You May Be A Stamp Collector If Part Two

You may be a stamp collector if-

You reach in your shirt pocket for a pen at the checkout counter and pull out a set of stamp tongs.

You go to the post office and buy a sheet of stamps but run back home to use up those 3 cent issues you have instead of breaking up the new sheet.

Your stamps bills are more than you mortgage.
You yell at the kids when they open letters wrong.
You tell your wife not to open letters with stamps on.
You try to convince your boss on the merits of stamps instead of his Bowes Stamp Meter.
Your only friends are on this forum.

Ok, I am going to resusitate this bad boy once again...You may be a stamp collector if ! 1) You have a pair of stamp tongs tatooed on your left bicep ! 2) If you are wearing clothes you are carrying a pair of tongs !!

I can see the tattoo now Phil "Born To Stamp".

Mac, I wish thats what mine said..you will like this one..my son in laws Dad..a lawyer was in the Marines in the 50's..at 70 he got a Marines tattoo !!

Here are some hard core stampers to go along with it.

"I have an Inverted Jenny"

I'm not sure how well that would work in a Single's Bar?

Thanks for the artwork, Mac.

When a new coin is released you wonder if there will be a special event postmark to honor the event. That way you have a new philatelic item to add to your collection.

For example, the newly released 2010 Lincoln One Cent officially released in my home town. The answer was yes, unfortunately all the PO's in town and surrounding areas sold out of all their Lincoln stamps and I ran out of my own supply. Now I have to order from The Cave.

You may be a Stamp Collector if you take a holiday and spend $507 on an air fare.....just to go to a stamp exhibition !!

YiPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

Londonbus1....calm down, calm down

In reference to an earlier post in this thread, NEVER eat chocolate while mounting stamps.

Londonbus well we took a 700 mile detour to Biloxi Mississippi in 2003 to go to a stamp show...i also wanted to show my wife where I spent some of my misspent youth..but like Thomas Wolf said "You Can't Go Home Again" .

You are a stamp collector if you fly from chicago to Dc first class twice ( once when you are not well) for the same show and spend $1000 on stamps ( not including other expenses) it also proves you are dumb but since we have already established I am smart ill skip that part :)

Excuse me Spock..but wouldn't that first class seat have purchased a lot of stamps and covers ? signed, Phil the coachman !!

well in those days money was not an object. I cant think of any stamp I wanted to buy and did not buy during those days. Traveling in comfort was. in todays time I am lucky if I get to ride the bus. so I guess its just life but I am still happy to have been there and done that I am sure its never ever going to happen again in my life.

You know you really are a stamp collector when your wife calls you at the office to tell you she found a pair of stamp tongs in the clothes dryer.

It happened to me today !!