I'm convinced that we sorters are driven more by compulsion here than anything. For me as a relatively part time hand sorter, I find myself driven by what I might find in the "next" roll, the "next" handful that I pull from the bag. For those with a Ryedale, I assume you might get the same feeling through looking through what just came from the batch you just ran etc. As an example, I get a buzz from every pre 96 Canadian that I find, since they ended the cent, just thinking that there's sort of a finality to them. "They're not getting this one", I sometimes actually say out loud. Some, including me, get the same feeling with wheats, no matter how many we run across in a given batch, or how many we "know" we'll get in the next batch.
I find, lately, that I'm having a hard time with my zincolns in that it's constantly in the back of my mind that I could be "throwing away" even a $1 cent, if not something worth much more. Every time I find a dime in a CWR, I think, "there was an easy 9 cents".
The problem is that, as a handsorter, I'm somewhat obliged to rifle through a box or bag, and sort of rely on my culls to fund my next box or bag. This hardly allows me to set aside a large amount of cents to "go through later", if there is such a time. hahaha. Additionally, I still have enough common sense, I think, to realize that the odds of finding even a $1 error is pretty low, and yet... I can't contain the feeling that every cent I toss into the reject pile might just net me a few dollars or even tens of dollars.
Can anyone relate to this? Any suggestions, or tips, or therapeutics? hahaha
Atticus