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You ever buy something and then........

goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
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dig through your stuff and find stuff to sell to pay for it!!? LOL

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  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭


    << <i>dig through your stuff and find stuff to sell to pay for it!!? LOL >>



    Not exactly. I found a better system is to dig through someone else's stuff and find stuff to sell. You can save a lot of money that way. It would work better if my wife had better stuff to sell...



    ...and if she wouldn't notice so quickly that it's missing. image

    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.

  • cherrypickincoincherrypickincoin Posts: 1,760 ✭✭
    It is very difficult for me to sell anything. I have a guilty complex about it all but if I have to, I do.
  • tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    Yes, but I try to sell stuff first to get the money first, but it does not always work that way.

    Tom
    Tom

  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    excellent point Kranky!
    Let me go see what the wife has laying around while she's watching 3rd Watch!image I only need 179.00
  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    OK Goose,
    Whaadya do?
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  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    nothing. I was going to bid on something on ebay but it got nuts in the last 2 minutes. no garage sales here tomorrowimage
  • wingedlibertywingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
    No, but then again I am anal-retentive and have a fixed monthly coin budget that I don't deviate from, which is a fixed percentage of my monthly income, so I pay the bills, put into savings, food, clothing, gas, and then the rest is coins. It works suprisingly good. Over 3000 PCGS and NGC certified slabs so far.
    People will tell you that I only buy 4 of 5 coins a month. , but I make sure they are the best coins I can afford. Eye appeal is king and a budget is a must. It works for me, may not work for everyone, but then again, I did mention that I was an anal-retentive numismatic freak.
  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    i am a Neat Freak.
  • jbstevenjbsteven Posts: 6,178 ✭
    i know alot of freaks image
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    A while back there was a PCGS graded MS67DCAM birthmark die 1967 SMS Kennedy listed on eBay and I got ready to lay in a snipe for moon money. If I'd have won it, I'd definitely have been digging through stuff to find something to sell! When I clicked the button eBay burped, though, and I got a scripting error. I guess it was just not meant to be.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • LincolnCentManLincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭
    I had just over $400 in the bank when I bought this. The longer I looked at the auction pic, the more I thought, "Man, I deserve that coin. There's got to be some stuff sitting around here that I can sell to get that coin." Finally, I decided I'd buy it and worry about paying for it later. ....it was a mad scramble to sell a LOT of stuff before the credit card bill came in.

    David
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    Lincolncentman Toned Lincolns
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,453 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sure have - found out it's alot easierto PAY top dollar than it is to GET top dollar......has made me more conservative.
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    I do the opposite. When I really want something, I sell items first and then buy it.
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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    Been there, done that.
    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    It's not that I don't have the $$ when I buy something so don't get me wrong. I just hate parting with money so I usually charge my purchase and pawn some old stuff off. That way (at least it seems) I can say "It didn't cost me anything honey"!!
  • stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It's not that I don't have the $$ when I buy something so don't get me wrong. I just hate parting with money >>



    Lets see what's the right (and nice) word for this? A bit thrifty are we?image
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  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>It's not that I don't have the $$ when I buy something so don't get me wrong. I just hate parting with money >>



    Lets see what's the right (and nice) word for this? A bit thrifty are we?image >>



    I believe you mean TIGHT!
  • fountainheadgoldfountainheadgold Posts: 2,467 ✭
    I always tell myself I will sell this coin and that coin to pay for new one, then I say well maybe not yet
    Michael
  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    All the time!!
  • 66Tbird66Tbird Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭
    Yep just happened to me, bought a MS trade $ and found the bank acc was going to be a little to close to zero. It was time for the BST board, and hour later I was happy. Thanks.

    It's on the way, BTW
    Need something designed and 3D printed?
  • billboatbillboat Posts: 2,260
    Just did!
    Curmudgeon in waiting!
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    No. I don't think I've ever actually sold anything except for a few bike parts. If I don't have the money for it, I don't buy it.
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