Paying for you coin hobby?

The only coins I added to my collection while raising my daughters were circulation finds.

 

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I buy when I have the chance to, but when you have 2 daughters in competitive dance, it does not leave a lot. By that I mean time and money.

 

Rule number one for me is never spend more than I have. Basically if I can't pay cash don't buy it. Next I am not that into varieties but if I spot one can buy it and sell it for a profit I will. Only managed this a few times, but I don't regret it. I have sold in the past to reduce the size of the collection.

 

Really? It's worked for me so far for 56 years. And I don't see any reason why it shouldn't continue. If I'm not at work (third shift weekends, pretty much no one around) I'm sitting in an empty building online, or at home sleeping. At work most of the women are married, or almost young enough to be my granddaughter. The few that aren't either are freshly divorced and have no intention of getting involved with anyone. I'm safe.

 

You're safe and I'm safe.........44 years for me with the same lovely Lady. That don't go to say that sometimes they can get under your skin (and vice versa).

 

I started off maybe around 12-15 years ago SLOWLY flipping coins. I would use my profit to buy more coins, and do it again. After my wife and I graduated college and started "real jobs", I had more money to "invest" in coins. I've built up a decent "personal collection", but still regularly buy and sell to add to my income. My wife recently decided to stay home after we had our second baby, so the extra cash has dried up a bit. I've found myself thinking twice about making a purchase I used to not think much about, and I've sold a few of my "personal collection" coins recently. Our financial future is more important to me than my collection, so I want to make sure we can at least fully fund our Roth IRAs every year, and if it takes me selling some of my favorites, so be it. If she goes back to work in a few years, watch out! haha