How Do You Most Enjoy Working On Your Collection?

When I work on my collection, I like to sit at the table and spread everything out on the table and then for the next hour try to figure out what I want to work on and try to find the stamps. Anyways it's still a lot of fun.

LaSwabbie, the alone time for me is only the ideal and only in the winter. When it finally warms up here, I tend to spend as much time outdoors as possible. It can get so humid that I'm afraid to touch the stamps, and wonder how they do it farther South without snowy winters and some very heavy humidity. A few years ago the humidity was so bad I had a couple of opened packages of hinges that all stuck together just sitting there.

T360, it is the best of times, but not a constant. Now there is a new distraction to take away from it, this forum... and I love it!

Nt-notrare, yes you are lucky. I haven't had a day alone at home in maybe 15 years! But we learn to compensate.

Charles, I've never tried working on stamps in the daylight. As a photographer, I know that things look different in daylight than under incandescent or fluorescent lighting, that's why there are different filters and films. The full spectrum of daylight is generally best.

Philb, Wow, I didn't know stamp collecting could be so physical an activity. You must be in great shape!

Dopie13, you must have different hearts for your other evenings!

Triggersmob, I know what you mean about computers, they can use up more time than they sometimes save. It's quiet right now and I could be working on one of my collections but, instead, am at my computer on this board!

Diane, having a hobby room of your own can be great. After the kids left home I picked-up two. Then filled them mostly with stuff my father had left behind that I hoped to sell on ebay before other family members threw everything away. While selling off his stamps, I decided to start collecting them again, and life has never been the same. Now what do I do with all that other stuff since ebay has lost its luster, except when I'm buying stamps there!

Jim, I have days like that too. Then wonder why I keep buying more lots on ebay!

Any new members who care to say how they prefer to work on their stamp collections... or how they actually do it?

I find this board can seriously interfere with the time I spend with mine! Makes collecting a lot less lonely when you live just about in the middle of nowhere, though.

Several nights I had a choice between working on stamps or reading about it online - I picked going online. It's all good, though, as they say.

Charles.

Or you could do like I do. Work on my collection after supper and then stay up Wayyyy toooo late checking out the forum

I also cheat just a little and sneak some posting in when I'm at work

anyway it's way too late and I'd better get to bed It's after midnight here and I have to get up at 6

Dianne

Laswabbie you play with kids here? I wonder who those kids are....

Well, I'm pretty much home bound-lousy health. So I get in some stamp and reading about stamp time in between cleaning, laundry. PLUS, I play with all the kids here ,too!
When my 23 month old grandson is here, I'm on the forum between his naps.
I love this forum and my growing collection.I'm thinking about taking one of my quilting tables and light with magnifier on it and setting it up just for sorting stamp.
What fun we have playing with our stamps!
Gussyboy1

BTW, Father Tom, that DR WHO time/space travel stamp would make a great addtion to my space travel stamp post on Modern stamps! Hint, hint to all you folks out there who can check out my postand add to the stamps there!

Gussyboy1

Wilamay here, as a old lady I have all the time in the world. I have a book shelf with my stamp albums on them. I am upgrading my whole collection. Last time was in 1999. I am using the 2007 Scott Catolog to value each stamp. I have a 4 vol. set of US plate blocks, 1 scott album for mint and used sinlge US stamps up to 1957, 2 vol.of Hungary,2 vol. of Czechoslovakia. 1 vol. each of Canada, Poland, Russia, Romania, Ireland, and 2 books of world wide. Most of the albums are three quarters full of used stamps. They will be given to my grand children after I,m gone. I have problems getting scott pages for some of my albums. I need pages for poland from the beginning to 1960. I need pages for Canada from 1999 to 2007. Does anyone know how I can get these pages. Happy Stamping Wilamay

Wilamay

Hi and welcome to he forum !! I like to spend a few quiet hours each morning with my collection, Upgrading arranging creating wish lists etc. The important thing I have found while on this forum is every enjoys their collection. And everyone is so support of each other. I bet you will find a source for your missing pages very soon

Hi Wilamay, I am no kid myself...holy cow..you are going to update all the values of your stamps..are you going to make lists ? I hope not write in the albums..sounds like horrendous work..it opens up a lot of questions..suppose your heirs think that the catalog value is the actual worth of the stamp ??

How do I most enjoy working on my collection???? That's a good one. I think I would have to say the way I most enjoy working on my collection is to clear the kitchen table off and start to systematicaly scatter things all over it while listening to music on my MP3 player. For some reason it's seems I can find things easier when I have my little bit of chaos going on then if I try to have some orginization. That is how I most enjoy working on my Collection. BTW, Welcome to the forum Wilamay glad to have you with us.

Hi, all this Wilamay. The way I spend time with my stamps is to upgrade my collection. I went to the library and got Scott catolags for the countries I collect. For the past two months I have been pricing each stamp to get a value to the collection. It gave my a chance to know what stamps I have and what stamps I still need by scott numbers, and have compliled a want list for each country. I am 68 years old and homebound so I have all the time in the world to work on my collection which will go to my three grandchildren when I,m gone. Happy Stamping Wilamay

Wilamay

What countries are you working on filling ? Please let us know

Welcome Wilamay

I pretty well take up the main floor of our house when I have time to "play". I've converted my daughter's room into a stamp collecting room but there are'nt enough horizontal surfaces in there for the way I like to spread . I only have My US stamps placed in Albums and have started Canada and Togo.

I'ts a slow process cause I still work many hours especially in spring in summer. I like to keep in touch here as much as I can cause the forum is my only "stamp collecting contact" .

I've also decided to make up my own albums so I can spend more money on stamps.

Dianne