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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 4958862, member: 100459&quot;]I&#039;m curious... Are the average person oblivious to coins they get in change or other sources?&nbsp; I know my wife is.&nbsp; I ask her to give me her change purse from time to time.&nbsp; She knows that I collect coin.&nbsp; (SHE KNOWS IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT.) When I get a small package, her comment is, &quot;Is that another one of your coins that you are spending our retirement funds for?&quot;&nbsp; She tends to forget that when my parents died, they left us their house in California.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if you know the value of houses there, but their little 1,100 sq ft house yielded $400K, of which I got one fourth of.&nbsp; Anyway, I average 12 purchases a year.&nbsp; Now that the Mint is gouging us with the increase of 30-40%, I&#039;m using the same budget and only buy what I can with that budget.&nbsp; I spend an average of $300 a month or less.&nbsp; Some months-$0.</p><p>She spends that much on hair, clothes, fingernails and toenails, but she doesn&#039;t count that.&nbsp; (Have I mentioned that I am a retired CPA.&nbsp; If I could have the packages delivered to a Post Office box, she would never know.&nbsp; Oh, well!&nbsp; Life goes on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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