How Does Your Spouse Feel About Your Coin Collecting?

Neutral for me. Tried that marryin' thang a couple of times back in the day - costs too much to get rid of 'em.
Now, my significant other is an old, fat, grey and white tom cat - don't think he minds one whit whether I collect coins, or anything else for that matter as long as I keep food and water in the bowls for him, and let him out when he goes to the door. Works out pretty good.

Ralph

My wife feigns interest to be nice, but I know she doesn't care. She also has no idea how much I spend on the hobby.

I voted Neutral, I don't think she minds as long as I don't go overboard on it buying everything in site lol, She has her hobby (Scrapbooking). This poll pretty much came on the same day that my other forum that I go to had a thing about spouse. The other forum is Pogoaddiction and the woman was asking the forum advice on getting her husband to buy another year subscription to Club Pogo. (I play games there all the time)

I voted for "Somewhat encourage", actually sometime she asks to know which coins I'm cataloging, she try to get interest to understand if coins has some value and so on, but sometime she complains because I'm crazy to spend so much time in coin collections but above all she doesn't know how much I spend in money ...

My wife strongly encourages my coin collecting, and when we go to our favorite coin store she watches what I buy so that she can justify buying coins for herself. I'm not entirely sure of her motivation. She doesn't spend a lot of time looking at her coins, but she seems real pleased to have them, and keeps them in her small little safe.

A few months back we were in the coin store and the lady showed us a Gold Buffalo she had for sale. She wanted $505 for it. I said "Nope, we just can't afford it." Then, about 20 miles down the road toward home, the wife says, "That's a beautiful coin and would probably be a good investment also."

So, when we got home, we called the coin store and asked them to hold it for us. A couple days later, out comes the credit card, and we now have a Gold Buffalo.

The wife recently added a silver Panda and a $2 1/2 gold piece to her collection.

Like me, she is a semi-retired teacher, and she works hard for her money. She enjoys buying coins and encourages me to do the same!!

Biokemist6 ... thanks for the links.

I agree, generally, I am not the first in line for colorized coins, but the picture posted by Steve is beautiful ... I am definitely going to look into that one!

My wife seems interested at times but she also doesn't like that I spend so much time on the computer in forums. She occasionally asks me questions about the coins I collect. She collects fractional currency but only buys when we go to a coin show together.

She tolerates it but want me to be sure to leave instructions when I pass as to how to get rid of them as she has no clue as to what I have and how valuable it is.