Seriously Considering Giving Up The Hobby For Good

I can understand your apathy about collecting because it has hit me in some of the other hobbies that I have been involved with over the years. Some of them I've gone back to and some I haven't. But the common denominator of them is that I never got rid of the items that I collected or the tools that I used in the particular past time. The one thing that I would recommend to you would be to just pack them away for awhile. If you go back to fine, if not fine but the important thing to remember is that you will have a starting place and you wouldn't have lost your spot in line.

Off course, if your married would be to have to listen to you other half about the space that is being cluttered up with thing you no longer use. But you can ignore that and it won't cost you money at a later time.

The main part of my collection consists of finds that I have made while roll searching, so I have no real out of pocket expenses unless you consider the cost of albums, silver, gold, and other miscellaneous assundry things that my wife doesn't really know about.

a couple years ago I was getting burnt out also. I was concentrating on one specific series and every coin looked the same (except for die varieties) and seeing the same thing over and over was just burning me out quick and I had even contemplated quitting for awhile also. Instead I decided to start trying to put together a type set where all the coins are a different series/denomination and that re-lit the fire again for collecting in general. Maybe you can concentrate on another series or something to bring the fire back into your collecting spirit

I completely agree with this!

I was on the sideline for a good number of years (decade plus) when I was acquainted with my coins...I am really not sure what it was that got me back into the game. I was a series collector originally; I still have my Whitman Liberty nickel, Lincoln and Jefferson Albums. Then I moved to Type collecting. Then to the slabbed 7070 collection. Now the VAM bug has gotten ahold of me.

You will know when it's time; to let go, and when to grab back on.

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. About setting the coins aside and coming back to them later, I have done this countless times over the years but collecting doesn't seem excite me anymore. I might get the "bug" for a week or maybe two then after that period I feel as if I wasted my money thinking why'd I buy that?...buyers remorse. That can't be a good sign. If I find something in my change I'll still put it in a jar and maybe profit from it later. To address what I said earlier about the hobby changing for the worse, I just feel a lot of junk and unwanted coins are being put out there by the mints. Sets are bloated with coins I don't want and you still have to pay it if you want the other coins in the sets unless you want to buy them single. I really dislike the multiple designs in a series that lasts for years. I stopped doing quarters after the territories. I had enough. What the US Mint ought to do is circulate a regular design along with the commems like the RCM. Also it is well known here I despise the edge lettering. That itself totally kills dollar coins for me. To make the long story short, there is more things that bother me in coins than things that get be excited about it. I will probably sell the bullion and hope I'll get back what I paid.

I appreciate the fact that people have different tastes so I don't want anyone that collects moderns to take this the wrong way.....but I just don't care for moderns. The designs just don't do it for me. I also think the whole instant "profit" on modern coins issued on a limited basis will eventually fall apart. I don't have a problem buying for resale, but I believe people buying these for a long term investment are going to be disappointed.

Showing my nephews and godchildren my coins, seeing their big eyes when they here where it is from, and them asking so many neat questions...that makes me even more interested. I started each one of them a collection. I found out what there favorite coin type or country was and I have been getting them a coin from that collection to go with their presents for holidays. It is a fun way to build the interest of kids and a new collector. Just my idea of how to keep a twist on the hobby to make it have mroe meaning and more fun.

I feel the exact same way, there are no coins that I see every day in my pocket that does anything for me what so ever. I just do not like the designs of them at all.I do buy a few coins from the mint that I started collecting for my daughter when she was born like the Proof sets (silver and clad) and I get a proof and UNC ASE each year they are available also but that is just about it. I usually dump out my pocket change in a jar and when its full I take it to the bank and cash it in.hoot myself if I had to sit there and look through all of it for anything special because they just don't excite me in the least. I don't think there is anything wrong with the ones that do get enjoyment out of doing so but it just isn't anything I would enjoy myself

Actually your bringing up what most think is the reasond so many other hobbies fail. Sporting cards were great until the manufacturers started making zillions of them. I remember my Son getting so excited about those cards until he saw boxes of 500 for $5. Those little Hot Wheel cars too fell apart when you started to see new ones by the hundreds appearing every day. And for about $0.50 or a bit more. And we all saw that with Beanie Babies and US Postage Stamps. They flooded the market with all sorts of just STUFF.
Coins too are right now like that. The US Mint is producing enough different THINGS to make a lot of serious collectors irritated. And no one is making the older types anymore either. I've been wondering lately if this sort of flooding the market will also sort of end coin collecting or make it like all the others that finally dropped away.