Is It Normal Not To Have The Desire To Fill A Dansco?

You are absolutely not alone I am putting away a 2 rolls of ASE's for each of my children every year until college or other higher education. I figure one will have 24 rolls the other 28 and hopefully that will get them a nice start. I don't plan on telling them about this until the day they graduate though. I am going to make them pay their whole entire way through college with loans then pay it off at as a graduation gift.

IMO you need to earn your way in this world. I want them to appreciate a dollar, especially for the ones I sell my soul for a daily basis.

you non-album people are the free-est of us all! Godspeed to you!

If you're going to spend $10k on coins, I'd go quality over quantity. If you're doing it for your kids, you're leaving them a complex problem that they likely won't know how to deal with when you kick the bucket. As I get older my plan is pare down my collection substantially to reduce the volume. That way, if they choose to sell it (which most relatives end up doing), it will be easy to deal with. It's MUCH simplier to sell a handful of nice, valuable coins rather than a mountain of common stuff the dealers call "junk"....and pay junk prices for.

I've seen it many times at my local shop. A relative comes in with a huge pile of "stuff". The dealer is not going to take 40 hours to go through and grade/value every coin. They quickly look it over for key dates and bullion in about 10 minutes and make an offer....they hope they'll find a diamond in the rough later. I'd guesstimate that 90+% of these sellers take the offer and walk out with cash.

I love this hobby because I can be Full on focused on one set, and then totally flip and change gears to another set, then come back to the first one whenever I want, or not... either way.

Well, I dont know if there is a normal coin collector

Hambone - In my eyes a 'normal' collection is one of each of a particular set. I run into guys selling off left-overs all the time locally, so from what I gather they're completing sets. Last time I bought coins, the seller had 4 danscos and 2 were half full, I made the assumption that that is what 'average' is.

CPC24 - That's what got me started, I bought my first coin lot at my great aunt & uncle's auction, a bag of Walkers & Franklins for $5 (7 halves for $5). In 2008 right after the mortgage crash, I got worried and bought a 'box o silver' from a guy on craigslist @ $16/oz. Fast forward to November of 2010 or so when I started to realize that the halves were worth way more and the box of silver had nearly doubled in value. From that point on I wanted to start buying more, so I've tried to allocate more money to it. In the past 3 months I've found out that very few collectors live in my town, and there are quite a few people who have coins and want to get rid of them, so I have a good deal of opportunity to get something out of it.

I concur with BadThad; Quality over quantity and I am downsizing my collection and focusing on major types versus series collecting.

I find it wise to seek out opinions from others, but only you can determine what is best for you!

Must be new here. Most members here use the word Dansco rather than using the word Album. This is what is known as the Dansco web site at times.
If your really don't know Dansco is one of the now many organizations that produce coin collecting items such as Albums, Folders, etc. There are many more of these companies and all have their goods and bads. Although lately Dansco has been noted to be of the best conttruction by coin people of most of the others, they too have been none to have faults.
Many people like that brand due to they look like expensive books due to their color and texture on the covers. Naturally these are the same people that hide them from public view due to crime rates.
Some of the other companies that make Albums make them Green or Blue and those just don't match to many people's color decor. One of the sort of popular ones is basically a whitish color but since made in China, not to popular.
I basically use Whitman Albums and some Dansco ones and basically try to fill them. It is sort of a thing that I just hate to see an empty slot in them. In order to break the monotiny of continuous Albums, I also make many of my own with parts from other albums or 3 ringed binders.
A hobby is just that, a hobby and should be done with whatever makes you happy.