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When I retire, NO MORE HOBBIES!!!!!!!

ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I just realized that my life is consumed by hobbies. I make money in two hobbies and break even in a third and perhaps a forth.







Hobbies include but not limited to Photography, Coin Collecting, Kayak Fishing, Bonsai, and now the money pit Hobby ....







RC trucks ... Third vehicle in 3 weeks and this one is over $500







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  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You are a sick, sick man...seek help immediately. If you spend enough on coins, it will save you from the others. image
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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: shorecoll
    You are a sick, sick man...seek help immediately. If you spend enough on coins, it will save you from the others. image



    I am actually trying to sell another coin to buy another one of these as racing my kid is super fun.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,482 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The difference between men and boys is the price of our toys, boys. image
  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: TwoSides2aCoin
    The difference between men and boys is the price of our toys, boys. image


    I know people with way way more expensive toys.







    It all about How and HOW Often you use the toys you have .....

    I have way more fun than my rich friends ......
  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,628 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It is soooooooooo addictive and all-consuming.



    Sometimes, you really need to step back and/or take a break.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Walkerfan
    It is soooooooooo addictive and all-consuming.

    Sometimes, you really need to step back and/or take a break.


    The thing that gets me, is that I do not have enough time for my hobbies ...... ????????

  • RollermanRollerman Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You will have more time for your hobbies and as a " professional hobbiest" as my wife calls me, I'm never bored. I'd say keep your interests up, you'll live longer and enjoy life more!

    Pete
    "Ain't None of Them play like him (Bix Beiderbecke) Yet."
    Louis Armstrong
  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,628 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: ErrorsOnCoins

    Originally posted by: Walkerfan

    It is soooooooooo addictive and all-consuming.



    Sometimes, you really need to step back and/or take a break.




    The thing that gets me, is that I do not have enough time for my hobbies ...... ????????







    My life is very full but I am still on the computer for several hours a day browsing coins and posting on the boards. I need help!

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There's nothing wrong with having multiple hobbies... Enjoy! image

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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,481 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Send me your bonsai plants. Every time I buy one for my better half, I manage to kill it after a couple of years, LOL.
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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    RC 4x4 Truck timeline ....











    8 year old son gets a entry level "Hobby Grade" RC 4x4 with all replaceable / upgradable parts for Christmas.











    The day after Christmas, son drives car, dad (me) drives car and instantly goes out and buys another one. Within a week both steering servos go out and get replaced under warranty, but realize we will have to get a metal gear box instead of plastic.











    Buy bigger longer lasting NiMh batteries











    Drive off cliff and break a replaceable front arm.











    Break a shock and fix it.











    Buy quick charger and super powerful Lipo Battieries.











    Lipo Batteries make the trucks super fast, wow.













    Lipo Batteries burnt out both motors on first use.













    Decided to buy better brushless motors even tho the other motors were under warranty











    Brushless motors are super fast, so fast the trucks are kinda unstable.











    Today buy top of the line $500 rc truck off eBay cause eBay has 8x bucks today





  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hobbies can be expensive.... between coins and firearms and metal detectors and a couple

    of others, it sure can eat up discretionary income...Cheers, RickO
  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,481 ✭✭✭✭✭
    8x eBay Bucks???? image
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  • unclebobunclebob Posts: 433 ✭✭✭
    Photography, metal detecting, coins, BONSAI!!!!, back to photography, metal detecting, and coins again.



    I'm building a small darkroom in my house with hopes to sell prints in the future. Bonsai is so cool. I wish I had started with them twenty five years ago.
  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wish I had started with them twenty five years ago.


    I started about 30 years ago with 20 year old plants .....

    You can get really old and nice bonsai material from nurseries, your yard, or look for landscaping where they are ripping out plants and ask if you can have a few .....

    As to keeping them alive, I choose to keep the vast majority of my plants in wooden training boxes on a watering system. Not ideal, but my plants do not dry completely out which is the major factor in bonsai death ....
  • FlatwoodsFlatwoods Posts: 4,245 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am surprised at all the bonsai hobbyists here.

    I have way too many pots in various stages around the yard.
  • mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭
    A great place to get into the hobby or pick up good bonsai at reasonable prices is through a local club. Most have an annual auction where members donate material....trees, pots, tools, books etc and the proceeds go to maintain the club's activities throughout the year.
    Stay away from holiday mall dealers who usually only sell junk "small plants".
    Never try to maintain them indoors...they are trees...they need to live outside!
    Bonsai is a great hobby!
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,482 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: ErrorsOnCoins
    Originally posted by: TwoSides2aCoin
    The difference between men and boys is the price of our toys, boys. image


    I know people with way way more expensive toys.







    It all about How and HOW Often you use the toys you have .....

    I have way more fun with my rich friend's heads than they do with my tails ……

    It's all good, in the scheme of life and at the heart of the matter. Love spreads easier than wealth.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    Back in 1986. my wife asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I responded with a "Red Corvette".



    Sure enough, on Christmas Day I got a Red Corvette complete with AA Batteries to get it going. This was a very simple car which to make it turn, you backed it up.



    Shortly after that, came a Tamiya Hornet and then a Big Foot and a host of other toys culminating in a Gas Powered car. I couldn't keep up with technology and this activity was literally sucking money out of my wallet.



    Before that it was RC Airplanes. The biggest difference between the two is that with an RC Car, if you make a mistake, the car usually is recovered for the next days activities. Not so much with the planes where a mistake costs you the plane.



    But, whatever. Having fun is what its all about and while RC Cars, Trucks and Planes can cost a lot of money, finding coins can MAKE you money.
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nah.



    I'm guessing that when you retire you'll just switch to error trucks and remote control coins.



    You can come full circle as it were.
    Tempus fugit.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,482 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This hobby is retirement, in essence.
  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    Personally I'm digging on these ho scale rockets

    image

    Coin's for sale/trade.


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  • guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,289 ✭✭✭
    My local B&M coin dealer's wife got him a larger RC helicopter for Christmas a few years back. The length of the copter was about 3' long and had a small video camera on it. BIG mistake on her part. He's the kind of person that goes ALL OUT on something new and has to get more of everything. Well, he hooked up with a middleman in China and within 6 months of getting that 1 helicopter for Christmas there was half a shipping container headed this way with RC helicopters, planes, and a few cars. He ditched the helicopters for planes and, while he did sell a good many of them in his B&M storefront, he crashed most all of his profit in his yard.



    Next time you think you have an expensive hobby, try buying quality woodworking machines.
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  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I hope to find MORE time for my hobbies in retirement.

    Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
    "Coin collecting for outcasts..."

  • pennyanniepennyannie Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭
    I am working my way to retirement now, just bought a house and 400 acres in Oklahoma. Going to put my house on the market anyday now. I got an offer to buy the bulk of my rent properties a few weeks back. I got close to signing on the dotted line when I walked away. It was going to be x down and x for 15 years at 5 percent intrest. My monthly play money was going to take a 5k hit and I decided I need to keep them all for a few more years. Being 100 percent debt free still takes quite a bit of $$ to keep the incendentals paid. I decided to tuff it out another 3 years and look again with I am 55
    Mark
    NGC registry V-Nickel proof #6!!!!
    working on proof shield nickels # 8 with a bullet!!!!

    RIP "BEAR"
  • TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭
    Do you catch kayaks with a regular fishing pole?
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.
  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: TigersFan2
    Do you catch kayaks with a regular fishing pole?


    Yes, many times, but today I caught a boat (anchor line).

    My friend however caught a 45 pound yellowtail today and another friend a 70 pound thresher shark. I went home with Thresher Sharks steaks for dinner .....

  • pennyanniepennyannie Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: TigersFan2
    Do you catch kayaks with a regular fishing pole?


    Lol

    I needed a fishing pole like that one as I launched my pontoon boat in reverse without any on the boat once.. Forgot to tie the rope to the trailer when the water was super low and the boat went without anyone.

    What brand was that fishing pole?
    Mark
    NGC registry V-Nickel proof #6!!!!
    working on proof shield nickels # 8 with a bullet!!!!

    RIP "BEAR"
  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What day is it, what hobby am I on ....... super tired ...........

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