silvergoldhobbiest

The gold portion of my stack, started off with the sovereigns, then came to love foreign gold 

Majority of the gold stack. My other deposit box doesn't have quite as much although it's catching  

While putting today's Memorial Sovereign away I decided to get all the gold out. Its not a lot compared to some, but it's mine, so it's special!
Most accumulated this year following my (inevitable?) slide from silver to gold.

Pleased to be back stacking! Some shiny stuff.  Pleased to hit my target for 2022

Happy 2nd Anniversary to me! Nice to see it all together again (if only for a brief photo op)
Added just over 4.2oz of bullions to last years 7.5oz plus a proof 1/2 2022 Sov so happy with that.
Still need to work on getting my first 1oz coin thou!! 
Onward and upwards!! 

here and there 
 

1 Oz + 1/4 Oz finally complete 🥰

What a set 😍

My silver & gold stack, only been stacking constantly for about 3 months.  A little over 25 ounces of Silver & 3.52 ounces of Gold.
 

Gillick Date Run 1957-1968

Visited my safety deposit box and took the opportunity to take a few photos....

I had to drop some new items off at safe deposit box yesterday, so took my camera along to finally see my gold stack together - viewing room table wasn't big enough to get everything into one shot  For someone who could never hold onto money in his 20s I think Ive done OK 

My stack. Damn boat accident

2021 Britannia's, 2 or 3 to go?
 
 

Up to date with the half sovereigns and making good progress on the fulls 🙂

Been a while. Since I sold up my first stack to buy a house end of last year I'm now in a position to buy purely what i like. I am a full collector and it's been refreshing to not worry about cost average and can I resell it. this is my personal stack so doesent matter to me. Very different from my last post on this thread 🤣🤣
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A high-grade old head half sov of 1893. This is one of five in the grade assessed by PCGS. with just two graded finer.

Must be uncomfortable.

I've posted my little how I got into gold story in prior years, but it seems relevant to this thread today. Here's it again 
 
I'm 45 now and through my twenties, i guess I must have staked and wasted around £75k-£100k at a rough guess through bookies, FOBTs, online poker and land based casinos.



Some good days but it all quickly went back as losings in the end.



I went cold turkey at 30-31 and managed a few months until i relapsed again.



Told myself never again.



It was this time I found about gold, since 2008-2009 I have bought investment gold every month, a gold sovereign here, a half sovereign there, 1/2 oz on a good month, a full oz of fine gold when bonus from work.



What this did was separate actual cash i could gamble and move it into another tangible thing with value that i couldn't easily spunk away or spend.



Slowly but surely, my gold stack has grown, every month, as i would buy a another gold coin every fortnight or so.



The ancient Aztecs called Gold 'the sweat of the sun'



Blood, sweat, tears and toil getting it out of the ground.



YOUR blood sweat and tears represents how hard you have worked to get this coin you now hold, and continue to hold ongoing.



Your pile of gold increases monthly.



Gold is also a little bit of a gamble, it will never go to zero, it has been money for 5,000+ years, and can also go up in value



Currently im now VERY nicely up in £ terms if i chose to cash in and take some profits.



A quote stuck with me quite prophetically, as i've never believed in loans or credit cards.



“Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves.” ― Norm Franz, Money & Wealth in the New Millennium: A Prophetic Guide to the New World Economic Order



The bigger my gold stack grows the more satisfied I become and want more. A positive kind of addiction.



I have not yet cashed in one single coin for gambling and my investment pile has grew.



I have cashed gold in here on the forum and realized better than dealer prices to increase my business and expand/buy new vans/staff/tech



This degree of separation that takes place between the gold coin and actual cash i can spunk gambling is awesome.



Yet i know at a glance my total gold grams i have on any given day, and know how much it is worth should i cash in.



When money is in a bank AC it is just like figures on a screen to me, cash in my hand just gambling token/betting voucher credits.



I could never hold onto money while it was in a bank account, savings account would be were there for good intention but the money came out for gambling.



Gold doesn't do that for me, the degree of separation between between the time and effort it takes to cash in a gold coin, packing posting, sending, waiting for bank transfer for payment etc. is a few days minimum.



By which times my urge to gamble has long since past.



whilst i will always have that gamble bug inside me, i cant extinguish that flame as i like to to take risks, i'm self employed and risk = reward. and i have done well working over the years.



I still have my monthly little gamble, but as my priority with my spare cash is always to buy a minimum amount of gold, i'm never exposed to loose mega money EVER, fact these days, as the money isn't there because it has been converted from one asset class cash into another asset gold.



The small amount i assign myself to have a gamble is minimal, £100 or £200 for a month. should i win, i actually treat myself to some more gold coins for my stack.



With doing this approach and putting what used to be gambling stake money cash into gold, i've got my good nest egg of gold if i cashed it in from my safe deposit box.



I purposely store the gold in a safety deposit centre in a city that is hours drive/train ride away to resist the sudden urge to gamble/cash in.



A financial advisor would tell you it is stupid and daft to put all your eggs in one basket with one asset/investments, but to a gambler?



would i sooner have this,  lots of gold is much better than having nothing at all, **** all to show for it - so it works for me



Knowing this fall back of savings is there for any of lifes eventualities makes me sleep wonderfully at night.



This approach may not be for everyone but if you can never hold onto money it has worked wonders for me.



Sorry for the rambles length here today but to those nodding their head to this and this life course maybe sounds a familiar path to yours, if my narrative resonates with you, give gold a try. please try it, you might just like it, or start just buying gold with your big wins.

https://www.thesilverforum.com/topic/32375-your-gold-story-how-it-happened/?do=findComment&comment=416089
 
 
 

I'm not addicted thankfully 😬
I buy because I like a design 
I buy because the price is good
I buy because I'm bored 
I buy because the wife bought a new handbag and I feel left out
I buy incase/hope the price goes up
I buy because the price comes down
I buy because I haven't bought in 2 days 🥳
Point being all my decisions are logical 👆😵‍💫

Morning everyone, further to my Au and Pt stack photo earlier this month, I've found an old shot of the Ag I used to have (🤔), to share. 
3 of everything as expected, plus a few miscellaneous @BackyardBullion pieces. 
With a rough conversion from metric for some of it, we are looking at about 310oz all in, the majority of it purchased from forum members since I joined the forum last summer.
Au and Pt photo thrown in for good measure!!
And that was it before it joined Davy Jones of course 😞.
Forgot 3 x 1oz proofs of  each the Panther and the Lion Tudor Beasts

My silver & gold stack, only been stacking constantly for about 3 months.  A little over 25 ounces of Silver & 3.52 ounces of Gold.
 

My silver & gold stack, only been stacking constantly for about 3 months.  A little over 25 ounces of Silver & 3.52 ounces of Gold.
 

I would say after reading all the comments on this thread...BUY GOLD,Period....if you are in it for the long time you won't lose unless their is a world wide economic collapse in fiat or a Meteorite crashes into our planet and if that happens none of us will be here so know point in worrying...😏 Gold and Silver will always be on a rollercoaster of ups and downs controlled by the fed and interest rates,inflation and comments by distinguished financiers as its always been...I will keep buying Gold even if the price continues to rise,obviously we all want to buy on the dip..but for us are in it for the next 5/10/15 years and not day traders or flippers on precious metals I truly believe we will be the ones that benefit on buying as much Gold that we can afford now...and keeping it long term...And of those who do that will see the results in years to come......I don't have to tell you this as you all know ......we are not into buying PM's as a get rich scheme..we are buying and collecting/stacking for our future and our children's future..
Regards..

I will, I have nothing else to buy... 😄
I have no real idea when I would stop buying gold. I bought at under €1000 once, now I'm buying at over €1500 - I'm telling myself every Euro spent on gold is an Euro saved.