How old are you? Poll on Coin Collectors

@Catbert said:
When the brackets have inconsistent amount of year spans, it distorts the visual representation of the graph.

Here is the CU Pole from last year https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/12352389#Comment_12352389

I'm from the 'Clad' era

@2ndCharter said:
I went to my first coin show in 1965 at the age of 15 and, quite understandably, I was the youngster there. The disconcerting thing is, I go to some shows today and I STILL feel like the youngster there when I look at the even older codgers around me. Anybody else get that feeling?

It’s always been an older man’s game. Youngsters don’t have the disposable income that the older guys do. I don’t get this feeling, at all, about being the youngest one. Last year I was at a show and I saw plenty of 20 and 30 somethings. Instead of pressing coins into boards from pocket change they are now trading on Instagram and social media.... They are there..... They are the coin codgers of tomorrow....Trust me.

@Dave99B said:
Where are all the 76+ year olds?

Dave

Napping...or in line for the early bird special at Golden Corral.

Sold a couple coins in BST a while back. Kid was 16yrs old, promptly paid 4 digits, and was a pleasure to deal with.

I'll be 65 in a few months and am still logging more than 12,000 steps a day, which includes two or three 35-minute runs per week. I'm 6'4" and 190-195 lbs., the same weight I was in high school. Never was an athlete, but I've been physically active my whole life, thanks mainly to personal choice and darn good genes passed down from both sides of the family.

Hire a kid to mow the lawn.

Get tired of paying a kid to mow the lawn and neighbors complaining about your dandelions, drill for oil...

According to the poll, us old geezers have the majority. Lol

I’m in the green. I remember when green meant go😂

@crazyhounddog said:
I’m in the green. I remember when green meant go😂

It ain't easy being green,,,,,,, anyone remember that commercial?

@sparky64 ....Not napping, not in line for early bird specials....I never nap and I do most of the cooking at home...never went to an early bird restaurant....I just keep on doing things, working at something I enjoy, active socially, lots of interests. Not all us old guys fit the stereotype.... Cheers, RickO

@RedstoneCoins said:

@Catbert said:
When the brackets have inconsistent amount of year spans, it distorts the visual representation of the graph.

I categorized the brackets based on generations, and typical periods in a man's life when he will acquire wealth (particularly, disposable wealth) to invest in a hobby.

Obviously any coin collector under 18 years old isn't going to have worked up the same net worth as a 60 year old man, unless he inherited it or won the lottery.

Someone 18-25 has only had, at best, a few years to save (while probably going to college and buying a first car, spending money on a needy girlfriend, etc.).

A 7 year span isn't "consistent" with 18 years, that is true. But there is a valid reason for contrasting those two age groups. They haven't had equal time to grow their wealth as independent people.

Someone 26-35 has had between 4 and 14 years years to grow their wealth, assuming they went to college and immediately obtained a job after graduating. Again, 10 years is not equal to 7 or 18 years. But for another valid reason. If you have already bought a house in age range 26-35, then your finances tend to stabilize (as compared to renting, which produces no equity), and savings and disposable income can increase among the financially savvy. Or decrease among the debt-saddled.

I could have broken down the remaining age brackets into 36-50, 51-65, and 66-80, each equally a 15-year span, but the reason I separated it the way I did in the poll is because a 46 year old is most likely going to have already let their grown kids out of the house, or be almost there (increasing their disposable income); and a 60 year is most likely to have savings.

"Equal spans of time" was not my goal. I wanted to segment the groups by partitions into statistically differentiable income/disposable income groups.

Fair enough, I appreciate your thinking. Your beginning post asked about age and didn't reference disposable income as a factor in the bracketing. Thus my reaction about the visual representation of age brackets being inconsistent.

I am 46, and do my best to live a healthy, happy, and an honest life,...with that in mind; make friends, and collect what you like; but, also be sure you "appoint" someone to carry that torch for you, with a mindset that it's just a hobby, a release, and we are all having fun in this journey to the next one, temporarily, yet, a necessary distraction to the next place...

To that end of the trail....

55, and still obsessed with Led Zeppelin...
AND HER...

59 years older than when I started collecting.

59 years older than when I started collecting.

Gotcha beat (barely) - my Grandfather gave me a Blue Book for Christmas in 1957 (still have it) and I visited a coin shop in Poughkeepsie, NY in 1960. I paid 10 cents for a 1955-S cent to complete that Whitman folder (still have that, too).

@johnny9434 said:
60 last month and I am grateful to be here. Fwiw

@GiveMeProof said:
There were two choices for 60 years old... I went with the low range.

I'm one of those special ages that appears in two brackets as well. Guess if you're 60, you are given a choice and fall into the largest range of the group..29 years...I went with the high range before I looked closer but would have gone with the lower range like @GiveMeProof .

We should have another poll. How Old Do You Feel?

@GRANDAM said:

@privatecoin said:
I am younger than my body is telling me....

So, are you saying that you "Ain"t as good as you once was"

In the perspective of "physical" age that is correct.

Im in the 60+ category. I paid 17 years of college tuition (4 sons) . Promise was 4 years to each son, nobody has a college loan but I couldn't afford to collect anything. Now I want everything I see.