True, pets and stamps do not mix. We have 18 dogs and 5 cats so I always have to be careful and make sure that my collection is pet-proof. I know what you are saying - 18 dogs?? The answer to that is, that we are a registered kennel and used to raise Tibetan Spaniels plus in that number there is one Great Dane and one Whippett.
Quote: My horror story started when I joined an online stamp collecting forum. I bagan to spend more and more time on this forum. I wanted every stamp, cover, cancel, revenue and cinderella ever shown on this forum. I bought things I previously never knew existed from people I previously never knew existed. My children went unfed, my husband unloved, my dogs unwalked. Gradually my stamps began to take over the house.
One day I came home from work to find my (then) 2-3 year old coming out of my study with a stamp in his bib, chewed. I was very relieved to find that this was the only damaged stamp and it was not a useful stamp anyhow. Now, at 11, he has his own stamp collection, but not in a bib, and not chewed.
Last year I had a 10 ton portion of an old growth Maple tree come crashing down on my house and it damaged the roof and part of then room where I have been storing my covers and some stamps. Luckily, my older (1890's) house was built well and the roof stopped most of the tree. No stamps were harmed in the calmity, but Allstate had to fork out $60,000 to fix my house. If it was the whole tree that came down it would have taken out the stamp room easily.
I wish I kept some of that wood from the tree. I just had the emergency tree service get rid of it. I'm sure some of the trunk was sold to a business down the road that makes those chainsaw carved bears. Thanks for the compliments on the house. The house not as big as it looks. It just looks that way because it's on a hill and the perspective gives that illusion although the collection has spread to three rooms..sometimes the four to five if I'm really working on sorting stamps/covers and I want to hear the TV at the same time. I have four cats too, but luckily the stamps are of little to no interest to them.
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