Free Breakfast at Carl's Jr's

[beauanderos]

Sorta.

So I drove over to Carl's Jr's to pick up a Monster biscuit with my $1.99 coupon (expired, but they honor them). Had grabbed my
loose change container from home as it was almost full. While sorting the quarters out, much to my surprise... I found two 1963,
one AU the other normal wear. Woohoo! Then (as we always tell each other to go back to the bank and ask for other rolls)... I
rechecked what I had already separated into paper cups in my tray holder in the truck. Found another! Again, 1963.

No way these were my own stash accidentally commingled into the change jar. Now... the question this raises in my mind is this.
Some numbnuts must have come across a roll of 1963 and just spent them as change. It mystifies me how anyone can not realize
the value of silver coins... but there are undoubtedly hundreds of millions of American's who DON'T! I will show a Merc or
Walker to someone at work, and they're all "Gee, I've never seen one of those before. Is it real? Can you spend it? It looks funny,
not like the coins we have now." People even into their 30's are clueless.

Gives new meaning to the term dumb luck. Their ignorance is our good fortune.

*how did I calculate hundreds of million's? You always hear one percent or less own precious metals. I think it's probably way less
than that. Just consider the membership base here. Even if only 1 in 1000 people who do understand their value and stack were
members, here and on other sites (discounting dual citizenships), the representation likely accounts for less than 5,000,000. That means
there are in excess of 325,000,000 in this country, who either don't know about, or can't afford to stack 90%

All that ignorance. I hate to consider what the effect of that stupidity will result in come election time. If Obama lets that
happen without declaring martial law first... after the false flag event he will orchestrate.

There! I dare you not to thread drift this post.

[pennypicker]

Over the years I have sold a lot of silver on craigslist and to this day I've never had a customer under the age of 30. Most are in their 40's and '50s. Seems like the younger people of today are obsessed (addicted) to electronic items. Back when I was a kid many of my friends collected both coins and baseball cards but today the kids want electronic gadgets to fancy. I guess it is what it is.

[68Camaro]

Well, folks in their 20s and 30s both rarely think about saving nor do they often have enough extra to make that easy. (Exceptions exist, of course.) Then there is their general lack of appreciation for hard money because they are a 2nd or 3rd generation of fiat, even coin. Maybe there is still more to it - a generational thing. But I know my saving of physical wasn't really sparked in a serious way until my late 40s in 2007 when I fully lost faith in the overall financial direction at the top and realized that we were definitively and purposefully being led down an irreversible path. I haven't completely given up hope in our young; they've been sold a bill of goods but they can come to the truth and change.

[Recyclersteve]

It would be interesting if someone came up with a poll to determine what traits coin collectors have in common with each other- besides generally being over 45-50 years old and male. For instance, are they more or less likely to be hoarders of things other than coins? More or less likely to gamble and/or smoke? (You might wonder what that has to do with coins, but I thought that someone who is frugal enough to put their hand into a Coinstar machine might also shun expenses for things that are NOT necessities) More or less likely to (you fill in the blanks)? This could be interesting if someone came up with the right survey and we had, say, 100 or more participants.

[scyther]

Cool.

For what it's worth, I was 20 when I joined this forum and I'm 25 now. But there do seem to be a lot of older people here.

I can't really blame people for not knowing a 1963 quarter is silver. They have the same design as quarters made all the way to 1998, and even today the obverse is basically the same. The don't jump out visually like a Mercury or a Walker. I was really surprised when I first found out that coins made as late as 1964 were silver.

[pennypicker]

But there do seem to be a lot of older people here.

I think I would qualify as one of those older people. I had my first paper route in 1968 and when I got paid my $40 every month I would go to the bank and buy three rolls of half dollars with the hope of finding an occasional Franklin. I would spend roughly $5 on a dozen .29 cent 1968 baseball rack packs (which are now worth $1500 each if you had the foresight not to open them) and open them searching for Dodger cards, and I'd spend a chunk of the remaining $5 getting sick on coke and candy for the next few days. I've been searching coin rolls and baseball card packs for 48 years now so I guess that qualifies me as one of the "older people" on this forum.

[Bigjohn]

Sorta.

All that ignorance. I hate to consider what the effect of that stupidity will result in come election time. If Obama lets that
happen without declaring martial law first... after the false flag event he will orchestrate.
:

I see your point and agree with a part of the argument. I don't agree that anyone who doesn't know that pre-65 coins were silver is ignorant and stupid and effects of that stupidity [fill in the blinks]. When I was in my 20's, I had 2 business degrees and ran a company with a couple dozen employees. In a matter of a year, I fixed their books, and turned a profit for the company for the first time in nearly 10 years. At the time, I didn't know that pre-65 coins were silver. It's silly to think that someone might not know such simple things but if no one ever talks about it and it's not taught in schools, how would kids even know that? Similarly, many of us might look around a garage sale and not buy a piece of garbage for 10 cents that's actually a rare antique worth hundreds of dollars. Why? You don't know what you don't know. While the guys at the antiques forum are posting how the world is going to hell because 15 dumb ignorant guys walked right by that rare antique and didn't pick it up while it was so simple and obvious

[beauanderos]

Sorta.

All that ignorance. I hate to consider what the effect of that stupidity will result in come election time. If Obama lets that
happen without declaring martial law first... after the false flag event he will orchestrate.
:

I see your point and agree with a part of the argument. I don't agree that anyone who doesn't know that pre-65 coins were silver is ignorant and stupid and effects of that stupidity [fill in the blinks]. When I was in my 20's, I had 2 business degrees and ran a company with a couple dozen employees. In a matter of a year, I fixed their books, and turned a profit for the company for the first time in nearly 10 years. At the time, I didn't know that pre-65 coins were silver. It's silly to think that someone might not know such simple things but if no one ever talks about it and it's not taught in schools, how would kids even know that? Similarly, many of us might look around a garage sale and not buy a piece of garbage for 10 cents that's actually a rare antique worth hundreds of dollars. Why? You don't know what you don't know. While the guys at the antiques forum are posting how the world is going to hell because 15 dumb ignorant guys walked right by that rare antique and didn't pick it up while it was so simple and obvious

I didn't say people were unintelligent. Ignorant simply means unlearned and the word has picked up a bad connotation by some who either are unaware of that or use it to imply stupidity.
I am not disparaging the masses when I call them ignorant, simply stating that what they don't know, in this case the value of pre-1964 silver coins, makes them so. The fact that I never
understood the potential of unopened baseball card packs makes me ignorant of that knowledge... a point I will readily admit to without shame. Who would have thought?

[Bigjohn]

Sorta.

All that ignorance. I hate to consider what the effect of that stupidity will result in come election time. If Obama lets that
happen without declaring martial law first... after the false flag event he will orchestrate.
:

I see your point and agree with a part of the argument. I don't agree that anyone who doesn't know that pre-65 coins were silver is ignorant and stupid and effects of that stupidity [fill in the blinks]. When I was in my 20's, I had 2 business degrees and ran a company with a couple dozen employees. In a matter of a year, I fixed their books, and turned a profit for the company for the first time in nearly 10 years. At the time, I didn't know that pre-65 coins were silver. It's silly to think that someone might not know such simple things but if no one ever talks about it and it's not taught in schools, how would kids even know that? Similarly, many of us might look around a garage sale and not buy a piece of garbage for 10 cents that's actually a rare antique worth hundreds of dollars. Why? You don't know what you don't know. While the guys at the antiques forum are posting how the world is going to hell because 15 dumb ignorant guys walked right by that rare antique and didn't pick it up while it was so simple and obvious

I didn't say people were unintelligent. Ignorant simply means unlearned and the word has picked up a bad connotation by some who either are unaware of that or use it to imply stupidity.
I am not disparaging the masses when I call them ignorant, simply stating that what they don't know, in this case the value of pre-1964 silver coins, makes them so. The fact that I never
understood the potential of unopened baseball card packs makes me ignorant of that knowledge... a point I will readily admit to without shame. Who would have thought?

In this context, I agree. The only reason it sounded different is this: I hate to consider what the effect of that stupidity will result in come election time
I think many of us are ignorant in a lot of ways but that ignorance won't necessarily correlate with the course of the election.
Good stackin'

[scyther]

When I told my grandma a few years ago that dimes, quarters, and half dollars were silver until 1964, she offered an interesting response... she thought they still were So I don't think it has much to do with age... even people who were around at the time just weren't paying attention.

[johnbrickner]

TY BG. Summed up succinctly, this is the bottom line.

You don't know what you don't know.

To which one can add: "The more you know, the more you don't know".

It's all about awareness. *(Drifting it, Ray)

[beauanderos]

TY BG. Summed up succinctly, this is the bottom line.

You don't know what you don't know.

To which one can add: "The more you know, the more you don't know".

It's all about awareness. *(Drifting it, Ray)

Heck... my own post that morning drifted all over the place

I'm just trying to throw out provocative commentary so we can keep some interest in posting here. Don't want to see the community dwindle from
lack of participation.

[Thogey]

What the hell are you doing eating at Carls Jr anyway?

[hobo finds]

Carl’s Jr. | Bacon 3-Way Burger

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https://youtu.be/7DJ34jCgTbY

[AGgressive Metal]

Most of the guys in 20s & 30s who are into bullion & coins are doing it with a high amount of knowledge (via internet) and usually flipping for profit. 20s-30s are earning years, family building years, paying off mortgage & student loan years, not many people in that range can afford to just sit on a pile of metal in addition to all their obligations. There is way less hobby interest in Whitman hole-filling type of collecting among younger people to be sure, but there will be guys to fill the gap when it comes to serious $$$ stuff.

[natsb88]

Most of the guys in 20s & 30s who are into bullion & coins are doing it with a high amount of knowledge (via internet) and usually flipping for profit. 20s-30s are earning years, family building years, paying off mortgage & student loan years, not many people in that range can afford to just sit on a pile of metal in addition to all their obligations.