Redemption Recycling

Well now I am facing the consequences of squandering glassines and 102 cards as inexperienced people who think they have an inexhaustible supply might do...i used to write in ink on 102 cards and put the cheapest stamp in a #2 glassine..now I am going back and salvaging everything I can..manila stock cards I use only for cheapos and heavy duplication..whatever I can redeem back from my follies is better than paying the supply store man !!

There's an old saying my father would jokingly repeat, from time to time, that applies to your experience and probably to all of us, here:

"Too soon we grow old, but too late smart."

Waste not, want not is one of those sayings that sounds good but is hard to get right, at least for me.

I was comforted by reading that to become a Master of anything it takes 10,000 hours of experience, 8,000 to be good, and 4,000 to be able to teach some else about the topic. I have many 1.000's of hours to go yet.

I throw out older, yellowed, crinkled stuff, but have got to the point of you, Phil, now in my looking around for good packaging that I can use and put what's in there somewhere else or share space with something to get the needed space freed up.

I wonder if there is a way to refurbish / renew old glassines? Paint them with shellac?



That is so true, very wise.

I swear I buy more than I sell, but why do I ALWAYS run out of glassines?

Yeah, I hear you,
I felt a tad embarassed to order 1 pkt of hinges
by mail from my dealer, so I ordered (censored) packets,
Goodness, I thought I would still be using them well into
my nineties, I mean there was what looked like a wardrobe full.

...I am suddenly on my last packet this week

Lawrence Block recently wrote (Linn's, Aug 23, 2010) about not becoming a hoarder. One of the things he mentioned was training himself not to accumulate used glassines. He regularly tosses them out.

It made me uncomfortable just reading it. If God didn't want us to save glassines and cut-up stock cards, why did He invent shoe boxes?

KirkS

[quote]If God didn't want us to save glassines and cut-up stock cards, why did He invent shoe boxes?

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Hoard, lose, buy new ones, find the ones you hoarded, swear, hoard some more. Repeat.

You guys crack me up.

i have been looking for glassines and stock cards.. they are very expensive...
I try to reuse all the ones I have including the ones I get with stamps in them from people.

When in a mad panic sending stuff out and unable to dig out some glassines, I end up using plastic freezer or sandwich bags and put cardboard in them.

Well, H E Double-Touthpicks

I have saved all the glassines my family has been collecting from H.E. Harris, Gallapan, Mystic, Kenmore and Littleton since the 1950's.

We're all still alive. (Moo - Ha - Ha!!)

And all these approval stamp companies operated out of the Northeast US.

Our fantasy is to rent a RV, take all our glassine envelopes and spread them out on the grass of the fantastic park that I'm sure is in front of one of these New Hampshire or Vermont companies.

Then call the cops and RUN LIKE H E Double Touthpicks!!

If anyone has any advertising glassines, please let me know.
Am willing to exchange for stamps, postcards,Used phonecards or some other unusual collctable.
They should be in reasonable condition, scan would be preferable.

Many to-dahs !

Londonbus1

I'll keep that in mind london and save any I have for you.

Dianne

Thanks Dianne.

Londonbus1

...and I thought I was the only nut to collect glassines.

LB I must have some junk you would be interested in..will even leave the stamps in...heh heh !!