How Many Stamp Albums Do You Have?

Wanted to post this awhile back but needed a new camera battery.

Kind of wish they all matched but they were had by what was the best deal at the time.
Also, you never plan to buy up about a hundred albums when your first starting.

Here is what happens to your albums when you cross that fine line from collector to accumulator.

Great arrangment...lookslike a good stamp library....Are the stamps in the boxes your duplicates? wow....its that many

1775mac, that's a great looking collection. What does the wife have to say about filling the closet?

Steve

And I thought I was bad

Dianne

T360 I would like to apologize right now for going off topic but Steve asked. And this is a long over due thorn in my side.

First, when my wife and I were without our children we purchased a nice 3 bedroom house with a 8x12 walk in closet.
Time goes by and slowly my wife's shoes and clothes push me out of the walk in and to the bedroom #2 closet.
Once again all is fine for awhile then I find myself being moved out to bedroom #3 closet.
So I finally think that no more mores in the future for me, yeah right. Since my dressing attire is minimal my wife explains that all I need now is the small hallway broom closet for my clothes.

Needles to say we outgrew the home and a larger one was in order. I was already planing supersize walk ins 12x18, 4 bedrooms before construction started.
We built, we moved in, had three children and slowly the process has happened again.

I am currently dug in and am still fighting off bids on dad's office closet. My next move may be out to the dog kennels.

Does any of this sound familiar?

Hehehe...I am picturing myself undergoing the same ordeal a few years from now when I start a family of my own

1775mac, I feel sorry for you. Make sure you stand your ground now. We are all behind you.

Worst case senario.. kids get older and start to move out in a few years and you get your space back. Lots of it.

Steve

Hang in there Mac

Eventually kids move out and just maybe you'll get your own room.

Dianne

I can tell you from life experience...Once you cross the line..you never go back !! I like your bookcase and I need TWO more closets !!

I can get all the white binders ..like on your next to bottom bookshelf at the school...the kids discard them when a project completed...then the school will re order replacement boxes of them..my tax money at work !!

Wow...thats good resourcefulness pHIL

Wow! I am amazed at what I am seeing here, and feeling like quite the stamp collecting infant with just my one album! (And a box of glassine envelopes and a stock sheet or two with various duplicates and unmounted stamps). I have the Harris Ambassador album I got when I was 10 or 11. I've added pages to it here and there over the years, and now I'm thinking I may want to take the US pages out and put together a separate album just for US.

This reminds me an awful lot of threads on forums devoted to my other obsession (ahem, hobby): aquariums. In the fishkeeping and planted aquarium world we often refer to "Multiple Tank Syndrome": where one tank leads to another and another and another. For example, I got back into keeping aquariums several years ago with just one tank --and now I have 10!

Is a similar phenomenom in store for me in regards to stamp collecting? I wonder if I should warn my husband, or just let him discover it on his own?

It certainy does. My wife has more closet space taken up by shoes than I have closet space. And I didn't know this, but apparently there are numerous colors of black. Silly me - I thought black was black.

I see that this topic hasn't been mentioned for awhile, but being new, I am reading though everything.
I'm amazed at the great photos of albums, and collection storage systems.
I've chosen 50 to 100 albums, but in all fairness, it's really hard to tell. Almost all the collections are in 3 ring binders, on printed off pages, but that means that some larger countries are split up into 2 or 3 albums. It's just not possible to fit them into one album neatly.
Then I have to take into consideration that there are three stamp collectors in the house. My mom and daughter also collect. Some of our collections overlap and are joint efforts.
We also have boxes and cartons of stuff that isn't sorted yet. I started collecting 38 years ago. My daughter started when she was only about 2 years old, matching pictures in a world wide album that was bigger then she was, and finally my mom said well if you can't beat them, then join them, and she got into the fun.
So between the three of us, we collect about 25 countries, and 30 or 40 topics. A lot are in stockbooks, so I didn't add them into the count.