Who here, would take the time to search through thousands upon thousands of WHEATIES lookin' for tha

razorface1027 · July 23, 2004 12:41AM

Curiousity's killin' me. In fact, I'm doing it right now.

ziggy29 · July 23, 2004 12:42AM

If I had nothing else to do, I'd do it. It would probably take me a long time to get through them all, though; I don't think I have the desire to do it all at one time!

Geod · July 23, 2004 12:46AM

I do it all the time. I get $20 - $25 from my bank 1-2 times per week.

I look thru them while watching TV. I find it very relaxing.

Geod

poorguy · July 23, 2004 12:49AM

I cherrypicked through 26 rolls of wheaties I got from my grandfather's collection and quickly sorted out the teens, keys, and BU coins. Then I looked through the sorted piles one by one when I got the chance. Break it down into smaller hoards of semi-organized sets and do them in parts.

topstuf · July 23, 2004 12:50AM

Welllll, back in the 50's my buddy and I would go to an old Italian market and get pennies to search for our Whitman boards. The grocery store got sick of us. Justifiably. They told us "no more."
I told my ....MOM.. lil tattletail me.
She bought our groceries there.
She talked to them.
They told us it was OK to do again.

The BRAT pack.

100proof1957 · July 23, 2004 12:51AM

i just found 18 rolls in the safe,whats that 900 ?
thought i might just go get a couple albums and start pluggin em in untill i run out !

XpipedreamR · July 23, 2004 1:01AM

I'd probably do it. A little bit here, a little bit there...

fishcooker · July 23, 2004 1:05AM

Ummmm.... No. I'd stock milk at Kroger before I'd try to profit at that.

zzzz · July 23, 2004 1:17AM

That's what you have Kids, nieces, nephews and grandkids for ...

LincolnCentMan · July 23, 2004 1:35AM

I did about ten years ago. I kept buying bags of them from a local dealer. I had a roll set from 1934-1958, all circs of coarse. Here's a past of my old excel sheet showing what I had... I had to buy the pre-30's seperate from the bags. I gave some thought to collecting a roll set... but those SVDB's would have hurt!

1909 50
1909 VDB 40
1910 50
1911 50
1911-D 12
1912 50
1912-D 17
1913 50
1913-D 31
1914 50
1915 50
1915-D 50
1916 50
1916-D 50
1916-S 43
1917 50
1917-D 50
1917-S 50
1918 50
1918-D 50
1918-S 50
1919 50
1919-D 50
1919-S 50
1920 50
1920-D 50
1920-S 50
1921 50
1921-S 50
1923 50
1923-S 42
1924 36
1924-S 50
1925 50
1925-D 50
1925-S 50
1926 50
1926-D 50
1927 50
1927-D 50
1927-S 50
1928 50
1928-D 34
1928-S 50
1929 50
1929-D 50
1929-S 50
1930 50
1930-D 50
1930-S 50
1931 50
1931-D 12
1932 36
1932-D 50
1933 50
1933-D 22
1934 50
1934-D 50
1935 50
1935-D 50
1935-S 50
1936 50
1936-D 50
1936-S 50
1937 50
1937-D 50
1937-S 50
1938 50
1938-D 50
1938-S 50
1939 50
1939-D 50
1939-S 50
1940 50
1940-D 50
1940-S 50
1941 50
1941-D 50
1941-S 50
1942 50
1942-D 50
1942-S 50
1944 50
1944-D 50
1944-S 50
1945 50
1945-D 50
1945-S 50
1946 50
1946-D 50
1946-S 50
1947 50
1947-D 50
1947-S 50
1948 50
1948-D 50
1948-S 50
1949 50
1949-D 50
1949-S 50
1950 50
1950-D 50
1950-S 50
1951 50
1951-D 50
1951-S 50
1952 50
1952-D 50
1952-S 50
1953 50
1953-D 50
1954 50
1954-D 50
1954-S 50
1955 50
1955-D 50
1955-S 50
1956 50
1956-D 50
1957 50
1957-D 50
1958 50
1958-D 50
Total: 5925

RedneckHB · July 23, 2004 1:38AM

I do it all the time. Better than watching reruns on tv.

mgoodm3 · July 23, 2004 1:39AM

I'd rather go buy it for $0.50

BowTieCoins · July 23, 2004 1:52AM

Guilty, do it all the time!

Katrina

granddad · July 23, 2004 1:56AM

I do it while I supervise the grandkids(ages 3,5) in the pool. Pick out the keys,semi-keys and uncs and sell the rest. Local dealer pays 4c if not sorted. Sorted he pays 10 c for teens, 7c for 20s, 5c for 30s and 3.2c for the rest. About 3 weeks ago found a 55 double-die.

Do it to relax and kill time while the wee-ones swim.

Louis

BigD5 · July 23, 2004 2:43AM

Not me. I've had two seperate "bags" (old cloth bags) full of wheaties that have come with different collections I've been fortunate enough to be able to go through, and both times, after 700+ coins or so, you start to lose it, or at least, I start to lose it.

I gave up, and sold the bags as I received them.

When my kids get a bit older, I'll have THEM go through the wheaties looking for all the "treasure".

Who here, would take the time to search through thousands upon thousands of WHEATIES lookin' for tha

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