My Most Important Reason Why
Fourteen years ago my wife and I were excited for another little one in our home. We had just moved into a home that I purchased from my step-grandmother next to my parents home where I grew up. We were happy that we were getting back into a house after two years of renting a basement apartment and an added bonus that I would be living next to my mom and dad. We knew they would be able to help watch the kids when we needed time to ourselves and I would be there to help them when needed.
After my son was born, as all parents do, we imagined what his life would be like. I would perhaps be watching him play sports in high school or that I would be talking to him about a girl he was dating. As time moved forward, my wife and I noticed he was different. We would let him sit in his highchair and he didn’t care if we left him there for a couple of hours. When he was four, he would try to tell us wanted a cookie but he did not know how to tell us but to point to the cookie jar. We knew that he would probably struggle in school. At about seven years old he was diagnosed with autism. After that we knew his life and our lives would not be like most other families' situations.
As I see him getting closer to adulthood and that my wife and I are not getting any younger, I cannot help but think about how he will get along without us. Will everything work out for the better? That will yet to be determined. No one can love our son like we can. I want to do whatever I can to set him up with the best situation I can.
Life is difficult enough for each of us to take care of ourselves, let alone another person’s whole life that is unable to support themselves. I have been able to get by. I am proud that I have been able to support my wife and two children with a home and a comfortable life. But, when it comes to preparing for my son’s future. I was not sure how I could handle that financial burden. I have thought about many different ways I could approach that issue and none of them were easy.
Shortly after I moved to my new home last winter, I met with my new neighbor who showed me one of his silver coins. At the time, I didn’t think much of it. I was not familiar with the potential that silver and gold have in building wealth. I did some research to see if there was anything to this whole precious metals business. The first thing I discovered is that precious metals, especially gold, was resilient to inflation and that helped me to feel more confident that it had a great track record of retaining value over thousands of years. I also began to discover that by collecting special and rare coins you can potentially gain hundreds or thousands of dollars above and beyond the original price paid for each coin. You just need to make sure to buy the right ones.
I researched 7k metals, the company that my neighbor had a membership with to buy his coins. What I learned is that they help you to access rare and special coins. Every month they send me a coin that has low mintage and is part of a fifty state series which will help me to gain more value with an entire collection. They also find rare coins that they will let you get a chance to buy that other coin collectors will not have access to unless they have a membership. I hope to one day create something that will help me support my son beyond my years on this earth. Because silver and gold have such a long track record of stability and growth. I can feel safe knowing that it will be there for years to come.