The Stamp Versus The Coin

Dianne
I just read another post about you having about 50 different types of lillies. Don't kid yourself, that is a collection!

As I see it, no matter what you collect, it can become boring and tedious if it is a hobby you don't share.
Sharing in your knowledge and experience is all part of the process of collecting.
I know there are collectors out there that are secretive but imagine how much more fun they could have if they were in here with us

My mistake then I guess I'm not the exeption cause I also have 60 rosebushes 200 Hostas and 150 daylilies and that's just scratching the surface.

Dianne

that's ok, at one point I had almost 2000 different types of orchids

Now That's an obsession

Dianne

Diane we have hundreds of hostas..you know how they multiply..i cant believe what the nurseries charge for a plant..i tell my friends to come and split them and take em away...the bad part is they draw the deer..but they make excellent borders when not eaten by the deer !

Phil -

One crossbow + hostas + darkness + night vision goggles = Venison sausage and chili!

Greg. a guy made me up some venison pepperoni..some of these guys around here bag a lot of deer..a German smoke house accross the river makes up the smoked venison and sausages..they weigh what the guys bring in and process it ...i find killing a deer a burden..my oldest son will take some..i like a vension steak sandwich or two with a hot pepper ..the wife and rest of family does not care for the meat..if I hunt with my brother and we get one I say give me 10 or 12 pounds and keep the rest for your family....

I have a small side collection of coin & currency as I come across it. It doesn't hurt that I work at a bank and occasionally a customer will bring in a silver certificate or mercury dime, etc. I also collect elongated coins, world fair admission tickets, comic books (most of which I've sold cheap), Hard Rock Cafe pins, 1st edition Anne Rice novels, postcards etc.

i play around with postcards..at shows I look at the address side for stamps..and the ones from the 1939 New York Worlds Fair ! I worked at a bank when I got out of the service in 62..there was no work..so I took the bank..one of the uppity customers complained that I was surly ! yeah I probably didnt care for his attitude..for 67 bucks a week I could afford to be surly !!

"Now That's an obsession"

Dianne
I was the chairman for the Massachussetts Orchid Society's show several years ago and I made the theme of the show "orchids, obsession or addiction?"

I can see why you love them Ziggy9

Ochids are beautiful. Someone gave me a half dead one a few months ago. I nursed it back to health and it rewarded me by blooming for a couple of months.

Dianne