Ever Felt Fed Up With Stamping?

This morning I took out an envelope of pre-1960 DDR someone sent me last week and started getting ready to catalogue them when I suddenly realized that I didn't feel like it. I thought that perhaps DDR wasn't terribly interesting so I took out my Portugal and Colonies Ceres collection which normally gets me going but within 5 minutes I was fed up and I put everything away. I tried to get rolling one more time this afternoon but no dice; couldn't even get myself to the next room to fetch an album.

This is the first time this has happened to me (with regards to stamps) and also the first time I have found myself considering giving away or selling all my stamps and sticking to my writing - one hobby is more than enough for a 66 year old.

Has anyone else here had a similar experience or is it just me? I would sincerely love opinions or ramblings or rants. Thanks in advance.

Nope, not me. My wife, many many many times, yes. But not me.



In the spirit of altruism, I'll sacrifice myself and will accept your stamp collection so that you will never again have that "fed up" feeling because of your stamps.

The things I do for philately...

k

I went through that about 10 years ago, coincidentally it was also when trying to sort hordes of DDR. For some reason, I just couldn't get enthused. I put it all away for a couple of weeks, built a deck on the house, then happily returned to stamps. I never could explain the funk...it just happened, and I'm glad it went away.

My name is Peter and I am a stamp collector.

This thread is starting to sound like an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting!

Hi; I'm Craig. I'm a stampaholic.

I have had that feeling a couple of times but it usually lasts about 1 day. I usually just get bored. Doing the same ol thing for the 1000th time. I always go back and when I do it's usually with some vigor. I always go back though.

I put things away for over 20 years and never thought about stamps until one day I read in the paper Great Britian was issuing a Beatles stamp set & I, being a fan thought, thats neat, and ordered the set from the British Post. They send me a quarterly mailing and soon after I discover that a Harry Potter set is being issued and my daughter being a fan I ordered those. Then I pulled out my old US collection and saw the cool little pieces of paper and all the holes that needed filling and all the great times I had as a kid filling those holes and I haven't looked back since. Like you Craig, I'm a stampaholic (again). Just took something to spark that passion again.

I think that most of us have a moment where the stamps are not as appealing or get the collecting juices flowing. As the saying goes "Too much of anything can be a bad thing." Of course, the best thing about stamps is that they can wait for you to come back to them just where you left them.

The longest I have lasted when I was in one of the moods was around 3 years. I put all of my stamps up and did not touch them. I pulled them out and it was a whole new hobby to me.

The history of my collecting has consisted of fits of starting and stopping. Somtimes only marginal interest. I always kept the stamps, though, and was always glad for what I had been able to accomplish in the past. The stamp bug bit me hard earlier this year, and I am very actively collecting now.

I am annoyed that Khj made that offer. I saw your post about 1 minute after you posted it, and thought the same thing. But being somewhat new to the group I refrained. Now, however, if you do give it away, I call first dibs. :)

tsk tsk K

stop being greedy

he will not take your stamps

i will take them

there isnt any pecking order in particular we start with emperor spock and we stop there because there isnt anything left afterward :)

by the way K make your wife feel good send your collection ym way today before someone else snipes p my offer :)

BTW, Happy Birthday Tony! You have the same birthday as my 2nd daughter!

k

I've had that feeling and actually did give away a major chunk of my collection to folks. I collected US for many years, eventually got fed up with the quantity being produced and subsequently just quit collecting it. I actually took my collection a local dealer to see what he might be interested in - I was actually just looking for face value (or thereabouts). he showed zero interest so I used a big chunk for postage and gave away bigger chunks to folks.

and in all seriousness, I am looking to start collecting Germany as my son now lives there

I think it would be abnormal if you didn't have the funk every once in awhile. Would be kind of scary to see someone spending 5 hours a day every day on a certain activity.

The key is to go with the flow and not force anything!