Question for Stacking Community: Did you come to stacking strictly from online mentors, or did you have a personal mentor (in the regards to stacking)?
And Follow-up Question: Do you have a stacking protege of your own?
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Thanks for watching and I look forward to reading your responses!
I just started buying silver bullion In fact I made my first purchase last night. However, it has been coming for some time. I have a relative who has been stacking silver for many years and she has talked to me about silver stacking. I have also done much online research as well. Thanks for the video!
No mentors or proteges for me. I've purchased a few bullion related gifts for my family and they haven't appeared to be too enthused. I get the standard "that's nice" response and that's it. My relatives would rather blow their money on the latest trendy item to keep up with the Joneses it would seem.
Only online mentors for me! I have 2 real-life 'proteges'. Their political views are so closely related to mine, that it was natural for them to convert their FRNs into silver. It is sort of the blind leading the blind much of the time. I don't give advice on things I do not about, so I mainly just tell them about the differences in premiums. It does help to show them your stack. If they are at all interested they will love holding and admiring your silver.
my brother is responsible for me getting into silver. he pulled out a 5oz fiji taku and handed it to me. I was so amazed by the beauty of it. after about a minute or two of drooling all over it he said to me 'keep it, its yours". I have been hooked ever since. as far as a protege all I have is my daughter. had a friend who was interested and even bought a few oz but ended up just selling(to me lol) when prices started dropping.
I guess my grandfather starting my stacking tendencies seeing the stuff he collected in the 1940's. I would had love to inherit his doubt that will happen now. Though atleast before he went somewhat crazy he gave each of his kids one of his silver dollars.
I'm assuming the rest will be plundered by the girlfriend he took up once my grandmother died at 90. She's like five years younger than his youngest child and has spent all his savings. His collection was probally melted already built I'm holding out hope.
Quote: I'm assuming the rest will be plundered by the girlfriend he took up once my grandmother died at 90. She's like five years younger than his youngest child and has spent all his savings. His collection was probally melted already built I'm holding out hope.
That's a terrible situation Bertensgrad. I feel for you and your family. My grandparents on both sides are getting up there in years too and you can see the vultures circling, hoping to get a piece of their estates. A professor of mine who is a probate attorney has told us a number of stories about relatives cleaning out (stealing from) the estate before it can be distributed properly, to the decedent's wishes.
Yeah it's bad since his collection helped to encourage my own collectioning as a kid. After the silver dollars were properly given out, the net worth of it is probally less then $100 but it still bothers me that it may go missing and melted. Most of it was junk silver but had some heirloom coins he received from his grandfather who collected as a kid.
I offered to go through with him and determine exactly what it's worth and offered to pay a fair price for it but he just shrugs it off. Most of its just junk he collected as a poor kid in the 30's but it's still has a lot of sentimental value to me and him. I haven't seen the actual collection in five years so I have no idea if it's still in one piece or he sold it already.
I have at least talked with all my aunts and uncles about me buying his collection to keep everything above board. They don't see it has any any value and are fine with me making a offer or him giving them to me or bequeathing them.
I took an interest in silver coins as a boy in the late 60's. There had been a fire at a near by farm which destroyed the house (everyone got out). Sometime after the fire (months... a few years I'm not sure I was young) my father when up and spent some time digging in the remains of the house. He brought back perhaps a dozen silver dollars that were all melted together. Working in a family run store I had handled lots of silver as change but some how these were different. They were treasure, they were beautiful.
My dad found the farm tenants and returned the silver to them (a great lesson to a young boy). End of story. Thanks for helping me remember this. Liverpool
My protegees where all those crooked/inapt politicians who have run their countries financial systems into the ground and burdened us with massive debt.
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