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Did you spend way over your coin budget for 2004?

SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭✭
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In Jan 2004 if someone told me what I was going to spend on coins that year I would have said YOU ARE CRAZY! No way that is going to happen.......
Collecting since 1976.

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  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭
    Actually, no. Coin prices have gone so high that I didn't spend much at all. If they come down, I'll start spending too much on them again.
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    What's a budget?

    Russ, NCNE
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • BustmanBustman Posts: 1,911 ✭
    Budget? We don't need no stinkin budget.image
  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are you kidding??? I spent my budget for 2008.

    Jim
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I look at it this way:

    There were a lot of years between ages 15 and 35 that I was completely out of coins. I am still not caught up to 2004!
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  • ProofquarterProofquarter Posts: 275 ✭✭



    What's a budget?Text


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  • PhillyJoePhillyJoe Posts: 2,700 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>In Jan 2004 if someone told me what I was going to spend on coins that year I would have said YOU ARE CRAZY! No way that is going to happen....... >>



    Ditto.

    I've already spent more in January than I thought I would spend in the first 6 months of 2005 (and I've still got 5 days to go.:confusedimage

    Joe
    The Philadelphia Mint: making coins since 1792. We make money by making money. Now in our 225th year thanks to no competition. image
  • CalGoldCalGold Posts: 2,608 ✭✭


    << <i> if someone told me what I was going to spend on coins that year I would have said YOU ARE CRAZY! No way that is going to happen >>



    That's because you bought cool stuff. Cool stuff is expensive.

    CG
  • NumismanicNumismanic Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭
    I spent a bit more than I had planned on, but I picked up some coins that I
    had on my want list for some time.
    Don

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    U.S. Dimes Complete Set with Major Varieties, Circulation Strikes

  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Not over budget but more than I expected. I'm going to be toning it down for a while.
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  • etexmikeetexmike Posts: 6,811 ✭✭✭
    Never gave much thought to a budget.

    If I found a coin that I wanted I tried to figure out a way to get it.

    Didn't always work but I like that system a lot better.

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    etexmike
  • ShoeshineBoyShoeshineBoy Posts: 51
    At the beginning of 2004 I set a budget for my type set collection and I managed to stay well within that budget. However, at the beginning of the year I had no plans to start my commemorative collection yet. But during the year I decided to get a head start on it by picking up a few pieces. After getting a Hudson (64), Hawaiian (64) and Spanish Trail (66), my overall coin budget took a pretty good hit. image




    << <i>There were a lot of years between ages 15 and 35 that I was completely out of coins. I am still not caught up to 2004! >>


    That's funny. I used the exact same justification!
  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    Last year and this year are not the years for me to spend money. I have tons of coins and the prices of coins I would purchase are overblown in my opinion. I've decided to take a break from expensive coins. I'll let everyone else pay those prices. There will be lots of coins in the future I will be interested in at more reasonable prices. It's not in me to overpay to own anything, least of all something for a hobby.
  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Budget?? What budget?? image

    The kids are well fed, the vehicles still run, the bills are paid, the mortage is small, the othodontist is being paid, savings plans made, vacations ... image

    ... when there's some left over ... and the right coin comes along at the right price ... I buy it.




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  • RGLRGL Posts: 3,784 ✭
    I actually spent less last year than I would have thought. Buying a new house, and accompanying distractions, helps ...
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  • bigbadchad777bigbadchad777 Posts: 1,835 ✭
    I spent more on coins than I made all year!
    Good credit!
  • earlycoinsearlycoins Posts: 282 ✭✭✭
    How does one budget passion?
  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    I don't have a budget, but I spent more than what I would have said if you asked me earlier in the year.
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,381 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sold more than I bought - 1st time ever for me.
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
  • RickMilauskasRickMilauskas Posts: 1,985 ✭✭✭
    Bought about 5 times as much as I expected. Sometimes coins just appear and your have to get 'em!

    Besides...I like RYK's philosophy - I didn't spend money on coins for many years so now I have a lot of catching up to do.image
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    Didn't really have a budget per se, but I spent more than I expected to.

    I'm finding myself feeling more priced out of the market over the last few months, though.
  • DD Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭
    I wish I would've spent more, I had a chance to buy three BU 1950D nickel rolls for 900$. I was ready to shoot myself after that, and after I missed out on a 150$ sale of BU '55 franks.

    Edit: Btw, I'm only 17, keep in mind my budget is a little lower and 900$ isn't cheap at 7$ an hour+lady commisions image.

    -Daniel
    "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

    -Aristotle

    Dum loquimur fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.

    -Horace
  • HedgerHedger Posts: 1,238
    Oh, definately.image
  • NickelbackNickelback Posts: 381
    "lady commissions" ?! I wish I had those as part of my salary when I was 17! BTW I spent a lot more than planned in 2004 on coins. Good luck D and welcome to the forum! image
  • raycycaraycyca Posts: 1,638 ✭✭✭
    YES, I DO have a budget. Broke it by about 300%!!! Didn't even buy that many coins for my Kennedy set! I think I only upgraded 5 coins all year. Bought several proof sets, started a type set and 3 silver eagle sets, proof in original holder, PR DCAM's, AND an MS 69 set for my wife. Her set is almost complete. Bought it piece by piece to try and get her interested in coins-has NOT worked-YET!!! Also bought a few raw coins. Have the same budget this year, my disability check from my retired military, that's all my wife allows me for now. Maybe I should take up smoking, then quit after a year. I could tell my wife I want the money that I would otherwise spend on smoking for coins. Think it will work? Ray
    You only live life once, enjoy it like it's your last day. It just MIGHT be!

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  • MurphyMurphy Posts: 903 ✭
    I've spent too much. I've had to physically restrain my payment hand by tieing it down by my waist. I can no longer reach my arm out to pay for anything. image
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  • bgricebgrice Posts: 1,180
    If I can find a good *percieved* bargain, budget is not an object. Thinking my glasses need a new prescription.image
  • SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭✭
    Does anyone have a coin budget!!!???
    Collecting since 1976.

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