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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4287523, member: 110350"]I can only speak for myself. The pandemic hasn't really affected my income much, because I've been 90+% retired as of December anyway, although most of the part-time work I was doing has dried up for now. Plus, I recently turned 65, so I'm on Medicare and my health care costs are fairly predictable. And I have enough savings to last me quite a few years if I'm reasonably careful, when taken together with my Social Security payments. (I had and have zero invested in the stock market, so that decline hasn't affected me either, at least directly.) </p><p><br /></p><p>Nonetheless, the idea of being completely free with my coin purchases while I'm sitting here in the middle of New York City in the middle of a pandemic makes me very uncomfortable somehow, not that I was being exactly extravagant before. So I'm making a conscious effort to cut back a little bit. For example, if I do get a $1,200 payment from the federal government within the next month, I won't be running to spend it on Roman coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4287523, member: 110350"]I can only speak for myself. The pandemic hasn't really affected my income much, because I've been 90+% retired as of December anyway, although most of the part-time work I was doing has dried up for now. Plus, I recently turned 65, so I'm on Medicare and my health care costs are fairly predictable. And I have enough savings to last me quite a few years if I'm reasonably careful, when taken together with my Social Security payments. (I had and have zero invested in the stock market, so that decline hasn't affected me either, at least directly.) Nonetheless, the idea of being completely free with my coin purchases while I'm sitting here in the middle of New York City in the middle of a pandemic makes me very uncomfortable somehow, not that I was being exactly extravagant before. So I'm making a conscious effort to cut back a little bit. For example, if I do get a $1,200 payment from the federal government within the next month, I won't be running to spend it on Roman coins![/QUOTE]
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