Have the Times Driven You To Sell?
ChuckC
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I just read a headline on Yahoo News : "Americans unload prized belongings to make ends meet" which was spurred by rising gas prices, food, and prescription drugs among other problems caused by today's economy.
Have any of you been faced with a similar situation lately? (i.e. who here has sold their coins just to buy gas?)
Have any of you been faced with a similar situation lately? (i.e. who here has sold their coins just to buy gas?)
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For me it was worth it.
As for the tough times now, no not yet. But I would consider getting rid of some items rather than run up credit card debt. Some of my collection is made up of inexpensive coins anyway, so I'd just focus more on those until the economy gets better.
You could always start a circ Lincoln collection!
that will buy her a gallon and a half of gas.....
If I sell, it won't be because I need to in order to make ends meet.
No matter what the media say, as much as many of us hate higher prices, the sky isn't falling for most people, and I'm sick of their doomsday talk which makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Today these economic times are motivating me to make good on that plan, but so far I am not having to sell anything that I don't want to or hadn't planned to.
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<< <i>I just read a headline on Yahoo News : "Americans unload prized belongings to make ends meet" which was spurred by rising gas prices, food, and prescription drugs among other problems caused by today's economy.
Have any of you been faced with a similar situation lately? (i.e. who here has sold their coins just to buy gas?) >>
I'm going to be mean.
The short answer is no.
The long answer is that it's really none of your business how anybody else in the forum is doing financially.
These "times" the last year has been the best buying binge I have ever had. I bought six of my best numbers in the last 16 months....at "woe-is-them" prices.
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....at "woe-is-them" prices.
Sounds like Moses!
Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
US Rare Coin Investments
800-624-1870
<< <i>I fired my landscapers and bought a few goats... with milk at $4.50 a gallon they serve a dual purpose!
Hmmm.
Is there a leash law for goats?
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....at "woe-is-them" prices.
Sounds like Moses!
M-M-M-Moses was a st-st-st-st-stutterer.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
it'd help
edit to add:
I buy for fun, dictated by my budget and for the love of collecting.
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These "times" the last year has been the best buying binge I have ever had. I bought six of my best numbers in the last 16 months....at "woe-is-them" prices.
And how many coins did you sell?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Tim
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....at "woe-is-them" prices.
Sounds like Moses!
M-M-M-Moses was a st-st-st-st-stutterer.
Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
US Rare Coin Investments
800-624-1870
The people that buy the gas-guzzlers are the ones in pain!
NO DEBT
The only economy you need to worry about is your own
micro-economy
This is my economy car
Jim
Menomonee Falls Wisconsin USA
http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistr...dset.aspx?s=68269&ac=1">Musky 1861 Mint Set
<< <i>I fired my landscapers and bought a few goats... with milk at $4.50 a gallon they serve a dual purpose!
Git rid of yer mistress and your goats can serve a third purpose and you can save even more money.
Ray
<< <i>Another stupid off topic thread. I love the doom and gloom crowd. One could only hope they doom and gloom themselves into the grave. >>
How's this off topic?
<< <i>No matter what the media say, as much as many of us hate higher prices, the sky isn't falling for most people, and I'm sick of their doomsday talk which makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy. >>
BINGO!
Russ, NCNE
<< <i>the Times Driven You To Sell? >>
No doubt the New York Times is a fount of liberal propaganda but so far I've resisted the urge to sell coins.
Who is John Galt?
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<< <i>I fired my landscapers and bought a few goats... with milk at $4.50 a gallon they serve a dual purpose!
Git rid of yer mistress and your goats can serve a third purpose and you can save even more money.
Ray >>
You are sick and depraved, Ray. Actually, I had the same thought.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
I cannot afford what I have bought recently and am selling older stuff out of my focus to cover it. If times were good I could keep everything.
<< <i>Git rid of yer mistress and your goats can serve a third purpose and you can save even more money. >>
OMG
That's aginst the law aint it.....
Don't forget to put boots on her so she can't run off......
Since I always spend as much as I can, yes, the extra $1000 a year in gas expenses will eat into my collection/inventory. Whether I sell an extra thousand in coins or buy a thousand less is moot.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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<< <i>I fired my landscapers and bought a few goats... with milk at $4.50 a gallon they serve a dual purpose!
Git rid of yer mistress and your goats can serve a third purpose and you can save even more money.
Ray >>
Not sure if this forum would be big enough for another member that's so close to his farm animal?
Gold sovereign's, or maple leafs. Just like in the old days, they are small, and easy to hide.
Tax free.
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It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing.
Our virtues, and our failings are inseparable, like force, and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
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Nope. Had a sale a couple of weeks ago only to make room in the safe. Didn't work, so now I have to have another sale. Must be because I buying more than I'm selling......Oh well.......Rick
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<< <i>I don't like banks, if i want cash its as easy as selling a coin.
Gold sovereign's, or maple leafs. Just like in the old days, they are small, and easy to hide.
Tax free. >>
Completely irrelevant and unrelated information for folks:
All data going through the internet is scanned by the Ewe Ess gub m!nt. Much is recorded.
(U.S. Government...who am I kidding, thinking I can hide this information from prying eyes)
Not sellin' anything yet brothers. I got the rent paid thru next week so I guess I can slide for a while longer.
I guess I'm with Classof67, no real skills but having a grand old time. It's almost always better to be lucky than good.
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What tough times?
My biggest problem is getting the 401k/ profit sharing program online for 2008 so I don't suffer the bloodbath of 2007 with the Eternal, er, Internal Revenue Service again.
I do expect this kind of negative talk from the Liberal media in an election year, where they want their "new ideas" (tax the rich) to get them into office.
Class envy works, too.
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No, but the wife might
<< <i>Not even close.
If I sell, it won't be because I need to in order to make ends meet.
No matter what the media say, as much as many of us hate higher prices, the sky isn't falling for most people, and I'm sick of their doomsday talk which makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy. >>
Well said !!!!
It's "Lincoln time"! It's time I let go of some of them. It's a time when a lot of folks want them. And the concurrence of those times has driven me to sell some of them.
Good times!
If I sell, it won't be because I need to in order to make ends meet.
No matter what the media say, as much as many of us hate higher prices, the sky isn't falling for most people, and I'm sick of their doomsday talk which makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy. >>
I did milk a goat for the first time this past weekend. I tried to get my 3 year old to do it, but she wanted daddy to do it instead. I even got a ribbon saying "I milked a dairy goat" I know it's sad but I was excited and it now hangs on my fridge.