Re: A new collector!


"ronrpk" <ronrpk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:37:12 GMT, "Wes Chormicle"
> <wchormicle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>My 11 yr old son has at last started to get "the bug". For Christmas I
>>gave
>>him a set of the Whitman "penny" boards from 1909 to the present. I also
>>brought home about 50 pounds of Wheats for him to search through. After
>>going through them all, he only had about 12 holes left to fill. Every
>>Friday he wants me to bring home another bucket to search through. Every
>>week I would bring home about 10 pounds of Wheats for him. What he didn't
>>know is that each week I would "salt" it with 1 or 2 semi keys. They are
>>very low grade, like AG3 to G4 at best. Now we're down to the nitty
>>gritty!
>>4 holes left.... 09 S, 09 S VDB, 14 D and 31 S.
>>
>>I got him to start trying to fill all the 1959 to the present rather then
>>worry about the last 4 keys. Hopefully when he's a lot older he'll look
>>back and smile at the effort his dad went to!
>
> That's awesome. I tried to get my kids interested in the hobby. It
> worked for a while,,, but then slowly fizzled.
Snip
> -- Ron K

Same thing happen with my kids. My daughter is now 28 and she has never
show an interest in the last 15
years. My son did the Whitman boards for a while too. Nothing now in
years.
He does collect knives however.

Dale


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