Recyclersteve wrote:A few thoughts here...
If you had, say, $200k in silver and it went up 500-1000%, then I think you'd have a situation where a lot more people who would start thinking about retirement. That would be more like $1-2 million.
ME Co. wrote:I started out sorting coppers till my next payday in '07, then I got my first box of halves. By '08 I was sorting 42 boxes a week + whatever else I could scrounge. 2008-2010 I got just under 1000 oz/ year. By 2011 the free silvers were gone from halves but the addiction was still there so I switched to dimes with the same vengeance and in 3 years I scalped over 3000 of the little slivers. Now those are mostly gone as well (last try was 10 boxes/ 1 sliver) and now I been sorting nicks for over a year. Guess when the nicks are gone I may have to do cents again unless I find a life ha. BTW the copper hoard went back to the bank somewhere along the way.
HH all, Mark
Rodebaugh wrote:robroy wrote:I have been roll searching for a few years now and have begun to wonder at what point are people saying enough is enough and stop looking for copper.
I am not reselling (yet), and currently am not thinking about stopping searching. But I do wonder at what point would you stop looking for copper. I'm looking for a face dollar amount that people think is enough to store. I currently have over $600 plus a few folders and albums and am beginning to wonder if I have an obsession.
When it becomes a chore.
When storage becomes an issue.
When the fish are biting.
frugi wrote:To answer when enough is enough, I would say when it gets to the point that you have no room to store a sheet of paper anywhere, that is when you probably have enough pennies and nickels.
robroy wrote:frugi wrote:To answer when enough is enough, I would say when it gets to the point that you have no room to store a sheet of paper anywhere, that is when you probably have enough pennies and nickels.
Now that seems to be quite an imposing problem when someone can't even store a piece of paper. I am nowhere near that situation yet. Probably will never be, but it sure would be fun to attempt to reach that status. In the meantime, all my future findings will be placed into a 55 gallon metal drum. When that fills up I'll have to fine another. In the meantime, because I'm retired the problem of disposing of the coins will fall onto my children.
It's going to be sort of Dad's revenge.
Gobirds66 wrote:I guess there are a few indicators that will tell me when enough is enough....
1.) When there is no more copper left to find in the wild. Then what I have will be enough.
2.) When banks will no longer source my pennies at face value, then I will have enough.
3.) When the wife kills me because she can no longer weave her way through the maze of what I call a hoard in the basement. Then I will have enough.
4.) I just peel off the face of the earth due to my obsession. Then I will have had enough.
The reality is that by the time I get to #4, the other 3 will most likely have happened, and I am going with #3 as the most likely scenario to stop my hoarding since i am still finding Wheats over 100 years old and my copper percentages have not really dropped too much over the years.
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