If you had to have every coin purchase approved by your significant other...

RYK

how much different would your coin collection be?

There is more to this question than meets the eye. I will post my response to this thread later tonight (assuming the thread has not been nuked, fallen off the front couple pages, etc.).

Broadstruck

I'd only have Cute Pandas

rgCoinGuy

I just can't get my mind wrapped around this question.

Maybe I need to stay in a Holiday Inn Express and then come back to this thread.

lordmarcovan

It's a valid question, I suppose. If we were talking about my ex, I would be fortunate to have a circulated Lincoln Memorial set, probably.

Ladymarcovan would probably let me have some decent stuff. Up into the higher two-figure pricetags, anyway. Three-figure-pricetag stuff might require some negotiation.

AU58WALKERS

What's a "significant other"?

mike92694

<< <i>how much different would your coin collection be?

There is more to this question than meets the eye. I will post my response to this thread later tonight (assuming the thread has not been nuked, fallen off the front couple pages, etc.). >>



My collection would consist only of Proof Turban Head Gold Eagles instead of circulated type coins. Seriously, I showed my wife the "Red Book" and she recommended that I save money to get the Proof Turban Head Gold Eagles.

ricko

The same as it is now... no interest in it.... I make the money, I spend the money. Cheers, RickO

coinkat

Coins are collected? Who knew?

adamlaneus

Besides the obvious answer...i'd have less coins because less approvals would come through...



Some coins appear and disappear on the marketplace so fast that any approval process means that you miss out on the purchasing opportunity.
I can think of a few coins in my collection that may not be there if I had waited a little bit. Some of these are the better ones that really grabbed me.

coinsarefun

It would look like this because he says that the best kind of coins are the ones
that you receive in change.






Stefanie

lordmarcovan

I haven't had to deal with the spousal approval issue during this marriage, because I get coin money by selling other coins.

Coins beget coins. Little or no money to support my habit has come out of the household coffers. There's household money, and coin money.

The two have been distinct from one another for years. Now that this is my "job", though, a certain amount of coin money (any meager profits I make, probably) is going to have to be siphoned off to contribute to the household expenses.

CharlotteDude

Bless my wife's lil' heart... she's actually very supportive of my collecting pursuits... a real gem!

'dude

MillerJW

It would go about $30 a month

Bochiman

<< <i>The same as it is now... no interest in it.... I make the money, I spend the money. Cheers, RickO >>



You go girl!
I'm with you on this one....RYK is a pansy and just trying to find other men who let their wives run their lives.



(mine would probably consist of just gold coins as she is a gold addict if anything)

MrHalfDime

That's one of the reasons I got rid of her.

RYK

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<< <i>The same as it is now... no interest in it.... I make the money, I spend the money. Cheers, RickO >>



You go girl!
I'm with you on this one....RYK is a pansy and just trying to find other men who let their wives run their lives.



(mine would probably consist of just gold coins as she is a gold addict if anything) >>



My complete answer is coming up later and will surprise you.

coinkat

this could be one of the most humorous threads in some time...

BECOKA

Probably about the same minus the 3 keys. A couple might be a grade or two lower but nothing major.

Currently she does not ask as long as the Credit Cards are paid off and there is enough to pay for her and the kids activities. Getting a little tougher as I seem to be also paying for my mother in law's activities so I will be trying to make extra funds in the near future hopefully coin related.

dwssws

I would get rid of the significant other! ( to those that know me I would get rid of the wife that I am trying to divorce and keep the "significant other" that you all have come to love as I do and she would approve all purchases

eCoinquest

Shes fine with it as long as I only use the profit from other coins I sold to buy more. It gives me an incentive to by the coins for profitability and not just because I like them. Then buy the ones I really want.

tjkillian

Here's some of the coins that my "significant other" read: wife, bought me.












So I would say that my collection would not be nearly as nice as it is today if it were not for my wife approving, and then buying me these coins. There are more, but I don't want to bother you with the other double eagles.

Quarternut

Significant other? Who has time or money for a significant other?

She would just cost me more money that I could have spent on coins!

QN

Hotfootspin

That is a fascinating question!

Frankly, I think that I would own fewer "dog" coins and more really nice ones.
This probably means more big-buck coins and fewer throwaways. My collection
is littered with hundreds of junk-box impulse buys that would probably never
gain approval. But with the money saved by not impulse buying, I'd be able
to finish the few really nice sets I've been working on.

The most expensive coin I have cost about 700, and only half a dozen of them
cost more than 300. So I don't really buy high-end stuff. But my wife has seen
those half dozen coins and really liked them.

It's not necessary that I gain her approval to buy anything I want to within
reason, but if I thought more like she does, I might have a nicer collection to
show for it today!

Thanks,
Mark

SLQ

My currency collection would grow big time.

anablep

I'd have more colorful Morgans than I do now.

She loves the rainbows and textile toners, but I go for target/rim toned ones.

So I guess I'd be collecting what she likes to look at...

IGWT

I'd own more Shield Nickels.

gecko109

<< <i>I'd only have Cute Pandas >>




Its a very valid question from the OP. I probably would not have any of the silver panda issues as my wife just rolls her eyes when she sees me drop $500 on a single ounce of silver.

ColonialCoinUnion

It would make absolutely no difference around here.

Coxe

Hmmm. You mean the hypothetical case where the "significant other" is actually renderd "significant"? A gedankenexperiment of sorts.


edited to add>>>
The basic definition, for those who don't know, added here as the humor behind its parallel is just too good. (From Wikipedia)

"A thought experiment (from the German Gedankenexperiment) is a proposal for an experiment that would test a hypothesis or theory but cannot actually be performed due to practical limitations; instead its purpose is to explore the potential consequences of the principle in question."

Swampboy

<< <i> If you had to have every coin purchase approved by your significant other... >>



Prolly my grandaughters would have a lot more American Girl Dolls.

SeaEagleCoins

no comment...

SanctionII

Why do people have only "significant others"?

Have you ever heard of anyone having an "insignificant other"? A college buddy and former roommate of mine had so many women clamoring for his attention and affection at the same time (he dated multiple women at the same time, while always looking for new ones).

I suppose you could say that any and all of these women were, in reality, "insignificant" because if any one of them dropped out of the picture there was always another one ready to drop into the picture. As long as at least one of them was in the picture, my buddy was happy and content.

Coxe

I like that term, SanctionII. Cool. I also like the term "Outlaws" to describe "Inlaws" after a divorce.

AUandAG

My wife likes that I collect coins and goes with me on purchases of collections and such. Our savings is used
for coins. She, for some reason, does not mind if I spend thousands on a collection but balks at $5,000 on
an individual coin. Lots of widgets makes all the difference. Up to say, $300, I can buy willy-nilly but over
that we talk about it. I put a bid in at $4,500 on a coin today and she approved because she knows the
value of that one coin (93-s morgan). Anything else we discuss and I educate and she generally goes right
along with it once she hears my reasoning! (I've got to have it hun, how's the upholstery in the car doing?).
Give some to get some sometimes!
bob

linerguy

I wouldn't even have pocket change,

coindeuce

Define "If".

kranky

Really, my collection would be no different. She hopes I am paying a fair price for good material, as do I, and never even asks what something cost.

sumnom

My wife mentioned that she wants to start buying me "nice" coins for my birthday. Wowwowwowwowwowwow!

pursuitofliberty

I like the question ... as it made me think of something.

BTW, I am not married, but was long ago, and I collected then too, although frankly we never had too
much extra money back then.

If I had to honestly justify every purchase with my partner, my collection would probably have a few less
coins (no impluse buys and less seconds) and would probably be of slightly greater quality (no good enoughs
... only solid to premium) pieces

RYK

I think that if I had to justify every purchase to an uninterested third party, I would make a lot fewer impulse purchases and have a much more tightly focused collection. MrsRYK also seems to have a good eye for what's nice and what's not so nice.

"Why are you buying that again?"

MORGANHUNTER2

my sig line once said it all

collecting Morgans is (was a passion) inevitable- and so is divorce.

I no longer collect Morgans, just other widgets.

and I'm prolly gonna sell them off so I can get back in her good graces.

anyone want proof silver and mint silver still in the cello?

percyb

My coins are my significant other!!

BAJJERFAN

So she would have to approve both the funding and the item purchased? Screw that. I collect what I like not what someone else likes. If it was strictly for investing or flipping for a profit when appropriate, thats one thing cept she doesn't know much if anything about it. If that was the case I'd likely not even be collecting and if I was I wouldn't care if I had a highly focused collection.

Longacre

My collection would be a lot more limited. If I had to get approval, I would be forced to disclose the location of the secret, black budget, off-balance sheet account that is used to fund the coin purchases. I am actually thinking of telling RYK the location of this account, out of fear that if I keel over, Mrs. L will never even know about it, and the mountains of cash would escheat to the state after a while.

TwoSides2aCoin

pennyannie

Approvals would be easy here with my wife. I would probably have more coins. If i buy a coin over 750 bucks i usually tell her in advance for 2 reasons. 1. to know what account to take the money from 2. Just to let her know what is going on. If we have the money we can go shopping.

My wife is what i call thrifty and frugal. She very rarely buys her self stuff. That at times keeps my coin collection in check. I always look for things to buy for her. I wanted to buy her a fur coat a few years back and after looking for a hour she decided she really did not want another one. ( saved 4k there) She has told me 2 times in the last year to buy a 1909 VDB mpl for my collection. She has even moved money around to pay for it and i can not pull the trigger. She is a keeper, her mother trained her well.

66RB

Never a problem, as long as I don't get too crazy. Since getting married, I've actually spent more money on nicer coins than in the past

jmski52

I am actually thinking of telling RYK the location of this account, out of fear that if I keel over, Mrs. L will never even know about it, and the mountains of cash would escheat to the state after a while.


I keep getting emails from bankers in Nigeria with essentially the same problem.