The lure of treasure: I created two new stackers...

I don't tend to tell too many people I stack silver and a little gold, well...Everyone on Steemit knows but then again out of the 1300 or so followers I have probably only three or four actually read my posts anyway. Off the platform I don't say much to many people at all, there's little point in doing so and I suppose one needs to be mindful of theft or home-invasion. They better bring an army if they're going to home invade me though or it might be a bit one-sided, weighted my way. Anyway, I don't tell many people but occasionally I mention stacking to someone who shows an interest in it.

This happened the other day with a couple of young people in my team at work. We were talking about property investment, finances and then eventually the finance industry, taxation and the government. It led me to tell them I threw a little silver in the cupboard every now and and they seemed really interested in my reasons, what I bought, where I got it from and how much it was. They were keen to see some so the next day I took some into work to show them.

I took in a 1 kilogram bar of silver and some of my more interesting 1 ounce coins including my recently acquired Darth Vader coin. They loved it all! I received several knocks at my office door over the day as they wanted to come and see (and touch) my silver again and of course ask a question or two. It was pretty cool as I could see their excitement build each time.

The next day one of them came into my office with something in his hand...A couple of 1 ounce coins he had purchased the night before! I was really pleased to see he had made the leap. The other, a young 21 year old girl also told me she was off to the shop on Saturday (today) to go and get one as well. So, I'm now officially responsible for creating two new stackers.

When we were talking about it they asked how I pay for my silver, as in where does the money come from. I earn a lot more than these two and I think they expected to hear I just whipped out a credit card or a wad of cash and bought mountains of silver...Nothing could be further from the truth though. I actually buy my silver using spare change. That's right, coins collected in a jar I have on my kitchen counter. Chump change.

You know when you break a note and all you get is coins? Well, I put mine in this jar and when there's enough to make a trip to the shop off I go and purchase some silver. Sometimes one once, sometimes two. It all depends on if the coin jar has large or small denomination coins in it. I do it this way so that it doesn't feel like I am taking money away from our household budget or any other financial commitment we may have at the time. They thought that this method was awesome. I said it works as long as they don't intentionally spend notes to gain coins to buy silver. I use the coins as they make themselves available, I don't intentionally spend notes to fill the coin jar.

So, the two coins purchased by the young (almost 30 year old) lad was purchased with money harvested from the top drawer of his office desk and from coins pulled out of the centre console of his car. Bravo. He even said he may be able to curb some of his weekly spending to assist in his purchase of additional silver. I asked how and he said he could drop back to one coffee a day instead of two saving $3.00 a day. This saves him $30 in only 10 days which buys him a 1 ounce coin. A new one ounce coin every 10 working days just by enjoying one coffee a day instead of two? Nice work! He told me a couple of other things he can do also and what's great is that he involved his wife who is on board one hundred percent. Super-cool huh?

I feel really pleased that this young girl, and the guy who is newly married with a small baby, have decided to take an active role in stacking something away for their future. They are enthused and are super-pumped that we had the conversation that eventually led them to their decision to stack. The both told me it feels achievable that they could buy a coin each fortnight so around 26 coins a year just by making a few simple and painless changes to their daily spending. How cool is that!

The image is mine showing a Suisse 1kg bar and some coins I have.