After going through $5000 in halves the other day and finding 2 40% and a proof along with $4500 in halves last week and finding 1 90%, I realized that this hobby gives me the same "high" as gambling (black jack). When I sit down at the table and get my first cards I start feeling this great optimism, like I am going to make it big, it is the same feeling that I get when I open up a box. However 99% of the time I am disappointed, but I cant stop until until I am out of money or boxes, despite the fact that the last 20 boxes havent been worth the effort, likewise the last 20 hands have seen my chips go down big time. I am pretty sure it is the same way with scratchers, the slim hope that you will hit it big, though you know the odds are not in your favor.
I bring this up because I am going to the grand canyon next week, from Los Angeles to Laughlin nv, through kingman az, williams az to the grand canyon. I plan to stop in Laughlin (gambling) for 2 days and there are about 20 banks in the area, in 2009 I ordered laughlin boxes $5000 and got skunked. Do I make another run at it or do I just decide to check the banks for loose halves?
I just got back yesterday (saturday) all total I found 50 silvers. I went to all the banks near Laughlin. I drive south on 95 from Bullhead city to Needles Ca. I got a 1970 from a chase teller tray. And several rolls from other various banks along the way. I had competition there to as the tellers told me there is a really old guy who grabs rolls too. In fact I missed him at an in store Bofa by 30 minutes, he grabbed 300 dollars that that had been there for a "really long time." I never encountered any of his dumps likely cause he dropped them at the casinos. On tuesday I drove to Kingman AZ and again there was a hunter there as well, but I did find 1 40%. I also drove up the Hauipwai Mountains south of Kingman, very senic. On Wednesday I went to Lake Havasu. There really wasnt much there, I don't understand why that is such a popular destination during "spring break". But I did wind a few more silvers. Thursday was my long day, I drive 3.5 hours further away, to Flagstaff Az. I found about 12 silvers in customer rolls. A went to a bofa and the vault teller said he had 2 boxes that were from Tempe AZ, some body use to order them but he vanished awhile ago and never got his last 2 boxes. I got skunked on the boxes. Around 2pm I started north to the grand canyon, cost me 25 to get in I drove the canyon unfortunately I got dark before I was able to see to whole canyon, maybe I needed to go into the canyon but I wasn't impressed with its Grandness. There was a chase in the park but it was after hours. Friday I hung out in my laughlin hotel room and picked through 3 boxes from bullhead city I had ordered. Being that the boxes were from Las Vegas I didn't expect much(figured that all the coin in LV would have been picked through by the gamblers) but I found 4-5-1 40% silvers in the boxes.
I lost 150 in black jack( at one point I was up $50) plus gas and hotels I figure I broke even. However on a brighter note I am close to finishing a 500 box of silver. I have 34 rolls of 40% 9 rolls of 90% 4 rolls of proofs and a roll of "odds and ends mostly foreign coins and a few 5% cliped halves. I need 11 90% 17 40% and 16 more proofs and I will have completed a box of crh (last time was April 2010)
I bring this up because I am going to the grand canyon next week, from Los Angeles to Laughlin nv, through kingman az, williams az to the grand canyon. I plan to stop in Laughlin (gambling) for 2 days and there are about 20 banks in the area, in 2009 I ordered laughlin boxes $5000 and got skunked. Do I make another run at it or do I just decide to check the banks for loose halves?
I just got back yesterday (saturday) all total I found 50 silvers. I went to all the banks near Laughlin. I drive south on 95 from Bullhead city to Needles Ca. I got a 1970 from a chase teller tray. And several rolls from other various banks along the way. I had competition there to as the tellers told me there is a really old guy who grabs rolls too. In fact I missed him at an in store Bofa by 30 minutes, he grabbed 300 dollars that that had been there for a "really long time." I never encountered any of his dumps likely cause he dropped them at the casinos. On tuesday I drove to Kingman AZ and again there was a hunter there as well, but I did find 1 40%. I also drove up the Hauipwai Mountains south of Kingman, very senic. On Wednesday I went to Lake Havasu. There really wasnt much there, I don't understand why that is such a popular destination during "spring break". But I did wind a few more silvers. Thursday was my long day, I drive 3.5 hours further away, to Flagstaff Az. I found about 12 silvers in customer rolls. A went to a bofa and the vault teller said he had 2 boxes that were from Tempe AZ, some body use to order them but he vanished awhile ago and never got his last 2 boxes. I got skunked on the boxes. Around 2pm I started north to the grand canyon, cost me 25 to get in I drove the canyon unfortunately I got dark before I was able to see to whole canyon, maybe I needed to go into the canyon but I wasn't impressed with its Grandness. There was a chase in the park but it was after hours. Friday I hung out in my laughlin hotel room and picked through 3 boxes from bullhead city I had ordered. Being that the boxes were from Las Vegas I didn't expect much(figured that all the coin in LV would have been picked through by the gamblers) but I found 4-5-1 40% silvers in the boxes.
I lost 150 in black jack( at one point I was up $50) plus gas and hotels I figure I broke even. However on a brighter note I am close to finishing a 500 box of silver. I have 34 rolls of 40% 9 rolls of 90% 4 rolls of proofs and a roll of "odds and ends mostly foreign coins and a few 5% cliped halves. I need 11 90% 17 40% and 16 more proofs and I will have completed a box of crh (last time was April 2010)
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