Is gas cutting into your coin buying?

Today Gas is up to $3.70 a gallon in Portland, Maine. I do quite a bit of driving. I'm retired, and on a fixed income. It's starting to cut into my money that I spend on my hobbies.

 

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I have done the same, cut way down on my hobby spending. I am also considering rolling up all my Statehood quarters plucked from circulation and using the amount to pay for bills. $310 are rolled already and just need more wrappers for the remainder.

 

I don't have a car!

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stainless

 

Nope - not a bit. Of course I am on hold a bit until I re-build the old reserves. Filling some cheap albums with my change to pass the time.

 

For the past year I guess it has been, I've slowed wayyy down. I use to buy lots of coins but now it is more like one here or there, but the coin is really CHOICE, and it is one that I rarely see. Such as the 1909-S IHC in F. Gas is hitting here hard...I think last time I got some it was $3.75/gal. All of the jobs I do have lots of driving in with them, and that isn't good at this time.
So yes and no---Gas really isn't chaning my coin buying, but gas is cutting back where I put other money. I try to set back most of what I make so I can buy a house someday. That fund isn't being added too much right now....

Speedy

 

Not really, I live close to work nd only drive about 16 miles a day total, but in my truck, thats almost 2 gallons

I have had to budget $250/$300 for the round trip to LongBeach just for gas....

 

Nope, doesn't effect me.

Phoenix

 

There's always something cutting into my buying. Recently backed out of a deal because I simply can't afford it for another week or so. Guy was pretty mad.

 

the Bank i roll search is across the street, so that helps, and they have a HUGE business

 

Try riding a bike! It keeps you fit and saves you money!

 

yes gas has hit hard here too..the money i used to use or save for coinage goes for gas or other needed items...pretty soon all the working class americans will be able to do is get up go to work and then come home ..almost wonder if thats what the gov wants!!

 

The price of gas has cut into my EVERY day routine. I don't buy to collect at this point. I buy to sell.

Never thought I'd see the day where I wouldn't go to a job site that was a 60 mile round trip. NOW, as slow as we are, I WON'T go unless it's a full days work. Not worth my commute time, wear and tear on the vehicle and price of gas.

My sister just cut down on her work week. Cheaper to stay at home.

The answer is a resounding YES!

 

YOU WILL SOMEDAY!!!


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Sobering thought isn't it?

 

all i can say is it must be nice to be in an area you can ride a bike of not even own a car ...im with clembo on this one i wont go to job unless i know it is worth my while ..really makes you plan your trips

 

yep, it's made me slow down my spending on not just coins. I guess you just can't blame it on gas, its food, clothes, everything is up other than my wage. Sucks to work for the government sometimes.

 

Well, I more or less disagree.

About 2 months ago both of our cars "blew up" within 10 days of each other. Diagnosis - $2000+ for each of them because the engines need to be replaced.

Both my wife and I work 2nd shift and a bit of third shift. Well, I'm not letting the wife fool around with public transportation at midnight, so we got one nice car for her and I'm on my own because there just ain't any more money.

I'm on the bus. It really isn't so bad. It takes me 50 minutes from getting on to the bus to getting off right in front of where I work. All this for $30/month for the bus pass. WAY, WAY cheaper than a car and we still have a car for when I REALLY need it.

Honestly, during the summer, I may make the bus my way of going to and from work. The winter has to be a bit rough, but I'm sure people do it all the time.

And HEY, this has to be good for the environment.

Heck, I spent 20 years in Africa and a couple years in England. 99% of the people in Africa don't have personal cars and I'm guessing 75% of the British people don't have personal cars and take trains and buses every day.

It's just us Americans who are really, really spoiled. Europeans and Africans have been paying $5++++ per gallon of gas for several years now.

WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD!!!!

 

It hasnt cut into my hobby, yet. But I dont think that as an American I am spoiled. I'm a bit of an isolationist. It really doesnt bother me that Europe or Africa pay higher gas prices. Europeans earn more for the same jobs than Americans. I wonder if they feel bad about that. And if 99% of Africans dont have cars; then why would the price of gas affect them ?

 

I get your point - believe me. Unfortunately not all of us have the same workplace everyday nor can we haul tools around on public transportation IF it would actually take us there. It's klilliing the people that have to do these kinds of jobs. We have no choice but to drive.

 

Pretty much everyone I know in the UK has a car.

We are not so much different from the USA.


Many of us have SUVs as well, including mothers who are just taking their kids to school.
In London and the major cities the % of people with cars will decrease, I'm sure it is the same in NY etc.

With cities having greater bus and subway systems than smaller towns.


However gas is $9.70 a gallon in the UK.




Gas hasn't cut in to my collecting, but paying to learn to drive has...£22 a lesson X4 a month = US$176 a month and this will go on for another 6 months I'd say.

 

Clembo I can understand the construction trade - that's different. That's a business.

All English people have cars? Funny. I was there until 2004. Almost every night after work, I would go to the local pub with 5-10 of my collegues (IT support - not fabulous money, but ok).

None of them had a car. One guy had a motorcycle. These are 30'ish guys. And I remember as we would go to the pub, our big bosses would be pushing us out of the way because it was the same path to the train station and these bosses had to catch their trains.

I will say that a lot of British people drive their cars to the nearest train station and then take public transportation to work.

If 99% of Africans don't have cars, why do they care about the price of gas?

THEY DON'T!!! They have figured out that you CAN have a life without a car.

I know. This idea of living without a car is so foreign to Americans. I'm banging my head against a cement wall on this one....

Anyone want some Sac's real cheap????????