Keep your finds or sale them ???

[JunkShopFiddler]

I keep my favorite few. Sell every gold jewelery item I find. A couple Septembers ago when silver was high I sold all my non-collector value silver coins and silver jewelery for a little over 2000 dollars. I save copper and brass finds and sell them to scrap dealers. All the clad goes for gas and batteries. (I buy batteries on sale and the parks are nearby needing only short drives). At this point I am about 500 dollars ahead on the gas and battery money from the clad and scrap...I have mastered the art of sucking trashy parks dry of clad, (not that clad hunting is anything to bragg about, but it's good exercise for someone my age), and even trashy parks will spit out a keeper now and then if you hang in there and don't surrender to the clad burnout!

 

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[Jeremy S]

Is it wrong for a fisherman to eat the fish that he catches? How about a hunter that just shot a deer or turkey?

I keep most of my finds just because I haven't had the need to sell anything yet. Plus I like making up different displays of my treasures to show them off. I did recently sell the can slaw and aluminum cans that I have picked up for the last year and a half, I got around $7 for 10lbs of it

 

[Red James Cash]

Simple solution,keep what interests you,sell the rest.

 

[Iron Patch]

When I got back into this, I did so with the understanding that I'd be selling the jewelry...

...and here we are, without a single piece of jewelry sold. I actually did the opposite and spent even more money to buy a case for my rings. Now I'm telling myself that I'm waiting for gold to go back up before I sell, but I'm not fooling myself any more. I'll likely never sell those rings, not even the ones worth good money. They're worth more to me as rings that I found.

The clad will be cashed in at the end of the year. No sentimental value there at all. But the relics, jewelry, and toys (even fairly minor), I just can't seem to part with.

I'd rather learn a lesson by not learning a lesson, like you did, compared to me who just spent many hundreds to by a button just make an attempt to trade for one that's not quite as nice which I sold in 2000. In all honesty I probably don't look at it as a mistake when I take myself back to that time, never-the-less, here I am in 2014 trying to cut deals to get it again.