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Rest in Peace
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Bill ,nice advice for OP . BTW are you a relative of Donald Trump ?  |
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Pillar of the Community
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No, if I were ralated to Donald Trump, I'd be one of his "poor relations," and he would have fired me the first week on his TV show. I'm too much of an independent cuss to take orders these days.
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Pillar of the Community
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this guy posted a chart with some budgeting in mind a while ago. not a bad place to get some ideas. http://goccf.com/t/244129 |
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Nice link Steele.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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 I suggest doing what I do. I start an Album with whatever I an afford or find. If and when I find a coin for that Album in better shape than the one in there now, I put the better one in the Album. The replaced coin goes into a 2x2, then into a 2x2 box. Slowly as set #1 gets better and better and the amount of 2x2's of that type grows to what could be another set, I acquire another Album and use all the extra's in the 2x2's for that set. Then I start again doing the same thing for sets now 1 and 2. Eventually I end up with many, many sets of the same type. For example I now have 10 Albums of Lincoln Cents, 12 sets of Mercury dimes, 7 Albums of Indian Head (Buffalo) Nickels and on and on and on. Now have well over 100 Albums and most full. |
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you need to change your name to CrazyCarl. because you're nutz  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I wouldn't say nutz but maybe better at starting projects than finishing them. That's ok, life is a process, not a destination. And you can collect the way that makes you most happy -- we live in a free country after all.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Another member has a saying in his signature line. 'Free your mind from the tyranny of holes'. I tend to agree. I buy coins that I love and don't have to worry about the pressure of filling a hole. I think hole filling can lead to some dumb purchases. Just my 2 cents.
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Make it "a hole to fill" only if it is something you really want to collect. Don't make a hole to fill simply because it's there.
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