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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;adric22, post: 1592585, member: 38146&quot;]I had this idea a few days ago and since January 1st is approaching I think I&#039;d like to finalize a plan and make it my new years resolution.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like many people, I need to lose weight.&nbsp; I&#039;m not overly obese, just need to lose about 20 pounds and keep it off.&nbsp; I&#039;ve gone on diets and exercise programs many times and managed to lose nearly all of that weight, but I always become lazy and start eating a bunch of junk food again and before long, I&#039;m 20 pounds overweight again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Recently I was criticizing a co-worker for her cigarette habit.&nbsp; Besides the obvious health issues, we counted up the amount of money she&#039;s spent on cigarettes over the last 20 years and then imagined if she had bought silver coins with that money instead of cigarettes.&nbsp; The amount of money was quite substantial, especially if you include the appreciation of the silver itself.&nbsp; I think it came to around $30,000 without any gains in metal value.</p><p><br /></p><p>So it occurred to me that I&#039;m really in the same situation with food.&nbsp; My vice is basically candy and junk-food from the vending machines at work.&nbsp; Pretty much if you leave that out, I&#039;d be within my daily calorie limit.&nbsp;&nbsp; But also I realized that I could easily save approximately $2.00 per day by not eating said junk food. That works out to $60 per month or $720 per year.&nbsp; if I stuck with it over 30 years (about retirement age for me) I&#039;d have $21,600.</p><p><br /></p><p>So.&nbsp; I&#039;m trying to think of a way I can reward myself for not eating junk food.&nbsp; I would like some kind of visual representation of the amount of money I&#039;ve saved. So I&#039;d prefer to use coins rather than just have some number counting on a piece of paper or paper dollars. This way I can easily show not only myself but other people as well how much money I&#039;ve saved by not eating junkfood.&nbsp; But here&#039;s the trouble.&nbsp; This is where I could use some advice.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the conundrum.&nbsp; I need to figure out what kind of coin to use.&nbsp; Whatever coin it is, I want to use the same one each day. Keep in mind that I need something in the realm of $2.00 per day.&nbsp; Here are some of the coins I&#039;ve considered:</p><ul> <li>Eisenhower Dollars</li> <li>Presidential Dollars</li> <li>Kennedy Half Dollars</li> <li>Susan B. Anthony Dollars</li> <li>1-ounce copper bullion coins</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the trouble with this.&nbsp; Each of these coins has the same problem.&nbsp; It is nearly impossible to get them at face value without buying a huge quantity at a time.&nbsp; In fact, my bank says they cannot even get dollar coins of any kind these days.&nbsp; (either that or they just don&#039;t want to)&nbsp;&nbsp; I see people selling hoards of eisenhowers on Craiglist but I&#039;d need to buy $1,000 worth of them to get them and even then I&#039;d be paying about $1.20 per coin.&nbsp; The copper bullion coins I can get for 88 cents a piece, but I have to buy 800 of them at a time to get that. (plus they are only worth about 30 cents in copper value)</p><p><br /></p><p>I can buy any of these one at a time off of eBay but by the time you include the markup and the shipping, I&#039;m paying 4x face-value for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I buy a huge hoard of coins up front I am not sure my plan will work.&nbsp; Because it is kind of hard to tell myself &quot;I&#039;ll reward myself with &#039;x&#039; coin(s) if I&#039;m good today&quot; even though I already have a whole hoard of these in a box under my desk.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So unfortunately, it appears if I&#039;m going to pull this off I&#039;ll have to use essentially a standard US quarter.&nbsp; In which case I&#039;ll need 8 of them per day.&nbsp;&nbsp; I normally use $1 bills in the vending machine. So I&#039;ll have to make sure to get a roll of quarters every so often at the bank.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone have any suggestion of other coins I could use and where I could get them at face value on a regular basis?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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