If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. That way, you can have new posts delivered right to you. Or click here to subscribe to The Men's Gift Guide by Email Thanks for visiting!

Okay, I’m just going to say it: there’s no recess in RECESSION, people. I’m just going to say it: the US dollar is neck and neck with the Canadian dollar, which hasn’t happened in a whole bunch of years, and the Euro trumps all. You know how hard it’s going to be to turn a profit if the bottom completely falls out? I don’t think I have to say it.

So, I’m trying to be proactive. No, I haven’t hired a pirate crew to hunt for riches using an ancient treasure map, though that was my first thought. I’m starting a kick-butt coin collection, and I’m starting with a $5 Gold Half Eagle coin. It’s a coin that was minted in San Francisco, between Wild West gold rush, just after the Civil War and the year of the infamous San Francisco earth quake in 1906. That’s it. No more. We’re talking rare. This coin comes with REAL history– somehow these solid gold coins survived destruction, stock-market crashes and meltdowns. This coin was once just gleaming fragments found by a prospector with tin pan and a dream. In a time when so many things are disposable, the Half Eagle coin is a reminder of American prosperity and good-old sweat-equity to get there. Sorry to get all poignant on ya– but for some reason, this shiny coin makes me proud to work hard for the money.