM, went back to the show after a Denny's breakfast, and finished the details of the search. I left town at noon, got back home at 4:30. That's the way I like it!!

canadiancoinguy

9 to 5? I'm usually out of money by 1!

wingedliberty

I'm single.



Brian.

Mike921

I'm just glad I got rid of mine and I am now happily divorced. I'd rather be with the coins

Anyways.........

lincolnSence

BULLDOG has the only intelligent answer to the question asked. Hope my wife never gets interested!!!!!!!!!

JoyofCollecting

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Amen...brother!!!!