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

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.).
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.).
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Maybe I need to stay in a Holiday Inn Express and then come back to this thread.
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.
<< <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.
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
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.
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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.
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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)
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
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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.
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
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.
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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.
She would just cost me more money that I could have spent on coins!
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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
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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...
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~Wayne
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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.
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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."
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<< <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.
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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.
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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
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New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
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
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
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"Why are you buying that again?"
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?
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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.
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I keep getting emails from bankers in Nigeria with essentially the same problem.
I knew it would happen.