You know you have a problem when .....

* You choose which grocery store you shop at, not by the sales or service, but whether or not they have a CoinStar machine so that you can check the reject slot for silver.

* The kids don't get the tokens at chuck-E-cheese until you search them for dates you don't have (this is poor-mans coin collecting at its best)

* You get caught going through the change jar at a friends house

* You've opened an account at a bank only because they have a coin machine and you won't have to reroll the coins.


When did you realize you had a problem?

 

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When I can't do any work on my desk because there are loose coins, coins in flips, coins in bags, all over my desk (a rather large L-shaped desk) and on the floor (because I ran out of room on the big desk).

 

When I had to make more than one trip from the bank counter to my car because I was unable to carry 4 boxes of halves and my daughted out in one trip.

 

cavetroll,do you carry in the silver or the daughter first?
Seriously,I never knew I HAD a problem until I read this thread and realized that there were Chuck E. Cheese tokens other than 1982.anyone care to trade? Mine are AU-BU

 

Chuck E. Cheese token collecting! LOL! LOL!

 

Are there "no motto" CEC tokens without the "In Pizza We Trust"?
I'll know I really have a problem if I have to decide between that "perfect" coin and going without food...the coin diet.

 

"* You choose which grocery store you shop at, not by the sales or service, but whether or not they have a CoinStar machine so that you can check the reject slot for silver."
I never knew they rejected silver, I can't wait to check one.

 

They are dated, there are adult mouse, jouvinal mouse, dots under dates, no dots, three dots, long whiskers, short whiskers, no mint marks, pilgram hat mint marks, struck on the wrong size planchet, manager tokesn, brass alloy, zinc alloy, some with city and states, w/ Pizza Time, w/o Pizza time, commemorative tokens, etc, etc, etc.

For Your Own Sake, don't click here

 

Your at the grocery store. A pound of Hamburger is $3.50, a 6-Pack of Beer is $6.50 you have a $10 bill in your wallet and 1966 half in your pocket.

 

Too funny. My parents just came in and they just figured out I like collecting coins and bills and brought a wad of currency much of it I already had (mostly from China), plus a bag of coins from various places. One of the coins was a Chuck E. Cheese token. 1985, blue, heh.

 

There are some major problems in your hypothetical situation:

$6.50 for a 6 pack
$3.50/lb is 95% lean. My ground beef is $1.99 for 70%
The 1966 half would not be in my pocket for fear of accidently spending it.
I would not have a $10 bill, I would have (20) halves.
My wife doesn't let me go to the grocery store alone.

But - I'll play along. As long as my 10 dollar bill had a "UCI" of less than 99.5%, and had already been entered and marked at wheresgeorge, my children would be eating dry ground beef for dinner. (Of course I would ask for my $6.50 back in nickles or ones.)

 

I realized I had a problem when a friend pointed out to me that I was holding up the line at the grocery store to get the cashier to go thru the till searching all the coins to see if there were any I wanted in change.
coinsngolf

 

Well I realized that I had a very serious problem when $$$$ never want to accumulate in my account! I have had this burning sensation in my pockets for that purdy yella metal called gold....I was born in the worng era as I would have been one to go West to the Calif gold fields...I cant get enough..I sometimes buy silver..but my real thirst is gold, gold, gold!!!

All my spare cash and higher grade silver has been converted to gold....my wife is ready to call my "metals psychologist" to give me electro shock therapy! In the far off distant background I can hear my faint call of "yellow fever" from dem there hills!

RickieB

 

I knew I had a problem when I signed up here so I could have contact with people like myself who cannot get enough of coins and so I could have a place to turn to for reference and help that didn't involve irritating a coin dealer.


Oh yeah I must admit there may be a chucky cheese token or two in my house somewhere. Right next to the Aladdin’s castle token and the Grand Victoria Casino tokens

 

When the ceiling below starts to bow from the weight of the coins, even though they were stacked up against a load bearing wall.

Don't forget Pizza Time was used as both one word and as two. Why is everyone looking at me like that? I only have.... No, No I don't have any Chuck E. Cheese tokens at all! None! That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

 

Are you serious!!!! How many coin did you have there for the ceiling to bow???

The desk applies to me, plus the bags and bags of coins in the floor next to it, plus the albums in the selfs...

 

No Problem, No Problem at All

No I don't have a problem. Everytime the cash register opens my eyes and mind are on that drawer so intensly that I must appear to be planning a theft.

No I don't have a problem annoying the bank tellers to check for any special coins for me, silver dimes, quarters, halves. I truely believe if I wasn't so nice and didn't smile they would run me out.

No I don't have a problem imagining what I would do if I came home from vacation to find my house burglerized and my coins gone. Wondering what soda machine would contain my silver proofs and mercury dimes because some idiot thief got thirsty.

 

I know I have a problem when I read this and got excited!!!!

 

I know I have a problem because...

I can't think of a thing I want for Christmas... except coins!

When I go shopping with the wife, she actually buys stuff. I can't find anything I want or need... except coins!

I need to get a shower, run to the store and go eat but instead I'm sitting here chatting... about coins!

Have a great day everyone. I'll be back later.