Daily Prompt: Dig through your couch cushions, your purse, or the floor of your car and look at the year printed on the first coin you find. What were you doing that year?
Okay, that will be a problem for me because first of all, my mom and I, we don’t put or hide coin anywhere and we certainly don’t keep coins in our pockets. We keep them in our wallet where they belong but even then I don’t have a lot of coins. I keep mostly bus tokens in my wallet, though I don’t know why, I have a pass that will allow me to ride whatever I want for free.
So therefore, I’m going to show you these…
I am almost finish collecting the third set, just need Mississippi. I began collecting state quarters in I think 2003 (it seems like every interesting thing happen that year). I have no clue what got me interested, maybe I just like collecting money. :p
When we were still living in California, my mom and I used to go to the recycling center all the time, to sell plastic bottles and soda cans. Then we would tell the guy to give us quarters which he happily gave us, chunks of quarters at a time.
Once we arrive home, I’d go excitedly to the dining table to find if there was any quarters that I did not have already. The unwanted quarter would be for my mom to do laundry.
At first, it was easy because well, I’m new and I haven’t collected up to the current year yet. After a while, it got tough but I didn’t give up. The most frustrating period of this collection was when we were living in Texas when my step-dad would secretly take my state quarters to buy alcohol and cigarettes while I was asleep. See, that’s why I wanted to lock my door.
I stopped for a while because what’s the point if I collect one and you take one? I began again when I moved to Utah but in the last few years, I’ve slowed down a lot since both my mom and I don’t really use cash anymore unless it’s an emergency and we no longer need quarters to do laundry. So now I’ve fallen quite behind on my national parks and monuments collection and I need to catch up.
Well, I have to head to school. I actually got up early again this morning. I thought this problematic prompt was interesting and knew I could squeeze a few minutes of my time before school to write this.
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Well aren’t you multi-tasking. I cant wake up early not even for work I try to juice every minute I get underneath the covers in my bed. You know Ive had a few family members and friends tell me I should start collecting something. I might just never really seemed to me that it would be valuable until recently where my friend told me he had a fifty cent piece and it was actually worth 2 dollars. That’s amazing but I would have to save quite a lot of those to have value. I guess I am a collector of words, and intimate sentimental things that I can hold on to that give me that warm fuzzy feeling every time I think about it or someone or something that was said. Thanks for sharing really enjoyed the post.
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When I wake up and see the prompt, sometimes it clicks right away like this morning and sometimes, it doesn’t.
It’s good to collect things, I think because it helps to work on our patience sometimes. Wow, your friend’s fifty cent coins must be one of those very old ones.
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Yeah he told me the year, am I a bad friend for not remembering? its crazy that the value of the coin is now exceeding the value we put upon it.
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Nah, you’re not a bad friend. I’m terrible with year too. 🙂
Perhaps your friend has an extremely rare coin, maybe one of those limited quantity ones. Those coins can often go up quick in value.
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Together with interest in the articles, persistence is the key to collecting. I’m thinking the year you will remember is the one in which you complete the collection.
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