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Bill Lawrence Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1037 Joined: Mar 17^th, 2014	Re: collecting future Reply #135 - Dec 24^th, 2018 at 8:02pm	Print Post
	True, bohemianway, and I'd bet the guns have been and still will be a lot more fun. Bill Lawrence


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16274 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: collecting future Reply #136 - Dec 24^th, 2018 at 8:19pm	Print Post
	If I was single every dollar I invested in the market would be in guns now. But then it would have been in guns way back then if my wife hadn't stopped me!

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Kurt_701 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1019 Location: Missouri Joined: May 20^th, 2004	Re: collecting future Reply #137 - Dec 24^th, 2018 at 8:25pm	Print Post
	If we have enjoyed our singleshots, I think we are doing okay. I have bought stocks & made investments that I did not enjoy. And I have never seen a brinks truck in a funeral procession. It reminds old joke about the guy who invested $10,000 in Enron and lost it all. Another guy bought Tyco and it went belly up. He lost everything. A third guy bought $10,000 of Budweiser in cans, drank the beer and sold the aluminum for $400.00. Have fun & hold center. Kurt

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wcf3840 Senior Forum Member Offline ASSRA Life #299 Posts: 357 Location: Palatine Joined: May 28^th, 2007	Re: collecting future Reply #138 - Dec 25^th, 2018 at 2:09pm	Print Post
	I've never sat and held and admired any money, but I sure have with my single shots. They've brought me hours of entertainment and companionship with people who are like minded. I see and experience a kind of quality that, to me, is priceless. That's how I measure value.


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BP Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 8039 Location: Westside Joined: Aug 27^th, 2006	Re: collecting future Reply #139 - Dec 25^th, 2018 at 7:11pm	Print Post
	Knew an old retiree who had kept a Coleman cooler full of cash. When he passed away, his kids found the cooler and opened it up. They said it stunk like hell, and since the rank smell had permeated into the cooler for so many years, they had to trash it.

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Rebel Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4292 Location: Rockets and Race Cars Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: collecting future Reply #140 - Dec 25^th, 2018 at 10:24pm	Print Post
	The cooler or the cash? There's always Fabreeze. Aaron

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slumlord44 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2850 Location: Lebanon, Illinois 62254 Joined: Dec 21^st, 2007	Re: collecting future Reply #141 - Dec 25^th, 2018 at 10:35pm	Print Post
	I collect guns and other things. I collect what I like and and am interested in. So far I have come out way ahead overall on guns I have sold. My primary intent in all of my hobbies is my personal enjoyment. If I come out ahead, so much the better. If I come out behind I have still enjoyed my hobby. I always tell my wife that when I die and she sells my stuff she will be happy that I am into guns rather than golf, boating, or spending time in the tavern or chasing other women. I just turned 74 and still adding to my collection. Also recently started redoing a '65 Mustang that I have had sitting in my shed for probably 35 years. Don't know if I will come out ahead or behind if I ever sell it but I do know that I enjoy working on it and it will be a blast to drive when I get it on the road. Hobbies to me should be fun. If you can make money on it thats fine. If it's not fun then whats the point?


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BP Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 8039 Location: Westside Joined: Aug 27^th, 2006	Re: collecting future Reply #142 - Dec 25^th, 2018 at 10:45pm	Print Post
	Rebel wrote on Dec 25^th, 2018 at 10:24pm: The cooler or the cash? There's always Fabreeze. Aaron They definitely recycled the cash... don't know if they ever bought a new cooler though.

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Schuetzenmiester Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 6707 Location: Cool Wet Side of WA Joined: Apr 27^th, 2008	Re: collecting future Reply #143 - Dec 26^th, 2018 at 2:43pm	Print Post
	BP, interesting container for a cash collection of that magnitude. There was a retiree on the news in the last month or 2 who lost over 100k in cash from his house. A friends granddad who was a sheriff in NE WA or northern ID was cleaning out a deceased's cabin. There was a trap door to the attic. He lifted it and pushed it to the side. If he had pushed it up higher there was a set gun protecting the attic that would have shot him in the head. I don't recall what it was protecting if I was told. My friend showed me the set gun in the 70s. Not something I would want in my collection.

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BP Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 8039 Location: Westside Joined: Aug 27^th, 2006	Re: collecting future Reply #144 - Dec 26^th, 2018 at 3:54pm	Print Post
	Schuetzenmiester wrote on Dec 26^th, 2018 at 2:43pm: BP, interesting container for a cash collection of that magnitude. There was a retiree on the news in the last month or 2 who lost over 100k in cash from his house. A friends granddad who was a sheriff in NE WA or northern ID was cleaning out a deceased's cabin. There was a trap door to the attic. He lifted it and pushed it to the side. If he had pushed it up higher there was a set gun protecting the attic that would have shot him in the head. I don't recall what it was protecting if I was told. My friend showed me the set gun in the 70s. Not something I would want in my collection. Bob, That reminds me of those old mole traps that used a shotgun shell that was primed and ready to fire when the mole came along and tripped the pan and trigger.

	There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading, the few who learn by observation, and the rest who have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. Proud Noodlehead
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BP Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 8039 Location: Westside Joined: Aug 27^th, 2006	Re: collecting future Reply #145 - Dec 26^th, 2018 at 3:56pm	Print Post
	JLouis wrote on Dec 26^th, 2018 at 3:26pm: Granddad went through the depression, buried his money in cans with soldered on the lids around the ranch, his children never knew where and never found them when he died a bit suddenly. Did your granddad have his reasons for not wanting his children to know where those cans were buried?

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Schuetzenmiester Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 6707 Location: Cool Wet Side of WA Joined: Apr 27^th, 2008	Re: collecting future Reply #146 - Dec 26^th, 2018 at 4:45pm	Print Post
	BP, one of our neighbors welded one up for pocket gophers. We had one that plugged the traps. Couldn't catch him, but the 12 gauge shot through the plug less than an hour after we set it

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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16274 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: collecting future Reply #147 - Dec 26^th, 2018 at 5:42pm	Print Post
	BP wrote on Dec 26^th, 2018 at 3:54pm: Bob, That reminds me of those old mole traps that used a shotgun shell that was primed and ready to fire when the mole came along and tripped the pan and trigger. A friend brought by a mole trap long ago that used .38 Special or maybe .38 Long blanks. It had a chamber, and a short "barrel" that was bent 90 degrees. It was designed to allow the mole to crawl across it and when tripped the end of the barrel was pointed straight up at his gut. I'd imagine that at point blank range a .38 blank wax wad would do the trick. I made up a handful of .38 blanks and used bee's wax for the end.

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calledflyer Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3585 Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: collecting future Reply #148 - Dec 26^th, 2018 at 7:48pm	Print Post
	That reads like great literature, doesn't it? Soldered tin cans of cash mystery- a real classic tale


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BP Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 8039 Location: Westside Joined: Aug 27^th, 2006	Re: collecting future Reply #149 - Dec 27^th, 2018 at 1:03am	Print Post
	Maybe he should have used Weir stoneware, and saved the solder.

	There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading, the few who learn by observation, and the rest who have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. Proud Noodlehead
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