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@Gordythats minted mate

@Gordythats minted mate

@Gordythats minted mate

Everything has a price unfortunately , but I've a 100oz bar purchased during the hype last year and it's marked as inheritance, if that counts.

It's really hard to answer this question. 💥
I have lots of silver ingots and coins which I really like so much and I do not think I will ever sell those 💘, I will be leaving them to my heirs (after leaving a note why those silver ingots and coins are so special).
Every special silver ingot or coin I collected has a story behind it.
 

Probably this... but if i was offered a good price it would go... that's what the game is about as I don't go in for anything old apart from Gillicks... they are my fav Sov but I'd still sell them if the price was right

Usually my latest purchase.

Easy for me, the bit of silver it all started with, Denarius of Vespasian found with my first outing with a metal detector. AD69 struck in Rome, dropped in a field in South Oxfordshire. Priceless to me

Every stag/birthday weekend I have been on in the last 25 years I have managed to escape for a couple of hours on a hunt. There is nothing special about any of them but all marked up on capsule of where and who's event it was. These would be the last things I sell and my favourite place so far to go looking is probably Lisbon, Portugal.

Hello, 
I am still very much new to this forum and am still finding my feet. 
 
I was just wondering without digging into anyone’s personal life too much how have you been able to build up such a large stack of Gold/Silver?
I am sure much like myself many of you on here are from a working class background with an Honest very average paying job with little disposable income after kids,bills etc.
I am really curious as to how you came to have such a stack or how you could afford it. Obviously some have had luck with a bit of crypto,stocks etc something that I yet have to take anything other than a loss on 😂.
I am more interested in if you have saved for a long time, if you have flipped PM for profit or if you just bought at the right time. 

please do not answer this post if you feel it’s too personal please ignore it other than commenting about how rude and invasive my post is. I am asking to try and better myself and my knowledge and perhaps get a bit of advice.
any forum members from Emergency services or Military would probably be able to help me out with this a bit more if there are any on here.
 
if you are willing to answer or give advice but don’t want to post it publicly please send me a message. 
 
I appreciate any advice at all. 
 
Thank you.

I am entitled to be
Earned as a crayon eating dysfunctional veteran!

How rude and invasive your post is !!!! 😡🤬 Jokes aside... 🤭 I'll try to give some background.
I'm a man in my late 30s, employee, average salary, renting with a couple of colleagues (being single and with my salary I can't afford to start a mortgage for now). I don't live in the country where I was born and raised. Italian living in the UK (almost 7 years), which gives me the chance to keep my Gold/Silver in two different countries (I travel to my birthplace on holiday 2-3 times per year) and protect me against geopolitical risk. Planning to increase that protection soon, applaying for the British citizenship and passport (love being both Italian and British).
As I said recently in another topic, I came across PM randomly four years ago, thanks to Mike Malooney on youtube. It sparked my curiosity, I've never known anything about money before (despite being passionate for history). I'm always thirsty for knowledge. Since then I've never stopped putting a bigger slice of my savings into Gold and Silver. I've always been reasonably good at saving money, and all I had to do is convert it into Precious Metals. In bigger units at first, then a quarter ounce every couple of months.
The only very expensive passion I have is travelling, I try to see a new place on the other side of the planet every year (bloody pandemic, I should have gone to south america in march 2020), so it's not very difficult for me to be disciplined.
Fast forward four years I saved ten ounces of gold and some 150 ounces of silver, divided between UK and Italy in two different locations each. Some of my Britannias and American Buffalos sleep always with me at home 🤣. Yes because I see my gold/silver as my savings for the retirement, but I'm also a greedy bastard who loves to watch them and touch them 🤑. I'm also happy to have my 6 months expenses saved in cash (and in the bank account) and a limited amount of cryptocurrencies.
 
I never cared that much about the price. Gold has value, which is in my opinion more important than the price. I bought in 2017 at 900£ and I bought in 2021 at 1400£.
I try to be patient and play the long game. Luckily for me I have a good self control. Except when it comes to women 🤪 but we all have weaknesses.

My story is I like to roll around in my stack naked and touch myself! 

Thanks a lot guys I appreciate it 

Hello, 
I am still very much new to this forum and am still finding my feet. 
 
I was just wondering without digging into anyone’s personal life too much how have you been able to build up such a large stack of Gold/Silver?
I am sure much like myself many of you on here are from a working class background with an Honest very average paying job with little disposable income after kids,bills etc.
I am really curious as to how you came to have such a stack or how you could afford it. Obviously some have had luck with a bit of crypto,stocks etc something that I yet have to take anything other than a loss on 😂.
I am more interested in if you have saved for a long time, if you have flipped PM for profit or if you just bought at the right time. 

please do not answer this post if you feel it’s too personal please ignore it other than commenting about how rude and invasive my post is. I am asking to try and better myself and my knowledge and perhaps get a bit of advice.
any forum members from Emergency services or Military would probably be able to help me out with this a bit more if there are any on here.
 
if you are willing to answer or give advice but don’t want to post it publicly please send me a message. 
 
I appreciate any advice at all. 
 
Thank you.

OK im ex military 23 years under my belt - now an IT scumbag. So feel free to DM me.  But if you are ex military. I can also smoke walts out a mile.....😁
 

Hi mate. It’s all relative I would say. It is very surprising just how quickly a stack can grow when you put your mind to it. Set an amount each month that you can comfortably put aside to buy metals. Once your into it, you may decide not to purchase other discretionary items so you can buy more metals, be warned, it is addictive.
I kind of went all out and only stacked metals and cash initially for my future. (Late starter also) While it has done ok to date , I do regret not saving more into pension also over this period so try to work out a long term plan.
I am on an average wage but key is your savings rate. I try to save over 50% of income each month. Work up to this as much as possible and invest the difference. 17 years doing this consistently and you can become financially independent. Good luck. 

Hi,
It seems you are in a similar-ish position to what I was some 30 years ago.  Back then I started making very small and modest investments into the stock market via a Personal Equity Plan, the earlier version of what is now an ISA (individual Savings Account).
I just kept plugging away at that as my finances permitted and have done OK. 
I have only recently started to get into gold to divesify away from the stock market.
My advice to anyone starting out is make sure you have 3 to 6 months of cash saved in case of emergencies (for the garden fence, new boiler, roof problem, etc.) then start off investing slowly but surely in what you can when you can.  Don't go all in on anything and diverify.  @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer has some good advice about buying PM's at a low premium as an investment.  The 'monevator' website is a good source on investing, especially low cost tracker funds. 
Think long term and don't worry about price volatility in the short term, whatever you invest in.  Best of luck.  🐢🍀

A bit of fun.  

For the next large TSF prize draw to advertise and bring awareness of the forum, which will be in around a month or two. Should we double the prize and have 2x 5oz silver bars up for grabs, 2 different winners each winning a 5oz silver bar. If you think we should then like this post. 

If this post gets 100+ likes we will give away 2x 5oz silver bars. (I have set this target deliberately low so that it is easily obtainable)

If this post reaches 200+ likes, we will add a small bonus  

Thanks I’ll do that just now. 

Hiya, I’m looking for a bit of advice from experienced silver stackers in Scotland. Please get In Touch with me.
failing anyone in Scotland seeing this anyone in the UKs advice would be much appreciated.
thanks

Hiya, I’m looking for a bit of advice from experienced silver stackers in Scotland. Please get In Touch with me.
failing anyone in Scotland seeing this anyone in the UKs advice would be much appreciated.
thanks

Cheers mate I’ve slipped him a Mail there to see how I may be assisted. Cheers for replying folks 
Also outside Edinburgh believe it or not. I’m from the west but I’ve moved to the outskirts of Edinburgh 

Fellow Scot here, whats the craic

Im as far from scotland as you could imagine - but welcome to the forum regardless!