The Ocd Side Of Stamp Collecting

I don't get into too much obsessive compulsive behavior with my stamps at all. This is not true however when it comes to my sewing machine repairs. Currently working on a 1925 Singer that came in rusted, frozen and some of the worst wiring I've seen. On stuff like this I go overboard. My stamps are for me to enjoy and perfection isn't included in the equation.

I posted elsewhere about this, but for a while I was freaked out about how there were many varieties of individual stamps out there which really put a damper on my desire to be very complete with my collection. Now I'm a little more content with having each stamp face that was released, basically a history book of every image that was put onto US stamps. Perhaps I will choose certain years I like to make a very complete gathering. My OCD thing is having a sense of completeness. I don't want to just gather some random stamps, if I'm going to collect I want to have an entire year gathered and have a concrete label for what I accomplished.

OCD? Not me.



- I am urging to finally complete those few missing album-label-stickers, but I have resisted the temptation so far.

- I am struggling hard not to remove my wife's stuff in those white boxes, but I have controlled myself for more than 2 years.

- The childrens stock albums in lower right corner is causing me servere pain. Those annoying albums are in different sizes, brands and colors than my 160 Lighthouse's, however I have managed to pretend that is ok with me....

OCD? Not me, not at all.
-Jon-

Jon, you are in denial.

Wow, that is an awesome collection of Lighthouses... Wonder your collection inside those stock books would be even more amazing.

Best wishes for going further. Stamp collection is indeed a very addictive hobby. I myself am facing a similar issue.

Jon: Wow. Too many long winter nights?

Jon how can you sleep nights with those missing labels?

KGB - You got it. Actually I was only expressing myself using an old norse-viking kind of understatement... OCD would fit as my middle name!

scinde - well, there's a majority of empty spaces still to fill in those albums, that's for sure! However I am enjoying the process, stamp by stamp. I hope you are enjoying your addiction to ??



ikeyPikey - You are probably on to something
Still, from an OCD point of view, there's far too few of those nights to allow sufficient time for getting it all in proper shape...

Jenny2U - I know! It's a hard job to refrain from adding the labels. Still I will simply wait some more time....as a kind of exercise in non-OCD behavior. Giving me nightmares even...

I applaud you for your resistance

Jon - I'm impressed! I never realized how obsessive the hobby could be until I found Lighthouse binders and started to replace my entire collection with matching Vario-G binders. Now the next step are all the pages inside! I've moved primarily to Steiner pages for most of the collection, the parts that are on Mystic, Scott, or Minkus pages are starting to make me 'twitch' ;-)

Paul

sdtom - thanks buddy

Paul - Wow! It sounds like you have undertaken quite an endavour yourself! Please share some pictures once you are getting somewhere. The transfer of the entire collection must be a though decision to make - whats your plan?
I know for sure what I would do if starting from scratch - Vario stockpages (G), both for simplicity and flexibility. No hinges. Not constrained by limited or 'too much' space, totally free to expand as one would wish - and great looking too.
Good luck

Jon it would seem that printer is taking up some prime real estate

Yepp, shermae - lots of pain.
It will have to move away someday...

Jon...

I am going out on a limb here, and assuming that you are a worldwide collector. That is one awesome collection, labels or not.

As for me, I actually do have OCD. But it applies to being too detailed. I don't think it applies to my collecting, except for the obsessive need to see the details on my stamps.

And since we are on a first name basis in this thread, for a change...


-Chris