What Do the Rich Collect?
Most of us have a hobby. Often times this hobby involves building a collection of something. Some people collect spoons or shot glasses from places around the world. Youth and children collect and trade sports card, Pokemon cards, or whatever the current fad is. In my day, I collected basket ball cards, Garbage Pail Kids cards, and muscle men. I wish I could say that my collection is now worth millions but, well, I cannot.
Collecting money has always been an interesting one, and in my mind would be quite an expensive hobby. I met a man who would always make purchases with cash, and then inspect all the bills and coins for collectables. He was not looking for your typical, old or rare coin, however. Instead, he would look for unique pattern. For example, he might find a ten dollar bill that has a serial number with the sequence 52525 in it. He explained how difficult it would be to find, and then explained the next step in the challenge. Imagine if you had three ten dollar bills, one with the above sequence, the second with the sequence 62626, and the third containing the sequence 72727. I thought it was interesting, but the challenge is that every bill you found that had something unique, you would have to keep. In the case of the man I met, he was broke, and risked being evicted from his rental home, and yet had thousands of collected dollars in a binder.
Imagine what the wealthy collect. A popular one that I came across is watches or time pieces as they call them. Collecting automatic winding watches is a favorite, but imagine the cost. This brings up a challenge, however, in that you typically only wear one watch at a time, yet these watches, in order to keep correct time and stay properly lubricated, require movement. Well, as you probably guessed, you can buy a watch winder. There is even a company that makes luxurious watch winders for you to display your collection pieces in. Try Buben and Zorweg for example, and you will see how elaborate this hobby has become. Imagine then, begin a collection of watch winders
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