Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

I'll bite.
Antiques
Local historian (I know enough to get by)
PC games
Swimming
That's it for now.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

I rarely stray much from the paper money forum, but somehow this thread caught my eye and I have to say I'm really enjoying reading about all these diverse interests. So I did my own collection inventory ... and it was a little scary.

My gateway drug was free prizes that came inside cereal boxes and stuff you could get with boxtops. I moved on to non-sports cards, wooden nickels and Hot Wheels cars, then coins -- like wheat pennies and any silver I could find in change. My Dad gave me his childhood stamp albums, leading into all kinds of sub-collections, from commemorative panels to old covers. Around high school I progressively discovered paper money, souvenir cards, obsolete stock certificates and bonds, old newspapers (1795 to 1870s), obsolete banknotes, 19th century engraved checks, taxpaid revenues. Then came proofs of portraits and banknote vignettes that matched my stocks and bonds, etc. The more I learned, the more ancillary material I started to notice, like steel engraved tickets and books containing BEP engravings.

Then there are the intangible interests, like travel, domestic and international. That led to historic postcards of places I'd visited, as well as elongated coins from the penny presses on my journeys. And I like small agate slabs, geodes, and petrified wood, some of which I find myself. I used to scuba dive, but haven't done much of that since moving inland

I actually have a degree in speech and drama, and have been performing since high school. In large cities I've worked professionally onstage and on the radio. In small towns, like my current home base, I do community theatre and sing in the local mens chorus. And my latest interest is cheese-making, but I haven't strayed beyond fresh mozzarella yet.

Um … that's about it. Do you think there's a cure?

 

I guess there is not a lot else to do in Eastern Oregon.

 

No cure!

 

"My gateway drug was free prizes that came inside cereal boxes and stuff you could get with boxtops. I moved on to non-sports cards, wooden nickels and Hot Wheels cars, then coins -- like wheat pennies and any silver I could find in change. My Dad gave me his childhood stamp albums, leading into all kinds of sub-collections"

Amazing collections Greg.

I got hooked on collecting starting with Quaker Oats in the tall round paper containers.
I built up a collection of genuine (?) Confederate bills from Quaker Oats and
Quaker deeds for one square inch of land in Alaska. Where are they now?

MY mother collected coins as far back as I can remember. she got me involved in collecting coins at a very young age. Problem was I discovered Ziggy, the owner of the local hobby shop would accept collectible coins for model airplanes and such.
She got very upset when key coins stArted disappearing from our collections.
I still own the Whitman coin folders minus the key coins.

THERE IS NO CURE FOR THE COLLECTING DISEASE

 

LOL ...one of ma sisters has´all Justin Bieber records... so...

 

Other than coins I enjoy lockpicking.. nothing illegal though just something to do when I'm bored. I've also started brewing my own beer and my first ale was ready for tasting today. It came out quite good but I think it could use a bit more time to condition.

 

Brewing beer is fun. Have done it a lot in the past... patience, ensuring right ingredients, clean bottles and tools, experimenting will make for some great beers! Enjoy!

 

The Army sent me to a class called "Defense Against Methods of Entry" or "DAME". Basically, it was a class on lock picking both keyed and combination locks. At one time I could open most anything, but it's a skill that takes practise, and easy to loose the "touch" if it's not used. But I do remember how satisfying it was to hear that final click. BTW, I still have my tools issued to me years ago.

 

I have always wanted to learn that craft... just to do it.

LOL, "DAME"... seems the Government LOVES to create an Acronym, JUST to fill it up with a meaning...

 

Yep. Military language is full of acronyms almost making it a language of it's own. I miss it. My son stationed in Poland will many times use new acronyms when we talk, but since I'm out of the loop, I have to ask the meanings. Makes me feel OLD!

 

My Son-in-Law works with me, retired Army... I have to STOP him from using acronyms as it does not pertain to the business we are in. (He would be showing off a bit, when no one had a clue what he was saying.) I don't want our clients to have a "shined-deer" look when he is talking.

 

I have collected several things but there has always been one rule guiding me. I never wanted items made to be collected. I collected stamps but not ones never intended to pay postage on a letter. I collected photos but not souvenir postcards. I collected meteorites but not slices and jewelry made from them. I don't collect collectibles.

 

Exactly how I collect, or how I amass things.

 

"Gateway drug"...hahaha...far out man!

 

This is my most prized collection thus far...and yes she was graded MS69RD!
(I couldn't help myself)

 

Drinking it is fun also.

 

I tried my hand at it once. The beer was strong, but I didn't like the taste and gave most of it (5 gallons) away

 

Extremely cool! I absolutely love architecture. Having been raised on a farm in the Mississippi Delta, about the only thing that I ever got to see were old barns. I drew sketches of buildings as a very young kid and was told when I would show them to anyone, "You have one hell of an emagination." Never knew how to take that and never showed most of my designs to anyone.

I wanted to go to architecture school and applied to several universities. I got full tuition scholarships to many, but timing in my life would only allow me to choose one nearest to home. Although they were a great engineering college, they didn't offer a degree in Architecture.
One of my most admired architects was Frank Lloyd Wright, whom most don't know, had a structural engineering degree. Like him, I went that route. I absolutely love the job I have, because, not only do I get to influence the design, I get to oversee the build and make the decisions on the spot that all who enter get to see. I won't tell for whom I work but many of you have probably seen or been in some of the buildings.

 

At one time I had close to 30 hobbies that cycled from one to the other as the year progressed. Hunting, guns, photography, girls, racing, stamps, girls, books/reading, cooking, girls, inventing, fossils, collecting interesting things, girls, etc……
Slowly over the years, as time became a premium, the lesser hobbies fell away. Now, the main ones are coins, hunting, guns, reloading, reading. And, according to some…..practiced annoyance.