What do you collect?

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I would never trust my money to Wall Street.

You can not beat them. Show me one investment, small business, coin collection, gold (metals) let alone collectable trinkets which are usually depreciating assets that has increased by 1,091,899% like Berkshire Hathaway in 50 years. Granted brk is one of the best but even index funds beat anything you can collect. It's foolish not to trust the masters on Wall Street IMO.

source https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-apos-biggest-blunder-100600660.html

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Aim_Deep wrote:

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I would never trust my money to Wall Street.

You can not beat them. Show me one investment, small business, coin collection, gold (metals) let alone collectable trinkets which are usually depreciating assets that has increased by 1,091,899% like Berkshire Hathaway in 50 years. Granted brk is one of the best but even index funds beat anything you can collect. It's foolish not to trust the masters on Wall Street IMO.

source https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-apos-biggest-blunder-100600660.html

My goal is not to beat Warren Buffett lol.

There is no golden rule that states that index funds always go up, they can very much go down as well.

I personally got stocks that shined and also stocks that went nowhere actually. And those last came from "financial expert advice". It is all just smoke and mirrors. They talk about 'technical analysis' but it is just gambling really. Economics is no science although economists very much envy real scientists. No idea why they get so much attention. They are basically a modern priesthood.

Bill Gates got a journal of Leonardo Da Vinci himself in his collection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EliIWEfDJyw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwGdnCNi8Ss

The more you learn, the more your inner knowledge framework gets interconnected. You also realize that the more you learn, the more you get to know you hardly know anything.


Honestly Bill Gates would have been nothing though if physicists didn't invent the transistor in the 20th century. His entire billion dollar empire has been built upon that discovery.

"...the more you learn, the more you get to know you hardly know anything..."

That sounds like a cliché and —how can I put it— an artificial thing one says almost automatically in certain situations, like the "everyone is equal under the law" bullshit, which by the way's gotta be the most... conventional lie of our civilization, at least one of them. Nonetheless, IT IS SO TRUE, whether one likes it or not.

I wonder is it a fruit of... labor of love, as in empirical self-awareness of a soul on the path of wisdom, or is it pure cynicism?

In any case it's a... three-pointer, since we're in basket-ball season. By the way Tencent is all over the place, it's almost palpable, speaking of the devil eh?

I have a small collection of old bottles and some cutlery I’ve found under water. My oldest piece is small plate from 1830s it’s nothing expensive but I like it cos I’ve found it;) and some cool bottles too;) I have some pictures but have no idea how to post them from my phone lol..
And also I collect mushrooms but they don’t last long co we eat them straight away:D

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JohnGrammaticus wrote:

Seriously, none of you will post any coin pictures? I do understand those who have gold and silver, we're paranoid, but normal coins? My father collects this stuff, from the earliest ~500 BCE coinage, through roman empire/republic to some interesting designs from British Colonies, I bet he'd like to see what do you guys have.

I have a number of small boxes, mostly with old Canadian pennies, nickels etc.
Hardly worth posting pics of imho.

My oldest is a 1917 Abe Lincoln penny.

This is my collection of bread bag clips. I hope to one day fill at least many jars with these things and hand them down to my grandchildren. Maybe.

Travel mugs. I make a cup of coffee in one every morning to take to work (the coffee at work sucks) and each mug is a memory of a vacation or something I did with my wife. Good little pick-me-up in the morning.

Games, I have around 700 on steam. I use to collect physical games back when I used a console more, last console I bought (other than switch) was a launch PS3 since it was backwards compatible. I always knew EB and Gamestop were a rip off so I never traded any of mine in and have quite the collection of PS1, PS2, PS3, Dreamcast and Switch games.

I guess I also collect tools since I do a lot of home projects and DIY stuff, I have a few 6ft cabinets full. I'm super organized so they are all organized and the smaller ones are in bins with labels.

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SSF_Reinhart wrote:

...What do you collect...

Mistakes, mostly. Second only to regrets...

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and what collections are you really proud of? Maybe I hear of something I wasn't aware of.

A huge number of books... Basically, my own science-fiction and fantasy library with a subsection for classics, some history, a lot of science, etc. I also have a few books I bought specifically for collecting purposes, but I'm not really a bibliophile.