I must apologize for the recent slump in posts. Here I was getting all excited to go through the list of topics and I got really busy working on my thesis, but the thesis was stressing me out so bad and since I don't smoke, I had to start a new hobby to calm my nerves. Well the new hobby became an obsession and then I missed my thesis deadline (again). Then I became more and more consumed by my new hobby, so entranced that this morning as I couldn't get out of bed after staying up way too late for no real reason I realized that I need to write on my blog. So here I am.
OK. the next topic of discussion was supposed to be my kids, but I love them so much and there's so much I want to say about them with so little time tonight, that I will have to save that for the weekend.
Then I was supposed to talk about Bajio, well I am still gathering info on that one. I went to Bajio today for Cinco de Maio, and it was OK, but wait till you hear all the dirt I will present when I am ready for that.
Next was the retaining wall. I started the wall this past Saturday and I like it a lot. I was too busy and dirty to take pictures, but I will get some up soon and with all the details and instructions on how I like to build a wall. I promised an old friend I would send him info on building a small wall, so I will have to get to this one soon.
What I will write about today is the seventh place topic (recent paypal purchases came in 7 out of 10) because it highlights my new obsessive compulsive hobby that you are all so interested in knowing. It is true, I have revived my old coin collection with vigor! It's pretty awesome. I am not a coin expert by any means, but in these tough economic times, I think a coin collection is a great way to have a hobby that makes you save money. On top of that, older coins are made of silver which is a precious metal that will forever retain value as a metal long after the US treasury collapses and all the paper bills disintegrate.
So, my most recent purchase:
two old coins from Brazil :(Click to enlarge)
I bought these with my allowance because I think they are pretty cool and I love the Brazilian national seal that is on the back of the 1901 coin (which might be silver). I have that same symbol on my wallet.
before that I bought this:
These are some expensive pennies but they are special because in 1943 all the copper was needed for the war effort and so the pennies had to be made of steel.
Prior to the penny purchase I thought I might invest in a little silver:
I may have paid a bit too much for this silver, but it sure is cool and old! We've been discussing a lot at work how much of a seller's market eBay is. You have to be careful to not become competitive and senseless when you buy stuff there.
I started the coin buying rampage with this little ditty:
I think it is for kids and it's old and kinda outdated, but had some cool stuff in it. Maggie likes playing with me and the money.
At the beginning of April we bought a new cell phone from a website in China called chinavasion.com . Interesting lot of products.
It took a few weeks but the phone came about a week and a half ago, and it's definitely no blackberry, but we like it. We decided to buy new phones instead of renewing the contract wherein we'd have to pay some for new phones and pay additional fees. Cell phones are ridiculous but we can't live without them. Bad news. This one's cool because you can put two sim cards in it such that me and megs can share the same phone or I can consolidated my personal and work phones.
A few weeks before the cell phone I bought a new video card for my computer so I could do the double monitor thing. It helped me be more efficient in working on my thesis. Obviously not efficient enough, but still is pretty sweet.
before that Megan bought some cupcake toppers off my account. They were cute. maybe her blog talks about them :)
This is probably getting kinda boring. Everything else this year came from buy.com. It included a wall charger and a car charger for my iPod touch, a portable speaker thing for Megan's iPod, and some A/B audio splitter things that I got ripped off on because shipping was supposed to be free but wasn't.
There you have it: a YTD review of paypal purchases.
OK. the next topic of discussion was supposed to be my kids, but I love them so much and there's so much I want to say about them with so little time tonight, that I will have to save that for the weekend.
Then I was supposed to talk about Bajio, well I am still gathering info on that one. I went to Bajio today for Cinco de Maio, and it was OK, but wait till you hear all the dirt I will present when I am ready for that.
Next was the retaining wall. I started the wall this past Saturday and I like it a lot. I was too busy and dirty to take pictures, but I will get some up soon and with all the details and instructions on how I like to build a wall. I promised an old friend I would send him info on building a small wall, so I will have to get to this one soon.
What I will write about today is the seventh place topic (recent paypal purchases came in 7 out of 10) because it highlights my new obsessive compulsive hobby that you are all so interested in knowing. It is true, I have revived my old coin collection with vigor! It's pretty awesome. I am not a coin expert by any means, but in these tough economic times, I think a coin collection is a great way to have a hobby that makes you save money. On top of that, older coins are made of silver which is a precious metal that will forever retain value as a metal long after the US treasury collapses and all the paper bills disintegrate.
So, my most recent purchase:
two old coins from Brazil :(Click to enlarge)
I bought these with my allowance because I think they are pretty cool and I love the Brazilian national seal that is on the back of the 1901 coin (which might be silver). I have that same symbol on my wallet.
before that I bought this:
These are some expensive pennies but they are special because in 1943 all the copper was needed for the war effort and so the pennies had to be made of steel.
Prior to the penny purchase I thought I might invest in a little silver:
I may have paid a bit too much for this silver, but it sure is cool and old! We've been discussing a lot at work how much of a seller's market eBay is. You have to be careful to not become competitive and senseless when you buy stuff there.
I started the coin buying rampage with this little ditty:
I think it is for kids and it's old and kinda outdated, but had some cool stuff in it. Maggie likes playing with me and the money.
At the beginning of April we bought a new cell phone from a website in China called chinavasion.com . Interesting lot of products.
It took a few weeks but the phone came about a week and a half ago, and it's definitely no blackberry, but we like it. We decided to buy new phones instead of renewing the contract wherein we'd have to pay some for new phones and pay additional fees. Cell phones are ridiculous but we can't live without them. Bad news. This one's cool because you can put two sim cards in it such that me and megs can share the same phone or I can consolidated my personal and work phones.
A few weeks before the cell phone I bought a new video card for my computer so I could do the double monitor thing. It helped me be more efficient in working on my thesis. Obviously not efficient enough, but still is pretty sweet.
before that Megan bought some cupcake toppers off my account. They were cute. maybe her blog talks about them :)
This is probably getting kinda boring. Everything else this year came from buy.com. It included a wall charger and a car charger for my iPod touch, a portable speaker thing for Megan's iPod, and some A/B audio splitter things that I got ripped off on because shipping was supposed to be free but wasn't.
There you have it: a YTD review of paypal purchases.
2 comments:
Cool! I'll have to show you my old coin collection to see if there's any cool one's. I don't know anything about them.
Coins, rocks, guns, arrowheads and fossils totally make my dad happy.
Next time you are at my parents house you need to ask my dad if you could see his coin collection. He's got quite the collection. He would absolutely love to show off his collection to you and I'm sure you would love it too!
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