Misplaced Lots ...

I hope I'm not the only person to do this.

I keep an accounting of all my stamps bought online by simply saving the seller's photo from the listing.

I was backing up my photo inventory to disc today. While browsing the photos, I encountered a lot of about 500 stamps on stock sheets I bought back in 2005 ... and I have no idea where they are!!

I've been looking all afternoon and am about to go nuts!

Rileysan, I sympathize with your plight. I had a small lot Canada Revenues that I bought about a month ago and forgot where I filed it. It took me a half hour the other day going through many binders to locate it. I can attribute my forgetfulness to a senior's moment but perhaps you aren't old enough to use my excuse.

At 41 I don't consider myself old, but I bought this lot nearly 6 years ago. One would expect to have run into it at least once during that span!

I find things that I bought that I had forgotten about all the time. At the time I got them, they were "great treasures". How do we forget what at the time of purchase, we were so eager to get?

Rileysan, I consider you very young at 41 (I turn 40 this year). However, this seems for me to be an age where I have at last become a bit more organised in my life, but also increasingly absentminded. I therefore hunt for ages for things in places I think they were likely to end up - only to eventually find them in the place they should be. So at the risk of sounding facetious - maybe you organised these stamps ages ago and they are happily sitting in an album somewhere...

Having recently embarked on my 43rd year, I can only concur with stampgal.

I tell myself, "put this someplace special so you won't forget it ...."

It never ends well
KirkS

LoL! You all hit the nail on the head! But to complicate things just a little, I moved about a year ago so who knows where they ended up!

I hope you never get robbed. Maybe they'll find it. I'm quit organise I use 3 stockbooks and some Vario sheets.

I found the trick for me is to not keep an accounting. I am continually amazed at the number of new stamp discoveries while rummaging through desk drawers, glassines, etc. or opening books.

Ack! No! I am far too OCD-like to not keep an accounting. In fact, I enjoy my photo library almost as much as the stamps themselves!

Boy, can I relate to this thread!

If I buy some KGV stamps, they go straight into the relevant stockbook.

If I buy covers, they go into my KGV drawer. Anything else gets lumped in together in another drawer, still in glassines etc.

Every now and then I have my own rummage sale and get all excited at the wonders I find!

Tragic.............

Jubilee
You are a champion and i'm allot like you.Youpee

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I hope I'm not the only person to do this.

You are not alone. I lost a mnh c18 for about 6 months then found it in a book being used as a book mark. I have done this acouple of times before.

oof ...

When I first decided to stick with Canada as a country/ topic for collecting I had taken some higher used values and put in a glassine . Only a few months ago when going through a pile of empty stock sheets did I find this glassine . I actually found it as a major bonus because I didn't remember them. Being it a couple years passed and quite a bit more studying and reading I looked a bit closer at these and found a kluane with double imprint I had no clue I had. If they would have been readily out I may have never checked them or possibly even traded or sold. Some things are better left alone and when the time is right you may get a surprise. That said if it wasn't for my wife I wouldn't find where I put my damn car keys.