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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 2547990, member: 15588&quot;]To be honest, I didn&#039;t really really <i>really</i> enjoy collecting coins until I actually had some extra money to play with. Then I could purchase things that I <i>wanted</i> rather than things that I could merely afford. But then the guilty pleasure syndrome crept in. The first time I paid over $300 for a single coin filled me with both glee and dread. I could more than afford it at the time, but I kept asking myself &quot;why <i>should</i> I afford it? Shouldn&#039;t I be using it for sound investments, saving it, or putting it towards something that won&#039;t fill me with anxiety over the chance of it getting stolen?&quot; Something just felt <i>wrong</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have to admit the desire to own expensive coins makes zero sense to me. Yet I own some moderately priced ones. As such, I&#039;ve found myself passing through phases where the thought of coins made me almost ill to times where I could not stop thinking obsessively about coins or buying them no matter what I did. Sometimes it feels like a disease.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless, when I was younger I did end up selling almost everything I owned. Though I had nothing supremely valuable, I nonetheless now regret it. I wish I had just put them away as others have mentioned and just forgotten about them for a while. Little did I know that a decade or so later the almost debilitating disease would return to conquer my senses once again. Though after a year or so of repeated obsession I&#039;m starting to get weary of the entire subject again, so I&#039;ve tried to pace myself, seek other interests and limit my exposure to coins to small periods once or twice a month. I don&#039;t have this issue with anything else in my life, only with these little historic discs of metal. I have no idea why.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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