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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;I Like Trees, post: 290272, member: 10463&quot;]<b>Thoughts on the questions</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The photo opens nicely on the new host! Lovely coin. Nice color for circulated, especially across two continents [wink.] Have you seen this video that someone brought up in <a href="http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=29515&amp;page=3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=29515&amp;page=3" rel="nofollow">this thread</a>?</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a digitalization on YouTube of a B&amp;W 1966 educational filmstrip about recognizing the new Dollar-based coins. (1966 was the year Australia switched from AU£ to AU$.)</p><p><br /></p><p>To answer your questions: there are some people who just have low IQ (not to stereotype people who work at gas stations or anything) and whose brains are&nbsp; just not creative enough to imagine a use for something that is not easily converted into food or cigarettes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other people rationalize not keeping things to maintain a certain quality of life as they understand it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people (like me) have a pathological compulsion to hoard things. This, I can attest, detracts from emotional well-being. It can also kill you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lot&#039;s of people die when crushed by collapsing collections, such as stacks of decades old newspapers. I wonder if this has every happened to a specifically &#039;coin collecting&#039; hoarder?</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, non-hoarders see this, either consciously or unconsciously, or imagine the potential for it , and want to be the opposite, and will keep nothing. You could say she could have given the coin to a kid or someone who would find it interesting, but (not kidding myself this was the case with said gas station employee) the same people who don&#039;t want to &#039;degrade&#039; their own life by collecting, may not want to &#039;inflict&#039; it on others.</p><p><br /></p><p>My two cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a link to the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation&#039;s <a href="http://www.ocfoundation.org/hoarding/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ocfoundation.org/hoarding/" rel="nofollow">helpsite</a> for people with compulsive hoarding.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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