Stampaholic

i used to think I was different...but there are others just like me !

Honestly, I don't get obsession. I collect what I collect because I have fun doing it, not because I've got some strange addiction. I've had various collections in my life and the vast majority of which I just walked away from when they stopped being enjoyable. I sold them, gave them away, some of them I just threw away, I never got the cold sweats, I very rarely ever went back to most of them, I made a decision that some things were just not fun anymore and I just had no interest in them.

Stamps are one of the few things that I have come back to a couple of times in my life. They never really got "not fun", I just had times where I just didn't have the time for them so I put the albums on the shelf for a couple of years and picked them up again down the road. I never got "withdrawals" or anything like that from not collecting, I just lost interest and when I got interested again, I picked it up. I could get bored with it again sometime later and it will go back up on the shelf for a while.

I guess I just don't understand people who claim to be obsessed with something, to the point that they seemingly have no self control. Yes, I know that most people are just exaggerating, but I've seen people who collect other things who have bankrupted their families in the pursuit of a "complete collection". I just don't get it.

No doubt about it and there isn't a cure either.

Chimo

Bujutsu

i think its an obsession within bounds...certainly I could afford to spend more than I do..and it would hurt no one..everything has a certain value to me...it would be interesting to see what would happen if I ever got the chance of a lifetime opportunity super deal collection !!