Have You Ever Gone Through Your Coin Collection And........

I usually have a steel trap memory but on Thursday I was surprised to find $52+ in coin that needed to be dumped at the bank in a ziplock bag in my center console... I guess it's more of picking up a couple of rolls here and there that added up then forgetting I bought some silver.. I'd never forget silver, maybe clad (no luck finding those Ike's)... Maybe the banks forgot how to order them

I can really relate here. The difficulty of forgetting traumatic memories has wreaked havoc on my mental health in the past years. People sometimes wish they had my memory, but they would think twice if they factored in everything else I deal with. I guess it helps with studying and is a pretty darn good party trick, but it leaves a lot of weight to carry in your psyche. ASLAN TVorlon, just remember that there are people going through the same situation and they care. I'm sorry for the loss of your cousin and animal friends.

Here, have an internet hug!

Only a couple? I sometimes find entire Albums I forgot about. I sometimes open a box of coins I just put aside thinking someday I'll do something with. I find coins I never new I had. With virtually many thousands of coins, I really have little idea what I have and don't have. I do know I have well over 3,000 Mercury dimes but as to finding one or more laying around I didn't know about, that's easy. I actually have a fantastic bad memory. I find myself going out to the garage and can't remember why. I always like going out to my garage and finding the car doors loked. What's wrong with that? It's a convetible with the top down. So who locked those doors anyway? I'll be sitting here on the computer and jump up, go downstairs and stand there wondering why. I go to stores all the time and forget the list of things I went there for. Then I can't find the list either. I make dimilar lists for things I want, need or would just like when I go to coin shows and almost always forget the list. So I buy things I like, usually don't need though. Not long ago I found a note in one of my Jefferson nickel Albums saying remember coins in set #4 are better than those in set #3. Who would put that note there and why?
Amd your worried about a few coins?

We forget about some of the coins we have. And some we try to forget we have them ;) Also we do have issues finding tubes or specific coins sometimes.

~CWS

Funny because it is True, Josh.

OK I did that yesterday with a pen, I had a 2x2 in hand in need of a date and I was latterly looking all around the pen, it took a flashlight, I thought it had hit the floor but there is was dead center plain sight

Thanks all for the support and kind words. I always figure a 'GOOD' memory just means you remember the 'BAD' things that much more.

My coworkers tell me that I have a photographic memory and that they wish they could remember things like I do. I tell them that it can also be a curse. I remember good times in perfect clarity, but I can also remember bad, painful times.

Lately, my memory isn't as good as it used to be. I attribute that to a stressful job that I hate and can't escape from....

I can relate to both of these statements. I have a pretty good memory myself. I was talking to my parents to put some continuity to my earliest memories, and I found out that I have memories from before my first birthday and multitudes from before my parents divorced when I was three. Like some posters here, I can't forget a single coin that I bought and still have, although I sometime forget where I put them...

My memory helps with school, but, as Aslan said, recall is definitely more difficult. I forget simple things like my best friends' names for a short time, but they always come back. After that I probably won't forget them as I had been thinking about their names for a while, trying to remember them.