Do You Have A Collecting Buddy?

As to coin clubs, glad you have one where you can trust those other members. Not sure what the crime rates are in your country, and/or area of that place but around me there are many coin clubs. Not really popular though since many want your name and address. And again by me, may as well put out a sign saying I have something to steal here.
I tried a few coin clubs and as soon as they wanted personal information, I vanished with a puff of smoke almost.
I realize that many people right here on this forum may well live in some sort of crime free areas, but almost in any large populated area, you really don't know who is who.
Try imagining our police advertising how the crime rate has fallen around here to the point of only 30,000 cars a year stolen inside the City limits. This excludes the suburbs. Murders too have fallen to less than 700/year. And no one even attempts to count home invasions or other robberies.
NO around me a coin buddy, or mate, may well turn out to be someone like Jeffrey Dommer or worse.
As to "what's the point in having a collection if you can never talk about it with or show it off to somebody?"
Sort of true I guess. I have several older cars with very little milage. Now so old parts are getting scarce so I don't take them out much. I always shutter thinking of women that slam their car doors into the next one and it could be mine. Aroumd me women are to busy on cell phones to look where they are going so taking an old car out is sort of like having coins you can never tell anyone about.
Wouldn't life be great if you could run and tell ALL your neighbors about just purchasing a 1916D Mercury dime in MS-62, for example

Yes I do. My Brother and I were talking a few years back and I was pretty emphatic about purchasing precious metals as a reasonable counter to the floundering Fed. He was a natural because he has had an impressive collection of key dates that he assembled as a youngster. This year at our family reunion the discussion continued and he conceded that he should have jumped on the boat back then. I helped him buy some gold and silver bullion this Spring. Now he calls me when he picks up some new pieces to get my feedback. It's really a lot of fun having a hobby that includes my Brother. He has a pretty bad case of MS so it gives him something to do at his desk. This reminds me that I have to hook him up with Coin Community. I truly love this forum and there are a lot of great people here to bounce ideas off of.

Yah, too true K-Ken => I have limited game as it is ... I can only imagine what she'd say when I returned back to Thompson with a gunny-sack stuffed full of shady 1967 quarters and half a dozen cases of empty beer bottles ...

=> "It's all for you honey ... it's all for yoos"

You blokes at CCF are my coin buddies.
All my mates think I am mad spending hundreds of dollars on coins,But then again I think they are stupid blowing hudreds of dollars at the TAB.
At least I have a decent collection of great Aussie coins and a few good Pommy ones as well to show for my efforts

A few co-workers know I collect coins, but not how large a collection. One of them gave me a few coins and planchets, and I gave her a coin about Elvis (she is a big fan). A few relatives know I collect. And I think a few on here suspect that I collect coins.

WOW is that ever true. I have neighbors that go to the same bars about 3 to 6 times a week. They sit there for hours and regardless of what or how you drink, that is a lot of money. And when that saying about down the drain is mentioned, that is so true.
I've always thought of what it would be like to have what people like that blow in a bar to buy coins with.

I have really opened up to everyone about me being a collector, but namely collecting small things like copper pennies, wheats, etc. I have surprisingly found that way more people at my job actually collect coins than I had imagined.