Who Knows About Your Hobby?

Thats impressive haha....one of the few people that can be known as being "off the grid"

In colledge there is a course in Psycology 101, if my memory is correct. They have that in almost all colledges and one of the first things they attempt to show you is what happens when you tell anyone, anything about anything. Usually you get about 10 people in a circle and a professor whispers a short story to one of them. This in turn is supposed to be repeated from one to another until the last person has heard the story. They are whispered so low that others can not hear what is said. Finally the last person tells that story out loud and it is amazing. Changed so much it is now difficult to believe it's the same story.
The moral of this is once you tell anyone that you collect coins, they might tell someone that tells someone and eventually you have millions of dollars in coins stashed away in your home. Maybe not millions must yet but by the time some criminals hear about your great wealth, might as well be in the millions since when they rob you, that's what they'll be looking for.
Sounds rediculous to many but not to one of my neighbors. He USED to brag about his Gold Coins and at gun and knife point, lost them all. Also, ended up in the hospital since he rather exagerated his collection.
I tell as few as possible. To me it's always better to be safe than sorry.

Difficult to hide a hobby from a girl or boy friend but think about this. When, and it does happen, such a friendship ends, usually there is a lot of hard feelings. Those hard feelings could end up with one spreading stories of a massive coin collection laying around.
Of course this same thing could happen with a married couple too.

Just my family and only a few of them know. Just my cousin, becuase he collects also, my mother and my aunt and uncle.