You might be a detectorist if.....

[dfxdude]

...when approaching a town on the highway, you scan the horizon for light towers so you know where the school/athletic field is................
...you look for signs pointing to city parks..........
...you look down side streets for street tear ups............

 

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[Viddy]

...when you start using electolysis to clean your kids
...when you keep your best toothbrush for your coins and the other one for your mouth
...when you use your GF's toothbrush to clean your coins and blame it on the cat
...when you think of upgrading your detector is more important than getting a new car

 

[ibjeepn]

...... when you drive by a potentially good detecting site. And you look at your wife with a grin and start going beep,beep,beep, b-beep.

 

[New Orleans Relic]

...... When your mangled coins won't drop in the chip machine.
...... When the cashier pulls your coins within two inches of their eyes to see its denomination and origin.
...... When you long for the old penny candy machines of any kind. I'd burn um up. lol
...... When you hope for NO good tones over the ant piles!!
...... When you even briefly consider bringing your mower for the next hunt.
...... When you have trouble with yourself not wanting a name inscribed in that class ring bling you just dug.
...... When you don't hear from digging buddies. And then see new albums they've posted.
...... When you wonder why that bushhog had to cut your FIRST standing liberty below the ankles where the date was. Would rather her decapitaded!!!
Ray

 

[TxMike]

----when you stop at a McDonald's drive-thru and pay for the meal with all the sandy change stored in your ashtray!
----when you carry a bulk pack of batteries around in all your cars and sometimes on your person!
----you find yourself cruising past vacant lots....that aren't on your regular route home!
----when the value of your "Test Garden" is greater than your 401k !
----when you think fresh dirt under your girl's fingernails looks "sexy" !
----when you realize that going to the beach where all the hot college chicks hang out to go detecting is like going to Hooter's because you really do like the wings.....and you're OK with that!

 

[NOLA_Ken]

When you spend WAY too long studying the shovels at Home Depot....
When you get the urge to follow dump trucks from construction sites to see where they dump all the dirt they just dug out...
When you consider any house built after 1970 to be "too new"
If you've ever gone to the recycling yard with a 5 gallon bucket (or two of them) filled with pop tops pull tabs and can slaw.....

 

[lookindown]

...If the first thing you look at on a woman are her rings.

 

[Mzjavert]

I'm loving this thread!!

...The "Pull Tab Coordinator for Ronald McDonald House(s)" has your number on speed dial.
...You are thrilled when fellow detectorists find a keeper be it a 1000 years old or a cache of Hot Wheels.

 

[dougofpa]

....when a group of grown men jump up and down and screaming.....SILVER!!! after one of the grown men find a Mercury dime that might be worth about 2 bucks

 

[Chug And Red]

After bringing Home the Good Stuff Your Spouse Says I Would Like to Go Out With You!!!! Several Hundred dollers and A Lot Of Laughs later It Happend!!!! HH Chug

 

[ibjeepn]

....you'd risk getting lyme disease looking for a Barber Dime !
..... as your getting older, hunting for treasure is a-lot easier than hunting for critters.
..... the local jeweler knows you on a first name basis.

 

[sheep]

Your wife knows to give you all her change for the day to inspect before it goes into the change bucket.

 

[New Orleans Relic]

You may not ---when you're on the recliner watching dem Saints beat up on the Buccaneers, and its in the 70's with a breez- KEN. Get out there and dig something.You're not sporting the "pocket full of change now. Carona or Michelob huh? I'll be out there by 4pm.
Ray

 

[cz70pro]

When your weekly survival money ie: coffee,lottery tickets,mcdonalds,is paid for in the clad you dug.When you can't walk by a coinstar machine,and not check the reject slot. You have 5 gallon "homer" buckets filled with aluminum,copper/brass,and lead.All of your fisherman friends can't wait for your next load of weights,lures,and rigs.You own more than one water machine...just in case. You save the most useless,weird stuff...just because you dug it.

 

[liftloop]

when the ringing in your ears make you look for the all metal switch when your kick back in your lazy boy watching gold fever...

 

[liftloop]

the shovel one, I love it.

 

[ibjeepn]

.... while at your hearing test. You find yourself guessing at object depths to the tones instead of pushing the button.

 

[lost hunter]

.... while at your hearing test. You find yourself guessing at object depths to the tones instead of pushing the button.

Lol.

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[Mzjavert]

You may not ---when you're on the recliner watching dem Saints beat up on the Buccaneers, and its in the 70's with a breez- KEN. Get out there and dig something.You're not sporting the "pocket full of change now. Carona or Michelob huh? I'll be out there by 4pm.
Ray

...That's why we need detectors that show the game on the screen between signals.

 

[Chug And Red]

When your husband is driving down a particular street, you keep driving him crazy by saying"I wish we could detect there!"
Every weekend you check craigs list and lost and found adds, just in case......
You get excited seeing sports being played in green fields, knowing of all the stuff that could get lost,and be just waiting for you to find it.
You have more sand in your yard or floor than at the beach.
You see other people's jewelry and wish they would lose it.
When you get home after being out, and your freinds and neighbors ask what you found.
On friday night you and your honey are researching where to go and how the weather will be, and making sure batteries are good, and your in bed early!
You get excited when you hear there will be a low tide.
The fishermen know you by name, and appreciate the lead you give them.
At the farmers market, your favorite food stall asks "The usual?" and then ask what you have found lately.
When you pay to get into parks, and the people in the booth know you and let you know if anything was lost, before you even say anything!
Your terrified of spiders, but yet you don't hesitate to go after your target!
You figure out how to dig that good signal, sitting under a big pile of dog poo.
You and your honey have a bet who will find enough to pay for slurppies, usually he wins! LOL
Red