I'm Done With Junk Drawers

For the past 6 or 9 months I've been buying what is called junk drawers on EBay. I always get cheated. One of the last ones had a small coin that had Queen Elizabeth's portrait on it. It was gold color so I thought that it was a 1/10 ounce Canadian Maple Leaf. That would be gold and worth $150. Instead it was a Hong Kong nickle ; worth 5 cents in Hong Kong.
I'm always fooling  myself. I have to just admit to myself that other people aren't going to make a mistake and let me have anythings that is worth more than it might appear. I've spent hundreds and although I might have some nice coins; I'm stuck with stamps and baseball cards that are worthless. It's just a waste of time and money to bother with.
The last junk drawer came in a plastic envelope that the Canadian Post Office put on. It had been broken into and a vial with gold flakes had been stolen. I have to run by the Post Office tomorrow and see if I have any recourse. I think I just wasted $76.
Tomorrow I get paid and I think I'll put another $200 into Lite Coin. I still feel that I'm on the leading edge of cryptocurrency. I feel that by next year I'll be ahead by about $20,000. Only time will tell. I can always buy gold with it. I'm not losing yet but it is going down. After January 31st the Chinese won't be able to transfer their money into it so that is affecting the market, now. I expect a big rise after January 31st. We'll see.
I'm thinking about doing something for the preppers in the audience.
I'm thinking about making a bug out bag for truely poor people. Instead of starting with a $100 tactical backpack I would start with a bag from the grocery store costing $1.00. I would have a knife that I bought from Wal-Mart for under $5.00. Maybe I would use something from the junk drawers. I would include a lighter from Wal-Mart as well. Then I would use the vasoline and cotton ball trick for tinder. I would show myself getting canned tuna from the food pantry for stored food. I don't know what I'll do about water. The bottled stuff is just too expensive, and containers aren't cheap either.
I got a nice camera in one of the junk drawers last week. If I can figure out how to get the pictures off of the memory card and into a computer I'll use it. It just needed good batteries. I downloaded the operating instructions and it seems to work. Maybe the junk drawers weren't a complete loss.
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Snowy Day Trading Cryptocurrencies

It's snowing quite hard and I'm just hanging out at Java Johns; waiting for it to let up a bit and go shovel snow again.
I'm out of any currency right now. I'm in fiat or what you may be familiar with (American dollar). I'm waiting for the weekend crash which will be an opportunity to buy Lite coin. I lost about $10 yesterday trying to time my buys and sells. It's hard to make money when everything just goes down. I try to buy at a dip and sell at a move up. The problem is that it doesn't move down as much as I would like and when it's time to sell it moves so much that I get caught selling lower than I would like.
I meant to say something about this prepping craze. I clicked on a wrong place and now my e-mail is being inundated with all sorts of videos about making bug out bags, starting fires without matches and all sorts of predictions about apocalyptic scenarios.
I'm tired of the whole thing. It's just too expensive. They talk about making things in your garage or adding to your bug out location (which is something like 5 acres in the mountains). I don't have that sort of thing and I never will. The whole thing justs costs too much for me. I've got a lot of gold and silver and some food but I don't have the money or the room for anything else.
I am still thinking about getting an RV of some sort. Maybe I'll get a motorhome. I could live in it and travel around looking for gold and coins with my metal detector.
I've yet to find a good source of water if the city water gets cut off or contaminated like it did in West Virginia last week. I need to arrange for a place to store my food and water and stuff. I might have to rent a storage locker. I asked Gary if I could store stuff at his place. He said that I could but I haven't been able to get together with him to actually store things there. It might be better to just have my own place.
Well the snow is letting up, time to eat lunch and shovel some more.
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There were 2 crashes in crypto this weekend.

And I was caught by both of them. I told you about the first one. Well, Sunday night was a repeat of Saturday night. I was in Litecoin while I slept and I woke up considerably poorer.
I kept thinking that the currencies are in a long-term bull market. I was wrong. The China banning of cryptocurrencies is having an effect on the markets.
I'm just going to stay out until after January. Then I might get back in. It's just too dicey to be in, now.
I was watching a video about gold prices, last night. I looks like the Western banks have run out of gold. It's all going to China and points, east. I think they are already out and they are faking it.
I guess I'll have to give up my delusions of getting wealthy. I was just hoping to get enough money for a trailer, anyway. Well, I'll have to give that up. I can just move into my van.
I have to get rid of most of my stuff. I would like to sell the etchings on the internet for Bitcoins or Litecoins. I need to find a site that would do that. Maybe Amazon. I tried Ebay but they wouldn't take Bitcoins. Craigslist might be an option. I'll have to research it. They sure aren't moving, now.
I might as well show some of them here.

I'll also link Malcolm site where a bunch of my etchings are also listed: http://roadsongs.com

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Cryptocurrencies got Exciting

Well, shortly after saying that cryptocurrencies were boring it got exciting. I lost about $50 while I was sleeping. I went to bed with Litecoin in my crypto wallet. I had a sell order in at a couple of dollars higher than when I went to bed.
Unfortunately it went down instead of up. Once again, there was the famous weekend crash. It didn't happen last week and I felt that Litecoin was moving up so strongly that it wouldn't happen this week. I was wrong.
I sold at a bottom and got back in a few minutes later. Over the day it moved in small amounts.
Tonight it went down again. I got out quickly and then it started going up again. So I bought back in. This getting in and out doesn't really cost much. A transaction costs 0.2 %. It's worth it to get in and out and to try to miss the big losses. The trouble is that I have to sleep sometime.
I had a bot but I wasn't happy with it. It didn't get in and out fast enough for me. With cryptocurrencies you have to be fast. Maybe I can set the bot differently. I'll have to contact Pablo and find out.
I went to LaCrosse today. I went to church and then hung out at Barnes & Noble. I bought a book by Malcolm Gladwell. He's one of my favorite authors. I also got a survivalist book. It looked to me like the prices are going down there. Maybe they are going bankrupt. I hope not; I'll miss them.
Not much happening here. I'm at Culvers (a hamburger shop). Just watching cryptocurrencies and reading Gladwell's latest book.
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Time for Disjointed Rambling

I decided to do a little rambling, today. I've been thinking about how much my life has been disrupted by negative (fear-based) thinking.
I think a lot of it started in the 70's and 80's. I've never mentioned it here but I feel that my investment thinking has been warped by feeling that I had to acheive wealth due to believing that I had a series of one-night-stands with a variety of Hollywood starlets. This was probably a hallucination but I've spun my wheels trying to get the money that I would need to be good enough for them.
I was also trying to get out of the working class rut. I felt that I could make enough money trading commodities or options to be one of the 1% who everyone else works for.
I guess I'm still trying to get out of the rut with crypto-currencies. That seems to be working for now.
I've been willing to take great risks with money and I always avoided doing the hard work that might have made my schemes work.
One of the things I avoided is selling. Looking back, I feel that I might have made it if I had found a commission sales job. It's always better to get paid for what you achieve than for the time that you work.
That's covered in T. Harve Eker's books and seminars.
Talking about motivational speakers, I was watching Glendon Cameron today. In one of his vlogs on his YouTube channel, he said that the first step towards achieving wealth is commitment. You have to do what it takes to get wealthy with no excuses. I've always have been lazy. That's probably been a bigger problem for me than my mental illness.
Getting back to negative thinking and commitment, I feel that this prepping stuff I've been watching on YouTube has derailed my movement towards achieving wealth.
I've got close to $3000 invested in precious metals. If the economy doesn't collapse, what am I going to do with it? I'm not even sure that gold and silver will do any good in a collapsed economy.
I'm spending all of my money and time getting ready for the financial collapse and none towards becoming an entreprenior. That's what I should have done 30 or 40 years ago.
I was watching something about that Zuckerberg fellow. Appariently he bought a copy of a book on C++ programming about the same time that I bought one. The difference is that he followed through. I never did teach myself to program. The difference between the two of us is obvious. I doubt that I would be a billionaire by now but I think I would be doing better than I am had I really dug into it.
Oh well, go to Glendon Cameron's Youtube channel and get Eker's book. Maybe it's not to late for you.
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Crypto-currencies are now boring

The crypto-currencies have been moving sideways, lately. That makes it hard to make any money on them. I've been in and out a dozen or more times in the last week and I have the same amount of money that I started with.
I'm tempted to quit. At least until the 31st of January. That is when the Chinese won't be able to get their crypto-currency transferred back and forth to their banks.
That should drive the market a lot. Maybe they are getting out, now, and that is holding the market down.
I've got a good notion to get my money out and pay on credit cards. I'm carrying too much debt.
I'm hoping to go prospecting for gold this Summer. I'll just throw a metal detector and tent into the van and go.
I think I'll go to Happy Camp, California and check out the "New Fourty-Niners",first. That is a club in northern California that has a lot of claims on the Klamath River. It would cost $1500 to $3000 to join but it might be worth it. If that doesn't work out I'll join the "Gold Prospector Association of America". They have permission to pan on dozens of claims across America. It only costs $70 for an annual membership.
I'll have to find a way to store all of my stuff. I have a bunch of etchings that I would like to sell but they're not moving. I have to lower the price and market them better. I would like to take Bitcoin as payment for them.
I'm too late to get into Spanish class, next Spring. Not only am I still waiting to see if I still have a job but the class was canceled because of too few students. Maybe I could go to Luther. I might still be able to get in there.
Today, I'm having a review to see if I'm still going to be on the Experience Works program. I have to get all spiffed up for that. I think I'll wear my nicest shirt, wrinkle free pants and a nice sweater. I bought some new tennis shoes, yesterday. I think I'll wear them.
Well, it's time to shower, shave and generally spiff up.
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I Quit Watching Cramer

Yes it happened. I haven't watched Jim Cramer's show "Mad Money" for over a week, now.
The real reason is probably that my gambling itch is being satisfied by trading crypto-currencies. But I have some other reasons as well:

1. Cramer says not to invest in the market if you have credit card debt. He points out that you will always be playing from a position of weakness.
2. He also recommends having $10,000 to play with. That means money that you can afford to lose, so you can diversify.
3. The market uses US dollars. I'm convinced that the dollar will collapse any day, now.
4. There is massive market manipulation going on. I saw that when I was trading Fannie Mae. The price would move a day or two before the announcement of the news that moved it. I also saw the 9/11 terrorist attack be preceded by the market moves in airline options.
5. Gold is even manipulated. It's obvious but nothing is ever done about it.
6. I need my money to get ready for the financial collapse. I've only made money a few times with the market and it's just too important to use my money preparing for the collapse than to risk it again. Crypto-currencies are bad enough, but I have more faith in precious metals and crypto-currencies than the market.
7. I need to protect myself from government seizures. They took people gold in the thirties and at Cyprus they took money out of bank accounts, recently.

My sister and other religious people tell me that God will take care of me. I feel that I have some responsiblily for my own well-being. Isn't there some sort of saying that God looks out for those who look out for themselves? I feel that people who put their trust in the dollar will regret it very soon.
That reminds me, I checked EBay for gold prices today. The spot price for gold is a little above $1200. But on EBay 1/10 ounce gold coins are going for around $200 instead of the $150 They were going for a few weeks ago. I think the people who buy on EBay have a better feel for the real prices of metals than the market manipulaters on Wall Street and London. In fact, at London what they do twice a day is to set the world price of gold. They call it the "Fix". What an appropriate word for what they do to gold they fix it twice a day.
Oh well, I'm just going to keep playing crypto-currencies with my bot and try to get ready for a world wide financial collapse.
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