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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CaptainMK, post: 3697904, member: 106822&quot;]Being in my early thirties and was a coin collector as a child that stopped then recently rekindled, I can say what happened to me that got me out of the hobby. It was a bunch of things honestly, but it comes down to money, peer pressure, and girls.</p><p><br /></p><p>Money, my collection was nothing but it was still a cool collection, almost all my finds were from change in elementary, so I collected halves and quarters mainly, dad would bring home pennies and I would go through them and ask to keep the Wheaties. I slowly found that I was envious of the &quot;big ticket&quot; items and my collection was beginning to bore me, I &quot;invested&quot; in some poor coins which I should never paid the premiums I did. I found that you needed money to get what you wanted if you wanted to go pass the culls and Wheaties. Major bummer as I was just a poor farmer kid.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then we start to grow and peer pressure takes over. Where I&#039;m from, you were a nerd if you collected anything or read comic books, or whatever. I wanted to fit in the best I could, being a Asian American in a small farming community was hard. Lots of racism and bullying can take their toll on a kid, so I didn&#039;t want to show that I collected coins or cards. I wanted to be one of the guys that played basketball or the star player, at least, that was my thinking at the time. So the coin collection went slowly to the wayside, finding a few coins time to time but never to put much stock in it anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then you grow up more. Girls. Plain and simple, I got in my teens and I wanted to chase girls.....or at least try, lol. My thinking was, if the guys think coins are lame/geeky, what will the girls think? No more coin collecting, even though I wanted to.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I grew up, I never touch coins really but if I noticed a wheatie or something, I would save it but again, didn&#039;t really care at all about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I was growing up, I needed money. Money to take the girls out, party, and have fun. I started to sell my stuff to pay for these things, coins ended up on ebay. I started a coin store online and started to sell my collection piece by piece. I was making good money, to where I didn&#039;t work and took my girl out every night, I never re-invested the money I made. I just spent it up as fast as I got it. My collection ended up to almost nothing, at least what people wouldn&#039;t buy I had left. I cancelled my store on ebay and got a job. The rest is history.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my case, a lot of what happened to me was I was growing up and wanted to be accepted. Now that I am older, I don&#039;t care what people think of me. I have a wife that loves me for who I am and I am secure of who I am. I have a room (lockable room) devoted to a lot of my passions, my geek room. I collect comics, cards, coins, figures, anything geeky and I love it! Do I regret selling my collection, yes and no. It was mainly low grade crap but I think what kept me going on collecting as a kid was the hunt and the acquisition of something new, once you lose that along with growing up, I think any kind of collecting can go away.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now is the coin hobby dying? I would say the same for cards and I recently got back into those too and there is a great following for it. The cards of today are amazing. I think coin collecting will go through it&#039;s highs and lows, there will always be collectors. The only way for us to find the real answer is to wait and see. Keep on exposing new youngsters to the hobby and if 1 in 100 take up the hobby, that is still a win. That one person can then convert a few more to the hobby and so on. I believe its up to us to keep it alive and to pass it along. If they don&#039;t like the hobby, it&#039;s all good, coin collecting is not for everybody. The point is to try and continue to love your passion. If you love your passion, people will see it and will want to know why you are so passionate about it. Keep on collecting![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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