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What percentage of your daily life is devoted to COINS

TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,444 ✭✭✭✭✭
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For me, it's probably more than I should but less than I could.


Work 40%
Family 30%
Friends and Functions 8%
Travel 2%
Helping others 15%
Coins 5%

Okay that is an example... But really, in a 24 hour period, how much time is spent on COINS ?


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  • ASUtoddASUtodd Posts: 1,312 ✭✭
    Well I get to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day, when I'm not out chasing people, so I can log about 8 hours on ebay and the forums!!! Just kidding, its only 7 hours.... I do take a lunch break!!!
    Todd
    www.GoASU.com
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,446 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>For me, it's probably more than I should but less than I could.


    Work 40%
    Family 30%
    Friends and Functions 8%
    Travel 2%
    Helping others 15%
    Coins 5%

    Okay that is an example... But really, in a 24 hour period, how much time is spent on COINS ? >>



    Guess you don't get much sleep. image




    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • JulianJulian Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭
    As this has been my full time profession forever, I am spending at least 10hrs/day in numismatics.
    PNG member, numismatic dealer since 1965. Operates a retail store, also has exhibited at over 1000 shows.
    I firmly believe in numismatics as the world's greatest hobby, but recognize that this is a luxury and without collectors, we can all spend/melt our collections/inventories.

    eBaystore
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,719 ✭✭✭✭✭
    For me,
    Work and coins 40%
    Family and coins 30%
    Friends, Functions and coins 8%
    Travel and coins 2%
    Helping others and coins 15%
    Coins and currency 5%

    Hmmm, maybe I need a hobby!
  • ChuckCChuckC Posts: 1,600
    It's equal to the percentage that I spend at work image
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    With multi-tasking it's around 175% or so.

    My life always seems a puddle of wax with wick floating in it.

    Coins don't leave enough time for my other obsessions smoetimes.
    Tempus fugit.
  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    At least 1 hour a day sometimes 2-3 hours. There is just too much to learn and too many auction sites to review. image
  • Newcomp103Newcomp103 Posts: 2,223 ✭
    33.75% image
  • RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,515 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>As this has been my full time profession for a while, I am spending at least 10hrs/day in numismatics. >>



    And, in the words of the famous philosopher Maxwell Smart, "And loving it". image

    An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.

  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

    is that a trick question?
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington
  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    One third, much to my wife's dismay.image
    image
  • poorguypoorguy Posts: 4,317 ✭
    At work: 100% Web application development, photography, articles, ect. are all coin related.
    At home: 50% I spend half the time with my family, and the other half on the phone or responding to emails/offers/eBay/ect.

    So, essentially 75% of my time.
    Brandon Kelley - ANA - 972.746.9193 - http://www.bestofyesterdaycollectibles.com
  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess your question includes being on these boards?
    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,548 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Coins are not my profession...but it feels like they might as well be. I spend probably 3-4 hours per day looking at coins, reading about coins, discussing coins, etc. etc.

    I need to get a life! image
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    5 Hrs Coins and Forum ........... 20%

    21/2 hours Financial matters . 10%
    Bills
    2/12 Hrs Eating, ......................10%
    dressing, ect
    5 Hrs.....Errands........................20%
    Medical appointments

    5 Hrs.....Sleep, naps..................20%

    5 Hrs...Family time
    Listening to Mrs Bear......20%
    Talking to the cubs..

    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Coins are a second job for me.
    coinimaging.com/my photography articles Check out the new macro lens testing section
  • jimmymacjimmymac Posts: 505 ✭
    lately it seems to be a lot - spend about 30min-hr on this forum daily gleaning information etc - feel that Im just starting to learn about collecting and investing in coins and like a sponge want to soak it all up - now trying to decide what coins I want to send to TPG's for grading - always a problem for a newbie - dont know what coins will grade and what coins might be rejected - but Im learning, thanks for all of you on this forumimage
    currently putting together a EF/AU/BU 18th & 19th Century Type Set; and CC Morgan Set

    just completed 3d tour to Iraq and retired after 28+ years in the US Army
  • ArizonaJackArizonaJack Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭
    Day Job: Machine shop foreman 30%, superspicy.com owner 10% , wife 20%, coins 10%

    must sleep to yanno
    " YOU SUCK " Awarded 5/18/08
  • moonshinemoonshine Posts: 1,039 ✭✭
    Seems Bears have 25-hr. days, while us humanoids only get 24.

    My percentage would be about 10-30% coins depending upon what is going on ATM.

  • dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭
    Too much!image
    image...There's always time for coin collecting. image
  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    is this a trick question??image
  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
    Got to be 80% these days. (Perhaps 82% if you include this post).
    Coin Rarities Online
  • percybpercyb Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭✭
    3%
    "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." PBShelley
  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    Seems Bears have 25-hr. days, while us humanoids only get 24.

    That's because bears hibernate during the wintertime, and they have to make up for it later.
  • giardinopgiardinop Posts: 50
    8.7%
    Margin of Error +/- 2.1%
  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    At least an hour a day. Much more than that on weekends. Sometimes I'll spend 12+ hours on a Saturday or Sunday.
  • LonerAngerLonerAnger Posts: 152
    Including searching gutters for loose change?
  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,474 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Much the same as Julian. 8-10 hours per day, six of seven days per week, plus 8 hours one Sunday per month(local show). Such a life.image

    "Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
    http://www.americanlegacycoins.com

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