Just heard this on the radio- that some once popular hobbies are dying off... they named off the top five on my list and I added the last three. They also mentioned how the ones that people do participate in are expensive. Train set building Racquetball Scrapbooking Toy collecting Fixing up old cars ( restoring ) Stamps Pocket watches Hotwheels ??? (matchbox 4 sure) Are there any others im missing?? Idk about you but i worry about the future of collecting coins. What say ye?
Beer can collections......major down fall once married the little Mrs. Informs the groom that beers cans got to go! Downfall before getting married ....DWI 's obtained while collecting the cans, legal fees cuts into drinking money. Key to the collection is an unopened 6pk of Billy Beer....
I’m not worried about coin collecting. It’s supposedly been dying since I was a kid 50 years ago. A model railroad is my other hobby. The state of that is difficult to figure. There is a well stocked train store about 40 miles from New Orleans but only two in the city itself. And both of those seemed to have switched their focus to model airplanes that fly. I can tell you that like coins, a lot of the model train commerce is now conducted on line.
Collecting and restoring old cars [and drag racing] is alive and well. Whoever said it's dying is out of the loop.
When the mainstream media talks about a hobby dying, it’s time to hit the ignore button. Somebody must have gotten tired of writing the “coin collecting is dying” story.
Not sure where the coin collecting theory came from. If anything it seems to be booming more than dying. Literally most other collectors I meet are under the age of 18 (including myself). I think it comes from the fact that there are also many older collectors that are not in the same circles as younger collectors, however if you go on social media sites like YT or IG, at least 90% of the numismatic communities there are young, and these communities are pretty big as well.
I cant remember, exactly, if there was a study or online poll etc. About 20 mins afterward i got pulled over for a level 3 DOT inspection. Took 2 1/2 hours, and the whole time i was worried they would lift my mattress up and discover what was under there. Ill leave it up to the reader to guess what was there