I have a full time job. This is my fun money. It helps keep me cash positive every month. Anyhow, I would say that 99% of the stuff I buy, I list up for sale immediately on Amazon (higher prices, higher fees, really fast to list, really easy). Gold or Silver I find, I keep. I am anything but a gold bug. I don't believe in dead assets as a speculation play. There is no such thing as "Investing" in gold. It is pure speculation that there is a bigger idiot out there that will pay you more for it some day. Another way to rationalize the irrational is to say, "Someday this crap we call money will not be worth the paper it is printed on, then Gold and Silver will buy food, not paper." The thing there that is irrational is that if a time comes that your U.S. Dollars are worthless, those people who have food are not going to trade it for a hunk of metal, no matter what color it is. Then again, if I pay $4 for 5 oz. of sterling, I may as well sit on it. I did buy about 100 Sterling souvenir spoons once. They were about 10 grams each, I listed them for $9.99 each, or about double silver. I sold 75% of them, and the average sale price was about $16. The few that didn't sell were thrown into my silver hoard. I don't need to sell it now, so I may as well sit on it until there is enough to sell.
