How Much Time....

Since I've rec'd this collection from my Grandfater, it's been 3-5 hours per day. This is the most time consuming hobby I've ever been involved with. It takes GREAT patience, good photography skills and hours of research. Since I'm a noob, I think the research part is really killing me....but....I'm really enjoying it!

I spend maybe an hour a day, maybe less. Too much work and other commitments. On Friday afternoon I usually get to the coin shop for an hour or two...that's always nice. I've tried ebay, but it's too boring to sift through all the garbage, lousy pictures, etc. I guess I've got a short attention span.

To bad you don't live around me. You could point out to your wife the people next door. They argue constantly due to him playing with his motorcycles, cars, campers, cycle club members, drinking enough beer to keep Millers in buisness. Now the people on the other side of me watch TV about 30 hours a day I think since no one ever sees them, they talk to no one, no one talks to them, they never come out of the house, let their 2 dogs out at 2 or 3 in the morning each night. Then you could show your wife the people accross the street that the guy goes out fishing on his boat every weekend, so he says. Never takes any one with, never brings back fish. On the block I live there have been approximately 60% divorces since I lived here and no coin collectors. Spending a little time with some silly coins is better than some of this stuff around here.

Jeeze Ive never really thought about it in terms of hours ?

5 or 6 hours a day on the forum I guess,except for weekends when that number can be doubled,, by the way I multi task and have several windows active most of the time .

In my coins a few hours a day ,either imaging, sorting ,or searching/researching .

If my wife says anything ,, I just tell her I'm hungry and I dont hear from her the rest of evening .

seriously my wife gives me Her full support and has never said anything about spending too much time with my coins .

Metalman

I teach at a high school, and teach at college in the evenings. So, I don't spend nearly as much time with coins as I would like.

In summer like 3-4 hours minimum
one third here and tracking 4 european ebays
( germany, france, belgium, uk )
one third on gold share investment forums
one third doing my own due diligence research on coins or shares

I seem to be the real addict here. I probably average at least eight hours a day online (It's 8:55 AM here and I've already been online an hour and a half. and will be until 5:15 PM. I'd be on even longer than that but I have tickets to the theater this evning.) Yesterday I was on 14 hours. And I still don't get everything done I want to online. I'm luck to be able to browse ebay more than a couple times a month. Which is bad because I need to do some more searching for slab varieties.

(Can you guess I'm single?)

I've been spending a lot more time recently due to the fact that my mother-in-law gave us a rather large collection of proof and mint sets from over the years (57 on up) as well as her whitman catalogs (some full some not so full). I have been spending a lot of time researching and cataloging. At first the wife complained but we recently discovered that I lost 29 pounds because I won't snack while working on coins. She doesn't complain any more!
Ziggy