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I wish I had a basement and probably my wife as well. They are still in the bedroom, but at least all in one spot now. Funny thing is when I started to rearrange things I told my wife what I was doing and that we could get some of the hundreds of books I have on the shelf to make more room. But, after getting all the stamp stuff out there was no room for books. Oops! I did not even realize how much I had. |
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Oh Puzzler, you just don't know. I always have so many books and stamps around the room that one cannot walk, or use a surface in here. I know it is strange, but I do a lot of stamping related things next to the bed, or even in bed. What you see will not last long. |
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This poem is nearly a century old now, but the sentiment sounds a lot like what you're talking about in this thread: Quote:
Lately I've been thinking of how very sad and bad
That so very many people have the stamp collecting fad;
If one had choked this vice when it first began to start
It would have saved full many a sad and breaking heart.
It has entirely ruined my happiness, and turned my hair all white,
It worries me in the daytime and bothers me at night,
I mope around regretting all the happy bygone days
Before my wife became a victim of the stamp collecting craze.
I am an honest working fellow, and I try to do what's right,
I don't drink any liquor, and I don't go out at night,
All the money that I earn with these old hands of mine
I give my better half, for to her I am always kind.
I've been married many a happy year and never in my life
Have I said a word that's cross to my little wife.
But Old Nick has got his work in, in some mighty sneaking ways,
For he has made my wife a victim of the stamp collecting craze.
You see we went calling on some city folks one night,
And a little feller in the house who takes a great delight
In saving up old postage stamps, he up and tells my wife
That to make a collection is the greatest thing in life;
And he gave her some to start with, and she makes me buy a book,
To paste the doggoned things in, and since then, by hook or crook,
She has been gathering in the labels, and she don't care what she pays
For she is mighty reckless, since she got the stamp collecting craze.
First thing I began to notice was the meals getting short,
We didn't have of things to eat the half of what we ort;
Then the baby's clothes got shabby and she didn't buy some more.
But made them wear the old ones, a thing she'd never done before,
And I found that of the money given her to wisely spend
For foreign stamps a goodly portion she was always sure to send;
She would scrape and she would pinch and every cent that she could raise
Would go, like so much dirt, to feed the stamp collecting craze.
She has scarcely ate her meals before she is fooling with her book,
And she worries all the neighbors just to come and have a look;
Her old album is beneath her pillow when she goes to bed at night
And she is counting out her treasures in the morn before it's light;
I've got to do the house work, wash the kids and fix the lamps,
'Cause my wife ain't got the time, you know, to spare from her old stamps.
I tell you my heart is breaking, and sad are all my days
Since my wife's become a victim of the stamp collecting craze.
Meekel's Weekly Stamp News
November 15, 1913 |
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Interesting poem. The problem with my basement (to chime in on that conversation) is that it's too damp to store stamps or books in, as they get mildewy, so I can't put any pf mine down there. |
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Wt1 thank you so much for the poem. Very true indeed: except it is me and.not her. Better not let her see this, or she will have proof (to her) that it is just a phase, this crazy stamp craze. |
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The odd time I'll show my wife new acquisitions, but she's no longer interested and is glad I have my own "stamp" room. Here's two photos showing the three cabinets it takes to store the collection and a very old, but renewed, cabinet to hold stamp supplies such as paper, stamp mounts, tongs, long and short wave UV lamps, etc.   |
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Your area is so neat and clean. I have stamps and stuff taking up an entire room that I call "my office"! Yeah right! There are stamps and stamp related stuff everywhere. I have six moving cartons of stamps I need to catalog and mount I call that mess my retirement project. I may have to live to be about 140 to get it all done. I think your space looks very neat and organized and you should be very proud of your organizational skills.
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Blackjack, beautiful room. I might reach that amount of stamps one day. I hope I keep them as well organized as you do. But I probably will never have that many as I'm trying to stay with two different areas and have tons of We to trade or sale one of these days, yet I can hardly bring myself to part with them even-though I really don't mess with them.
Londonbus1, I'm still working on it. All those boxes are full...
Nick Crissy, all we need is more time ha. |
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