Our Direction and Plan for Coin Roll Hunting, Silver Stacking and Podcasts

The past few months have been difficult for us in terms of our goals in regard to stacking silver and coin roll hunting Canadian nickels. The necessity of having to focus on the traditionally considered important aspects of life that we all have meant that we had to put our silver stacking and nickel coin roll hunting on hold. However, we love silver stacking and coin roll hunting, and more importantly, we love sharing our journey in these respects with the amazing communities that have grown around these topics and the great individuals who we have the pleasure to engage with on YouTube and through social media.

That is why we are now taking the opportunity to refocus our silver stacking and coin roll hunting goals. Further, we have also committed to doing podcast-like discussion videos two times a week, which we hope to be able to use to discuss the topics of coin roll hunting, silver and gold stacking and economics more generally. It may not come across in all of our videos, but we are avid lovers of economics and history and the discussion videos should be a great outlet to be able to engage these topics more fully.

In terms of coin roll hunting, our goals are a bit more definable. We are hoping to be able to coin roll hunt through two $100 boxes of Canadian nickels every week. I believe that now is a great opportunity to try to get as many 99.9% nickel nickels as we can as there is the potential that these coins might not be available in significant quantities for much longer. Therefore, we will commit to making a push to hoard them and two boxes a week should be a very achievable goal for us. Finally, we do not have a set number of ounces that we would like to add into our silver stack for the rest of the year, but I think we have a number of purchases left in front of us in 2015 and I am confident that anyone following this blog or our YouTube channel will enjoy the additions as well.

That is the rest of our 2015 in a nutshell. We are definitely excited about being able to get back into our favourite hobby of coin roll hunting as well as making more consistent silver additions and we are excited to add a little more discussion in between the hunting and stacking. Thank you again to everyone for sticking with us over the past year and we hope you enjoy what is coming.

Have you made any recent silver purchases and had success with coin roll hunting recently? Please feel free to let us know in the comment section below as we always love hearing the results that others are having as well.

Silver Gold Bull Free Shipping on Orders Over $500 *EXPIRED*

Please note that this free shipping deal for Canadian and US customers expires at midnight on April 6, 2015 and is only on orders over $500

It is not often that Canadians get a chance to have free shipping on their bullion orders. For that reason, I thought that it would be prudent to make the above video sharing a pretty good deal from Silver Gold Bullion. They are offering free shipping on orders over $500 for their Canadian and US customers until April 6th at midnight. Shipping in Canada is usually around $25, so this may be a good deal to take advantage of if you had planned on making a bullion purchase in the near future.

It would be nice to see market competition begin to drive down the cost of shipping in Canada, but for now, it is great to see this deal being offered by Silver Gold Bull.

End of 2014 Silver Additions - Increasing the Silver Stack

We started 2014 with the goal of stacking and additional 100 ounces of silver by the end of 2014. We made a strong push in the closing months of 2014 in order to successfully accomplish this goal. In the above videos, you can see our recent silver purchases that we were able to add to our silver stack. We were able to diversify quite substantially with these purchases. We added the following silver coins and silver bars into our silver stack at the end of 2014:

2 1oz Bald Eagles from the Royal Canadian Mint's Birds of Prey Series
4 1oz Australian Saltwater Crocodiles from the Perth Mint
10 1oz Australian Kookaburras from the Perth Mint
2 10oz Johnson Matthey silver bars
6 1oz Johnson Matthey silver bars
1 100gram Scottsdale silver bar
10 1oz Mexican Libertads
10 1oz American Eagles

It was not easy to make these purchases, but we have been very dedicated to accomplishing our 100 ounce goal. However, we certainly would not be able to do it without all of the support that we have received on this blog and on our YouTube channel. We are very blessed to be part of the great silver and coin roll hunting communities and we would not have been able to make the above purchases with the same enthusiasm without all of you.

Thank you for all of your support and stay tuned for a blog posting in the very near future concluding our goal of purchasing 100 ounces of silver in 2014. That video can now be seen on our YouTube channel.

Let us know in the comment section how your silver stacking goals went in 2014 and whether you have started in on your 2015 goals.

Still Here, Still Silver Stacking

Sometimes "real life" can get in the way of hobbies and interests. That is basically what happened to us in the past couple of months, as work obligations cut into a lot of the free time that would otherwise go into our hobbies of coin roll hunting, making YouTube videos and interacting with the silver stacking and coin roll hunting communities on YouTube and through this blog. I won't go into the details because everyone has obligations, whether it be work, family or otherwise, but suffice it to say we spent way too long without providing an update.

Last weekend I remedied that and provided an update on YouTube, which can be viewed in the video above. Our time away has just so happen to come at a time when the silver community has been fully engaged with the drop in the silver price. During that time, however, we have still been committed to our goal of silver stacking. Further, I believe that we are now getting into a routine that will allow us to once again consistently make YouTube videos and reply to comments again.

I just want to take the time to thank everyone for sticking with us during the past few months and for your wonderfully inspiring and motivating comments on the update video above. Also, be on the look out for videos in the future showing the results of our last few (for now) nickel boxes that we coin roll hunted through and some silver that we were able to pick up in the last few months.

Thank you again and I look forward to seeing/hearing about all of your recent purchases and how you are doing on your goals as the year almost comes to a close!

How To Grow and Build Your Silver Stack Faster

We make no secret about it on this blog; we like silver and we want to build as large of a silver stack as we can. Over the years, we have not had the ability to stack that much silver. As students, limited financial means have resulted in only a few ounces of silver. But we would like to turn this ship around and try not only to gain more ounces, but to do it faster and more efficient. In the video above, I lay out three ways that we can use to build and grow our silver stack faster. These three ways are looking for the best possible price, eliminating the cost of shipping whenever we can and trying to buy coins with a view to flipping them down the road, with a reinvestment of the profits back into the silver stack. Check out the video above to see a more in-depth discussion on these three areas.

How are you trying to grow your silver stack faster? Please feel free to discuss your methods in the comment section below.

Debt, Interest Rates and Silver Stacking

A lot of reactionary blame is always placed upon individuals whenever there is a news report or general conversation discussing the ever growing debt that the public is finding themselves in. Whether it is through labels such as the "need it now generation" or negatively referring to financial habits as trying to "keep up with the Joneses," it is easy for people to not feel any sympathy for those who have gotten themselves in over their heads in debt. Although it is true that individual must be held responsible for the financial situation that they find themselves in, this type of thinking erroneously focuses only on the seen actions of individuals, and not the unseen factors that impact these actions.

As this video argues, the artificially suppressed interest rate environment that individuals find themselves in has created a situation that induces individuals to not only get into debt rather than save, but to exacerbate that debt by making it easy to carry their debt balances further into the future. As Henry Hazlitt so eloquently explains in his book "Economics in One Lesson," these unseen factors should be a place of reflection for any good economist. However, these difficult to see factors go largely ignored. When someone has their house foreclosed upon them since they can no longer afford the mortgage, it is too easy to call the individual a fool, rather than comprehend how lower interest rates had the unintended consequence of discouraging saving while at the time same make it seem more desirable and simple to finance their current overindulgence's at the expense of tomorrow's wealth.

At the end of the video, I also take the time to reiterate how important it is to avoid getting into debt when the goal is to acquire a larger silver stack. It is not possible to reach our goals in relation to silver stacking if we get ourselves into debt. A large silver stack requires one to sacrifice the luxuries today, for their enjoyment in the future.

As always, we would love to hear your opinions on the topic in the comment section below. Can debt and a large silver stack co-exist?

January 2014 Silver Purchase - Journey to 100 Ounces

As we have mentioned in a few of our previous posts, our silver stacking goal for 2014 is to try to stack 100 ounces by year's end. We are extremely dedicated to this goal and reaching it would signal to us that we worked very hard throughout the year in order to place a portion of our wealth into this amount of silver. To help us reach this goal, we have determined that dollar cost averaging through monthly purchases is the best method for us. In light of this, we made our first purchase of the year in January.

We decided to go with six 2014 1 ounce silver Somalian Elephants. We received a very good deal on them and were able to pick them up without having to pay for shipping (we bought in person). These are not our first 2014 silver Elephants. We already have two from a purchase that we made towards the end of last year. We are big fans of these coins, so it was nice to be able to add 6 more ounces of them to the silver stack, while at the same time kicking off our 2014 silver stacking journey to 100 ounces.

Let us know in the comment section below what you have purchased in the last few weeks and what you are thinking about for your next silver purchase.

Entire Silver Stack - January 2014 Update

Now that we have posted our 2014 silver stacking goals, we thought that it would be a good idea to update our entire silver stack and show where we are starting from. We currently have 34 ounces of silver, with most of it being added during 2013. As you can probably tell, we are trying to get a wide variety of products, including generic bars, silver dimes and coins. The entire 34 ounces consists of either one ounce coins or bars, so we look forward to adding a few more denominations along the way, such as two ounce coins and ten ounce bars.

We hope that this video will help us to stay motivated through the entire year and serves as a good indication of not only where we started, but also what hard work, dedication and some fun can build. I look forward to coming back to this video at the end of the year and compare it to where we are at that time. Hopefully, it will serve as a positive image that indicates our efforts throughout the year.

Let us know what you think about our starting silver stack and what your 2014 silver goals are. Also, if you are thinking about making a silver purchase this month, what are some of the products that you are currently looking at?