How has this hobby of metal detecting changed you?

[cajamk]

This is something I was thinking about the other day after digging up trash. I know that I have become VERY aware when I see others throwing trash on the ground! I keep thinking...that could be dug up by my grandchild someday! Might sound stupid but that is how I feel. Also, this hobby has helped me lose (and dieting) 26 lbs in the last few months. Just the walking around and bending down. And.... it has given me pleasure to start learning about the history of the area I live in...as I am originally from Pennsylvania.

Again, I am just wondering how this hobby has changed you.

 

[Digzit2]

When I am out digging up relics around the old homesteads, I try to imagine how life was back when the settlers were here. This hobby has made me enjoy life more.

 

[Argentium]

One way it's changed me is that I can no longer look at the ground around an old house ,or building without thinking about what may be buried there .

 

[Professor of Engineering]

With life so busy, time with headphones on my head and sweet sounds of coins, relics and jewelry flowing into my ears; I find metal detecting very centering and relaxing.

The world is full of bad choices, addictions, frustration...etc.; metal detecting seems to be a healthy alternative.

 

[AlienLifeForm]

I'll never look at old parts of town the same again. Sure, the buildings are nice to look at, but all my mind can think about is what is under these streets?

 

[insontis]

I'm out several hundred bucks.

 

[insontis]

I think I've also developed ADD because I'll be driving down the road and out of no where volleyball court.

 

[Kurios1]

I got into metal detecting after buying up "junk" silver at local auctions. Ran my bank account down and considered buying some gear and finding it myself. Well, you know what happens to a lot of folks is you start researching old sights, and learning your local history. As for the trash issue I believe all the garbage I recover is paying for my past "sins" of tossing pull tabs, foil, etc, myself. Many folks find metal detecting their "therapy" for allowing the cares of life to drift away while out on the hunt. My appreciation for the past has increased and just driving around I am constantly "scouting" out potential spots for even one more cool recovery. This is more than a "hobby" to me. I never thought metal detecting would change my perspective on normal everyday things so dramatically but, it certainly has.

 

[Escape]

I think it has made me more handsome, intelligent and prosperous.

 

[beerguy]

It has relieved me of my weekend mornings and several thousand dollars, but it has paid me back may times that.

 

[BigWaveDave]

I spent my adult life convinced I'd never get a tattoo....nothing in this world means that much to me to ink myself for the rest of my life....
Now I got a bada$$ pirate with a metal detector.

Mom is still pissed.

 

[Ammoman]

Has it changed me? No, then again...i'm always looking for change!

 

[cajamk]

Kurios1, thank you so much for your reply to my question about how this hobby has changed your life. I could not have worded it better myself. When I pull trash out I am also paying for my past "sins" . Great reply.

 

[cajamk]

Escape , I can see from your profile pic that you are more " handsome, intelligent and prosperous." than most of us here on Treasurenet! LOL!!

 

[Peyton Manning]

being as I have always been smarter than most people and extremely good looking, I have been a bit shy in public

with my detector, hat and sunglasses, I now go freely where I will

 

[Pepper06]

It has made me realize how soft our culture has gotten. I'll dig an axe head and know that the person who used it was using it because they needed to heat their home or cook a meal or heat some water for a bath. People now-a-days would not be able to function if they to live like that. Then if I dig a coin from the depression era, I think how much the person who lost it, really needed it.

 

[chub]

I am much more aware of human behaviour. Not just the pull tabs and litter culture, but the actions that people were making over the last several hundred years. I made a break through hunting at an old military site recently. Im already in tune with nature as I hike alot but tracking peoples movements just by putting yourself in their shoes is rewarding when it pays off.

Chub

 

[cactusman]

I've been metal detecting since I was about 7 years old, and I still always find myself thinking, "I wonder what could be lost or buried there?" When flying and gazing out the window of a jet I wonder how many meteorites are out there in the vastness of the west, just waiting to be found. And even after all these years I am still amazed at just how much gets lost on any given day, and on how much trash gets tossed down too.

 

[Truth]

Metal detecting has changed my life in the following ways:: Bringing me to my knees with humbleness and appreciating the value of a penny.


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[Myth legend]

I wanted to become a metal detector back in the 2000s this is when I was much younger. However years by passed and now in 2017 I brought my metal detector lets say back in the summer of 2016, now I recently brought a shovel which is much proper for what I am trying to do. Metal detecting (To me) can be profitable, educational, and you exercise a lot.

My only problem now is, finding places that will let me metal detect, especially with all the laws against digging on (Certain property) which can become a hassle. I pretty much metal detected my whole yard, that involved me finding some of the recent clad quarters, some nickers all this is recent date and hitting live wires. Which broke me up from metal detecting on my property again.

Hopefully, I will be able to metal detect on something else other than my property.