Start Your Kids Early.

I wish I knew the secret...mine are 8 and 11, I've tried to get them into roll hunting, collecting, and detecting, (some of my hobbies) to no avail. I can't seem to hold their interest for more than 5 minutes. I'd have to throw out the Xbox!

Well, like they say, CP... "too soon old, too late smart"!

Still, anyone who is now buying silver and / or gold is WAY ahead of the millions of people out there who never give it a thought of any kind. Because of this, those of us who are awake and aware of the deteriorating world and national economic and political situations have to do more than we otherwise would so that those in our immediate family can benefit from our awareness. Economic disaster is looming and the politicians are still fooling around as if they had all the time in the world to correct these problems. They don't... and neither do we, so keep on stackin'!




I hear ya, fist. We all have a problem or two along these lines. My wife has quite a bit of cash in her CU account and we have talked several times about her using part of it to invest in some gold but she won't hear of it. To her, paper is money and no amount of facts that I can give her make a bit of difference to her. If the dollar collapses during our lifetimes, which seems likely to me, she will be one of the millions out there with that "deer in the headlights look" on her face, as the "impossible" happens.

Similarly, our daughter is the same way, spends too much, and will not save anything for retirement. I offered to start a Roth IRA for both our kids back in '98. I said that I would match them dollar for dollar up to $1000. This was FREE money that was offered. Daughter rejected the idea immediately because it would COST her $1000. Son grabbed it just as fast, so I am batting .333 in the family. Not bad but a long ways from what I had hoped to achieve. Son is now 37 years old and has $75k in his retirement fund. It is not difficult to tell which of our two kids will retire in comfort and which will be working all her life. I just hate it when people whom I love are confronted by the obvious, refuse my help, and then continue on their course towards financial failure, as if they did not know how to avoid it.

I must have had an auto.exe file somewhere in my software as a kid.
I self started.

darn I wish my parents helped my hobby, they keep saying you cant eat gold and silver and ill grow out of it.

Today, I took my 4 year old son to his first coin shop. I picked him up a ASE and I let him pick out any one coin he wanted. After a few minutes of looking at all the display cases my son looked at a container of half dollars and said he wanted to pick one out. The coin dealer handed me the container which contained 1964 Kennedy, Franklin and Walking Liberty halves. Out of about 50 different coins my son picked his favorite one, a 1936 P Walking Liberty half. At such a young age he already knows about dates and mint marks. The dealer was quite impressed. Before we left the dealer told my son to pick out a few world coins in the junk bin. My son was absolutely thrilled, he couldn't wait to go home and add these new treasures to his collection.

I am so happy my son has such an interest in coins.

I'm glad I was started early by taking all silver coins and saving them in the 1960s. We also kept wheat pennies as well. We lost interest in actual coin collecting when coinage was clad but still looked for the silver and older pennies. Now I am looking through all change and keeping nickels and pre 1982 pennies just in case! Time will tell with them. Anyway in keeping and searching nickels I started my 3 year old grandchild filling a book

Good story, BW. Yeah, learning can be difficult for us sometimes. The good news is that you now KNOW that it is good to buy those Mercs, so get it on!