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highroller4321
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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 Posted - 03/17/2009 : 19:34:19
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Originally posted by Mikep2020
My GF doesn't agree with my coin sorting either, and the agreement we came to, was that when I cashed in the zincs at the coinstar, I would get a gift card (100% value!) to old navy so she could shop for clothes. Now she loves it when I come in the house with boxes of pennies to sort, instead of the "uggh, more pennies!?!?" and the rolly eyes I used to get before. She's starting to come around now, and I just need to get her more involved in the sorting.
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Ant
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
894 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2009 : 20:50:00
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Originally posted by NDFARMER
She thinks my coin collecting hobby is stupid.
It makes me sad that she feels that way. You get a lot of satisfaction and peace of mind from collecting, and it's not an expensive hobby. There are worse ways for you to spend your time and money.  Maybe one day she will come around, if she realizes how much you enjoy it.
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2009 : 21:17:57
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Originally posted by Mikep2020
My GF doesn't agree with my coin sorting either, and the agreement we came to, was that when I cashed in the zincs at the coinstar, I would get a gift card (100% value!) to old navy so she could shop for clothes. Now she loves it when I come in the house with boxes of pennies to sort, instead of the "uggh, more pennies!?!?" and the rolly eyes I used to get before. She's starting to come around now, and I just need to get her more involved in the sorting.
Wow. When you put it that way, the 8% or whatever Coinstar charges doesn't sound too bad. She's getting you for 100%. All you "play" money is gone. I feel sorry for you guys who's significant other doesn't, or won't understand your hobby. Like Ant says, there are WAY worse things to do with your money....
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barrytrot
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 03/18/2009 : 03:12:59
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| Ant, this hobby, like many, can be as expensive as you want it to be. The amount some have spent on this hobby is definitely higher than they spend on their house payment. |
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Ant
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
894 Posts |
Posted - 03/18/2009 : 07:17:17
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Ant, this hobby, like many, can be as expensive as you want it to be. The amount some have spent on this hobby is definitely higher than they spend on their house payment.
Unlike most hobbies, however, the money is spent on . . . well, money.  In fact, you could argue that the money isn't being spent at all, since it stays stacked up in most people's homes. Even with numismatic coins, you always take a chance that the market will go flat in the coins you buy, or that grading standards will change and your coins won't be as valuable, but stacking up copper cents is just a reallocation of assets. |
Lovely dimes, the liveliest coin, the one that really jingles. --Truman Capote
Coins are the metallic footprints of the history of nations. --William H. Woodin |
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Mikep2020
Penny Collector Member
USA
402 Posts |
Posted - 03/18/2009 : 07:30:51
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Originally posted by NotABigDeal
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Originally posted by Mikep2020
My GF doesn't agree with my coin sorting either, and the agreement we came to, was that when I cashed in the zincs at the coinstar, I would get a gift card (100% value!) to old navy so she could shop for clothes. Now she loves it when I come in the house with boxes of pennies to sort, instead of the "uggh, more pennies!?!?" and the rolly eyes I used to get before. She's starting to come around now, and I just need to get her more involved in the sorting.
Wow. When you put it that way, the 8% or whatever Coinstar charges doesn't sound too bad. She's getting you for 100%. All you "play" money is gone. I feel sorry for you guys who's significant other doesn't, or won't understand your hobby. Like Ant says, there are WAY worse things to do with your money....
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Its not as bad as it sounds, I'm a small time hand sorter, only around 8-12 boxes a month, so she's only getting a $100 gift card every 3 weeks or so, plus she buys clothes for me as well. Don't worry, I have plenty of play money for copper hoarding, I just don't have the time to sort high volumes. |
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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1805 Posts |
Posted - 03/18/2009 : 09:57:31
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Wow. When you put it that way, the 8% or whatever Coinstar charges doesn't sound too bad. She's getting you for 100%. All you "play" money is gone. I feel sorry for you guys who's significant other doesn't, or won't understand your hobby. Like Ant says, there are WAY worse things to do with your money....
Yeah I was kinda thinking the same thing. My zinc dumps go into my savings account at the credit union and if I need to make a withdrawal, usually its to buy more boxes/coins/silver.
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Its not as bad as it sounds, I'm a small time hand sorter, only around 8-12 boxes a month, so she's only getting a $100 gift card every 3 weeks or so, plus she buys clothes for me as well. Don't worry, I have plenty of play money for copper hoarding, I just don't have the time to sort high volumes.
I hardly ever spend money on clothes, and to me $100 every 3 weeks for clothing sounds like a lot (comes out to over $1700 over the course of the year). The only minor beef my girlfriend has with my penny sorting is the space it takes up to store them, but we're not married, and we have an understanding that my money is mine to do with as I please and her money is hers the same way. I guess to me it sounds like you are making a bigger compromise in her favor than you should be, and at the same time throwing away alot of money on clothing. It's your money though, so as long as you're happy that is what is important. |
My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 03/18/2009 : 10:02:14
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Unlike most hobbies, however, the money is spent on . . . well, money. In fact, you could argue that the money isn't being spent at all, since it stays stacked up in most people's homes. Even with numismatic coins, you always take a chance that the market will go flat in the coins you buy, or that grading standards will change and your coins won't be as valuable, but stacking up copper cents is just a reallocation of assets.
Absolutely...well said. You get back the value of the zincs when you dump them so there's no loss there. The coppers kept either go into a savings vehicle (even if not the traditional savings account, CD, etc with a brick and mortar banking institution) so you haven't lost anything there. In fact, as we all know, you can turn around and sell them for a small profit. Even if the copper market collapses altogether, you still have face value to fall back on. It's really a matter of how much you can afford to have tied up in your copper savings but to me copper cents are the best of all worlds:
1) easy to obtain at face value
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My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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Mikep2020
Penny Collector Member
USA
402 Posts |
Posted - 03/18/2009 : 11:51:43
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Originally posted by CoinHunter53562
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Wow. When you put it that way, the 8% or whatever Coinstar charges doesn't sound too bad. She's getting you for 100%. All you "play" money is gone. I feel sorry for you guys who's significant other doesn't, or won't understand your hobby. Like Ant says, there are WAY worse things to do with your money....
Yeah I was kinda thinking the same thing. My zinc dumps go into my savings account at the credit union and if I need to make a withdrawal, usually its to buy more boxes/coins/silver.
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Its not as bad as it sounds, I'm a small time hand sorter, only around 8-12 boxes a month, so she's only getting a $100 gift card every 3 weeks or so, plus she buys clothes for me as well. Don't worry, I have plenty of play money for copper hoarding, I just don't have the time to sort high volumes.
I hardly ever spend money on clothes, and to me $100 every 3 weeks for clothing sounds like a lot (comes out to over $1700 over the course of the year). The only minor beef my girlfriend has with my penny sorting is the space it takes up to store them, but we're not married, and we have an understanding that my money is mine to do with as I please and her money is hers the same way. I guess to me it sounds like you are making a bigger compromise in her favor than you should be, and at the same time throwing away alot of money on clothing. It's your money though, so as long as you're happy that is what is important.
This specific arrangement will not go on forever, we both need new clothes for the summer since we both lost a lot of weight and pretty much need to get new sizes in everything. Its only temporary for now, and it does make me happy that she doesn't complain about the penny hoarding anymore. We live together and split all the household bills evenly, but I make over twice as much money as her so she's much more limited on casual spending money. I have to throw her a few bones every once in a while to make her happy while I continue to stock up on copper and silver with my excess FRN's. |
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NDFARMER
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1197 Posts |
Posted - 03/18/2009 : 11:59:03
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Originally posted by NDFARMER
She thinks my coin collecting hobby is stupid.
It makes me sad that she feels that way. You get a lot of satisfaction and peace of mind from collecting, and it's not an expensive hobby. There are worse ways for you to spend your time and money. Maybe one day she will come around, if she realizes how much you enjoy it.
Exactly what I told her. I said I could be at the bar every night drinking and smoking it up. It does give me something to do on those long winter nights. We only have about 3 months of nice weather here in North Dakota so I don't sort much in the summer time but the rest of the year there is not a lot you can do outside the house. And it really is for the benefit of her and the kids anyway. I don't think copper will reach my goal of 5 times face in my life time so my kids and grandkids will be getting the benefit from my "CRAZY" hobby someday. At least I hope so or they will be cussing me as they haul several tons of copper out of my basement. |
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redneck
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 03/18/2009 : 15:26:29
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Ant
but stacking up copper cents is just a reallocation of assets.
Exactly...! 
Maybe nothing gained but, absolutely nothing lost either...
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Ant
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
894 Posts |
Posted - 03/18/2009 : 15:55:01
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It does give me something to do on those long winter nights. We only have about 3 months of nice weather here in North Dakota so I don't sort much in the summer time but the rest of the year there is not a lot you can do outside the house.
My friend went to work for the USGS in Sioux Falls, SD the year before last. He said his first winter there he ended up ordering books from Amazon about every week. He said he didn't know what he'd do without Netflix.  |
Lovely dimes, the liveliest coin, the one that really jingles. --Truman Capote
Coins are the metallic footprints of the history of nations. --William H. Woodin |
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Posted - 03/29/2009 : 10:22:54
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Can I propose a compromise (I'm one of the few female sorters on here and no I'm not married so I get the hobby but I can also see where your wife's thinking is coming from even though I think she's wrong)
Consider giving the wife the zincs to take to the coin sorter (preferably one at a bank where they don't charge you to use it or god forbid if it's Coinstar, teach her to get a gift card so she doesn't lose 9% of what she sorts). Then take your coppers & store them where she can't get at them.
Let's face it none of us enjoys having to get rid of the zincs and marriage is not always smooth sailing. But maybe if she gets something out of your hobby she'll come around.
Frankly I worry about a relationship like yours because taking those coins from you shows a disrespect for one of your interests and potentially a communications problem in your relationship. You two need to have a conversation about both of your hobbies (one in which you are perfectly justified in explaining to her the benefits of your hobby which she clearly doesn't understand) as well as the idea that although you are married you are still two different people and need to respect and be tolerant of one another's differences and separate property.
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orionstarman
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 04/15/2009 : 19:05:42
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Clink, clink, clink...(the sound of me hand sorting) "will you stop making that noise I can't stand it any more" says the wife. "If I hear one more penny I'm going to throw them all out." Why did I get married? Just when I thought I got it though her head about the need to sort pennies I hear this. Ok, fine! I'm just going to buy a Ryedale and move the operation out to the shed. I'm glad I had the fore sight to run power out to the shed. Next I'll get a mini fridge out there (for the beer) an run a phone line for the computer and she'll never see me or hear me again. |
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.--Benjamin Franklin
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DesertTumbleweed402
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 04/15/2009 : 20:46:07
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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 04/15/2009 : 20:46:18
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| ahhh the benefits of being single. |
You don't have to be the BEST you just have to be.......SLICK
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