Why Do We Collect?

It's probably personal preferance more than anything. It's just like asking "Do you prefer chocolate or vanilla ice cream?".

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Originally posted by Buffaloboy5

Wow thats a good question longnine!!! I might make that into a thread or not state your opinion here

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Well lets say someone goes on a journey. He stops in every town and buys a coin or two and puts it in his back pack. After a few years the back pack is getting heavier and heavier. Not only that the logistics of supporting such a growing collecting are getting bigger too--more reference books, more coin supplies, more cataloging, more research, a bigger and bigger back pack, more trips to Western Union to get more money for more coins. Then he needs a heavy cavas backpack for all those coins and then a steel backpack. And finally he discovers he can't move anymore. He suspects someting is wrong when he starts sinking into the mud. He got over-extended, two much too fast. He has to cast-off some bulk here if he wants to move again.