Stamp Budget

for the last 25 years I have been spending about the same paltry hundreds of dollars a year on my stamp collections..i think I am shorting myself...lets see no pets in the house..we just close th e door and take when we feel like it ..Ching ! I do not belong to the golf club only play..if you can call it that a couple of times a year..Ching Ching ! I do not have a boat on the river Ching Ching Ching..i think I freed up another $3600 to 4 thousand dollars for stamps !!

Good points. I don't drink, smoke, or gamble. Stamps are one of my collecting vices.

I don't drink, smoke or gamble

my my I am not making any money of philb or stamperdude. no wonder I am broke. we have to get the big wallets 4000 whole dollars per year you neednt say again. what do yo guys collect thematically :)

bc is that tomato juice?

We have no pets; I don't play golf; I do not have a boat; I don't smoke; I don't gamble and I only drink a beer once a week with Golovacz and he usually pays while I buy the chips !
I drink a glass of red wine a day to keep the cardiologist happy.....if this is a vice I'll admit it !

So why is it I have no money for stamps ?

Londonbus1....empty pocket liners hanging out !

I know most of my $$$$ goes to household bills and daycare. Oh, and then there are those pesky vet bills everynow and then.

Spock,
I collect Abraham Lincoln and Historic US Highway Route 66 (not currently featured on any US stamps). I'm surprised you didn't know that by now. I seem to be always posting about those 2 topics.

So Beesee is a wino ! it happens in the best of families !!

Dude, when the kids were growing up I was lucky I could afford a first day cover..stamps are not an inexpensive pursuit..if we live long enough and have some discretionary income they are a source of great pleasure !!

You may be surprised if you live long enough. I retired 20 years ago at 65 and my pension is based on 1990 dollars. So with what happened to the stock market, an implanted pacemaker defibrillator, cataracts, and cpap there is not any discretionary income. you live a day at a time.
I exaggerate but it isn't all roses. Have fun and keep a sense of humor and buy stamps while you can.

Conn

i second da motion !! my Dad lived to 98 1/2 he wanted to make 100 so bad..he had 97 good years !!

My money seems to go on the pets - one recent aquisition - Londonbus has met her, the wine, cigarettes *g* (really need to give those up). But I have bursts of stamp buying every couple of months or so.

I don't drink,smoke,gamble,play golf or anything else. I do live in Carmel, California....hence not too much money for stamps.

I save much of my stamp budget to give to Moonbird when he finds me interesting postal ephemera.

Peter

Philby, if my scanned images are blurry, then you know what I have been doing

Is BeeSee creating new Centennial varieties???? How much for a full set of plate blocks in all the papers, flourescence levels and precancels?

PeterMac

stamper I am off to go find lincolns :)