How Long Have You Collected Stamps And How Many Do You Have?

Hello again everyone, I'm back again and this time I have a nice and easy friendly question for everyone.

I have been collecting stamps for about 2 or 3 months. In that time, I have managed to collect about 5000 stamps from USA, UK, Germany, Ghana, Japan, Taiwan and Spain.

This made me think, 5000 stamps is a lotto me, but some of you guys and gals have probably been collecting for longer than I have been alive.

I am curious, how long have you been collecting? and how many stamps do you think you have?

If I have 5000, I imagine some of you must have millions, or have you perhaps specialized more and gone for more expensive stamps?

Personally, I collect any stamp at all, except cinderellas, fakes, or stamps from non official stamp services. Basically, any official country stamp.

So, how big is your collection?

Thanks!

55 years - 44,000+ stamps - 99.5% mint

60 years -----a lot of stamps.

@BlackJag that must be some collection you have. mine are 99.5% used, I think I have about 30 or 40 mint.

How much would you guess it is worth if that is an appropriate question? I would say my collection is worth 50 to 100 bucks at a guess.

Roughly 30 years - 78,000 different major number items (+ whole lot of varieties, subtypes etc I haven't counted in the figure). All worldwide, 99.5% used (including CTO).

Looking forward to having at least another 30 years of active collecting (or that's how long I have till retirement days, LOL).

@scb Do you have a particular theme you go after? and do you do much swapping?

35years -60,000 + stamps 95% used.

About 7 years now after about a 35 year break. I probably have 20,000 stamps.

54 years with about 70,000 stamps from all around the world beginning in 1840....

I have no idea how many I currently have. It never seems enough. I prefer mine used. It isn't the cost so much as I find the character of used to my liking.

Started to collect about 10-12 years ago, but there was a 5-6 year break and now after the brake about 3 years. It took a bit of time to get everything more or less organized.

About 2000+ different stamps + few hundred duplicates. Mostly used.

I had been away from stamp collecting about 30 years, then the family gave me all the family accumulations dating back to the 1840's, and my wife began to find stamps in thrift shops, I would have about 20-30 thousand, about 70% used, but, there is always something that I see, so I will buy it.
Horamakhet

I started collecting about 42 years ago (I'm 54). I've no idea of how many stamps I do have, nor the slightest concern of knowing that. I'm not interested on quantity, but in quality. Most of my stamps are used or on cover; although I've some (UK 1960/1992, Sweden 1973/1992) mnh.

How long? I don't know exactly... If I had to guess, I would say since around 1994, with some years off...

How many stamps do I have? No clue... good question!

I's say that it is a 50/50 split as far as mint vs used. Perhaps more mint than used, depending on topic/country.

I've been collecting for almost 23 years.
I have no idea how many stamps I have, nor do I want to know.
I do know that I have more stamps now than I had 15 years ago, but less stamps than I had last year at the same time !

Is that relevant?

Londonbus1.....

In June 1951, on the last day of school, our school bus driver gave every kid a packet of stamps with hand-printed instructions as we got off the bus. Started right then and there, only sorry I couldn't swap the other kids out of their packets, which would be long gone by the time school started again in September. Never looked back.

The "quantity" is anyone's guess, but my main storage is 72 bigger-than-shoebox postcard boxes full of large glassines full of stamps, all in alphabetical order by country. Even an obscure place like Reunion takes up four envelopes. There are no clothes in my walk-in closet, just stamps.

My first album was appropriately enough emblazoned "My First Stamp Album," with a garish yellow and green cover. Surely some of you remember owning such an album?