Top Ten Beginner Mistakes

Found Ye olde mistakes from old bulk collection I've acquired:
13. Wrapping groups of covers, glassines or even stamps with rubberbands.
14. Ran out of hinges or didn't have any the first, guess I'll use tape or even rubber cement.
15. Magnetic photo albums for storage.
16. (Now I've done this): Soak 'em all at one, even the ones on red paper from Xmas greeting envelopes. Of that padded envelope fragment with the paper mache like filling.
17. Cut the just one of the stamps or even just the postmark off the cover, but leave the others behind for someone else to find in the future and make them wince.
18. Noboby looks at the back of a cover...cut that dead weight off. If a postcard or postal card, glue it firmly inside of a black paper scrapbook.
19. Running of storage space, utitilze the attic, moldy basement, the garage or even the crawlspace.
20. Getting hot working on stamps? Turn on the fan.
21. The cat will never jump upon the table if left unattended.

Foot Note: Buying and focusing more on stamps than your significant other (wife in my case) will not help at all and is a big no no!
Edit- There is a licking stamps more than ? joke in there somewhere.

...leaving mint stamps in glassines upon arrival, because "you'll get to them right away, anyway"...

Who knew that classic-era mint Bulgaria were self adhesive?

Leave (even for a short period of time) an old mnh stamp on a black wallet that you just got out off your back pocket. Somehow the gum react with the leather and now I have a little stain on it. Frustrating because it's a valuable stamp.

Not joining SCF.

Writing "fluorescent" on the back of common European definitives in an attempt at identifying paper varieties. And doing it without having a UV light. And writing it in pen. And spelling "fluorescent" incorrectly.

Ryan

New one that just happened to me.

I'll just leave a banker's box of covers sitting here in the dining room and think nothing will happen to it. One of four cats decided to reach its little paw into the box through the handle hole and pull out two covers to chew up. I've mourned the loss of an unused V-mail stationery cover and a Romanian cover to Voice of America. :(

This sort of thing Battlestamps ? but with a cat.

Rod: Sort of like that. I had the box sitting there to be sorted for two weeks and they didn't touch it. Maybe to lull me into a false sense of security. Well, I won't do that again. At least they were not expensive covers and I've moved the box to the stamp room where the cats are locked out.

Been there, done that. Number 5 I'm having especially hard time with. I have a bunch of worldwide, the majority of which is just wallpaper. I like how on the card fat with Magyar post says "filler" on most of them.