I'm a trash digger

This is a great human interest thread. The stories being told about human behavior are priceless.

Keep it going, folks, this is really amusing. That is, in a good sort of way.

 

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Haha i don't think i would've done that....i think the most i do is when i get change back i stop and look at them for a while and if i have nothing i just take off randomly.

 

I would have done it.

 

Bahahaha how pathetic.

 

sounds like someone cashed in some coins and got a bunch of rejects back from the machine. I would have done it!

 

I never in my life picked up a coin off the ground or floor( until I started coin collecting) unless it was a quarter. I still feel a like embarrassed when I see a cent and I pick it up ......

 

Actually, what is pathetic is your attitude.

Months ago you boasted of a having a box of 2009 D dimes months before anyone else had them anywhere in the country. I suggested you sell them because I had cleared (net) nearly two grand for 2009 P dimes. You went on and on in an extremely condescending manner and asking how could I believe that $1950 is a lot of money. You bragged about how connected you are and that all of your family is connected, up to your "third cousin" in the money business. You declined to post a picture of this. You also made extremely boastful and seemingly unrealistic claims on another thread. You also acted condescending to another friend of mine on the site.

Then, talk about funny, after you make fun of me several times for thinking $1950 is a lot of money (which nearly everyone but you would agree is a lot of money to make on current year coins), you posted in a thread that you scrap pre-1982 cents and sell them for the copper. LOL LOL LOL.

Then I use YOUR WORDS towards me in that thread to ask you how you could believe that this would be a good investment (copper cents) and be a lot of money and worth your time and you then call me a name ("slanky") and accuse me of being the one who bragged.

I let it go, but since you are bent on trying to insult me continuously, I'll go ahead and post this. Dude, what are you a 15 year old? Please leave your attitude, insults and condescending comments elsewhere.

Sorry folks, back to your regular programing.

 

i used to get so embarrassed when my grandmother or girlfriend picked a nickel or even a dime up off the ground. only things i would pick up were bills and if there was more then a few, quarters.

a little true story.

i suffer from really bad panic attacks and most of the time they mimic heart attacks(sorta). the one time it felt like if i slowed down my heart would stop and it was beating out of my chest. so we were walking at like 4 in the morning, she stopped into the gas station to get some cigarettes and when i was standing outside a truck drove by and all i heard was metal hitting the ground. i thought the engine fell out or something. i go over and see a TON of quarters! when i was picking them up my girl came out and thought i lost it and was having some sort of weird(er) attack. i ended up with $26.25! it took forever and still wonder why they tossed them out the truck? i was embarrassed though, even thought about letting it go.

now if i see a nickel or cent i jump over and pick it up. i also check the change thingy on vending machines. and to answer your question...yes, i would have did what you did!

my dog had the best find. during this past winter, we had that huge snowfall of a few feet. i decided to take my dog out in the middle of it. she was just walking, looking ahead, all of a sudden she jumped to the side, and stuck her head into the ground. it was completely covered with snow! i was pulling her to get her out, but she is a very strong dog and does weight training. she pulls her head out with some notes in her mouth! i won't even say how much, but it was a nice find. she got some bones and toys for her trouble..

 

I tell ya coin collecting is a sickness, I find myself tempted to sift through the take a penny leave a penny trays at the stores, I think the disease has progressed further in your case, I have only been collecting for one year, who knows after ten years I might be accosting people in the street and asking them for spare change, not because I am broke but just as a ruse to get more coins.

 

I don't see a problem with it. I metal detect. I dig stuff out of the dirt!

 

Nothing wrong with a free grab bag...

 

If I saw them first I would have definitely grabbed them without a second thought.

My wife was walking home from the Post Office one day last summer and spotted about two dozen framed art prints left stacked next to a dumpster. Someone had moved (or more likely gone to a nursing home) and just threw them out. She was an art student and spotted a couple of known artists.

She ran half a mile home, got the car and went back. A few were already gone but she took the rest.

They had a value of over $16000 and I believe she realized about half of that. Our son was angry because he worked all summer long as a lifeguard and in one day she made as much as he did.

Imagine that!

 

looks like a nice collection of coins you have there but digging through the trash
I dont know? I guess if i was starving......LOL