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Assorted lots and therapy
"Cliff" wrote in message ... I work a farily high stress job for a lot of hours each day. Usually I end the day pretty stressed and keyed up and I try to alleviate that stress by cutting up trees with my chainsaw or shooting some of my various rifles or pistols at a target range. Yesterday I got a 4 pound assortment of medals, tokens and coins (cheap too) from an ebay seller. Last night, instead of going to the range or working outside, I emptied up that lot and went through those tokens one by one. When I was finished I was amazed at how calm and serene I felt. Perhaps these odd lots are really good therapy. Among the tokens I found one with my daughters name on it and gave it to her, got a lot of chuck e. cheese tokens and was able to fill in some of my types and varieties, got some Coulon Leper Colony Money from the Philippines and a lot of tax and transportation tokens. I didn't do anything but pull out the hole fillers, gave my daughter her token and put them all back in the bag for another evening of closer looking. Maybe a lot of us have reached the point that when we get something new in we look at it, ohhhh and ahhhh for a little bit and then put it in the safe, but how often we do look through a bunch of wheaties, or a lot of world coins and just enjoy looking? I'd recommend it over an evening with a .45 any day. Cliff Yes, when sorting objects, it provides us the time to sort our feelings as well, instead of simply blasting them. |
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Cliff wrote:
I work a farily high stress job for a lot of hours each day. Usually I end the day pretty stressed and keyed up and I try to alleviate that stress by cutting up trees with my chainsaw or shooting some of my various rifles or pistols at a target range. Yesterday I got a 4 pound assortment of medals, tokens and coins (cheap too) from an ebay seller. Last night, instead of going to the range or working outside, I emptied up that lot and went through those tokens one by one. When I was finished I was amazed at how calm and serene I felt. Perhaps these odd lots are really good therapy. Among the tokens I found one with my daughters name on it and gave it to her, got a lot of chuck e. cheese tokens and was able to fill in some of my types and varieties, got some Coulon Leper Colony Money from the Philippines and a lot of tax and transportation tokens. I didn't do anything but pull out the hole fillers, gave my daughter her token and put them all back in the bag for another evening of closer looking. Maybe a lot of us have reached the point that when we get something new in we look at it, ohhhh and ahhhh for a little bit and then put it in the safe, but how often we do look through a bunch of wheaties, or a lot of world coins and just enjoy looking? I'd recommend it over an evening with a .45 any day. Cliff Welcome to the wonderful world of Roll Searches, Cliff. ;-) Nothing is as delightful to me as going through $5 of cents and finding a BU 1971-S, or a coin that someone used a vise to shape into an octagon. ;-) Alan 'Lincoln Voyeur' |
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Having just spent 2 nights with my dearest going through about a bazaillion "unsearched" (haha) wheats for about for-freaking-ever and turning up only one entire p-d-s lot (1919, whoohoo) out of it, I think not.
"Cliff" wrote in message ... I work a farily high stress job for a lot of hours each day. Usually I end the day pretty stressed and keyed up and I try to alleviate that stress by cutting up trees with my chainsaw or shooting some of my various rifles or pistols at a target range. Yesterday I got a 4 pound assortment of medals, tokens and coins (cheap too) from an ebay seller. Last night, instead of going to the range or working outside, I emptied up that lot and went through those tokens one by one. When I was finished I was amazed at how calm and serene I felt. Perhaps these odd lots are really good therapy. Among the tokens I found one with my daughters name on it and gave it to her, got a lot of chuck e. cheese tokens and was able to fill in some of my types and varieties, got some Coulon Leper Colony Money from the Philippines and a lot of tax and transportation tokens. I didn't do anything but pull out the hole fillers, gave my daughter her token and put them all back in the bag for another evening of closer looking. Maybe a lot of us have reached the point that when we get something new in we look at it, ohhhh and ahhhh for a little bit and then put it in the safe, but how often we do look through a bunch of wheaties, or a lot of world coins and just enjoy looking? I'd recommend it over an evening with a .45 any day. Cliff |
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