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How do you take a vacation from coins ?

STEWARTBLAYNUMISSTEWARTBLAYNUMIS Posts: 2,697 ✭✭✭✭
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Do you go away where there is no computer?

How long can you "stay away"

Are coins and the set Registry really addicting ? How do you experience withdrawls ?

Just think of how many years you can add to your life by relieving the stress and tensions of not getting your desired PCGS grades.

Stewart

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  • jacktheknifejacktheknife Posts: 1,547 ✭


    Stewart,

    I'm trying to wean myself from spending so much time thinking about coins, looking at coins, looking at auction lots on the web, participating on the forum, talking to people about coins, emailing people about coins....well, you get the idea. Next year, I'll let you know how it goes and how I did it.

    Jack
  • DAMDAM Posts: 2,410 ✭✭
    I've got a lake cottage in Ontario. As a matter of fact soon I'll be making my first trip up for a long weekend next. No computer, no TV and hopefully not too many bugs, a little early for them. This will be the first of 5 weeks or so of getaway fun this summer. It allows me to get away from everything, including coins. By the end of the summer it usually takes me a few weeks to get back into "coin mode" again.

    As for being addicted... to me it's just a hobby. I enjoy it very much but could live without it, and probably will some day when I'm a little older and retire. I'll probable sell some or most of the collection and spend more time at the cottage and traveling other places. On the other hand, by then I may decide I want a computer at the cottage to keep up with coins, stocks, friends and the news. image


    Dan
  • manscomansco Posts: 229 ✭
    It's easy. I did it. First, sell all you coins. Then, decide you are only going to collect coins that are more than you can afford.
  • scherscher Posts: 924 ✭
    Very addicting and cannot stay away....always on the search to better the series you want to be tops in..the registry just fuels the fever to be tops..
    Bruce Scher
  • RBinTexRBinTex Posts: 4,328 ✭
    During Spring Break this year I was doing the "online coin thing" from Bora Bora! image

    Last week in Greece I decided to give it a rest this time. Had a better trip not tied to a stupid computer image

    The short answer - Just Say No image
  • clackamasclackamas Posts: 5,615 ✭
    I am also very active in conservation so I spend time working on that as well and I like to fish and hunt so my weekend are often consumed by the wild lands of Oregon.
  • jacktheknifejacktheknife Posts: 1,547 ✭



    I am also very active in conservation

    Brian,

    "Conservation" of coins? I guess that's coin doctoring.image Well, that is if you aren't NCSimage

    Jack
  • LincolnCentManLincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭
    How do you take a vacation from coins ?

    Read too many negative posts and watch too many collectors who bicker over petty things. It's enough to make most think about taking a break every now and then. There's a lot of politics in coins, on th boards and on the boarst.

    David
    Lincolncentman Toned Lincolns
  • TahoeDaleTahoeDale Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭
    Unless you engage in upgrades and crosses all the time, coin collecting probably produces less stress and more challenge than any full time occupation.

    About 3 years ago, I decided that the practice of civil trial law had the stresses I didn't need and all the challenges had been met. So with coins in hand, I left Texas and moved to Lake Tahoe.

    I never want to take a break.

    For those still laboring in the World of Work, relax. And don't think that every high end coin deserves the next grade, or that a number on the registry means more than a good score at golf or backgammon.
    TahoeDale
  • COINDOGCOINDOG Posts: 402
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    Is it possible that there is such a thing as a vacation from coins ???
  • clackamasclackamas Posts: 5,615 ✭


    << <i>I am also very active in conservation

    Brian,

    "Conservation" of coins? I guess that's coin doctoring.image Well, that is if you aren't NCSimage

    Jack >>



    LOL! I should have said "land conservation". Roadless and wilderness mostly. I serve on two boards of conservation groups. One is a "radical enviro group" (really if they are radical I have no idea what mainstream is), and another "hook and bullet" conservation group.
  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The most compelling vacation is to get married and have kids. That takes up most of the coin energies and all of the coin money for 20 years or so. After that, the vacation's over!

    Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...



  • coynclectercoynclecter Posts: 2,111
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  • coynclectercoynclecter Posts: 2,111
    You get a big safe deposit box at least 40 miles from home , put them all....ALL ..........in there and forget about them for a couple of years.

    Put all numismatic literature in a box and into the attic/garage.

    At todays prices you don't want to be accumulating much anyway.
  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    Just got back from the Biltmore Estates and a wedding in Winston-Salem, wasn't even tempted to haul the laptop and look at coins. In fact haven't purchased anything in months. These prices are ridiculous, I expect there are going to be a lot of folks who will look back at the first 6 months of this year and wonder what they were thinking paying these prices. In some areas it looks like a suckers market to me.
  • JusthavingfunJusthavingfun Posts: 835 ✭
    "How do you take a vacation from coins?"

    Why would you want to?

    Just Having Fun
    Jefferson nickels, Standing Libs, and US-Philippines rock
  • segojasegoja Posts: 6,136 ✭✭✭✭
    If you are really hooked, you can't take a vacation.

    It's always in you. You may have other priorities, but they come and go.
    JMSCoins Website Link


    Ike Specialist

    Finest Toned Ike I've Ever Seen, been looking since 1986

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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,125 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Even when I go on my hunting trip the Converse County library in Douglas, Wyoming has free internet access.
    theknowitalltroll;
  • CocoinutCocoinut Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've taken a vacation from coins for several months, due to buying a new house, exploring the area that I now live in, working longer hours, and a bit of a health scare. They all help to put things in perspective. I still enjoy the coins I already have, and long for many that I don't have, but when you're preoccupied with more important things in life, coins take a back seat. My interest hasn't waned, but I've found myself with little time to surf the web looking for coins to add to my collection, or to read and respond to this message board. However, I've been a collector since the age of 6, and expect to be one for the rest of my life.

    Jim
    Countdown to completion of my Mercury Set: 1 coin. My growing Lincoln Set: Finally completed!
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,408 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Uh.....why would I want to??
    "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.
  • OldnewbieOldnewbie Posts: 1,425 ✭✭
    Motorcycle rides with the wife and my buddies that don't have a clue about coins. I've got a few planed this year.



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